Johannstorf Castle

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Johannstorf Castle, front view, March 2020
Johannstorf Castle, 2010

The Johannstorf Castle (or Johannstorff ) was once the mansion of the same name Gutsanlage. It is located in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg between Travemünde and the small town of Dassow . The baroque building in need of renovation has been vacant for several years and is not open to the public.

historical overview

The estate was originally owned by the Buchwald family, who had inherited there since the 16th century . Since the marriage of the maid of honor Margarete von Buchwald to Claus Schack , the owners have been using the name Schack von Buchwald . The Gottorfische Conferencerat and Lübeck canon Schack von Buchwald (1705–1770) had today's castle from 1743 as the successor to a medieval moated castle for himself and his wife Eleonore Elisabeth, née. von Plessen . In 1782 the property went to the Eckermann family, who lived here for several generations until 1945. After the landowners were expropriated in the post-war period and under the GDR government , the castle was used as a residential building for private purposes.

In 1992, the then still independent municipality of Pötenitz sold it for DM 331,000 to the investor Kurt-Peter Gaedeke, who wanted to develop the system similar to the Wotersen estate in Schleswig-Holstein , which he already owned . Because of the ownership structure, he should acquire the facility in two parts: the castle and part of the park from the municipality of Pötenitz, the yard and stables from the federally owned Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH (BVVG). However, the expected renovation did not take place and the building fell into disrepair in the following years. The buyer justified this with disputes with neighboring property owners. The BVVG also did not acquire the necessary courtyard space in the immediate vicinity of the castle.

In 2008, the castle and the courtyard were used as the backdrop for the shooting of the film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story by director Michael Haneke .

After more than ten years of vacancy, the city of Dassow, as the legal successor to the municipality of Pötenitz, has been examining the possibility of reversing the purchase contract since 2007 after a new interested party had presented a concept for the system. However, in an attempt to mediate, the owner refused to buy back the property . In May 2011, the city of Dassow finally filed a lawsuit against the owner with the Schwerin Regional Court, asserting a contractual clause that would be used in the event that the buyer should fail to meet his contractual obligations to invest 1.3 million euros in the first five years , Enabled retransfer for 30 years. On December 22, 2011, the court upheld the lawsuit and decided that the owner must return the property to the city of Dassow for 108,000 euros. The defendant appealed the judgment to the Rostock Higher Regional Court . As announced by the Higher Regional Court in 2013, a comparison was made between the two parties. The castle remains in the possession of Kurt-Peter Gaedeke. He undertook to carry out extensive renovation work on both the castle and the ancillary buildings by 2018.

Buildings

Courtyard view of the estate, March 2020

The mansion

The mansion was built from 1743 according to plans by Rudolph Matthias Dallin ; it was his last major work before his death. The client was Schack von Buchwald, whose wife inherited the Basthorst estate from her brother . Johannstorf is a cuboid, eleven-axis building with two full storeys above a basement and a large mansard roof . The house is built entirely of brick, the corners of the building are emphasized with a hint of rust . A three-axis, gabled risalit juts out flat in a colossal order on both the garden and the courtyard facade . The courtyard portal and the gable field are adorned with elaborate sandstone decor. Above the family coat of arms of the von Buchwald family is the word AMANTIBUS , which means "for lovers" or "the lovers" in the gable field .

Inside the building, the baroque layout with a large staircase and ballroom as well as parts of the stucco work have been preserved. The former furnishings are almost completely lost, the building has been largely empty for several years. Johannstorf Castle is in dire need of renovation. The windows and door openings are closed with boards to protect against vandalism, and the courtyard island is not accessible.

Gatehouse with missing roof turret

Courtyard and garden

The castle stands at the end of a west-facing farm yard above Dassower See on an almost square courtyard island, the moats of which have become increasingly boggy due to lack of maintenance in recent decades. The structure of the complex is probably inspired by Bothmer Castle, which is not far away , although here, in a less elaborate variant, only the manor house is surrounded by water and the pavilion-like wing structures were dispensed with.

The yard itself is formed by the outbuildings of the former manor complex, which consists of barns and stables as well as a gatehouse in front. The farm buildings, the gatehouse and the courtyard, as well as the castle, are in a ruinous state. To the east of the manor there is an overgrown garden, in the main features of which the remains of the once baroque garden can still be seen.

The roof turret of the gatehouse was damaged in World War II . The scaffolding of the ridge turret was dismantled by the refugee families who had found refuge in the castle after the war and put up again in the large entrance hall without bricks. It was shown in this state in 1992.

literature

  • Gerd Baier, Horst Ende , Brigitte Oltmans, General Editor Heinrich Trost: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region with the cities of Rostock and Wismar. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schlie : Art and History Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 2, Schwerin 1898, p. 401 with reference to Mecklenb. Yearbook XVI, p. 63.
  2. ↑ a b Ostsee-Zeitung : Dispute over Johannstorf Castle in court (PDF; 1.1 MB) from September 24, 2011
  3. ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: message from the Lübecker Nachrichten of November 30, 2007 (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ln-online.de
  4. ↑ Article in Uetersener Nachrichten of August 22, 2008 ( Memento of May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten of July 13, 2007 ( Memento of September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (PDF)
  6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Article on nnn.de from February 22, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nnn.de
  7. ↑ ndr.de : Dassow gets Johannstorf Castle back ( Memento from December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), from December 23, 2011
  8. ↑ The dispute over Film-Schloss Johannstorf continues ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Ostsee-Zeitung of January 24, 2012, accessed on October 6, 2012
  9. ↑ LN-Online: Castle remains in the possession of Kurt-Peter Gaedeke , June 20, 2013, accessed June 28, 2017
  10. ↑ Schlie, p. 401.
  11. ^ F. Burmeister, C. Mark: Bothmer Castle in Mecklenburg , pages 25, 26. Nordwest Media Verlag, 2006

Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 38.6 "  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 17.7"  E