Straupitz Castle
Straupitz Castle (also Gutshaus Straupitz ) is a mansion in the Spreewaldort Straupitz in Brandenburg . Today it serves as a school building for a comprehensive school.
main building
Originally there was a moated castle surrounded by a six to eight meter wide moat . From 1655 the family was of Houwald owner of Standesherrschaft Straupitz. Today's castle was built between 1795 and 1798 under Carl Gottlob Willibald von Houwald in the late Baroque style on the site of a renaissance castle previously located here. The plastered building is simply designed, plastered and covered by a mansard hipped roof. The facade has 13 axes and is structured by a flat central risalit and corner risalit. From 1820, a wooden water pipe from Pintschen's spring led fresh water to the castle, which may have been used in the castle brewery.
A redesign in the style of the emerging modernism took place after 1884 by Ernst Otto Graf von Houwald . When his son Christoph-Heinrich von Houwald took over rule in 1903, many of these changes were eliminated. In 1945, after the Second World War , the von Houwald family was expropriated. A school has been housed in the castle since 1947. An originally existing triangular gable was demolished in 1973. The building was restored from 1997 to 2002.
Tower building
Opposite the castle is a simple, plastered brick building from the center of which a tower rises. The building was built in 1805. The ground floor contained horse stables, storage rooms, coach houses and an apartment. In addition to the inspector's apartment, the estate management was also housed on the upper floor. The attic served as a grain store. The tower used to have a clock on the front and was surrounded by a cast iron railing. In the summer it was used as a fire watch tower until 1945 . A modern device was procured in the 1930s to locate fires. In the first half of the 1980s, the building was completely rebuilt and expanded, and its outer facade was changed significantly.
Granary
Halfway between the castle building and the Straupitz village church outside the castle area is the granary built around 1798. The right side of the building, in which the massive walls extend to the upper floor, was used as an ice cellar in the past . The ice was broken on the Straupitzer See in winter and carted to the ice cellar. Grain, flax, buckwheat and millet were stored on the upper floors . The function as a granary lasted until 1992. Extensive renovation began on September 1, 2004. The reopening was celebrated on September 24, 2005. In the granary there is now an exhibition on the history of Straupitz, a pottery workshop and a small bar. In January 2005 the Freundeskreis Kornspeicher eV was founded, which is dedicated to the maintenance and care of the building. A section of the historic water pipe leading from Pintschen's spring to the castle is on display in the granary.
villa
The so-called villa, built in 1886 as the widow's residence of the von Houwald family, is located on the left at the entrance to the castle area. Until then, the "New House" was in its place. This two-story building with a mansard hipped roof, erected in the 18th century, also served as a widow's residence and had become dilapidated. The small tower of the villa was shortened around its slate-covered spire during renovation. Today doctors' and dental practices are housed in the building.
Obelisk and palace park
The entrance to the castle area is marked by two obelisks about 10 meters high . Both were renovated in 1996. It is not yet known when they were built.
The castle park was built on the model of English landscape parks around 1900 on a former pasture area. It is characterized by a system of paths, small lakes, rivers, large trees and open meadows and extends over 12 hectares . The trees were gathered from different parts of the world. In the 1950s, a sports field was created on its central open space.
literature
- Jens Eschrich in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Brandenburg , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , page 1033
- Straupitz im Spreewald , Regia Verlag, ISBN 3-936092-85-0 , page 4 ff.
- Material on Straupitz Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 240 kB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eschrich, Dehio, page 1033, other sources Straupitz im Spreewald assigns the building to classicism .
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '30.6 " N , 14 ° 7' 4.8" E