Kaarz Castle

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The mansion "Schloss Kaarz" "

The manor house Schloss Kaarz belongs to the community of Weitendorf in the Sternberger Seenlandschaft (formerly Sternberg district) and forms the center of an estate. It is located in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania between Schwerin and Güstrow . The castle is used for tourism and serves as a hotel, café and restaurant.

history

The Kaarz estate was founded in the 17th century. In 1796 it was given to the Weltzien family as a pledge and inherited from 1797 to 1814. In 1816 Burchard Hartwig von Bülow (1770–1847) bought the fiefdom . After his death, Eduard Wilhelm von Bülow (1816–?) Became the owner in 1849. The estate was owned by the von Bülow family until 1869 . In 1872 it was bought by the Hamburg shipowner and businessman Julius Hüniken . He had the current manor house built by the architects Friedrich Saniter and Albrecht Becker and the park laid out.

After Julius Hüniken's death in 1891, the estate was drawn by lot to his underage son Julius Hüniken . Starting in 1902, he had the palace rebuilt and the park transformed into an English landscape park. During the Second World War, Hüniken took in family members to protect Hamburg from bombing raids. During the occupation by the Red Army in April 1945, Hüniken, unlike his family members, initially remained in Kaarz, but fled to the West in September after humiliation.

After the Second World War , the manor house was occupied by the Red Army for a while , after which it was used, among other things, as a reception camp for refugees from the eastern regions . Until 1945 the one-class village school for the children from Kaarz was housed in the small district of Hütthof. In October 1945, school lessons began again at the Hütthof school after the war. The classroom in Hütthoff was overcrowded due to the entrance of the many refugee children. After the Red Army headquarters left in 1946, two classrooms and a teacher's apartment were built on the lower floor of the castle. In 1946 the two-class elementary school Kaarz was set up in the lower rooms for the children from Kaarz, Necheln, Schönlage (temporarily) and Weitendorf (temporarily). The manor house was later used as a retirement home (1964–1988) and converted into it. During this time the house deteriorated more and more. In 1992 the Gaertner / Hüniken family bought the castle back. The building was then extensively renovated. In 2013 the estate was sold to the Dutch entrepreneur Fanja Pon. Pon owns other former manor complexes used as a hotel, a golf course and agricultural companies in the area.

Buildings

The lock

The neoclassical mansion, mostly referred to as a castle, is located above a small hill, the facades are decorated with restraint, the large tower in the style of a monopteros with its original, cast-iron spiral staircase is striking . Only a few original pieces of equipment have survived inside, such as the fireplace in the Red Salon and the ceiling painting in the foyer. Interruptions in the stucco of the small library indicate the renovations for the old people's home when some walls were drawn in at this point.

The castle park

The castle park was laid out as an English landscape park by the Lenné student Carl Ansorge from 1873. The complex is equipped with rare trees and plants, including several old oaks , Douglas firs and cypresses . Hidden in the park are the neo-Gothic chapel of the Bülow family and the neo-Renaissance mausoleum of the Hüniken family . In the upper part of the castle park, to the left of the road to Weitendorf (Oberer Pappelberg), there was a small tea pavilion built in a Far Eastern architectural style until 1946. The entire park was surrounded by a metal fence. At the entrances to the castle, different animals stood in natural size on stone plinths. At the main driveway from Weitendorf there are two big deer, at the entrance to the estate there are two lions and two foxes at the road to Hütthof. The entrances were made of ornate metal gates. After 1945 the systems began to slowly disintegrate or parts were shredded into scrap. The parking area is open to visitors.

  • View from the pond to the manor house

  • Park and tower

  • Mausoleum of the Hüniken family in the park of Kaarz Castle

  • The mausoleum

literature

  • Fritz Wiese: The conifers of Mecklenburg-Schwerins , Innaugural dissertation. In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , 33rd Jg., 1923, pp. 98 ff. (Trees at Gut Kaarz are mentioned on pages 107–110, 113–116, 121, 124, 126, 130 and 131)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755) , JG Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, p. 287 digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D9rNXAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA287~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  2. ^ Jacob Friedrich Joachim von Bülow, Paul von Bülow: Family book of the von Bülow , Berlin 1858, p. 241, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DFcVsIpWU3gcC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA241~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  3. ↑ III. Department, Grossherzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches officielles Wochenblatt , 1849, No. 22, Schwerin, p. 112 digitized
  4. ↑ III. Department, Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin , year 1872, No. 52, p. 327, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DJV-wAAAAMAA~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA327~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  5. ↑ FROM THE FARMING VILLAGE TO THE CASTLE. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The giant stable in Keez is not being built . svz.de, December 10, 2015, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Carl Ansorge (1849-1915) was employed in 1873 as an assistant in the tree nursery "James Booth & Sons", which was owned by John Cornelius Booth . (Source: Obituary Carl Ansorge , in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 24, 1915, pp. 325–326) No obituary mentioned that he designed a park. There is no evidence of a student named “Ansorge” from the “ Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam ”, whose director Peter Joseph Lenné was until his death in 1866.
  8. ↑ Planted in 1874 (Fritz Wiese: Die Nadelhölzer Mecklenburg-Schwerins . In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 33, 1923, p. 126, (reference to mention in: Report on the 7th assembly of the Mecklenburg Forestry Management Association 1879 , P. 33))
  9. ↑ Lawson's Tree of Life Cypress , "Magnificent specimen in Kaarz". (Fritz Wiese: Die Nadelhölzer Mecklenburg-Schwerins . In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 33, 1923, p. 131)
  10. ↑ Burchard von Bülow and his wife Marianne, born before him, Countess von Bassewitz were buried here.

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 55 "  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 42"  E