Ranzin manor
| Ranzin mansion | |
|---|---|
 Ranzin mansion north side |
|
| Data | |
| place | Ranzin |
| architect | Richard Lucae , Berlin |
| Client | August Wilhelm Homeyer |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | 1877 |
The Ranzin Manor , also called Ranzin Castle , is a manor house in the Ranzin district of the Züssow community in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It goes back to the Wolgast businessman and councilor August Wilhelm Homeyer and was last used as a hotel.
history
The estate itself has been in the possession of the Pomeranian noble von Horn family since the early 14th century . This is evidenced by a documentary mention of a Ranziner priest from 1315. The von Horn family has lived here for 13 generations and a total of over 500 years. However, after increasing mismanagement and severe obsolescence, the estate was sold in the 19th century and taken over by August Wilhelm Homeyer , the Wolgast councilor on July 4th, 1846 . As an academically and commercially educated person, Homeyer managed to modernize the estate from a contemporary and economic point of view. In addition to the construction of massive commercial and residential buildings for day laborers and servants , Homeyer had the stately home expanded in a representative manner and an outbuilding laid out. In honor of its economic success, the Vorwerk was given the name "Wilhelmshöh" on October 25, 1848. In 1875 the original manor house was completely destroyed by fire. However, the reconstruction was completed in 1877 in the form of a plastered brick building in the Baroque style . After the death of Friedrich von Homeyer , August's son, the estate was initially leased and inherited in 1937 by Kartz von Kameke-Streckenthin . During the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone , Ranzin was expropriated in 1945 and the castle was initially used as a retirement home and from 1956 as an apprentice residence and vocational school for farmers. In this phase it fell into disrepair and historical ceiling paintings and stucco ceilings were destroyed. In 1988 the castle finally passed into private ownership and, after extensive renovation and restoration work, was used as a hotel until 2017.
Todays use
The renovated and modernized castle is used as a hotel and event location.
South view of the manor house.
Interior view of the renovated castle hotel.
Trivia
- Friedrich von Homeyer built Europe's most famous sheep farm here . The type of sheep he bred was named "Homeyer sheep" and was even exported to Australia.
See also
literature
- Hans-Joachim Jacobs, Heike Maier, Helga Last: 775 years of Ranzin. A reader. Ranzin 2005.
- Andre Kobsch, Ilka Zander, Jörg Matuschat: Photographic time travel. (= Manor houses and castles in Western Pomerania. Vol. 1), Stralsund 2011.
Web links
- Literature about Manor Ranzin in the state bibliography MV
- Official website of the community of Züssow on the history of Ranzin .
- Entry on the history of the castle in partnership with DuMont Buchverlag .
- Further entry in a collection of manor houses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
- Entry on the estate on the von Horn family's website .
- Article about the castle and hotel in the Hamburger Abendblatt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.zuessow.de/ranzin.html
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Jacobs, Heike Maier, Helga Last: 775 years of Ranzin. A reader. Ranzin 2005, p. 43.
- ↑ a b http://www.abendblatt.de/reise/article107833757/Relaxen-im-alten-Schlosspark.html
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '48.7 " N , 13 ° 32' 7.2" E