Kartzow Castle

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Kartzow Castle seen from the park
The forerunner building from 1850 with manor park around 1869, Alexander Duncker collection
Entrance stairs
Gate house at the driveway

The Kartzow Castle is a manor house in Potsdam district Kartzow . It emerged from a manor and was rebuilt in baroque style between 1912 and 1914 according to plans by the Berlin architect Eugen Schmohl .

history

According to tradition from 1450, the village of Kartzow belonged to the Hünicke family, who owned a farm here with seven free hooves . The last owner from the von Hünicke family, Cuno von Hünicke , sold the manor to Ludwig von Fronhofer in 1729.

In 1850, as the owner of the manor, Carl Wolf Stielow had the manor house remodeled like a castle. At that time, the estate had five residential and 13 farm buildings as well as a distillery . In a major fire in the village of Kartzow in 1873, the manor house was also affected. In 1900 the Berlin spirits manufacturer Arthur Gilka acquired the manor. The existing distillery and the good soil quality of the arable land are likely to have been decisive. The manufacturer had the manor house of the manor demolished and in its place between 1912 and 1914 Eugen Schmohl rebuilt a representative, three-winged building in Baroque style for 1.5 million Reichsmarks . After that, the building with 66 rooms was called Landhaus Gilka .

The estate was sold to Major Eduard von Eickenhof-Reitzenstein by his widow in 1937 after Gilka's death . He signed the estate over to his daughter Alix Krossa in 1939. In 1940, the former garden director of Sanssouci , Georg Potente , redesigned the manor park into a landscape park . In 1940 the manor house and grounds were used for exterior shots of the National Socialist German film Head Up, Johannes! by Viktor de Kowa . In 1941 the Reich Treasury acquired the manor; In the same year it was taken over by the Wehrmacht , as an expansion of the Döberitz military training area to Kartzow was planned.

After the Second World War , the manor house served as accommodation for displaced persons from 1945 . From 1949 it was used as a children's convalescent home for the People's Solidarity . Between 1974 and 1984 there was a children's home in the manor house , then a sanatorium for children with kidney disease until 1996 . From 1998 to 2006 the manor house was empty. After the sale in December 2006, it was extensively restored in 2007 according to the specifications of the monument preservation . A branch of the Potsdam registry office has been located in the manor house since 2008 . The building itself is mainly used as a venue, especially for weddings. In 2010, a hotel was also opened.

literature

  • Catrin During, Albrecht Ecke: Built! Architecture guide Potsdam . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936872-90-3 , p. 160-161 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kartzow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kartzow and its history. In: potsdam.de. Retrieved September 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Kartzow Castle. In: potsdam.de. Retrieved September 12, 2015 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 28.3 "  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 48.1"  E