Gadebusch Castle

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Gadebusch Castle (courtyard facade)

The Schloss Gadebusch is a Renaissance castle of 1573 in the northwest of the country Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the city Gadebusch , between Schwerin and Ratzeburg located. It is a rare example of the Mecklenburg or North German brick renaissance with reliefs in the regional Johann Albrecht style .

Buildings

Relief panels on the lock

The architectural and art historical importance of this building goes back to the extremely rich facade decoration. This is partly in house stone (limestone), but mostly in terracotta . As with the Schwerin Palace (and the prince's court in Wismar), the facades of the palace were richly decorated with relief panels from the Lübeck workshop of the Dutchman Statius von Düren , and the portals and window reveals were highlighted accordingly. Some of the biblical scenes were used here.

prehistory

The original building of the castle was a Slavic rampart castle , which was proven at this point for the 8th century. Godebuz Castle was under Obodritian rule. After the conquest by Heinrich the Lion's troops , the castle was transferred to the County of Ratzeburg in 1143. The castle was occupied by the Danish from 1200 to 1204 and was then converted into a solid brick castle with a free-standing stone keep in the 13th century . From 1283 to 1299 the castle was the main residence of Mecklenburg princes. The nearby castle lake also got its name from this time.

history

The renaissance castle on the Schlossberg with terracottas , as a typical example of the north German brick renaissance , was rebuilt by master builder Christoph Haubitz from 1571 to 1573 under the administrator of the diocese of Ratzeburg Christoph von Mecklenburg . In 1675, the Prussian Elector Friedrich Wilhelm met the Danish King Christian V at the castle to seal their alliance in the Skåne War . From 1734 to 1768 the castle came under the Hanoverian occupation, after which it became the seat of the ducal administrative office. Built from 1878 to 1879 as an official building. The keep was demolished at the end of the 18th century. In a renovation carried out by Gustav Hamann in 1903 and 1904 , the semicircular three-part gable ends of the stairwell were restored and individual lost and destroyed terracottas were replaced. In 1945 the Barber-Lyashchenko Agreement was signed here.

After 1945 the castle was used by the GDR as a museum, boarding school and later as an administrative building and district court . In 1953, the songwriter Wolf Biermann moved from Hamburg to the boarding school in the castle, where he graduated from high school in 1955 at the Heinrich Heine High School. In 2002 the building, which had been partially renovated since 1991 as part of the urban redevelopment of Gadebusch, was sold to the publisher Herbert Freisleben-Liechtenstein from Rimpar . In March 2015, Freisleben donated the castle to the Hoffnungsgut association.

Since the summer of 2012, Gadebusch Castle has hosted a development project by the non-profit association HoffnungsGut.

It was foreclosed in autumn 2017; the current owner is the city of Gadebusch. The castle is now to be renovated.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Biermann: Don't wait for better times! Ullstein, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-549-07473-2 , pp. 60-72 .
  2. ↑ http://www.edition-von-freisleben.org/index.htm
  3. ↑ Castle Odyssey never ends
  4. ↑ www.schloss-gadebusch.de ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The lock goes under the hammer
  6. ↑ Gadebusch Castle is to be renovated. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 24, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2020 .

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, pp. 481-487 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Frank Braun: Investigations into the architectural history of Gadebusch Castle , in: K. Krüger - E. Münch (ed.): The main building of the University of Rostock 1870 - 2016 , Rostocker Studien zur Universitätsgeschichte Volume 30 (Rostock 2016) pp. 105–117 (Link Online digitization of the University of Rostock) .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Gadebusch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 2 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 9 ″  E