Gusow Castle

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Gusow Castle

The Gusow castle is a castle in the municipality gusow-platkow in Brandenburg. It is in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

history

The first documentary mention is from the year 1353. In 1649 the electoral Brandenburg general field marshal and governor of Pomerania, Georg von Derfflinger, acquired the manor house from the Schapelow family . There is no reliable information about the appearance of the old manor house. Derfflinger often stayed in Gusow. In 1695 his son Friedrich inherited the manor house. After his death in 1724 it was bought by General Heinrich Karl von der Marwitz , whose son-in-law Otto Friedrich Christoph von Podewils inherited it in 1744. From 1750 he expanded the manor house into a three-wing complex. The baroque garden was also redesigned. In 1781 his son Friedrich Heinrich von Podewils inherited the manor house. He created the ruins in the neo-Gothic style in the garden.

Gusow Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Members of the Schönburg family resided on Gusow since 1805 . Countess Marie Clementine von Schönburg-Hinterglauchau (1789–1863) had been the main heir of the former Podewils estates of Gusow and Platkow since 1804. The co-heirs were paid out, so that the Schönburg-Hinterglauchau family under Count Heinrich (1794–1881), Clementine's husband, was now the owner of Gusow. The castle was no longer a manorial residence, but a hunting or summer residence. Prussian kings were hunting guests here several times.

Originally there were casts of two reclining deer on the bridgehead to the castle flanking the entrance to the "Cour d'honneur", originally made by Christian Daniel Rauch (1777-1857) in 1822/26 for the castle park in Neustrelitz , and in 1843 / 44 were made after a revision for the entrance of the Potsdam Wildlife Park.

Between 1870 and 1873 the palace was completely redesigned, the plans were commissioned by Count Heinrich von Schönburg-Hinterglauchau in 1847 . The plans were drawn up by the Wriezen master builder Ferdinand Neubart, who planned the palace based on the models of Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The style was that of neo-Gothic, details were made in Tudor style. The richly ornamented chimney heads were a special feature.

After the death of the last Count of Schönburg-Hinterglauchau in 1900, his widow, Countess Frieda († 1943) lived for many years at Gusow Castle. In 1943 the castle became the "first war retirement home in the Lebus district ". Sick and elderly people who came from the bombed-out cities were given temporary accommodation here. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Schloss Gusow was used by the Wehrmacht as a warehouse and command post. After the Second World War, the Red Army briefly moved into the castle. In 1948 the castle became the property of the municipality of Gusow. During the GDR era it was used as a grain store, a poultry plucking facility, a school, a kindergarten or the seat of the village administration. In 1992 the community sold the vacant palace to a Berlin architect for three million marks .

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The castle is a building with three wings and two floors. There are corner towers with conical roofs on the wings of the castle. The risalites are highlighted by gables. The clock tower on the garden side has three floors and a tent roof. Some of the interior furnishings are still from the construction period, for example in the garden hall.

Castle Park

When the castle belonged to Christoph Otto von Podewils in the 17th century, the castle park was laid out. The models were French gardens from the time. When the palace was rebuilt, the park was also redesigned. In the park there is an artificial ruin from the second half of the 18th century, it is also called the love grotto.

Use of the castle

Today the castle houses a museum of Brandenburg-Prussian history and a collection of tin figures. Numerous dioramas from the history of Brandenburg are shown.

Events also take place in the castle. In the castle there is a wedding room of the Neuhardenberg registry office . There is a guest house and a restaurant in the castle, but they are currently closed.

literature

  • Matthias Barth: Mansions and country estates in Brandenburg and Berlin - from the Renaissance to Art Nouveau , Bergstadtverlag Würzburg 2008, 2009
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Brandenburg, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, ISBN 3-422-03054-9
  • Barbara Eggers: Gusow Castle ( Large Architectural Monuments , Issue 492). Munich / Berlin 1995
  • Vinzenz Czech: Castles, palaces and mansions in Berlin and Brandenburg, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-86568-129-4
  • Gerd von Ende Schloss Gusow - Everything reminds you of the old Derfflinger in Die Mark Brandenburg 9/1993, p. 10ff.
  • Arnold Winkelmann: Gusow and Platkow. Pictures from the last 100 years , Gusow, 1904

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments (PDF) (344 kB), page 16
  2. ↑ Robby Joachim Götze: The epitaph of Marie Clementine von Schönburg - an example of neo-classicist tomb art by Hugo Hagen . In: Series of publications, issue 11, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1999, Family Schönburg-Hinterglauchau at Schloss Netzschkau: u. a. P. 30, Deer sculptures on the bridge to Gusow Castle p. 33 (various comments on the Gusow and Platkow Castle and Guts)

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 47 ″  E