Seese Castle

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Seese Castle on a postcard from 1911
Seese Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The Castle Seese was a castle in today's district of Bischdorf in Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg . It was destroyed together with the village of Seese in 1969 , as the land was claimed by the Seese-West open-cast lignite mine .

history

The castle with manor was in the southern part of Seese. The first part of the castle was built in the 15th century in the late Gothic style. The manor was initially owned by the v. Koeckritz . In the 17th century, the castle was expanded to include a northeastern part in the Renaissance style. In 1768 (according to another source, 1771) Seese was bought for 14,000 thalers by the Lübbenau lordship, with the result that the castle became the property of the Lynar family. In 1853 the castle was rebuilt again. They had their headquarters at Lübbenau Castle until 1930 and then moved to the smaller Seese Castle for cost reasons.

At the time of National Socialism , Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar , a descendant of the local noble family, made it possible for those involved in the conspiracy against Hitler of July 20, 1944 to meet secretly in Seese Castle. He was then arrested and executed on September 29, 1944. The Lynar family was then expropriated. After the end of the Second World War , Seese Castle in the Soviet occupation zone became public property as a result of the land reform and was initially used to accommodate resettled families. Between 1952 and 1957 the building was used as an agricultural college.

At the end of the 1960s, Seese was occupied by the Seese-West open-cast lignite mine . The residents were resettled and the entire village and the castle were demolished between 1968 and 1969. The Seeser Mining Landscape Protected Area is located on the site of the former castle .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Seese  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry on Seese Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Fahlisch : The surrounding villages of Lübbenau. In: Chronicle of the city of Lübbenau in the Spreewald. 2nd edition, Lübbenau 1926, p. 320.
  2. ↑ Lübbenau registry office. Processing of topics in preparation for the seven-hundredth anniversary of the city of Lübbenau / Spreewald in 2015, Cultural Office of the City of Lübbenau / Spreewald (publisher), accessed on May 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Entry on Seese Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Building a lock takes a long breath. Lausitzer Rundschau, January 31, 2007, accessed on May 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Maja von Hohenzollern: Lübbenau is the fulfillment of his life. Welt, November 26, 2000, accessed May 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Former village of Seese. In: Heinz-Dieter Krausch : Burger und Lübbenauer Spreewald (= values ​​of our homeland , volume 36). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 126.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 50 "  N , 13 ° 56 ′ 38.3"  E