Weißensee Castle

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"Welt-Etablissement Schloss Weißensee" around 1890
Weißensee Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Lusthäuschen in Weißenseer Park, around 1890

Weißensee Castle was the popular name for the castle-like structure that was located in today's Park am Weißen See in the Weißensee district of Berlin's Pankow district until the fire in 1919 .

From manor to amusement park

The descendants of the farmer and schnapps distiller Johann Pistorius were the owners of Gut und Flurmark Weißensee until 1872 . The manor house with its spacious garden blended seamlessly into the landscape around the White Lake. In 1859, Pistorius' nephew, state economist Friedrich Wilhelm Lüdersdorff , had a spacious building built on the south bank of the lake in place of the old manor house, popularly called "Schloss Weißensee" and surrounded by a stately park. In January 1872 he sold the Weissensee manor for 700,000 thalers to the Hamburg merchant Gustav Adolf Schön . The White Lake, its shore area (15 meters) and the area adjoining it to the southwest with the "castle" between Amalienstraße and Königchausse (from 1911: Berliner Allee 205–210) belonged to Neu-Weißensee, the development at Berliner Straße 157–163 (from 1911 as Berliner Allee 204) up to the shoreline at Weißensee and across from Lichtenberger Straße belonged to the municipality of Weißensee. With the merger in 1905, this municipal boundary, which had existed since 1872, ceased to exist.

In 1874 the "castle" was leased and converted into an entertainment venue, the operators of which initially changed frequently. Ultimately, Rudolf Sternecker developed the company into the much-visited “Welt-Etablissement Schloss Weißensee”, which includes the lake and park. The amusement park with a lake terrace included a slide, music pavilion, dice booths, carousels as well as two dance halls and various beer bars; even balloon rides were offered.

Origin of today's Volkspark (Trianonpark)

In 1908 the park became the property of the municipality of Weißensee, which transformed the area into a people's and citizens' park - the Trianopark is the origin of the "Park am Weißen See". Promenades were laid out around the lake, and later new playgrounds and the “Planschwiese” were built. The military had been housed in the "castle" since 1915. On February 21, 1919, the building burned down completely. For 1919, the address book owned by the municipality of Weißensee between two planned streets on property 205–210 south of the Trianonpark includes the economics of Schilling and Kaufmann Stahl, and in the following year it is a storage space.

A row of trees planted above the lake terraces after the fire marks the former location of the castle. The “outdoor pool at the Weißen See” (bathing establishment) at Trianonpark, which opened in 1912, has been preserved. Instead of the (old) milk house , which was demolished in 1965, a new building was built in 1967. The castle park to the west of the lake and northwest of the castle is part of the park on the White Lake.

literature

  • Sabine Huth, Cordula Rinsche: Palaces, parks & gardens in Berlin and Brandenburg . FAB Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-927551-40-6 , p. 182.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Weißensee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the location of Trianon Park, Palace and Palace Park: Plan of Berlin. Sheet 4323 and 4324 ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. X = 29010, Y = 25010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / histomapberlin.de
  2. ↑ Königs Chaussee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1889, appendix: Neu-Weißensee, p. 131. “adBerlinerstraße, 1–6: Owner brewery owner Rudolph Sternecker / users are brewery: 'Zum Sternecker', master brewer Barth, innkeeper v. Gerhardt, Chef Gericke, Innkeeper Schenk ”.
  3. ↑ Königchaussee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1908, V., p. 540. “← Berliner Straße → 1–4: Owner Burchardt'sche Erben: Weltetablissement Schloss Weißensee, innkeeper Gutenmorgen, innkeeper Koch // the following properties 5 and 6 are owned by Brewery owner G. Enders, 5: G. Enders brewery, Oekonom Oehlke, master brewer Rüsch, 6: Enders residence and 16 tenants ”.
  4. ↑ King Chaussee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1909, V., p. 582. "1–4: Owner is the community Weißensee, user of the world establishment Schloss Weißensee and innkeeper C. Koch".
  5. ↑ Berliner Allee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1916, V. Berlin-Weißensee, p. 455. "← Projected street → Trianonpark, 205–210: Municipality of Weißensee: Innkeeper Schilling ← Projected street →".
  6. ↑ Berliner Allee 205–210 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, V., p. 463. / Berliner Allee 205–210 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, V., p. 453.
  7. ^ Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment: Park am Weißen See
  8. ↑ The History of the Milk House
  9. ↑ On the location of Trianon Park, Palace and Palace Park: Plan of Berlin. Sheet 4323 and 4324 ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. X = 29010, Y = 25010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / histomapberlin.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 9 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 46 ″  E