Tremsbüttel Castle
The Castle Tremsbüttel is located in the municipality Tremsbüttel in Stormarn in southern Schleswig-Holstein . As the residential building of a former noble estate , it is actually a mansion , but has been called a castle for some time due to its castle-like shape . The building from the late 19th century has housed a hotel since the estate's liquidation and is therefore open to its guests, the park is freely accessible all year round.
historical overview
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In the Middle Ages, Tremsbüttel was on the border between the County of Holstein and the Duchy of Lauenburg . There was a moated castle on the site in the 13th century under the knightly von Wedel family, who, as was customary at the time, soon named themselves after the property. From the 14th century onwards, numerous changes of ownership took place, which meant that Tremsbüttel belonged to Lauenburg and Holstein, and the legal status of the later estate changed several times. From the middle of the 15th century Tremsbüttel was first a noble court , then a noble estate and finally also a ducal office . The knightly Tremsbüttel family was followed by the Beynsflet and Heest families, then the Lauenburg and from 1544 the Schleswig-Holstein dukes, under whom the castle mainly served as a hunting seat. The moated castle, which originally consisted of little more than a fortified residential tower, was expanded into a hunting lodge at that time. From the middle of the 17th century the estate went to the long-established Ahlefeld family and from 1670 to Magnus von Wedderkop , whose son Gottfried later had the Steinhorst manor built with a similarly varied history of ownership .
In the 18th century Tremsbüttel continued to serve as the ducal official residence, which was administered by Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg from 1777 to 1800 . The estate experienced a cultural heyday under the ducal bailiff. Around 1780 Stolberg had a new mansion built on the property, a landscaped garden and welcomed guests such as Matthias Claudius , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Wilhelm von Humboldt to the property. The Stolberg family was again followed by numerous changes of ownership in the 19th century, the most important of which was in 1883 to the Hasenclever family. The Hasenclever, who came from the upper bourgeoisie, modernized the estate, introduced social benefits for the employees of the farm and had today's manor house built. They sat on Tremsbüttel until 1939, when they had to sell the property for economic reasons. The estate was then subdivided into parcels and gradually dissolved completely by 1961, and the mansion was transformed into a castle hotel. As such, it is used by various operators to this day. Among the most famous guests of the house were the Beatles , who stayed in the castle as part of their only tour of Germany in 1966. In 1983 the film Catch your dreams was shot here. For a few years there was also a car museum on the castle grounds, mainly equipped with vintage cars , which was later moved to Hamburg and closed in 1997. Since 1996 the castle has been owned by the Hamburg-based pharmaceutical entrepreneur family Strathmann, who run an exclusive hotel here.
Buildings
The lock
Today's castle stands at the end of almost 800 years of building history on Tremsbüttel. The first building to be built was a simple moated castle in the 13th century, but there is no longer any tradition of its shape. This fortified residence was expanded into a ducal hunting lodge in the 16th century, which fell into disrepair at the beginning of the 18th century and eventually became uninhabitable. As the immediate predecessor of today's palace, Count Christian Stolberg had a classicist mansion built around 1780 . This house in the form of a simple palace was two storeys high and nine window axes wide, the middle three axes protruded like risalit and were emphasized by a frontispiece . A large fire destroyed many of the manor buildings in 1851 and the Stolberg manor was probably damaged and finally abandoned under the new owners.
The Hasenclever family had the new manor house built by the architect Hans Grisebach from 1894 to 1895. The castle is a typical building from the period of historicism , it combines elements of Art Nouveau and Neo-Renaissance and is considered one of the most remarkable examples of eclecticism in Holstein. The multi-part structure has two full floors and is accentuated by numerous decorative gables, turrets and dormers. The eye-catcher of the castle is the donjon-like tower with its high, Gothic roof structure and the entrance portal. The interior of the palace was fitted with wall-mounted fittings with paneling and stucco, which combined the formal language of the Renaissance and Baroque with the floral motifs of Art Nouveau.
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- Details
Side tower
Main entrance with balcony
Door handle
Tower clock with bell
- interior
Main staircase
Dining room
stack
salon
The estate and the park
Today, the estate is hardly recognizable as such. The remnants of the farmyard are north of the castle, they were sold after the farm was closed and some of them were built on.
The castle is surrounded by 4 hectares of English-style gardens. Its conception goes back to a landscape garden of Count Stolberg, which was designed with high groups of trees, lawns and water, but which intentionally lacked romantic references through garden architecture and staffage structures . At the end of the 19th century, the structure of the garden was revised under Grisebach, the pleasure ground was planted with lilacs and rhododendrons and paths were newly laid out. In the 20th century a Japanese garden was added to the landscape park .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catch your dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Literature and Sources
- Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994. ISBN 978-3422030336
- Hubertus Neuschäffer, castles and mansions in South Holstein . Weidlich publishing house, Würzburg. ISBN 3-8035-1238-7
- Deert Lafrenz: manors and manors in Schleswig-Holstein . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein, 2015, Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-86568-971-9 , p. 590.
Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 46.8 ″ E