Klink Castle

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Klink Castle

The Klink Castle is a manor house in Klink in the district of Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . It is not far from the federal highway 192 on the isthmus between the Müritz and the Kölpinsee .

history

Aerial photograph (2014)
Hall of Mirrors
Breakfast room in the castle
swimming pool
Breakfast room in the orangery

Arthur von Schnitzler acquired the Klink manor with an area of ​​646 hectares in 1897 and expanded it in the same year to a total of around 1150 hectares by purchasing additional land. The old manor house was demolished and the neo-renaissance style palace was built according to plans by the architects Grisebach and Dinklage from Berlin at a price of around 378,000 marks. The castles on the Loire in France were the model .

Work on the castle was completed in 1898. In the same year the rest of the farmyard, consisting of the farm building and the gardener's and gatekeeper's house (gatehouse), was built. At the same time the castle park with the boat harbor was laid out.

In 1913 the castle was expanded to the northeast. According to plans by the architects Ernst Paulus and Lilloe, an extension with today's mirror hall on the ground floor and guest rooms on the upper floor took place at a price of 240,000 marks. In addition, another terrace was built in the direction of Müritz.

Arthur von Schnitzler died on February 14, 1917 and the property was divided into quarters between the wife and three daughters.

In October of the same year the first daughter, Ilse Maria, married at Klink Castle. In 1923 the marriage of the daughter Hildegart Beate followed and in September 1927 the daughter Cornelia Hedwig.

Cornelia Hedwig married again in 1939, this time to Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal . He was arrested for participating in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 and executed on October 13, 1944.

In 1945 the castle was confiscated by the Red Army and used as a command post. The widow Hedwig von Schnitzler now had to live in a farm workers' house in Grabenitz . She died there on November 22, 1945, but with the consent of the clinker castle commandant she was allowed to be buried with her husband in the mausoleum.

In 1946 the castle was cleared by the Red Army and 103 refugees and displaced persons moved in from September of that year. Neither water supply nor heating worked in the castle at that time. The housed families heated with makeshift room stoves whose exhaust gases had to be led outside through the window openings.

In 1965, the council of the municipality of Klink decided to transfer the legal ownership for the castle to the VEB water supply and wastewater treatment Neubrandenburg. In June of the following year, the last 20 families moved out of the castle and got new apartments on Klinker Schlossstrasse. The castle stood empty until 1968 and was then rebuilt until 1971.

This year the "training and recreation facility at Schloss Klink" was opened. From now on, 40 single to four-bed rooms were available for up to 103 vacationers. In winter the castle was used as a training center for the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Water Management.

After the fall of the Wall and German reunification , Schloss Klink was classified by the Treuhandanstalt as "non-operational property" and advertised for sale.

In 1992 Karl E. Brenner from Bad Homburg bought Klink Castle for 4.7 million DM under the obligation to develop it into a holiday resort within three years through investments of 120 million DM and to create corresponding jobs. Brenner was not able to fulfill this obligation by the agreed deadline, October 31, 1995, which is why the now responsible Federal Agency for Unification- related Special Tasks carried out an investor exchange process in which a total of 24 interested parties with different concepts took part. On March 30, 1996, Ernst Walloschke and his son Guido Gabriel were awarded the contract for a hotel project. The family had previously restored Groß Plasten Castle and opened it as a hotel.

The renovation work in Klink began on September 30, 1997 and was completed in July 1998. Ernst Walloschke died during the renovation work on December 23, 1997. The hotel has been run by Guido Gabriel Walloschke ever since.

In April 2000 the palace was expanded to include the orangery . In this building, erected just a few meters south of the castle, there are a further 73 rooms, three suites and the 620 m² wellness area, through which there is also direct access to the castle through an underground passage.

Murals by Max Liebermann

In 1899 Max Liebermann created a cycle of murals for the lady's room . At a price of 10,000 marks four pictures were made of him, each of which represented a season. Shortly after the end of the war in 1945, according to the memories of Maria Herzer, a granddaughter of the Schnitzlers, a water pipe burst on the floor above the room with the paintings. The soggy pictures were torn off to access the underlying friezes , which were used to wrap the feet.

mausoleum

In 1908 von Schnitzler commissioned the Munich sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand to build a mausoleum south of the castle directly on the Müritz. The small temple was based on ancient models. Above the entrance was a bronze relief with two angels holding a wreath. In the interior there was a relief depicting Charon with the ferry for the dead and the Parzen on the sides .

Arthur and Hedwig von Schnitzler, their daughter Anna Maria Schnitzler and their son Gerhard Eduard Albert Schnitzler were buried here.

On April 12, 1976, the mausoleum was blown up by the Rostock-Reutershagen motorway combine on behalf of the Klink municipality.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ history of the castle on gemeinde-klink.info; Retrieved July 5, 2014
  2. ↑ Schloss Klink at auf-nach-mv.de; Retrieved July 5, 2014
  3. ↑ Information about the pictures on gemeinde-klink.info; Retrieved July 5, 2014


Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 44.2 "  N , 12 ° 37 ′ 30.4"  E