Schmarsow Castle
The Schloss Schmarsow manor house is located in the Schmarsow district of the same name in the Kruckow municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . The three-winged building used in GDR times for residential and administrative purposes as well as cultural events is one of the oldest mansions in the area and an important cultural monument in Western Pomerania . Today there are holiday apartments in the manor house and in the former farm buildings, cooking courses are held in the castle kitchen, concerts are held regularly in the ballroom and the common rooms can be rented for events.
history
The first documented in 1249 Schmarsow place was a knight -scientific fief of the family of Maltzahn . It belonged to the possessions of Ost Castle , which is very close to the Tollense, and was owned jointly by the Ost-Kummerow and Sarow lines of the von Maltzahn family until the end of the 16th century. 1599 Schmarsow belonged together parts of the places Pensin, Kruckow , Pritzenow, Kartlow , Plötz and Roidin to the manor complex Vanselow . At that time there was already an estate in the village, but it is not known whether the place where the manor house was built later. After various disputes over property rights within the von Maltzahn family and with interested parties from outside, the Duke of Courland and the Baroness von Mardefelt were involved , Philipp Joachim von Parsenow acquired the entire Ostenschen estates between 1674 and 1695, including Schmarsow.
The manor house was built by Philipp Joachim von Parsenow at the end of the 17th century on the site of a previous building. Building material for this was also taken from Ost Castle, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .
In 1796 Otto Bogislav von Parsenow had the building restored. After the Parsenows died out in the 19th century, several lines of the Maltzahn family made inheritance claims in order to regain the old feudal rights. The process, which lasted for decades, was not completed until 1844. Schmarsow went to the Kummerower line. Since the enmity between the litigating parties continued to smolder for about 20 years, Schmarsow was finally sold together with Osten and the Borgwall suburb in 1855 to Woldemar von Heyden-Cartlow , who lived in neighboring Kartlow . The von Heyden- Cartlow family remained in the possession of Schmarsow until the expropriation in 1945. As early as 1865, the Schmarsow estate was leased to Ludwig Freiherr von Maltzahn on Vanselow. The manager appointed by Heyden lived in the castle, but she also accommodated her guests here. Until 1938 there was a dairy in the basement.
After the end of the Second World War , the manor house came into the possession of the community of Schmarsow, which used it for residential purposes, for the community administration, a youth club, cultural events and also as a consumer outlet . During this time the building was placed under a preservation order. In 2000 the municipality sold the building. The political scientist and educational researcher Falk Fabich bought it at auction. Extensive renovations were undertaken under the direction of his wife, the architect Andrea Ruiken-Fabich. One wing offers holiday apartments, and concerts are occasionally held in the hall.
The village street, which has been leading directly past the manor house through the former estate since the 1950s, was relieved by a bypass road completed in 2006.
building
If you reach Schmarsow from Kruckow, the sight of the two volute- decorated gables of the side wings of the two-story mansion dominates the image of the place. The gables bear the inscriptions "RENOV" and "1796", which refer to the year 1796, when the manor house was renovated and restored. Dendrological studies have shown that the assumption that the side wings were only added in 1796 is not correct. Both the roof structure and the wooden beam ceilings of the side wings, as well as those of the main building, were dated to 1698. A two-armed, semicircular flight of stairs leads to the portal of the central main wing. The portal itself is framed like an aedicula with a blown gable and pilasters . Otherwise the plaster facades (shell limestone) with their square windows are only sparsely structured.
During the renovation of the palace from 2001, fragments of wall paintings, plank and terracotta floors and wall coverings were found. The " black kitchen " built on the ground floor in 1796 can be viewed by guests.
In 1930, a buried well was discovered under the floor of the cellar. This contained human bones, swords and weapons, among other things. A walled-in entrance was found in the wall of the well. Oral traditions that tell of an underground passage between Schmarsow Castle and Osten Castle on the Tollense are, however, to be classified as legend due to the geological conditions .
As a result of the settlement of the village center of Schmarsow after 1945, the demolition of most of the barns and the backfilling of the large pond in the middle of the estate, the castle lost its connection to its earlier farm buildings. The baroque park originally located east of the palace building was lost in the realignment of the land during the land reform. Through the acquisition of adjoining areas to the west, an area that can be designed was recently gained again, but it is no longer identical to the historic estate. Only the Pastorenweg is a relic of the old castle park.
literature
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8 , pp. 176-177.
- Andrea Ruiken-Fabich: Schmarsow Castle, 1697–2010, in: Border region between Pomerania and Mecklenburg. Writings of the Demminer Regionalmuseum eV association; 7 (Lectures 2010. Architecture) Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940207-65-4
Individual evidence
- ^ Dirk Schleinert : The estate economy in the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast in the 16th and early 17th centuries . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001, p. 151ff.
- ↑ Albrecht Maltzan: Contribution to the history of the Ostenschen goods in Western Pomerania . Schwerin 1843, p. 12ff.
- ^ Greifswald State Archives : Description of the Schmarsow and Osten districts from the Swedish land survey (excerpt) LAGw . Rep. 6a, Vol. 50 (original), p. 384.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '32.51 " N , 13 ° 12' 48.79" O