Spycker Castle

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Spyker Castle from the air
Spyker Castle
Spyker Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Gut and Schloss Spy (c) ker are in the district of Glowe in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Spycker Castle is considered to be the oldest secular building on the Baltic island.

Spycker was first mentioned in 1318. At that time it belonged to the Stralsund patrician family von Külpen. In 1344 a daughter from the von Külpen family married into the von Jasmund family . This is how the Spycian branch of those von Jasmund was founded, which died out in 1648.

The castle is a rectangular, three-storey plastered brick building from the 16th century. The four round corner towers that make the building look like a castle today are striking.

As a result of the Thirty Years' War , Pomerania , and with it Rügen, fell to Sweden through the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 . As thanks for his war merit , Queen Christine of Sweden enfeoffed the Swedish Imperial Admiral and Marshal and later Governor General of Swedish Pomerania , Carl Gustav Wrangel , with the now vacant property of Spycker. The castle, which was originally surrounded by a moat, was transformed into a renaissance castle from 1650 and given a plaster in the Swedish Falun red , which is atypical for Rügen . In the main floor , the unique in the Baltic region full of plastic stucco ceilings were attached to the 1652nd

After the death of Carl Gustav Wrangel in Spyker Castle, the property went to his daughter Eleonora Sophia, wife of Mr. zu Putbus, in 1676 . Eleonora Sophia died in 1687, and the property passed to the Swedish Brahe family, with whom her older sister was linked by marriage. After the occupation by Napoleonic troops in 1806/07, Spycker became the temporary seat of the French governor for Rügen. In 1815, Rügen, which had been Swedish until then, came to Prussia . Magnus Fredrik Brahe sold Spycker in 1817 and it came into the possession of Prince Wilhelm Malte I of Putbus.

restoration

Until the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945, the estate remained in the possession of the von Putbus family. In the following years the castle was left to decay. From the 1960s to 1989, an FDGB holiday home was operated in the castle .

From 1965 to 1968 the castle was extensively renovated at the instigation of the Schwerin Monument Preservation. Essential components such as the wooden false ceiling and the half-timbered interior walls as well as the wooden spiral staircase in concrete were renewed. The precious stucco ceilings - "the four seasons", "the four elements" and the "peacock ceiling" - on the upper floor were temporarily removed and later re-attached in partially new places. Two hand-carved oak doors on the first floor were extensively repaired.

The castle has been used as a hotel since 1990, and in 1995 it was restored according to historical models. The hotel offers 32 guest rooms.

In March 2006, the castle and the approximately 67,000 square meter property changed hands in a foreclosure auction. The buyer was the architect Dominik von Böttinger, who wants to convert the palace into a cultural center with exhibitions, concerts, readings and a sculpture park in addition to the hotel and restaurant business. In summer there is a weekly castle market.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Spyker  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lehmann, Meyer: Rügen A – Z. Wähmann-Verlag, Schwerin 1976, p. 82.
  2. ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8 , p. 186.
  3. Sabine Bock , Thomas Helms: Castles and mansions on Rügen. 3rd updated edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86108-912-4 , pp. 163-166.

Coordinates: 54 ° 33 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 49 ″  E