Wolfshagen Castle (Prignitz)

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Wolfshagen Castle from the south

The Wolfshagen Castle stands in the town district of the municipality Groß Pankow about eight kilometers west of Pritzwalk in the northwest of Brandenburg . The castle is located on the Stepenitz about four kilometers off the B 189 . Today it serves as a museum and is used for cultural events such as concerts, art exhibitions, lectures, conferences and readings.

history

In 1147 the Gans Noble Lords of Putlitz, originally from the Altmark , brought the Stepenitz river area under their rule. They erected a Wasserburg , whose vault the remains are preserved in the west wing of the castle. Around 1590 the castle was expanded to a four-wing Renaissance castle with ramparts, which fell into disrepair after the Thirty Years' War .

Grisaille painting in the so-called second prince's room

In the period from 1771 to 1787 Albrecht Gottlob Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz had a late baroque two-wing complex built on the foundations that were still there . In addition to the painted canvas wallpapers in some rooms, wall-mounted, sometimes illusionistic wall and ceiling paintings were created. In the so-called Second Prinzenstube , grisaille paintings with scenes based on popular copperplate engravings by Daniel Chodowiecki were created in the overlay fields above the doors and wall cupboards , which is probably unique in the art history of the Brandenburg region . Other motifs and above all the painting of the garden room with allegorical and representational motifs to Frederick the Great as a general raise Wolfshagen to the rank of one of the earliest Friedrich monuments in Prussia . Most of the paintings were destroyed in 1952.

Wolfshagen Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

In the 1850s created Peter Joseph Lenne both sides of the Stepenitz a landscaped park , and Hans Albrecht zu Putlitz let the facade of the castle in 1911 in the style of neo-baroque style remodel and before the castle portal one of Doric columns supported Altan grow.

After the Gans zu Putlitz family was forced to leave the castle in October 1945, it was looted by the Red Army . In 1952, the palace was converted into a school, with the baroque canvas wallpaper, the two internal stairs and the manor and family archive still preserved being destroyed. In the 1960s, the stoves and chimneys from the 18th and 19th centuries were removed and the arbor demolished in 1969.

Although the small castle chapel from the 16th century was placed under monument protection in 1975 , it was closed in 1982.

Before the school was given up in 1998, the Förderverein Schlossmuseum Wolfshagen eV was founded in 1995. V., who now runs the museum housed in the castle. After several years of renovation , this was opened with the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . The "Stiftung Schlossmuseum Wolfshagen", established by Bernhard von Barsewisch, has been helping to maintain the castle since 2005 .

Castle Museum

View through the exhibition rooms

On the ground floor, furnishings and utensils as well as hunting trophies and ancestral portraits - especially those of the von Winterfeld , von Saldern , von Platen and von Königsmarck families - and portraits of Hohenzollern are shown. Some of them come from Wolfshagen Castle and some from other manors of the Gans zu Putlitz family or other manor houses in the Brandenburg region. In the 2002 redesigned and chapel dedicated space essential parts of the rescued after the demolition of the old castle church were original equipment - including the pews swangen 1572, escutcheons, Zeremonialhelme and the baptismal font - integrated. The upper floor of the building is home to the Bernhard von Barsewisch porcelain collection . It is Europe's most important collection of tableware and Central European blue painting from over 50 European manufacturers and includes pieces from four centuries. A GDR classroom was set up in the basement to commemorate the building's many years of school use. A permanent exhibition illustrates the history of the so-called Royal Tomb of Seddin , which is almost 3000 years old and is located near Seddin . You can see copies of the grave goods found in 1899 , the originals of which are in the Märkisches Museum in Berlin .

literature

  • Torsten Foelsch: Wolfshagen. In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, ed. by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, 2nd revised edition, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-87584-570-6 .
  • Torsten Foelsch: The new castle chapel in Wolfshagen. In: Communications of the Association for the History of Prignitz , Vol. 4, Perleberg 2004, pp. 75–83
  • Bernhard von Barsewisch: Groß Pankow and Wolfshagen. Two Prignitz manor houses with new functions. In: Palaces, manors, castles and gardens in Brandenburg and Berlin. Festschrift for the twentieth anniversary of the “Circle of Friends of the Palaces and Gardens of the Mark in the German Society e. V. “2012, ed. By Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Berlin 2012, pp. 184–191.
  • Torsten Foelsch: Nobility, castles and mansions in Prignitz. A contribution to the art and cultural history of a Brandenburg landscape, Leipzig 1997
  • Torsten Foelsch: The archives of the goose noble gentlemen in Putlitz. A search for clues. In: Reports and research from the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation, Volume 3, Brandenburg 2010, pp. 125–173
  • Torsten Foelsch: The watermill on Gut Wolfshagen. In: mill and compound feed. The trade journal for grain processing and pet food production. Process engineering in the bulk, food and non-food sector, issue 24, December 21, 2009, 146th volume, Detmold 2009, pp. 825–828.
  • Torsten Foelsch: The rural parks in Prignitz. Contributions to 400 years of garden art. In: Communications from the Pückler Society , Issue 25, New Series, Berlin 2011
  • Torsten Foelsch: The Goose Noble Lords of Putlitz - a noble family from the Brandenburg region in the Prignitz. 800 years of family history. In: The Mark Brandenburg. Journal for the Mark and Brandenburg, Issue 82, Berlin 2011, pp. 18-25.
  • Torsten Foelsch: Forest and stately hunting in the country using the example of the Wolfshagen and Rühstädt manors. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Prignitz, Volume 12, Perleberg 2012, pp. 61–90.

Web links

Commons : Wolfshagen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 33.6 ″  E