Kilgis Castle
Kilgis Castle was a castle in Kilgis, today's Krasnoarmeiskoje (Saretschje) , Kaliningrad Oblast in the former East Prussia .
history
Already at the time of the conquest of the region by the German Order , the Kalneins were owners. The Kalnein farm later became Klein-Kilgis. Klein-Kilgis and the neighboring Sollau were transferred to the district judge of Kalnein in 1440. Around 1652 Lieutenant General von Kalnein had the existing house expanded, adding a second floor and adding two side wings to the main house. Kilgis and his Vorwerke, u. a. Vorwerk Carlshof, were connected by avenues of lime trees. Count Leopold von Kalnein, who became Commander of the Order of St. John and High Marshal of Prussia, had the property expanded with a third wing.
The old castle was demolished in 1910 and replaced by a new building in the neo-baroque style , which burned down in 1923 and was restored in a reduced form. The palace park enclosed a cemetery with a Kalnein mausoleum.
During the economic crisis of the 1930s , the family had to sell the parts of the estate individually. Kilgis and Vorwerk Carlshof came into possession of Anton Thiedemann and Bruno Baltzer. The bombarded castle burned down during the Second World War .
literature
- Helmut Sieber : Castles and manors in East and West Prussia . Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1958, p. 63-64 .
Individual evidence
- Location according to the historical map:
- Measuring table sheet 337: Creuzburg (in Ostpr.), 1912 Creuzburg (in Ostpr.). - 1: 25000. - [Berlin]: Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme, 1912.
- Online excerpt: kartenforum.slub-dresden
Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ 38.3 ″ N , 20 ° 29 ′ 6.2 ″ E