Ludwigsburg Palace (Western Pomerania)
The Ludwigsburg Castle is located in the district of Ludwigsburg the community Loissin in the Vorpommern-Greifswald . Along with Ueckermünde Castle and Szczecin Castle, it is one of the last existing Renaissance buildings of the Pomeranian dukes and is the only one that has largely been preserved in its original form.
history
Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pomerania - Wolgast gave his wife Sophie Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1561–1631) in 1586 the town of Dersim ( Darsim ), which came from the secularized property of the Eldena monastery . In addition, Sophia Hedwig received 1000 guilders from him in order to be able to build a castle with associated property. After Ernst Ludwig's death in 1592, Sophia Hedwig had the place Darsim renamed Ludwigsburg . When she had to give up the castle in 1615, it became the property of her son, Duke Philipp Julius of Pommern-Wolgast. After he died in 1625, Sophia Hedwig received lifelong usufruct of the castle.
In 1631 Anna von Croÿ received Ludwigsburg Castle from her brother, Duke Bogislaw XIV , who had already prescribed it to her in 1627. She sold the castle in 1650 to the general and city commander of Greifswald , Burchard Müller von der Lühne, who was in the Swedish service . His family owned the castle until 1747. It was then owned by the Chancellor and Councilor Philipp Ernst von Horn . At an auction in 1776, the Swedish lieutenant colonel Friedrich Ernst Sebastian von Klinckowström acquired the estate and castle. At the end of the 18th century he had a late baroque park laid out. His sons Friedrich August (1778–1835) and Karl (1783–1865) were born here.
In 1810 Ludwigsburg Palace was sold to the Greifswald businessman Johann Philipp Hermann Weißenborn. The Weißenborn family had several modifications carried out in the 19th century and the park expanded. Until 1908 the building only served as a summer residence, only the installation of central heating and electric light in the years 1906 to 1908 enabled year-round use. During the Second World War , the building served as a depot for outsourced newspaper archives. After the war, the fled Weissenborns were expropriated. The castle, the establishment of which had fallen victim to looters, came into the possession of the municipality in 1946, which housed refugees and resettlers here . Improper renovations and inadequate maintenance measures resulted in damage to the building. In the 1970s, the living quarters were emptied. Until the fall of the Wall, the local LPG's kitchen was housed in the vaulted cellar and the ballroom was used as a cinema.
In 1991 the castle was acquired again by the Weißenborn family. The farm buildings have been used by a development association since 1998, which also aims to renovate the castle and further reconstruct the 3.5 hectare landscape park. On May 18, 2002, a permanent exhibition on the history of the palace and the estate was opened. The castle can be visited during opening times.
A usage concept of the Regional Planning Association of Western Pomerania from 2015 envisaged the use of the ensemble, which is characterized by vacancy and decay, as a future artist and guest domicile. For this purpose, a foundation for Schloss Ludwigsburg should be established, in which the city of Greifswald should be represented among other actors.
In December 2017, the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania decided to renovate Ludwigsburg Palace and use it as a museum under the umbrella of the Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation . All three owners have agreed to sell their stake to the state and the Pomeranian State Museum Foundation for a symbolic price .
In November 2018, the budget committee of the Bundestag decided to fund the renovation of Ludwigsburg Palace with 20 million euros. However, the federal government requires that the land becomes the owner of the entire area.
investment
Ludwigsburg Palace is a three-story, twelve-axis building with a plastered facade. On the north and south sides there are three-axis risalites east of the center of the facade . Both the main wing and the other parts of the building have gable roofs .
As an inventory list from 1620 shows, the building originally only had two floors. At that time, the vaults of the basement contained the utility rooms, a large dining room, a parlor and ducal living rooms. Upstairs were the rooms of the clerks, junkers and the court master. There were also more bedrooms and a dance floor here.
It is not known when the castle was extended by a second floor. The existing painted beam ceiling and the wall painting on the second floor of the south wing may have been from the time in office of Burchard Müller von der Lühne. A stucco ceiling in a room on the first floor is said to come from this period. Hand-painted landscape wallpapers from the second half of the 18th century are attributed to the son of the castle owner von Klinckowström, Friedrich August.
In 1860, the Weissenborn family had a two-storey veranda with an outside staircase built in the neo-Gothic style in front of the southern risalits, which had to be removed in 1964 because of its dilapidation. A ballroom was set up on the first floor.
To the east and south of the castle is an approximately 3 hectare large former estate, of which several buildings have been preserved. The gate barn is noteworthy. In 1742, a decorative portal with the baron's coat of arms of the Müller von der Lühne family was installed over the passage on the courtyard side.
The approximately 100-meter-long avenue of lime trees that formed the central axis is still preserved from the late baroque park. The Temple of Apollo, a classicistic round pavilion , was demolished in 1974 due to disrepair. He stood on a hill, the so-called "Temple Mount", from which an unobstructed view of the Danish Wiek was still possible in the 18th and 19th centuries .
literature
- Dirk Schleinert : On the early history of the castle and estate Ludwigsburg near Greifswald , In: Pommern. Zeitschrift für Kultur und Geschichte, 38 vol. (2000), no. 3, pp. 14-16.
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Pages 126–127, Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8
- Albert Georg Schwartz : feudal and manor Ludwigsburg . Greifswald 1734 ( online ) (outdated and only partially usable)
- Förderverein Schloss- und Gutshofsanlage Ludwigsburg eV Schloss Ludwigsburg and Gutshofanlage , flyer, without date
- MH (Michael Hammermeister): Sleep without Sleeping Beauty: Ludwigsburg Castle . In: Die Pommersche Zeitung , vol. 59, episode 38 of September 19, 2009, p. 1f,
Web links
- Literature about Ludwigsburg Palace (Western Pomerania) in the state bibliography MV
- Ludwigsburg eV palace and manor complex
- In Western Pomerania, castles are falling into disrepair, politicians and preservationists are therefore relying on the countryside , Schweriner Volkszeitung from April 7, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regional Planning Association Vorpommern: Specialized regional concept for the development and maintenance of the Vorpommern manor and parks . Page 26.
- ^ New concept for Ludwigsburg Palace , Ostsee-Zeitung of July 2, 2015, p. 13.
- ↑ Negotiations about Ludwigsburg Castle decided , insidegreifswald.de, December 11, 2017
- ^ Ludwigsburg Palace: Clear the way for the renovation in: NDR from April 12, 2018.
- ↑ Christopher Gottschalk: Federal government gives 20 million euros for Ludwigsburg , in: Ostsee-Zeitung of November 9, 2018.
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 28.9 ″ E