Groß Rietz Castle
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| place | Great Rietz |
| architect | Cornelis Ryckwaert |
| Client | Hans Georg von der Marwitz |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Construction year | 1693-1700 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 12 '43 " N , 14 ° 12' 17" E |
The Castle Groß Rietz is a baroque castle in the village of Great Rietz the municipality of Rietz-Neuendorf . It is considered to be an important artistically outstanding rural aristocratic seat in Brandenburg . It has been privately owned since the 2010s and is to be gradually developed into an open cultural site.
history
Castle Groß Rietz was in the years 1693-1700, designed by Cornelis Ryckwaert for Hans Georg von der Marwitz (1700-1768), Lord Chamberlain under I. Friedrich , built. The builder was Johann Georg von der Marwitz (1642–1704). In 1790 the Prussian Minister of State Johann Christoph von Wöllner bought Groß Rietz. He was married to Charlotte Amalie Elisabeth von Itzenplitz (1742–1801). The official, who was also responsible for the royal gardens, dealt intensively with agriculture. He planted fruit trees and mulberry trees, built new farm buildings and had a square carp pond, which is still visible today, between Groß and Klein Rietz. After his death in 1801, District Administrator Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Itzenplitz (1769–1834) took over the estate. He had traveled to England and Flanders with his wife , was inspired by the local horticulture and redesigned the palace gardens. The next owner was Charlotte Amalie von Itzenplitz (1795–1845), who received the Groß Rietz from her father in 1828 and was married to Adam Ludwig von Dziembowski, who was the judge of the Superior Court and Privy Councilor. In 1846 the fourteen-year-old daughter Friederike Henriette Marianne Auguste von Dziembowska (1832–1861) inherited the estate and bequeathed it to her cousin Marie Charlotte Louise von der Marwitz (née von Itzenplitz) in 1861. In the years that followed, the latter had the property mainly managed by tenants. In 1895 it was taken over by their son, who had the gardener August Mattern carry out the gardening changes in the southern part of the park. He built a rose garden with a fountain, a water lily pond and a tennis court and equipped the park with statues.
After the end of the Second World War , the property was expropriated as part of the land reform . After some vacancy, a kindergarten and apartments for displaced persons from the former German eastern regions were housed in the castle building. The park was parceled out directly in front of the garden-side staircase and leased as an allotment garden. A fairground and an open-air stage were later added to the site.
In 1990, after the end of the GDR , the newly formed Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH took over the property. The park was deformed and partially restored, trees were replanted and the boundary walls were renovated. The castle park and the castle courtyard were repaired according to their condition around 1850. The year-long building renovation was completed in March 2012. The usable area is around 1,100 square meters. The costs for securing or restoring the baroque complex amounted to more than five million euros.
During the time it was administered by the Schlösser Society, the Hamburg entrepreneur Percy Bongers was already very interested in restoring the ruined ruins and the surrounding palace gardens. He was just looking for a company headquarters near Berlin. The GmbH's administration gave him a say in the restoration work, and Bongers even applied for a lease. After two years of intensive construction work, Bongers already moved into the building and thus continued to take care of the restoration of the historical building fabric with private capital. He participated in the following tender for the sale / purchase of the castle and was awarded the contract. There is no longer any talk of company headquarters, but Bongers intends to establish an open cultural site here. The palace park has therefore been a publicly accessible place since the beginning of his commitment.
Architecture and equipment
The original ensemble of castle, park, farm buildings, church and cemetery is still there. The symmetrically constructed two-storey building under a hipped roof has a pink facade structured with strong pilasters and has hardly changed since its construction. Ionic capitals crown the pilasters. Three-axis entrance risers characterize the main and front facade . Above the eaves there is a single-storey dwelling .
The quality of the elegant nine-axis secular building is comparable to that of the Zeughaus Berlin . The interior of the castle houses a three-armed, oak-made, two-flight landing staircase with heavy balusters and two garden halls with unique, freely modeled stucco ceilings.
The ice cellar , known as Schneckenberg and now on private property, is provided with a neo-Gothic portal made of hewn field stones . Its construction goes back to the time of Wöllner.
The interior of the castle has also been preserved in its basic structure. In the basement of intensive preparations find the establishment instead of a toy museum, for which collectors 'pieces of Bongers' grandfather, the Dresden painter Theodor Rosenhauer , as a foundation to serve (as of June 2020). In the Prussian room , the library is to be set up with more than 3000 original volumes from the holdings of the Prussian King Friedrich II . Showcases have to be built for this. Around 180 paintings, graphics and illustrated poems by Rosenhauer have been on view in the castle gallery since the beginning of 2020. The toys, books and pictures form the basis for the Rosenhauer Foundation founded by Percy Bongers .
Nothing is left of the baroque furnishings, as the castle, which was temporarily empty after the end of the war, was looted. Bongers now has lamps and vases made from fine materials such as marble , precious woods and Murano glass. The walls have already been lined with new fabric wallpaper.
The mansion of the complex is scheduled to open to visitors for the first time at the end of June 2020.
use
In addition to the museums and painting collections described above, the new owner wants to offer guided tours for registered visitors, but mass tourism is not planned. The district administrator of the Oder-Spree district is extremely satisfied with the development. He already speaks of a “museum triangle” as a highlight in the region. This also includes Beeskow Castle with its art archive and the Lindenberg Weather Museum .
garden
The adjoining baroque palace garden was probably completed in 1702. Horticultural plans and the original appearance are unknown. Horticultural changes were made under Carl Wilhelm von der Marwitz (1737–1811). The base of the Minerva statue erected in 1778 is still there. The entrance to the park is lined by two slender sandstone obelisks richly decorated with floral motifs . There is a wrought iron gate between them (installed around 1880). In horticultural plans from the years 1819, 1825 and 1828, park designs can be seen that allow views of the surrounding landscape, the neighboring village and the farm buildings.
literature
- Theodor Fontane : Great Rietz . In: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg - Spreeland . 1881.
- Markus Jager: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark . Lukas Verlag, 2006, p. 175 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Groß Rietz . In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark . ed. by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Berlin 1991.
Web links
- Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH: Castle in Groß Rietz , accessed on September 2, 2012
- fotonom.de: a virtual tour of the site , 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ New life for the castle. Märkische Oderzeitung , May 2, 2010, accessed on August 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e Alexander Niemann: On the history of the castle park. Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on August 29, 2018 .
- ↑ As beautiful as Versailles, only much smaller. Märkische Oderzeitung, March 21, 2012, accessed on August 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Where art becomes the lord of the castle . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 25, 2020, p. 12.
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel of November 2, 2000: Groß Rietz Castle: "I am the true owner of the castle" , accessed on September 2, 2012
