Putzar Castle
Putzar Castle is the name given to the ruins of two mansions in Putzar in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . While the older Ulrichsbau had been falling into disrepair since the 18th century, the Joachimsbau was used until the 1970s. The ruins are surrounded by a landscaped park .
history
As early as 1306, the dukes Otto I of Pomerania and Heinrich II of Mecklenburg agreed , as documented, that in the border village of Putzar am Landgraben only a permanent house should be built instead of a castle . It is not known whether the Pomeranian Grand Chamberlain Ulrich von Schwerin had his building, the Ulrichsbau, begun around 1545 or 1550, built on the walls of the first-mentioned house.
After Ulrich's death, his sons Joachim and Ludolf inherited the Putzar house. While the younger brother Ludolf had to travel for two years, Joachim von Schwerin had a two-story building, the Joachimsbau, built in the immediate vicinity of the Ulrichsbau between 1577 and 1580. Only this building was inhabited after the Ludolf line died out and was rebuilt several times. The Ulrichsbau fell into disrepair. In 1753 the third floor was added to the Joachimsbau.
In 1785, the tenant Heinrich Christoph Schröder had the upper floor of the Ulrich building demolished, probably for the extraction of building material. Work started in 1815, which also included the draining of the swampy area close to the houses, was intensified in 1840 under Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar . He had the park laid out and a farm building set in the ruins of the Ulrich building. At the same time, stables and farm buildings on the southern side of the Joachimsbaus were demolished and replaced by a terrace with stairs leading to the park. Until then, the buildings were still surrounded by a moat that could be crossed by a drawbridge .
Until 1945 the Count's house, after the Second World War refugees and resettlers were housed in the Joachimsbau. It was later used as a warehouse before the roof structure collapsed in the 1970s.
Since 1990 intensified efforts have been made to preserve and restore the valuable monument ensemble of Putzar Palace and Park. A few years ago, a protective roof was erected over the ruins of the Joachimsbaus to slow down further decay.
investment
The Ulrichsbau was mainly built from field stones. Fired bricks were only used for doors and windows and for leveling. The longitudinal axis of the originally three-story building runs in a north-south direction. From the Renaissance elements of the building, a portal with a round arch on the east side is still preserved, which is decorated with frameworks. Above this is a free field in which there was probably a coat of arms or picture stone, perhaps in the same way as in the fortress Spantekow , which was also built by Ulrich von Schwerin. The arched curtain windows on the east side and the remains of the corner blocks on the plastering also belong to the Renaissance style.
Bricks were primarily used for the east-west facing, also in the Renaissance style, which were then plastered. The porch on the north side of the building, which looked like a stair tower, had individual, small, partly vaulted rooms, which were referred to as tower rooms. In the narrow angle between the porch and the western half of the castle, a spiral staircase half set into the wall led upwards. From 1753, an oak staircase inside the house led to the upper floors.
park
The ruins are located in the middle of a park that extends from the village street to the lowlands of Lake Putzar . The park was given its present form mainly under Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar after 1840. Under him a lime tree avenue and the southern part of the park dominated by old ash trees were laid out. The square in front of the house and the driveway were built in 1862 according to plans by the horticultural director Ferdinand Jühlke . The chestnuts at the entrance to the castle area were planted in 1870. According to plans by the Kolberger garden inspector Bauck, the entire park was renovated in 1872. The park wall was erected in 1874. In 1990 the overgrown park was cleaned up.
There are numerous remarkable individual trees here. In addition to numerous linden trees, there is a two-stemmed ash tree with a trunk diameter of 2.5 meters in the southern part of the park. At the eastern edge of the park is the so-called "engagement hill". The trunk of a pedunculate oak standing on it reaches a diameter of two meters. Along the park wall, a ditch or pond that no longer carries any water extends into the eastern part of the park. In the past, there was probably a bridge at the site of the raised crossing.
literature
- Neidhardt Krauss, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7 , pp. 16-18.
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 73.
- Uwe Schwarz: The fortifications of the 13th to 16th centuries in the Neubrandenburg district. Berlin 1987
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Vorpommern-Greifswald. Edition Temmen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8378-3002-6 , p. 54.
- Sabine Bock : The buildings of the Pomeranian nobility in the 16th and early 17th centuries , in: Unknown ways . Thomas Helms Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-944033-58-7 , pp. 160-161.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 43.2 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 12.97" E