Grabau mansion

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The Grabauer manor house

The manor house Grabau in Grabau in Schleswig-Holstein was the residential building of the estate of the same name. Grabau only became an independent aristocratic estate in 1806 and was relocated and sold in the 20th century. The mansion was completed in 1908. The eclectic building combines various European styles from five centuries.

history

historical overview

The Grabau estate later emerged from a village in the Wends . In the Middle Ages, the lands belonged to the knightly Hummersbüttel family; in the course of a marriage and an inheritance that went with it, they came into the possession of the ancient Buchwaldt family . Gut Grabau was founded in the 16th century. It was originally a Meierhof of Gut Borstel and remained in the possession of the Buchwaldts until the end of the 18th century and through the marriage of the von Bernstorff family .

From the turn of the 19th century, the owners changed several times. In 1804 Grabau was detached from Borstel and declared an independent aristocratic estate in 1806 under Joachim Christoph Janisch (previously city governor and councilor of the city of Dömitz). Janisch was again followed by changing owners. From 1861 to 1905 the estate belonged to the Wehber family for a longer period of time. At the beginning of the 20th century there was another sale, this time the property went to the merchant Gustav Lahusen . Today's manor house was built under the new owner and the farm was converted to dairy farming. In 1931 the property went to the manufacturer Friedrich Bölck for a short time , who sold it to the Wehrmacht in 1936 . The manor house was handed over to the high command, and the manor house was now used to supply army horses . During the Second World War , Soviet prisoners of war were used at Gut Grabau, which took in refugees from East Prussia at the end of the war .

After the Second World War, Gut Grabau was settled in various stages. The estate was sold to the von Kameke family in 1967, under whom the estate was transformed into a horse stud, whose owners later changed. Today only a modest mansion from the 19th century belongs to the actual estate.

Grabau lords

The lords of the Grabau estate were:

  • 1801–1803: Joachim Christoph Janisch zu Dömitz, Mecklenburg (* approx. 1747; † approx. 1808)
  • 1803–1804: Simon Demetrius Graf de Wuits , bourgeois impostor (* approx. 1768 in Poland ?; † probably in Kasteel Lachenen near Lier )
  • 1804–1807: Joachim Christoph Janisch zu Dömitz, Mecklenburg (* approx. 1747; † approx. 1808)
  • 1807–1811: Johann (Jan) Jacob van Herzeele (* November 2, 1776 Amsterdam; † February 16, 1817 Jessenitz Ksp. Lübenheen, Mecklenburg)
  • 1811–1821: Elisabeth Marie Anne von Moltke b. Countess von Bassewitz auf Rummin und Tessern (* April 16, 1760; † April 13, 1838 Neustrelitz)
  • 1821–1846: Georg Wilhelm Schröder (* March 12, 1794; † November 27, 1862/230 Hamburg Ksp. St. Nicolai) (previously tenant since 1815)
  • 1846–1861: Alexander Arnemann (born October 3, 1805 Altona-Ottensen; † December 6, 1861 Meran)
  • 1861–1880: Georg Heinrich Wehber (born May 27, 1800 Stade; † 1880 Hamburg), in the wine wholesaler GH Wehber & Co, Hamburg
  • 1880–1905: Theodor Friedrich Wehber († 1905)
  • 1905–1919: Gustav Lahusen (born November 23, 1854 Bremen; † April 6, 1939 Bremen; buried in Grabau)
  • 1919–1922: Franz Horn (* 1868 Schleswig; † 1930 Innsbruck)
  • 1922–1931: Gustav Lahusen
  • 1931–1936: Friedrich Bölck (born July 16, 1877 in Oldenburg; baptized August 5, 1877 in Lensahn; † September 27, 1940 car accident near Süseler Moor; buried in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf)
  • since July 1, 1936: German Reich ( Remonteamt )
  • after the Second World War: relocation to various settlers

Remaining material with 100 hectares:

  • 1965–1985: Dobimar von Kameke-Streckenthin (born April 20, 1910; † August 9, 1985)
  • 1985–1995: Gabriele von Kameke-Streckenthin born. Countess von der Groeben (* July 8, 1925 Berkenbrück, Spree; † January 11, 1995)
  • 1995–2010: Dr. Kartz von Kameke (born December 21, 1943 Köslin)
  • since 2010: Fernando Chacon (* approx. 1948)

Buildings

The first manor house in Grabau

As the former Meierhof of Gut Borstel, Grabau only had a modest residential building. Janisch built the manor house known as the "White House" in 1804, which was drawn in a steel engraving by Friedrich Adolph Hornemann .

The second Grabauer mansion

After Gustav Lahusen bought the property, today's representative mansion was built from 1906 to 1908 by the Berlin architect Hermann Werle (born August 27, 1869 in Heidelberg). It stands apart from the original farm yard in a park designed according to English models and, with its stylistic conglomerate, is an exception in the architecture of Schleswig-Holstein. The building unites forms of Gothic , Tudor and Art Nouveau . The models for the manor house can be found in English and Scottish country estates; due to its picturesque shape, the building is often referred to by the population as a haunted castle .

The building is made entirely of shell limestone , a building material that does not exist in Schleswig-Holstein and was imported from southern Germany. The individual components were hewn and numbered on site and only had to be put together in Grabau. The mansion is made up of various individual structures and has an asymmetrical floor plan. The copper-covered roof was once decorated with several ridge turrets. The roof was removed again after the outbreak of World War I, the copper was used for war purposes and the roof turrets were dismantled. The mansion was given a simplified tiled roof, which in the 1920s was in turn replaced with a new, but now simplified, copper roof.

The center of the building is a two-story hall, which is flanked all around by various residential wings. The interior with elaborate paneling , mosaics and stucco is considered to be extremely magnificent. The fixed decoration of the rooms has largely been preserved to the present day, but the furniture was already given away under the ownership of the Wehrmacht.

The large mansion housed a country youth home from 1951 to 1966. Simplifying modifications were made during this time. It was sold to a private investor in 1985. Apartments were furnished and rented in the manor house; after the owner's death it was foreclosed in 1997. The new buyer planned to set up a catering facility, but the plans were not implemented. The building is currently (2013) mostly empty; There are no binding statements about future use. The house is not open to the public and can only be viewed to a limited extent from public roads. There is already a clear deterioration in the inner and outer areas of the building. However, it is still inhabited in the left wing.

The second Grabau mansion as a film location

The mansion was a repeated location for various film and television productions. Among other things, it served as a backdrop for the television film Gonger - The Evil Never Forgets , the sequel Gonger 2 - The Evil Returns and for the feature films Up! Up! To the Sky with Katja Riemann and The Heart is a Dark Forest by Nicolette Krebitz .

The director Andreas Schnaas shot parts of his low-budget horror film Don't Wake the Dead on Grabau . In September 2013, the manor was a filming location for the Jussi Adler-Olsen crime thriller desecration in a German-Danish co-production and served as a Danish boarding school.

In 2014, the mansion served as the backdrop for the episode Der Fluch of the NDR series Der Tatortreiniger .

The chapel

After the early death of Gustav Lahusen's daughter in 1923, a grave chapel designed by the Berlin architect Hermann Werle was built for her in the park of the manor house. The neo-Gothic building is stylistically based on the architecture of the manor house and is adorned with a statue of the Madonna by the East Prussian sculptor Stanislaus Cauer . Since the chapel is structurally in poor condition, the parish of Sülfeld founded a support association that is committed to the renovation of the building.

Web links

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein. 3rd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 329
  • Axel Lohr: The history of the Borstel estate up to 1938. Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046413-3 .
  • Eckhard Moßner, Doris Moßner: Look into the past. Contributions to the village chronicle of Grabau. Neumünster 1994.
  • Eckhard Moßner: The shipowner Franz Horn in Grabau 1919–1922. In: Grabau, yesterday - today - tomorrow , o. O. 2012 (February edition).
  • Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions. Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-462-4 , p. 68 ff.
  • Deert Lafrenz: manors and manors in Schleswig-Holstein . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein, 2015, Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-86568-971-9 , p. 188

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hermann Werle in: Historisches Architektenregister , website in the portal kmkbuecholdt.de , accessed on November 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, July 7, 2007
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel from December 19, 2007

Coordinates: 53 ° 48 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  E