Ribbeck Castle

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Today's Ribbeck Castle

Ribbeck Castle or mansion Ribbeck is a 1893 by Hans Georg Hennig von Ribbeck with neo-Baroque erected forms two-story stucco building in Nauen district Ribbeck in Havelland in Brandenburg .

history

The old Ribbeck Castle

The predecessor of today's castle was built between 1822 and 1826 as a single-storey country house with a beaver-tailed hip roof and bat dormers as a replacement for an earlier property on the same site. This country house had a three-axis central projection and square-plastered corner projections with a width of 11 axes . The year 1822 in Roman numerals still reminds of this building: MDCCCXXII in the south gable of today's castle. It is said to have been the double-roof house from the poem " Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland " by Theodor Fontane .

Whether the current castle is an extension or a new building due to a fire can no longer be fully clarified. What is certain, however, is that Hans Georg Henning von Ribbeck (born September 19, 1836 - † August 26, 1896) had today's castle built on the foundations of Ribbecksch estates and manor houses from 1893 to 1895 .

Despite being occupied by an air force unit from the end of 1943 to 1947, the castle was owned by the von Ribbeck family. The castle then became the property of the Nauen district .

At the end of the 1950s, the palace was structurally changed several times, the facade was greatly simplified and the curved gables straightened. The family coat of arms was removed, as was the mural in the stairwell (1954). The mural did not fit into the socialist image of a Brandenburg junker. With the addition of an elevator shaft in 1986, the socialist renovation work on the castle ended. From 1956 to 2004 the castle was used as a nursing home. After the fall of the Wall, the von Ribbeck family made claims for return of ownership, and in 1999 they reached an agreement by means of a settlement before the Potsdam Administrative Court. Ribbeck Castle is now owned by the Havelland district and was extensively renovated over a number of years over a period of several years until July 2009. The elevator shaft was removed and the facade returned to its original shape. The cost of the renovation amounted to around 5.6 million euros.

The von Ribbeck family now lives in two houses in the village. The family writes about one of them: “Today's house directly opposite the castle is modeled on the double-roofed house. The “double roof” or hipped roof with the arrangement of the dormers and windows are reminiscent of the castle as it existed during Fontane's lifetime. "

present

Castle (2011)

The Havelland district, as the owner of the castle, operates it as a local corporation (Schloss Ribbeck GmbH). After years of restoration, it was reopened on July 4, 2009 as a cultural tourism center with a concert and fireworks. It is available as a museum on Theodor Fontane's work and life and for temporary exhibitions as well as a registry office, restaurant and park café. The renovation costs amounted to 5.6 million euros.

Buildings

Architecture of the castle

Ribbeck Castle, built in the neo-baroque style in 1893, is a two-storey plastered building above a high basement with an extended mansard roof and slate roofing . Strong cornices between the floors structure the building, which is thirteen axes wide and five axes deep. Ashlar corner pilaster strips protrude from the corners of the building. The central projection on the west side of the castle is made up of six square plaster strips of various widths. A three-axis arbor with arched windows and an entrance portal emerges from the central projection. A brick-paved carriage driveway with metal railings leads there.

"A curved triangular gable with a window width of three axes with an oval window, tapering to the sides in spiral decorative elements and consisting of vases, crowned this main entrance."

In the basement you can find traces of the most varied construction phases. There is a barrel vault from the 17th century, a Prussian cap ceiling from 1893 to a flat ceiling from 1954.

Family cemetery of the von Ribbeck family

Family cemetery of the von Ribbeck family

Directly at the castle is the family cemetery of the von Ribbeck family, set up in 1893 on the occasion of the death (diphtheria) of three children, with gravestones for:

  • Ernestine von Ribbeck (December 11, 1888 - January 22, 1893)
  • Hans Georg Friedrich Werner von Ribbeck (7 May 1882 - 1 February 1893)
  • Margarethe von Ribbeck (May 1, 1887 - February 1, 1893)
  • Wolf Freiherr von Schele (born May 15, 1895 - † November 30, 1910)
  • Joachim von Ribbeck (born April 28, 1892 - † October 22, 1936)
  • Adelheid von Ribbeck (born von Krosigk ; * January 20, 1859 - † March 28, 1927)
  • Hans Georg Henning von Ribbeck (born September 19, 1836 - † August 26, 1896)
  • Marie-Agnes von Ribbeck (born Freiin von Schele; born September 15, 1880; † August 15, 1967)
  • Hans Georg Karl Anton von Ribbeck ( Fideikommissherr on Ribbeck and Bagow; * July 5, 1880; lost in Sachsenhausen concentration camp February 1945)
  • Alice Irene Renate von Ribbeck (born von Bose ; born November 9, 1907, † June 16, 1979)
  • Hans Georg Friedrich Henning von Ribbeck (born July 19, 1907 - † January 9, 1993)

In 1994 a memorial stone was erected for the Nazi resistance member Hans Georg Karl Anton von Ribbeck who was murdered in 1945.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich von Ribbeck: Sights of Ribbeck. Moving out of the castle. In: von Ribbeck. Official website of Friedrich von Ribbeck. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The family's current houses on the von Ribbeck family website .
  3. ↑ Website of Schloss Ribbeck GmbH ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ribbeck-havelland.de
  4. ↑ District Havelland - Lower Monument Protection Authority - Open Monument Day 2006 - Ribbeck Castle - A cultural and historical monument as a tourist center of a region , PDF.
  5. ^ On June 11, 2013, a stumbling block is to be laid for Hans Georg Karl Anton von Ribbeck at the castle .

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '32.4 "  N , 12 ° 45' 10.5"  E