Wilkendorf Castle

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Wilkendorf Castle

Wilkendorf Castle is a listed aristocratic seat in the village of Wilkendorf in Altlandsberg north of Strausberg , which served as a guest house for the Ministry of Defense in GDR times.

history

Since 1536 the property has belonged to members of the traditional Brandenburg aristocratic family Pfuel (Pfuel auf Wilkendorf line). Until 1855 there was no so-called "manorial building" in Wilkendorf. It was not until 1852 that Gustav Felix Bertram von Pfuel , the fifth child of the Pfuel family, had the castle built. At first it was just a modest palace complex. In this building epoch of historicism (1840-1900), which took up and unites many previous styles such as Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, the architectural style of the castle was predominantly characterized by neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance.

Theodor Fontane developed the idea for his novel Effi Briest at Wilkendorf Castle when he was looking at ancestral portraits (which have now disappeared) from the property of the district administrator of Briest auf Nennhausen. In memory of his last daughter, he named the eponymous heroine of his novel "Effi Briest".

Two thirds of the castle burned down in 1891. Nothing is known about the cause of the fire. In 1892/93 the castle was partially rebuilt.

In 1905 the industrialist Georg von Caro (1849–1913) acquired the castle with the 1193 hectare manor. The building underwent extensive structural changes and enlargements in 1909 under von Caro. Thus the castle has been restored and partially reconstructed several times. The new lord of the manor and palace had the coat of arms of the von Pfuel family above the main entrance removed and replaced it with the coat of arms of the von Caro family. After the death of Dr. From Caro, the entire village of Wilkendorf / Gielsdorf and the castle passed into the possession of Mrs. Carolina Wolff and her husband in 1914. From then on, these took over the management. From 1920 the goods were leased and Wolff kept the castle, the lake and the woods.

In 1929, Wilkendorf was bought by Gustav von Dippe and his sister Ingeborg. Gustav von Dippe married a granddaughter of George Nares , whose father John Dodd Nares and her brother fought on the British side in World War II. Ingeborg von Dippe married Joachim Wolfgang (Jowo) von Moltke, the brother of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke .

In the last years of the war, the Spanish ambassador was quartered in Wilkendorf Palace due to the constant heavy air raids on Berlin.

After 1945, Wilkendorf Castle became the guest house of the GDR Ministry of Defense. The “operational group” of the “ Ministry of National Defense ” (the official name) met there on August 9, 1961 to develop the detailed plans for the deployment of the GDR's National People's Army in connection with the construction of the Berlin Wall from the 13th August 1961.

The castle has been empty since 1990.

In 2005, the buildings were sold to Russian investors who had the dilapidated building extensively renovated and converted into a luxury hotel. “Schloss Wilkendorf Liegenschaften GmbH”, founded at the end of 2005, has taken on these tasks. The luxury hotel in the castle is planned to open in 2019.

Golf club

The "Golfclub Schloss Wilkendorf" (220 hectares), located north of the village and founded in 1991, has two 18-hole courses: The Sandy Lyle course was voted the 6th most beautiful golf course in Germany (out of a total of 700 courses) in 2010, and the Westside course is the first and only handicap-free 18-hole course in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ^ Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg - first part: Die Grafschaft Ruppin / Das Oderland, Munich 1987, p. 1019
  3. ^ Local portrait of Wilkendorf . Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Lexicon . Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ Cf. Matthias Uhl: War for Berlin? The Soviet military and security policy in the second Berlin crisis 1958 to 1962. Munich 2008, p. 137
  6. ↑ Construction work present. Wilkendorf Castle, accessed on February 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Two 18-hole golf courses & extensive practice facilities. Golfpark Schloss Wilkendorf, accessed on February 9, 2019 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 13 ° 54 ′ 7 ″  E