Manor house Kittendorf
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The manor house Schloss Kittendorf is located in Kittendorf in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It was built from 1848 to 1853. The client was Hans Friedrich von Oertzen, a chamberlain to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg .
Building description
Predecessor buildings and ancillary facilities
After 1751 the first mansion was built on the foundation walls of a previous building from the 16th century. The two-storey half-timbered building had a high hipped roof and rear wings . After the current building was rebuilt, it remained to the west of the old manor and was demolished in 1999. By the 19th century, the number of farm buildings grew to around a dozen. After several demolitions in the 1960s, 1992 and 1999 these buildings disappeared completely. The Mittelhof and Oevelgünde dairies were assigned to the estate as preliminary works . The Sweden House, southeast of the castle, which was built in 1865 and served as the home of a Swedish lady of the society, has been preserved. It was built in the neo-Gothic style with four gables, a steep gable roof and a prominent chimney.
architecture
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The manor house in Kittendorf was built according to plans by the architect Friedrich Hitzig as a copy of the Babelsberg Palace , which was completed a few years earlier, in the Tudor Gothic style based on the English model. With its towers, bay windows, battlements and balconies, it ranks chronologically and architecturally in the series of neighboring mansions, for example the Bredenfelde mansion (also designed by Hitzig). As early as 1847, the Swiss architect Auguste de Meuron had built a Tudor-style castle in neighboring Varchentin .
The two-storey, rectangular main wing of the plastered building extends in a south-west-north-east direction, a narrow wing points to the south-west. The flat monopitch roofs on all tracts recede strongly behind the crenellated attic . Below the attic is decorated with a cornice with shamrock fries the facade. At the eastern corner of the building, a five-storey, polygonal tower dominates the building ensemble. The main portal with a forward arbor is located on the northeast front of the main house in front of a mighty risalit . The facade of the two-storey part of the building to the northwest is characterized by a smaller risalit with two window axes, a lower, four-axis central building and a tower-like, single-axis risalit as the building closure. The windows above the portal are designed with Tudor arches, the rest of the north-east front as rectangular windows with cornices above.
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The south-east facade to the park is taken up by the large terrace, which extends over the entire front. The pergola , which was originally in front of this entire wing, was removed in 1930. The terrace is accessed from the main wing of the complex through a smaller, higher terrace with balcony grilles and two-flight stairs. The part of the building with the terrace entrance is in turn highlighted by a risalit and its attic towers over the other parts of the south-east facade. Further to the southwest, the narrow wing is initially designed as a single storey winter garden and carries a roof terrace, a tower-like two-storey building section completes the whole. Tudor arches can be found on the first floor above the terrace (there as a narrow group of three windows) and on the greenhouse, otherwise rectangular windows with cornice decoration as on the portal facade. The rear facades have no architectural decoration.
Interior
The interior of the building originally housed in the southeast part of the complex, facing the park, and in the center of the main wing mainly representative rooms. Worth mentioning here are the garden room and the dining room, which is the only room with two floors and a skylight . The living rooms were housed in the northwestern part of the building. Since the conversion to a hotel, the family's former living quarters have been redistributed in order to create guest rooms for the hotel. A total of 25 rooms and suites were created, each with an individual floor plan.
The interior and architectural decorations have largely been preserved. Stucco work from the workshop of Friedrich Wilhelm Dankberg characterize Kittendorf Castle inside. Agricultural motifs predominate in the vestibule, the ballroom is decorated with figurative representations, the garden room is decorated with fruit motifs and the southeast tower with a neotic star motif. The inlaid floor of the ballroom, a stained glass window with hunting motifs in the main stairwell, the library's preserved bookcases and a green marble fireplace, also in the library, are further historical details.
park
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The English landscape park of Kittendorf Castle, which was probably designed by the landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné at the time the manor was built, was one of the largest in Mecklenburg with its 110 hectares. It was probably preceded by a baroque garden as early as 1750. The park area has been reduced to 20 hectares over the years.
Components of the garden are the four-row lime tree avenue that leads from the northwest towards the castle and the Peene flowing through the green area . Lenné had this river dammed up into a pond with two islands and the river then ran through the park in a romantic way.
history
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There was an estate in Kittendorf by the beginning of the 16th century at the latest. The von Oertzen acquired the property in the middle of the 18th century under Georg Ludwig von Oertzen (1716–1786) and shortly thereafter relocated their headquarters from Lübbersdorf there. In 1766, the noble family had new residential and farm buildings built on the site of the old manor. Gustav Dietrich von Oertzen (1772–1838) saw to it that the park to the south was renewed in 1836, presumably already in the style of a landscape park .
Gustav Dietrich's son Hans Friedrich von Oertzen (1816–1902) lived permanently in Kittendorf from 1841 until his death. He was an important politician in the then Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and therefore the Mecklenburg Duke was an often seen guest in the castle. The later high colonial officials Gustav von Oertzen and Paula von Oertzen, who later became the wife of the British biologist George Henry Falkiner Nuttall , grew up there . Around 1850, the almost 1,600 hectare estate and the castle were incorporated into a family entourage from Kittendorf, Mittelhof and Oevelgünde. The complex was expanded in 1875: a further residential wing with three rooms per floor was added in the northwest area. In 1930 Fritz von Oertzen had the pergola on the south terrace of the palace and two staircases removed. During the Second World War , the copper sheets for the roof had to be delivered for war production, and the buildings were given tar paper roofs . Due to the land reform in 1945, the von Oertzen family was expropriated.
During the GDR era, Kittendorf Castle housed the boarding school of an agricultural vocational school . There was no money available to maintain the ensemble, so the castle fell into disrepair. The boarding school was closed in 1988. Kittendorf Castle became the property of the Neubrandenburg district , which planned to convert it into a training center with the honorary name Wilhelm Pieck . For this purpose, the monument authority created the corresponding objective in 1988, including the park. The first work began in the same year, but was discontinued shortly after the fall of the Wall .
Redevelopment
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The Berlin entrepreneur Johann Trettler acquired Kittendorf Castle in 1992 and had it renovated according to the original historical monument protection documents . Since the entire interior was no longer available, Trettler collected exhibits from the period of construction across Europe. This makes the castle a small museum with a large collection of chandeliers and a historical library. In 1995, Trettler opened the modernized and completely renovated facility as the Schloss-Hotel Kittendorf . Because Johann Trettler died in 2004, his son took over the management at the age of 25, making him one of the youngest lords of the castle in Europe. After almost 10 years, Schloss Kittendorf GmbH & Co. KG was founded on November 1, 2011 under the leadership of entrepreneurs Tom Buckenberger, Ralph Schlemminger and Norbert Ramm and acquired the property. It has now been extensively renovated again. On May 16, 2018, the Berlin entrepreneur Stefan Heidemann took over the property from Schloss Kittendorf GmbH & Co. KG.
In addition to hotel operations, the castle is also approved for weddings by the responsible registry office. The library serves as the wedding room.
In the neighborhood
To the north is the Ivenacker Tiergarten (20 kilometers away), closer to the Schloss-Hotel are the famous Ivenacker oaks , the oldest of which is 1000 years old and has reached a height of 35 meters. Immediately next to the castle is the lovely village church of Kittendorf from the second half of the 13th century. The town of Waren / Müritz can be reached in the south-west .
literature
- German Society (Hrsg.): Palaces and gardens in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Issue 10, Kittendorf, 2004.
Web links
- Literature about the manor house Kittendorf in the state bibliography MV
- Web presence of the castle hotel
- Photo of the main front of Schloss Kittendorf 1970 (Deutsche Fotothek)
- Photo of the garden front of Schloss Kittendorf 1970 (Deutsche Fotothek)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kittendorfer Appell ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to the state government under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff .
- ↑ a b c Sabine Mattern: Guest of the Chamberlain . In: Berliner Morgenpost , weekend extra, p. 14.
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 5 ″ E