Schlagenthin Castle
The Schlagenthin Castle is a historic building in the district Schlagenthin of Saxony-Anhalt City Jerichow .
history
The castle was part of the von Tresckow estate , which had been in the family since the 16th century and originally covered over 2000 hectares. During this time the castle was built as the administrative seat of the estate. Most of the estate was leased to feudal men. The castle and his estate passed into the possession of Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia in 1767 . Around 1843, after the death of Prince August of Prussia, it was sold to Count Harry von Arnim -Nassenheide, who rebuilt the castle during this time. This essentially gave it its present shape.
After his death, his son, Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin , inherited the castle. At the time, he was the main initiator of the construction of the railway line from Genthin to Milow , which passed directly by Schlagenthin Castle and also had a stop with a freight track for the removal of agricultural products. As a farmer and breeder, he was interested in the breeding of new, resilient potato and grain varieties as well as cattle and pig breeding. During one of his vacation trips in Rome in 1889, he met the English author Elisabeth Mary Annette Beauchamp, who was 15 years his junior and whom he married shortly afterwards. In future she was called Elizabeth von Arnim-Schlagenthin . She moved to Schlagenthin and wrote many of her works there. Most of her works are based on biographies. The 1898 anonymously in London published diary - novel Elizabeth and her German Garden ( Elizabeth and her German Garden ) was a sales success and found eight editions. The experience with garden maintenance, which she published in this book, she gained in the Nassenheide palace gardens and in the Schlagenthin palace gardens.
After the death of her husband in 1910 she sold the castle including the agricultural part of approx. 675 hectares to the builder Iwan from Schersenz near Posen . After his death in 1941, Dr. Schurig from Paulinenaue new owner. It was expropriated in September 1945 as part of the land reform . The forestry part of the property was also sold in 1910 to the brothers Alfred and Hugo Moll from Neubeckum . These brothers built a sawmill in Genthin and delivered the wood as pit wood to the Ruhr area . This property was also expropriated in September 1945.
From 1946 the castle with its remaining outbuildings was the seat of the agricultural cooperative machine-tractor-station (MTS). From this point in time until around 1992, the castle was only kept in its current state, but no renovations were carried out.
Around 1970 the castle was rebuilt and used as a children's holiday home. In 1991 the city handed over the children's home to a private provider. The castle was renovated and modernized around 2010 for around 1 million euros. The children's home was closed around 2014. The castle later went into private ownership.
Although a place steeped in history, the castle was never a public building or museum. Despite its history, it has not yet become particularly well known. Since it was permanently privately owned, not much is known about the room layout, how it was changed and when exactly it took place. Originally there was a garden hall, a ball or concert hall , a banquet hall and other typical function rooms , which are essentially still there. In the upper floors, the large rooms were partially reduced by lightweight walls during the renovations in 1970, 1991 and 2010 and divided into individual rooms. According to information from former employees of the children's home, the conversions were carried out in such a way that the basic structures can be restored by removing the lightweight walls.
Follow-up of the front
Access via the main path
Balcony over garden room
Oil painting Schloss Schlagenthin, ca.1900
Schlagenthin Castle, April 2019
Say
Say of the rose of Schlagenthin
In May 1603 a daughter was born to the landlord Jochen von Tresckow in Schloss Schlagenthin and baptized with the name Anne Dorothea, but she was only called "Röschen" everywhere. Röschen grew up and enjoyed exploring her father's extensive estate. One day she was suddenly surrounded by a pack of wolves on one of her walks far away from the castle. They growled and threatened her and put her in a life-threatening situation. The young pastor Rolf Gerhardt rushed to her aid and drove the wolves away with a stick. Röschen fell in love with her lifesaver. It was, however, promised to a gentleman of higher rank. Still, the lovers met secretly. The strict father found out about this. One day marauding mercenaries killed the young man on his behalf, which Röschen could never get over. Again and again she went to his grave with flowers - also on the day when she was found dead with a bouquet of roses next to her lover's resting place.
Say of the devil at Schloss Schlagenthin
More than 300 years ago, when the old dirt road with crippled willow trees led from Kleinwusterwitz to Schlagenthin in place of today's Chaussee , the former bridge not far from the Faulen See, which was much larger at the time, and the castle are said to be haunted for a while to have. People who passed the bridge close to the castle at midnight say they noticed the devil in person with horns and fiery eyes and the fear of this eerie apparition was so great that no one from Schlagenthin wanted to cross this bridge at night again. Now there was a cantor at the Schlagenthiner School at that time , his name was Köppen, a courageous man who would have liked to see the devil there once. When he wandered home from Kleinwusterwitz late one night and came to this notorious bridge, he actually saw something uncanny moving next to it. A black fellow with a big head and even horns, long ears and shining eyes appeared over the ditch. But the cantor fearlessly approached this apparition and saw nearby that it was a black ox. It broke out a long time ago and was missing, kept hidden during the day in the dense alder bushes on the Lazy Lake and at night looked for its grazing on the roadsides . The farmers now hunted the wild animal, caught it, and since then the ghost has disappeared from the bridge.
Web links
- Schlagenthin Castle on stadt-jerichow.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Ferdinand of Prussia. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
- ^ German biography: Arnim-Suckow, Harry Graf von - German biography. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Elizabeth von Arnim. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
- ^ Estate in Brandenburg (before 1945). Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
- ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: Hohenzollern and von Arnims once ruled in Schlagenthin. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 56.3 " N , 12 ° 16 ′ 39.5" E