Harnekop Castle
Harnekop Castle , also Monchoix Castle ( French mon choix , 'my choice'), was a manor house in Harnekop , today a district of the Prötzel community in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg . The building was blown up by the Wehrmacht in the spring of 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War , and the ruins were removed around 1970.
history
In 1711, who reached Prussian Minister of State Paul Anton von Kameke into the possession of the village Harnekop, the 1,705 neighboring Good Prötzel of King Frederick I had received. Between 1712 and 1717 he had the Prötzel Castle built there. The granddaughter of Paul Anton von Kameke, Countess Friederike von Kameke († 1788), received Gut Harnekop as a dowry . She married the Russian envoy, Imperial Count Peter Friedrich Christian von Golowkin (Golofkin / Golovkin) († 1787), a son of Gabriel Iwanowitsch Golowkin and her mother's brother, who in 1766 received permission to settle in Prussia and purchase land. In 1772 he gave the order to build a mansion on the lake with the melodious name "Monchoix". Count Podewils zu Gusow is said to have acted as a builder. An attractive park landscape was also created and the lake was divided by a dam. The bell of the village church with the inscription: “SOLI DEO GLORIA. GRAFF VON GOLAFKIN 1776. GOSS MICH JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIDERICH MEYER “ has survived the times and is still reminiscent of the first lord of the castle today. Count Golowkin died in 1787, and the property returned to the von Kameke family .
In 1801 the castle was sold to the Mündener wholesale merchant Ernst Jacob Freiherr von Eckardstein , who u. a. had come to considerable wealth through orders to feed the English army and the manufacture of mirror glass . His fortune of several million thalers enabled him to purchase important lands. In 1801 he invested a total of 810,000 Reichstaler in various goods on the Barnim north-east of Berlin. Among other things, he bought several thousand hectares of land with Prötzel and the Prötzel , Prädikow , Grunow and Reichenow Castle from the Kameke family . In 1801 a pleasure house at and belonging to Gut Harnekop is also mentioned, but nothing is known about its whereabouts. The Harnekop estate did not remain in his possession for long, and it was sold again nine years later. The new masters leased the property.
In 1837, Count August Alexis Eduard von Haeseler (1801–1889) acquired Harnekop for 64,000 thalers. His son Count Gottlieb von Haeseler inherited the manor house from him. The General Field Marshal donated the organ for the village church in 1907 and died in his Monchoix Castle in 1919. Count Haeseler was buried between his parents in the crypt in front of the altar of the Harnekoper village church. A memorial plaque was placed above the crypt, which was removed after 1945. Since the General Field Marshal was unmarried and had no children, Gut Harnekop fell to the von Schoenermarck family, from whom his mother came. Nine years later, in 1928, the estate came to the knighthood administration, where it remained in trust until the land reform . The Harnekop manor district was merged with the Harnekop municipality in 1928.
Since July 1932, the castle was used as a driving school for the SA . In the spring of 1945, Harnekop Castle housed the staff of the German Oder front. Hitler stayed here for a few hours in March to conduct a briefing and his last front inspection. In April 1945, just a few days before the end of the war, the stately building sank to rubble when the Wehrmacht blew it up when they withdrew. The residents used the remains of the castle as building material to rebuild their houses and stables. The last remains of the ruin were removed around 1970.
architecture
Monchoix Castle was built as a two-story large mansion with mansards and thirteen windows on each floor of the main fronts; the central risalit to the garden side with terrace and outside staircase. The external appearance remained unchanged from the time it was built until it was destroyed. The interior furnishings seem to have been partly or completely from the construction period, at least until 1932.
Individual evidence
- ^ New Prussian nobility lexicon : Golofkin , accessed October 5, 2013
- ↑ a b Historical information on the Harnekop village church ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 5, 2013.
Web links
- On the history of the Harnekoper Castle , accessed on October 5, 2013.
- Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg: Part 6 - Barnim , accessed on October 5, 2013.
Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 16 ″ N , 14 ° 0 ′ 27 ″ E