Validz Castle
Validz Castle is a mansion in Validz in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
history
Since the 15th century, with a few interruptions, giltz was part of the Pomeranian branch of the von Maltzahn family . In the 19th century, on behalf of Axel von Maltzahn, an English-style landscape park was created based on a design by Peter Joseph Lenné from 1840. Between 1868 and 1872, Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn had the classicist manor house built. After his death, ownership passed to his son Axel von Maltzahn . After the Second World War , the Maltzahns were expropriated and the manor house looted.
During the GDR times there was an agricultural vocational school ( BBS " Georg Ewald ") with a boarding school in the castle. In the period from 1980 to 1988, the building was extensively renovated. Another renovation in connection with the establishment of a hotel took place in 1999. The hotel closed a few years later. In 2004 the building was foreclosed and has been vacant since then.
investment
The architect of the building was the then Mecklenburg district master builder for the Domanial offices of Hagenow-Wittenburg, Georg Daniel . The mansion with an L-shaped floor plan is located on the eastern edge of the former estate. The fourteen-axis, two-storey building on the courtyard side has a distinctive three-axis and three-storey central projectile , in whose gable triangle is the Maltzahn coat of arms. A portico with overlying Altan served as covered Unterfahrt. There is a three-story corner tower on the southern edge of the courtyard.
Behind the three-axis risalits on the northern edge of the courtyard is the large ballroom, which has a valuable colored and gold stucco ceiling and two large original mirrors. In the entrance hall, a coffered ceiling is supported by two columns. The upper floor can be reached by a spiral staircase. The two-story south wing, which adjoins the tower, has a two-axis central projection. There used to be a winter garden on a field stone base in front of the tower. Most recently it served as a seat for a café.
The foundation of the house was built from field stones up to the level of the basement . For the side walls, cover plates and sills of the basement windows, three boulders in the area were broken and processed in 1868 . The largest came from a sand pit west of Validz and measured 12 × 14 × 16 feet , from which a volume of around 43 cubic meters can be estimated. The second stone was located in Rehhagen, a forest west of Validz, on the field of Tützpatz . The third stone was in the Seltz field marrow. In addition to window frames, the 240 cm high side walls and 168 cm long ceiling panels for two entrance doors to the basement were made from these two .
The mansion lost its late classicist facade decoration in the period after the Second World War, with the exception of the pilasters on the central projectile and the corner decorations on the gable. The rustic structures on the edges of the templates and the corners of the building, the cornices and lintels that separate storeys have also disappeared. Validz was once one of the most beautiful secular buildings of Georg Daniel.
To the north of the building are the ruins of the former poultry house. It was set as a half-timbered building on a high cellar made of worked field stones . A little further from the manor is an old ice cellar .
The landscaped park, originally designed by Lenné , in which there are two ponds, extends south and east of the manor house. The trees include flesh-red horse chestnuts , magnolias , plane trees and pyramid oaks . To the south of the larger pond is an oval made up of twelve winter linden trees .
literature
- Neidhardt Krauss, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7
Unprinted sources
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State Main Archive Schwerin
- LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court case files 1495–1806. No. 200 Sale of the disputed goods, including validity, by Otto von Maltzahn to Behrend von Maltzahn in 1496 for 2250 guilders.
- University archive Greifswald
- 2. 3 Faculty of Theology. Deanery records 1832–1935. No. 1–110 honorary doctorate with a letter of thanks from Helmuth von Maltzahn to gilt.
- 2.5 Faculty of Law. Anniversaries, congratulations and other social events, No. 325 honorary membership of the university, Dr. Baron von Maltzahn, Validz, farewell party.
Web links
- Literature about Validz Castle in the State Bibliography MV
- Gülz - Castle Park Lutz Mecke and Normann Kühn (PDF; 41.6 MB)
- Material on Validz Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 213 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Köhler: History of garden art. Peter Joseph Lenné in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Neubrandenburg 2000, p. 6 ( Online ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF ) .
- ↑ http://www.gutshaeuser.de/guts_herrenhaeuser/gutshaeuser_g/gutshaus_herrenhaus_schloss_gueltz
- ^ Alfred Haas : Large attachments in Pomerania. Continuation of W. Deecke's treatise in this annual report. In: Gustav Braun (Ed.): XI. Annual report of the Geographical Society of Greifswald 1907–1908. Abel, Greifswald 1909, p. 55 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Horst Ende : Georg Daniel as an architect and preservationist in Mecklenburg. Lecture on February 11, 2004 on his 175th birthday at the State Office for Monument Preservation.
Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 54.9 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 23" E