Wieck Castle
Wieck Castle is a former mansion in the Wieck district of the city of Gützkow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . Already used as a school before the Second World War , it is now part of the Gützkow Castle High School.
history
Franz Heinrich Erich I von Lepel had a new manor house built in Wieck near Gützkow between 1793 and 1797 on the site of a previous building. From 1845 to 1859, Franz Heinrich Erich II. Von Lepel (1803–1877) and his wife Mathilde (1804–1886), daughter of Johann Christoph Rodbertus , had the building modernized and rebuilt with significant involvement from the architect Richard Lucae . The park, located to the south and east of the manor house, was transformed into an English landscape park in 1859 and a burial chapel was built in the southern part of the park .
In the second half of the 19th century, the writer Bernhard von Lepel , who married his cousin Hedwig von Lepel (1827-1893) here in 1847, stayed frequently in Wieck. From here he corresponded with Theodor Fontane and met repeatedly with his uncle Karl Rodbertus by marriage . The pastor Magnus Böttger , who worked for the "Association of Friends of the Inner Mission in New Western Pomerania and Rügen", led several church meetings, the "Wieck Pastoral Conferences" in the castle and in the Wieck chapel. They were dedicated to the then blossoming Pietism.
Between 1910 and 1912, the manor house was converted and interior fitted out by the architect Emilie Winkelmann . After Wilo von Lepel (1896–1968), as agent for his sick father Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Louis von Lepel (1856–1933) as the last owner of Gut Wieck, had to file for bankruptcy in 1931, the city of Gützkow also acquired the manor house the park and chapel for 10,000 Reichsmarks and the remission of the tax liability of the property. A school was set up for which renovations took place in 1932. Over the next decades, renovations took place repeatedly, during which in 1955 and 1960 most of the decorative elements were removed. A retirement home was built in 1953 on the southern edge of the landscape park . In 1972, the building was initially used for school purposes, and until 1990 it was the cultural center and apprentice dormitory of the Gützkow division of the VEB repair facility in Neubrandenburg . In 1980, the building was granted monument status. In 1984 it was entered in the district's list of monuments, and parts of it have been reconstructed for conservation purposes until 1986.
The city got the house back in 1991 and the renting district had a high school set up here. For this purpose, further school buildings were erected west of the manor house. The park , which has been a listed building since 1984, and the grave chapel of the von Lepel family were also renovated. Part of the 19th century farm building was demolished after 2000 in order to build a discount market.
investment
Heinrich Berghaus described the manor house in 1868 as a “palace-like splendid building, as you rarely see on the knights' seats of the Greifswald district.” The manor house is a two-storey, sixteen-axis plastered building on a high basement facing the park . The north and south gables are transverse structures with a hipped roof and probably date from the mid-19th century. The previously existing battlements , turrets, window frames and other decorations were largely removed in 1955 and 1960. In the middle of the park side there is a three-axis central risalit with a triangular gable. In front of it, an altar-like porch supported by columns and an outside staircase, which are attributed to Emilie Winkelmann, have been preserved. The porch including the balcony was later changed significantly.
Wieck Castle stands on the western edge of the Swinowbach valley . The English-style landscaped park with two ponds, one of which was filled in, is located on the site that slopes east towards the watercourse. The Franzens spring, which was restored in 1989, is located near the street. All that remained of the tea pavilion was the foundation slab next to the inspector's house. The fieldstone grotto in the castle moat was filled in in the 1950s. Various sculptures have been placed in the park since the 1990s.
Of the buildings erected between 1825 and 1860 to the west of the manor house, only the granary, the cattle keeper's house, the large double stable and the ruins of the stable behind the granary (burned out in 1989) remained. Of the buildings erected north from 1880 to 1900, the large stable barn and the so-called three devil barn were demolished in 2006. Only the inspector's house remained. Of the coach house next to the castle, only the ice cellar remained as a bat quarter.
literature
- Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch des Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. German Family Archives, Volume 151, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8
- Renate de Veer: Manor houses and estate complexes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Vol. 3, Aschenbeck Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3939401285 , pp. 65-66.
- Wolf-Dietrich Paulsen, Karl-Eberhard Wisselinck: Gützkow - 875 years. MV-Verlag, Greifswald 2002
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Jürgen Schröder: Germany's first female architect. Emilie Winkelmann also built in Western Pomerania . In: Heimatkurier . Supplement to the Nordkurier , July 24, 2006, p. 24.
- ↑ daughter of the above Franz von Lepel and Mathilde, born. Rodbertus
- ↑ Jürgen Schröder: Two friends around Wieck Castle. Theodor Fontane and Bernhard von Lepel traveled together and wrote to each other. In: Heimatkurier . Supplement to Nordkurier , January 14, 2008, p. 28.
- ↑ Log books of the magistrate - displayed in the museum of the city of Gützkow
- ^ Wolf-Dietrich Paulsen, Karl-Eberhard Wisselinck: Gützkow - 875 years. MV-Verlag, Greifswald 2002, p. 60.
- ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 2, Dietze, Anklam 1868, p. 256. ( digitized version ).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 27.6 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 11.2" E