Neuhardenberg Castle
The Neuhardenberg Castle is located in the same municipality Neuhardenberg in the district Oderland in the state of Brandenburg .
historical overview
Construction of the palace began possibly in 1786, that is, in the year of Frederick the Great's death , but possibly even earlier, because according to Theodor Fontane (in Walks through the Mark Brandenburg , Volume 2), Frederick the Great is said to have remarked, “He's building a palace ! He wants to go high! ”, Whereupon Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz is said to have renounced the bel étage and left it with a single-storey three-wing complex with a high mansard roof . Carl Gotthard Langhans was involved in the interior design . In 1792, a monument to Frederick the Great was erected in the park based on a design by Johann Wilhelm Meil (1733–1805).
Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz, Rittmeister of the Zieten Hussars and later Prussian General of the Cavalry , received the Quilitz manor, as it was then called, on April 18, 1763 as a royal donation as thanks for the rescue of Friedrich in the battle of Kunersdorf (1759) . Work on the castle began a little later. In 1811 Quilitz was sold back to the Prussian crown by Prittwitz's son.
On November 11, 1814, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia place and castle as a royal donation to his state chancellor Karl August Prince von Hardenberg, who was elevated to the rank of prince in June of the same year . 1820–1823, Karl Friedrich Schinkel rebuilt the originally baroque palace in a classicist manner; the castle was raised by a second floor. The place and castle were given the name Neu-Hardenberg. The redesign of the adjoining landscape garden was done in 1821 by Hermann von Pückler-Muskau with the assistance of Peter Joseph Lenné .
After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , the then owner of the Neuhardenberg estate and castle, Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg , was expropriated as a resistance fighter against National Socialism . This expropriation was confirmed in 1945 during the socialist land reform . The castle served as a school building until the mid-1970s, after which it was unused. The castle was extensively reconstructed in the 1980s. In 1996 the von Hardenberg family received the castle and its park back. However, she moved her residence and the property management to the Lietzen Commandery and sold the Neuhardenberg Castle with the extensive park in 1997 to the German Savings Banks and Giro Association , which founded the wholly-owned subsidiary Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg for the operation of the castle and the events . After extensive renovation work, it was officially reopened on May 8, 2002 in the presence of Federal President Johannes Rau . In June 2003 and July 2004 two closed meetings of the red-green federal government took place under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Neuhardenberg.
Visits and events
In the summer (during the summer time ) the castle can be visited on Sundays. From March to November there are regular exhibitions, theater performances, concerts, readings, conferences and political and scientific debates on issues of the time in the exhibition hall in the Kavaliershaus Ost, in the Great Hall, in the Schinkel Church and in the park.
financing
The Schloss Neuhardenberg GmbH Foundation was established in 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV), which acquired, renovated and renovated the ensemble. The Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation organizes a broad multi-discipline program in the castle ensemble and also operates a castle hotel with 54 rooms and suites. The foundation was headed by Bernd Kauffmann from 2001 to the end of 2014 . Since the beginning of 2015 Heike Kramer has been managing director and general representative at the head of the facility.
The foundation has been organizing a cultural program with theater productions, music, readings, debates and exhibitions since 2001. Artists and intellectuals from home and abroad have been guests in Neuhardenberg since then . Large theater productions were made between 2002 and 2006 on the former military airfield in Neuhardenberg and in the park of Neuhardenberg Castle. After exhibitions oriented towards cultural history, the focus was on photography. Orchestra workshops Open air concerts and small-scale concerts with classical music, world music and jazz complete the program, as do readings by well-known actors and debates on current political, social and scientific topics.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation
- Material on Neuhardenberg Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 224 kB)
- Neuhardenberg Castle. In: arch INFORM .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Event highlights in Neuhardenberg Castle. September 22, 2016, accessed July 13, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 42 " N , 14 ° 14 ′ 29" E