Wedendorf Castle

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Wedendorf Castle

The Wedendorf Castle is a Grade II listed building in Wedendorf , a district of Wedendorfersee in nordwestmecklenburg ( Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ). The gate entrance, the stables, the horse stable and the park surrounding the castle are also under monument protection.

History and architecture

Manor house from 1697

The former manor house stood on Wedendorfer See . The name of the first master builder has not been passed down, but an old elevation of the front has been preserved. The two and a half storey plastered building has two short gabled side wings. The facility was built in 1697 for Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff . In 1697 he had the following Latin inscription placed above the main portal: "Tant vaut l'homme, tant vaut sa terre" (man is worth as much as his land is worth). Ne "Villa fundum quaerat, neve Fundus villam" (The house does not lack the land, nor the land of the house).

Castle from 1810

From 1805 to 1810, the renovation for the Prussian chamberlain and legation councilor Ernst Graf Bernstorff took place according to plans by the architect Martin Friedrich Rabe (Berlin). Rabe, building inspector since 1804 and professor at the Berlin Building Academy from 1810 , created a total work of art here.

During the renovation, the two-storey central building was raised by a mezzanine and the facade structure was renewed in a classicist manner. The ground floor was square, the window frames and the segment gables of the wings were renewed. The Bernstorffs lived in Bernstorf from May 1806 to October 1807 , as the construction work on Wedendorf was still in full swing.

The original sequence of rooms was partially preserved, the vestibule in the central building and the garden hall to the left behind the stairs, above which was the ballroom. Simple rooms and corner cabinets were housed in the side wings.

Rabe designed the entire interior decoration including the furniture. These were done by other artists.

The interior paintings and coffered ceilings of twelve rooms in the Pompeian style were done by Giuseppe Anselmo Pellicia , he painted all the rooms with ceiling paintings, many of which were destroyed during the renovations from 1933 to 1934. Of these paintings, 13 have survived. At the time, Pompeii was being excavated and antiquity was very much in vogue with the educated. Pellicia had previously worked in the Holstein mansions Emkendorf , Knoop and Falkenberg . Fritz Graf von Reventlow had brought the Italian painter back with him from a trip to Rome in 1797 and the Bernstorffs were related to the Reventlows. Pellicia had also executed wall paintings in the Pompeian style for Ullrich Philipp von Behr-Negendank in the vestibule of the manor house in Passow, Mecklenburg, which was designed as a rotunda .

In 1931 Hermann Graf von Bernstorff had to sell the property to the Mecklenburg Landgesellschaft, which settled the country. The manor house was sold on to the Lübeck merchant and consul Fritz Hagen, the owner of Thams & Garfs. Consul Hagen initiated renovations after 1933 and during the renovations by the Lübeck painter and graphic artist Alfred Mahlau , a number of wall and ceiling paintings were sacrificed. The painted wall draperies in the so-called Nanking room and the wall painting in the picture room were lost on the upper floor . On the ground floor, the enlargement of the vestibule and the merging of the green bedroom in the east side wing with the two neighboring rooms to form a dining room resulted in further losses of the classicist decorative painting. On October 11, 1934, the then Schwerin monument conservator for monuments of the historical period, senior building officer Adolf Friedrich Lorenz , stated: "... all parts of the ceiling and wall paintings in the floorboards have been removed ..."

Use after 1945

After 1945 the facility was used as a refugee accommodation, central school and trade union building of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). Changes to the spatial structure took place. Natural wear and tear also caused major damage to the remaining furnishings and painting in individual rooms. From 1977 the FDGB took over the castle as a training facility. Before it was used, the castle underwent a very thorough repair, which involved an extensive number of monument preservation and restoration measures. In order to preserve or restore the original character in essential rooms, the former user acquired a large Empire chandelier for the stairwell. The chandelier from the former manor house in Gützkow was restored by Gustav Schnippering in Bad Doberan .

After 1990 the castle was acquired by Katharina Haupt (Munich) and renovated from 1996 to 2003. Today the castle is used as a hotel. It has 40 rooms, a helicopter landing pad, a stables and a jetty on Wedendorfer See.

Monument protection

The monument protection authority of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg classified the castle as a "museum and extremely interesting for the public".

literature

  • Hans-Christian Feldmann, Gerd Baier, Dietlinde Brugmann, Antje Heling, Barbara Rimpel (arr.): Dehio manual of German art monuments: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 671.
  • Bruno J. Sobotka: Castles, palaces, manor houses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1084-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on the creation of the monument lists as well as on the administrative practice in notifying the owners and municipalities as well as on the handling of change requests (status: June 1997)
  2. ↑ a b Hans-Christian Feldmann, Gerd Baier, Dietlinde Brugmann, Antje Heling, Barbara Rimpel (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , page 671.
  3. ↑ in the 19th century  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schloss-wedendorf.de  
  4. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch de German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2000 pp. 403-404.
  5. ↑ data from Bernstorff http://www.vonbernstorff.net/ahnen-suche
  6. ↑ Photos and negatives of the no longer preserved wall and ceiling paintings were given to the Art History Institute of Kiel University by members of the von Bernstorff family
  7. ↑ LAKD Schwerin: Files Castle Wedendorf Institute for Monument Preservation, Schwerin office.
  8. ↑ Gerd Baier: Wedendorf Castle and its classicist painting by Giuseppe Anselmo Pellicia. In: Notices from the Institute for Monument Preservation - Schwerin Office to the honorary officers for monument preservation in the Rostock, Schwerin, and Neubrandenburg districts. Schwerin 1983, No. 28 pp. 515-521.
  9. ↑ Volker Bohlmann: The dream castle is for sale. SVZ Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 30/31. August 2014 p. 6.
  10. ^ Pages of the Rehna Office

Coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ 20.2 "  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 41.6"  E