Fürstenberg Castle (Fürstenberg / Havel)

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East facade of the palace (2020)

The Fürstenberg Castle is a three-wing baroque building with rococo decor in the Brandenburg town of Fuerstenberg / Havel . It is located on an island north of the old town with the field name Mühlenkamp. It was built between 1741 and 1752 as the widow's seat of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Duchess Dorothea Sophie .

Fürstenberg Castle was designed as a two-storey, plastered solid structure with a gable roof . The generous floor plan is based on the design of Mirow Palace . The side wings of the horseshoe-shaped complex enclose a courtyard about 20 meters long and wide . The three-storey central building is structured by smooth pilasters and decorated with fine stucco in the shapes of the Rococo. The Mecklenburg coat of arms and the Danish elephant order can be seen in the baroque gable top .

history

Fürstenberg Castle as a sanatorium (undated)

The ruling Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Adolf Friedrich III. , commissioned the court architect Christoph Julius Löwe to plan a new palace in Fürstenberg as a widow's residence for his wife Dorothea Sophie . The existing mills on the island were dismantled in 1741 and rebuilt on the Havel Bridge - in today's Bahnhofstrasse. Most of the palace was completed by 1750, so that part of Dorothea Sophie's entourage, such as councilor , chamberlain and court ladies , could move in. The Mühlenkamp behind the castle was transformed into a small park and kitchen gardens were laid out on the other bank of the river. After Adolf Friedrich's death in 1752, Dorothea Sophie lived in the castle until her death in 1765. After her death, Fürstenberg Castle became the residence for retired ducal officials. After the town church was destroyed by fire in 1807, church services were held in the palace hall for 41 years.

In 1910 the city of Fürstenberg acquired the castle. After it was converted into a sanatorium in 1913, the city leased the castle to the Reich Insurance Office . With the outbreak of the First World War , a hospital was set up. After the war ended, it served as a sanatorium for patients with nervous and internal diseases. One of the patients in 1920 was Walther Rathenau, who later became the German Foreign Minister . From July 1940 the palace was used as a rest home for the Berlin transport companies and later as a hospital again during the Second World War .

After the war, a school for the officers' children of the city's Soviet garrison was set up in the castle . In 1953 the castle came back into German administration and was converted into a hospital with a polyclinic . From 1992 to 2004 it served as a nursing home for the Diakonisches Werk .

In 2006 the city of Fürstenberg sold the facility to the private investor Gerd Schulz, who is planning to set up a wellness hotel there and has started the first restoration work. In 2010, the renovation of the central projection facing the street and the park was completed. In addition, gutting work has been carried out since 2006 and partial demolitions of ailing outbuildings have been carried out. The investor wanted to secure the financing together with Berolina GmbH until 2016, which is made more difficult by the adjacent federal highway 96 with high traffic volume (however, a bypass is prioritized in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 ). In October 2017, Schulz confirmed his commitment to the renovation of the Fürstenberg Palace.

literature

  • Konrad Hustaedt : The castle to Fürstenberg. In: Otto Wagner (Hrsg.): Tourist guides from Neustrelitz and the surrounding area. Verlag Otto Wagner, Neustrelitz 1926, p. 62.
  • Georg Piltz, Peter Garbe: Palaces and gardens in the Mark Brandenburg . Seemann, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-363-00063-4 , pp. 158, 196-197.
  • Wolfgang Stegemann: A journey through the history of Fürstenberg Castle. In: Mecklenburg-Strelitz calendar. 1997, p. 19.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Fürstenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Castle investor Gerd Schulz informs in Fürstenberg about his million dollar project , moz.de, 6 September 2011
  2. ↑ 2010: First restoration work for Schlosshotel Fürstenberg successfully carried out , official website, accessed on March 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Gerd Schulz has set himself a deadline: Financing for Fürstenberg has to be in place by 2016. The owner of the castle is sticking to the hotel project , Märkische Allgemeine , February 13, 2014
  4. ↑ "The hotelier is still interested in realizing the project," emphasized Philipp. For this purpose, he is currently looking for partners to jointly implement the project with them. ” , Moz.de, October 11, 2017

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 40.9 ″  E