Griebenow Castle
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The Griebenow Castle is located in the municipality Süderholz in the Vorpommern-Rügen . It was built in 1709 and, together with the estate park and the preserved farm buildings and a remarkable church, is part of a listed ensemble in the village of Griebenow, nine kilometers west of Greifswald.
history
Gut Griebenow was founded by the Cistercian monastery Eldena after 1219 and was first mentioned in a document in 1248. In the War of the Rügen Succession, the Greifswalds defeated the Mecklenburgers in a battle near Griebenow in 1327. In the first half of the 14th century, the Eldena monastery probably gave up this property. In a Bederegister of 1343 several were for the 32 hooves fief taker called, almost half were a family of intoxication. In the 15th century, this family then owned the entire village of Griebenow.
In the Thirty Years' War the von Rausches died and Gut Griebenow fell to the Swedish crown. Gerdt Anthon von Rehnskiöld was enfeoffed with the estate by the Swedish Queen Christina in 1648 . During the war that had just ended, he had been field chamberlain of the Swedish armies in Germany and had organized supplies for them. As a reward for his services, he received the Griebenow, Willershusen and Hohenwarth estates in Pomerania and Stensätra in Södermanland. As early as 1639 he was accepted into the Swedish nobility under the name Rehnskiöld, after his original name had been Kewenbringk (a line of von Keffenbrinck's from Münsterland had emigrated to Sweden around 1570). In 1640 he became chief treasurer for occupied Mecklenburg and in 1649 for Swedish Pomerania , from 1653 he was also curator of the University of Greifswald . After his death in 1658 he was buried in the family crypt he had built between 1648 and 1654 in the Griebenow castle chapel . The chapel is a remarkable and rare 15-sided half-timbered central building. It was restored in 1948.
It was not until 1702 that his son, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf von Rehnskiöld , inherited the estate from his nephew Franz Anton (1676–1702), the son of his older brother Axel (1649–1677). It was in such poor condition that the castle was torn down and rebuilt between 1707 and 1709. It was one of the largest non-royal castles of the late Carolingian period and is one of the structural testimonies to the Swedish rule in northern Germany. Comparisons with other Swedish palace complexes indicate the well-known Swedish Baroque architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and his environment for Griebenow's designs.
In 1706 the newly created "Lustgarten" was mentioned for the first time. An essential element of the design was the main axis, designed as a lime tree avenue, and a castle pond with a rectangular island. Two different versions of the park are documented in map sheets from 1761 and 1836.
After the field marshal died in 1722 without a heir, Griebenow came to the Keffenbrinck line. In the first half of the 19th century changes were made in and around the castle. The facade was decorated with classical elements and some rooms and the staircase were redesigned. Later, a "courtyard" was laid out in front of the palace, a four-row chestnut avenue was planted, farm buildings and stables were built and the park was landscaped. By 1910, the palace, farm buildings and park were redesigned to form a closed complex. With the death of Count Siegfried von Keffenbrink-Griebenow († 1920) the sex came to an end. The barons of Langen -Keffenbrinck came as heirs into the succession of Fideikommiss Griebenow. This family used the property for private purposes until 1935. However, the owners let the park run wild. In 1945, the expropriation took place through the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone .
Until 1947 the castle was a mothers' convalescent home , then until 1958 a branch of the university clinics for tuberculosis sufferers. In 1958, the Grimmen district took over the estate and set up a nursing home in the castle.
The maintenance work during the GDR era in 1974 could only marginally guarantee the castle's operation. It was not possible to work in line with the value of the palace complex, which is why the structural defects in 1988 were so great that the palace had to be pulled out. A restoration planned from 1989 onwards was no longer carried out and the building was empty until 1998.
In 1992/93, the district of Grimmen invested over one million DM in renovating the roof and windows, as well as rebuilding the bell tower.
Todays use
Since May 1st, 2003 the "Barockschloss zu Griebenow eV" is the owner of the castle. The association operates this as a cultural meeting center and organizes exhibitions, concerts, Easter and Advent markets, fashion shows and painting circles. You can celebrate weddings, anniversaries and family celebrations. Over 10,000 visitors come every year.
In an outbuilding of the castle there is a nursing home for the elderly of the Diakonie.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 48 ″ N , 13 ° 14 ′ 49 ″ E