Ulrichshusen Castle
| Ulrichshusen Castle | ||
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 Ulrichshusen Castle |
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| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Gentry | |
| Place: | Schwinkendorf | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 37 '40 " N , 12 ° 37' 32" E | |
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Ulrichshusen Castle is a mansion in Ulrichshusen, a village belonging to Moltzow in the Mecklenburg Lake District . With its three-story main building and the typical stepped gables , it is one of the most important Renaissance buildings in Mecklenburg. The building is on the south bank of the Ulrichshusener See on a hill. Today it is used as a hotel. Outbuildings of the facility are used for various public events. Since 1994, the castle has been one of the main locations of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , which takes place every year during the summer season throughout the state.
history
After the acquisition and exchange of several pieces of land between Waren and Teterow by the Grubenhagener tribe of the Maltzan family , Ulrich Moltzan († 1572), who had also acquired the arable and forest areas of the desert village of Domherrenhagen , combined some of these lands into a manor and let them in in 1562 Erect a moated castle, probably a rather small building in the style of a permanent house . In 1624 it burned down at least in part, and Bernd-Ludolph Maltzan ( Wallenstein's quartermaster) rebuilt it within two years, with the facility being enlarged. In 1649 it was sold to the Swedish general Carl Didriksson Ruth (also Rutt) on pledge for 30 years. From him it came to his son-in-law J. Ehrenreich von Arnim , from whom it was pledged to Baron Erlenkamp on Vielist . It was not until 1742 that it came to the line of the Maltzahns based on Rothenmoor and in 1815 to the Counts of Maltzan on Militsch . In 1842 it was sold to the Hahn-Basedow line . At the beginning of the 20th century Ulrichshusen was the residence of the German tennis champion, Count Viktor Eugen Voss , who was nicknamed "the Ulrichshusener" during this time. The count laid out an asphalt tennis court at the foot of the castle, the outlines of which can still be seen today through the shorter grass cover. The property came to the Counts of Bassewitz-Schlitz in 1929 . From 1930 reports of a poor state of construction with cracks in the masonry.
After 1945 the castle was a refugee quarter. Because of its historical importance, it was the only one from the Müritz district next to the Ludorf manor house , which was placed under protection by the Soviet military administration as early as 1946. Later the castle housed a " Konsum ". The castle was last inhabited in 1976 and was then left to decay and only poorly secured in 1983. In 1987 the main building burned down to the ground.
After the German reunification, the von Maltzan family bought back the ruins. The entire complex was restored from 1993 by Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn (* 1949) and his wife Alla in cooperation with the State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the German Federal Environment Foundation . Since 1994 concerts have been taking place in the castle complex as part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival . Yehudi Menuhin , Anne-Sophie Mutter and Igor Oistrach , among others, performed in the field stone barn . The gatehouse and the intermediate building serve as residential buildings. Hotel operations began in 2001 in the main building and in the outbuildings. Today there are 19 guest rooms. The former horse stable houses a restaurant, Ulrichshusen became a popular wedding venue. As a new project, Helmuth von Maltzahn is now devoting himself to the rescue of the baroque manors Gützkow and Gnemern .
Building description
The main house is a three-storey, rectangular building facing east-west. In the north a risalit protrudes from the facade, to the south a round, four- story stair tower is in front of the building. This tower had a curved hood with a hexagonal lantern in the 18th century at the latest, was provided with a conical roof in the 19th century and today has a structure with large glass windows.
In the east of the south wall of the main house there is a square, also three-storey intermediate building, which in turn is supplemented to the south-east by a kennel through which the path coming from the east leads into the castle. This gatehouse probably corresponds in its entirety to the structure from the second half of the 16th century and is now the best-preserved part of the old castle complex, as it was hardly affected by the fire in 1987. Its east gable received a special ornament through plastic plaster work in the form of lions' bodies and spheres as well as tendril ribbons, pilasters and plaster cornices, which is now partially reconstructed. The other gables are kept much simpler and come from the second construction phase.
The walls of the ground floor of the main house and the intermediate building are made of hewn granite blocks, which probably go back to the original fortress house. The brick masonry above comes from the expansion around 1625. The roofs, which are closed by decorative gables, are reconstructions from the 1990s. The interior room layout and furnishings were largely lost in the 1987 fire.
To the south and west of the castle were lower farm buildings, which can only be traced today through traces of foundations. A partially closed courtyard was created between them and the main structure. An alleged keep in the courtyard has been handed down in writing, has so far not detected archaeologically. In the 19th century, a stable and a barn were built further south of the castle, which still exist today and are now separated from the main house by ponds. The former administrator's house east of the castle was replaced by a residential building around the year 2000.
A park with several lakes belongs to the palace complex. From 1995, the park, which was largely covered with bushes, was restored and the silted-up lakes reconstructed. A larger park, the "Gutspark Ulrichshusen" is located a short distance east of the palace complex. The witch oak stands by the castle with a chest height of 7.60 m (2016).
literature
- German Society (1990) (ed.): Palaces and Gardens in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Volume 3: Ulrichshusen 1997.
- Heiner Gillmeister, tennis. A Cultural History , London and New York 1998, pp. 259-263.
Web links
- Literature about Ulrichshusen Castle in the state bibliography MV
- Official website of the house
- Ulrichshusen Castle - history
- Ulrichshusen Castle in the album Mecklenburgischer Schlösser und Landgüter at Lexikus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of July 29, 2005: Kulturschloß in the middle of Mecklenburg, accessed on November 3, 2010
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017