Hohenschönhausen Castle

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Castle Hohenschonhausen
citizens castle Hohenschönhausen
State in 2010

State in 2010

Data
place Berlin , Hauptstrasse 44
builder unknown
Construction year around 1690; later multiple modifications
height approx. 17 m
Floor space 360 m²
Coordinates 52 ° 32 '56.6 "  N , 13 ° 30' 20.6"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '56.6 "  N , 13 ° 30' 20.6"  E

The Hohenschönhausen Castle (also: civil castle Hohenschönhausen ) is a farmhouse, located in the district of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of Lichtenberg of Berlin is. It has been owned by the Friends of Hohenschönhausen Castle since 2008 and is on the Berlin list of monuments.

history

13th to 20th century

The first development of today's castle area took place between the 13th and 15th centuries, the area was probably inhabited by a Schulzen family at that time . At the end of the 15th century, the noble von Röbel family built a manor on it, which the merchant Adam Ebersbach acquired on July 2, 1736. In 1817 the State Councilor Christian Friedrich Scharnweber , Prussian reformer and close collaborator of the Prussian State Chancellor Karl August Prince von Hardenberg , bought the estate. In 1890 the property was sold to the terrain development company of the Aachen banker Henry Suermondt and then parceled out . In 1893 the castle came into the possession of the businessman Gerhard Puchmüller, who carried out numerous alterations and had the vestibule decorated with paintings.

Hohenschönhausen Castle , etching by Otto Hennig (1920)

From 1910 to 1929, the inventor and entrepreneur Paul Schmidt was the last private owner of the manor house. In 1930 the palace came into the possession of the city of Berlin and initially served as a social facility. From 1945 to 1989 it housed a maternity hospital. After the fall of the Wall , the property became the property of the Berlin Senate , which planned to be used as a local museum in 1993/94, but this failed due to the financing.

21st century: cultural use

Memorial plaque on the house, Hauptstrasse 44, in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen

The Förderverein Schloss Hohenschönhausen was founded in 1998 and acquired the manor house with the associated property in February 2008 and has since been intensively involved in the restoration and revitalization of the house. The roof was renovated from 2003 to 2006, and in 2009 four rooms on the upper floor were reconstructed and made accessible to the public. The friends' association regularly organizes various types of events such as exhibitions, readings, lectures and concerts in the newly designed premises of the castle. Well-known personalities who took part in these events include the former world figure skating champion Christine Errath , the cabaret artists Peter Ensikat and Dieter Hildebrandt as well as the Austrian classical guitarist Johanna Beisteiner , who is also an honorary member of the friends' association.

In the period from 2015 to 2018, the former manor house was extensively renovated and reconstructed in two construction phases on behalf of the development association. Funding came from the German Lottery Foundation, the German Monument Protection Foundation, the Berlin State Monuments Office and donors.

literature

  • Bärbel Ruben: The Hohenschönhausen Manor. A never-ending castle story . Decent Verlag, Blumberg 1998, ISBN 3-9806204-2-5 .
  • Rolf Meyerhöfer: The Hohenschönhausen Castle as seen in the local newspapers . In: Hohenschönhausen calendar sheets . 2nd Edition. Issue 9th Berlin September 2001.

Web links

Commons : Hohenschönhausen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Castle Salon on October 22nd, 2010 . Entry of an event with Christine Errath in Hohenschönhausen Castle on the website of the BROD Circle of Friends. 2010.
  2. ↑ You can't help it! ( Memento from June 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Reading with Peter Ensikat at Hohenschönhausen Castle, event announcement on the Be.bra Verlag website , April 2011.
  3. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: 2012 event program at Hohenschönhausen Castle. ) Accessed 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wohnen-mit-zukunft.de
  4. ^ Johanna Beisteiner: Biography ( Memento from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Official website of Johanna Beisteiner. July 2011.
  5. ↑ Information on the construction site sign, September 2017.