Saßleben Castle

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Saßleben Castle was an aristocratic seat in today's Calau district of Saßleben , which can be traced back to the 14th century and was destroyed by fire in 1945. Saßleben Castle belonged to various members of the Wertheim merchant family from 1911 to 1945 .

history

At the end of the 18th century, the former manor came into the possession of the Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld . At the beginning of the 19th century they had a new castle built and the park laid out. In 1879 the Berlin liqueur manufacturer Hermann Gilka bought the property and had it converted. At that time, the castle was given the shape it remained in until it was destroyed in 1945.

After it had come into the possession of Hedwig Harlander in the meantime, Georg Wertheim bought the manor house as a gift for his wife Ursula in 1911 . The castle served the family as a summer residence. The island in the pond of the castle park was provided with a boat landing stage, adorned with two sphinxes and a fountain. A tennis court to the left of the castle and a cast-iron pavilion to the right of it (which is now in the park of Fürstlich Drehna Castle) rounded off the ensemble.

In order to protect his wife from the effects of the racial laws of the " Third Reich ", Georg Wertheim divorced his wife Ursula in the mid-1930s, who continued to bear the name Wertheim and lived with Georg until his death in 1939. After the divorce, Georg Wertheim gave Saßleben Castle to his ex-wife. It was thus withdrawn from the expropriation proceedings of the Nazi bureaucracy. After the death of Georg Wertheim, Ursula Wertheim married the castle manager Arthur Lindgens, with whom she emigrated to the USA a little later. Shortly after the end of the war, the castle went up in flames in 1945. The exact cause of the fire is still unclear.

The castle ruins were demolished. The stables and barns that were later used by the local LPG remained . The manor complex and the castle park are under monument protection .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, district Oberspreewald-Lausitz. (PDF) December 31, 2012, p. 16 , accessed on September 15, 2015 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 13 ° 59 ′ 23.4 ″  E