Meyenburg Castle

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Meyenburg Castle
Volute gable in the style of the North German Renaissance.
Rear view from the castle park of the partly modern extensions.

The Castle Meyenburg in the country town Meyenburg in the Prignitz is a former noble residence of the family of pipe , which especially today as Fashion Museum is used.

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From the 14th century to 1914, Meyenburg Castle was owned by the von Rohr family, who, due to their wealth, were one of the dominant Prignitz families. Contrary to the common definition, it is not a castle in the narrower sense, but a palatial mansion that is lavish for the region . The two-storey brick building consists of two wings and has the shape of an L. The structure includes parts of the medieval city fortifications of Meyenburg and dates from the 15th century, the rest of the buildings date back to the 16th century. The building was completely redesigned in 1865-66 by the Berlin master builder Friedrich Adler in the style of the North German Renaissance, which is particularly evident in the facade design of the gable. Renewed renovations took place in 1914. The renovation and repair in the years 1996-2002 restored the condition of 1866. Today the castle is used as a fashion museum, castle museum and public library. The castle and the castle park are listed.

Castle Park

Today's park goes back to an arrangement by the Berlin court gardener Fink in 1868, which over the years became overgrown and was restored in 1997. The park is bounded in the east by the Stepenitz .

Fashion museum Schloss Meyenburg

The Fashion Museum Schloss Meyenburg shows parts of the most extensive European fashion collection of clothing fashions of the 20th century from 1900 to 1970, which was compiled by the East Berlin collector Josefine Edle von Krepl . Von Krepl opened the first boutique in East Berlin in the GDR . After leaving the country in the spring of 1989, the Austrian noblewoman returned to Prenzlauer Berg after German reunification .

Library

Three rooms house a small public library with 10,000 media items for loan.

literature

  • Torsten Foelsch: Meyenburg Castle . In: Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger (Hrsg.): Palaces and gardens of the market . Berlin 2002 (2nd edition 2010).
  • Peter Goralczyk: Meyenburg. The building history of the castle . In: Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege , issue 2/2006, Berlin 2006, p. 27 ff.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Band Brandenburg . Berlin 2000, p. 658, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District of Prignitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ About us . bibo-meyenburg.de; accessed on March 14, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 58.6 "  N , 12 ° 14 ′ 34.2"  E