Vogelsang Castle (Vogelsang-Warsin)

Partial view after renovation, 2011

The manor house Schloss Vogelsang is located in today's Vogelsang-Warsin municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in the far east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

history

Vogelsang Castle, around 1857 to 1883, Alexander Duncker collection

In 1711 , Bernd Friedrich von Enckevort had a two-storey manor house built on the foundation walls of a former castle .

In 1828 a hereditary grave of the von Enckefort family followed, which is now a listed building, and in the years 1845 to 1847 the manor house was replaced by a new building in the neo-Gothic style under the lord of the castle, Eduard Friedrich von Enckevort , for which Eduard Knoblauch and Karl Friedrich Schinkel the plans had created. After a fire in 1937, it was given a mezzanine floor , so that it has three floors today; however, after this accident, the renovation took place in a rather sober architectural style. The castle is a sechzehnachsiges building with octagonal corner towers and battlements building in the style of Tudor Gothic . There is a polygonal central risalit on the main facade . The main axes of the building are laid out in a north-south or east-west direction; the floor plan is largely axially symmetrical .

There is a roundabout in front of the main portal . The castle is surrounded by a park of around 12,000 m².

In 1914, Eduard Friedrich von Enckevort fell in the First World War . He was the last lord of the von Enckevort family on Vogelsang because his sons could not hold the property. The manor house was initially used as a country school home and in 1934 transferred to the Reich Association of German Civil Servants , who set up a training camp there. This was called " Franz-Schwede-Coburg -Beamtenlager". During the Second World War it served as a military hospital , then as the “August Bebel” children's home. After the children's home moved out in 1993, the building was empty. In the 2000s, the building was renovated, divided into condominiums and offered for sale. The structure is a listed building.