Wrangelsburg Castle
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Wrangelsburg Castle is a mansion in Wrangelsburg in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It was built in 1880 and has been privately owned since 2017.
Wrangel's Castle
The place called Vorwerk at that time was given to the noble von Neuenkirchen family as a fief in 1426 . According to not completely certain traditions, this was done in gratitude for the fact that Rolef von Neuenkirchen, who had accompanied Duke Wartislaw VIII on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1393, should have helped him out of a financial emergency. After a fire, Christoph von Neuenkirchen had a four-wing renaissance castle built around 1600 , which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . After the male line of the von Neuenkirchen family died out, Vorwerk came into the possession of the von Wrangel family in 1643 and was renamed Wrangelsburg in 1653.
Carl Gustav Wrangel , Governor General of Swedish Pomerania , had a baroque palace built on the remains of the now dilapidated building from 1652 and after its completion resided at Wolgast Palace . He hired the Erfurt master builder Casper Vogell , who had already drafted the plans for Friedenstein Castle in Gotha , for the construction.
The castle was significantly enlarged by adding two side wings . According to the map of the Swedish land survey , the four-sided castle with the current administrative building (gatehouse) was located as a south-western wing in an axis offset by approx. 40 to 50 m to the south to today's manor house or manor block. The roofs received glazed Dutch tiles and gutters made of lead. The building got a water pipe that was fed from a nearby spring. The water was piped into a copper container under the roof, from where it got into the rooms and also fed fountains in the garden.
Caspar Vogel, who returned to Erfurt after a short time, handed over the construction management to his son-in-law Barthel Volkland, who was also responsible for the wood carving work. For the stucco work , Wrangel brought in Antonius Lohr and his assistant Nils Eriksson in 1657, who had previously worked at his Spycker Castle . The interior work was completed in 1664. Wrangel only used the castle for a few years, most recently in Spycker Castle on Rügen .
The castle was damaged during the Swedish-Brandenburg War in 1677. A fire caused further damage in 1686. The building, which was no longer repaired by Wrangel's heirs, the Wittenberg and Brahe families, came with the estate to Malte Friedrich von Putbus in 1769 . He had the usable decorations of the house and the park brought to Putbus and parts of the palace demolished. Remnants of the original decorative elements are preserved today on the office building with replicas of two sculptures. In 1773 Wrangelsburg was acquired by the von Normann family. The von Normann family stayed on their property in Krebsow , since simply rebuilding the numerous missing windows in Wrangel Castle was too costly. In 1816 they sold Wrangelsburg to the Laug family.
Wrangelsburg Manor
A nephew of the Wolgast grain merchant August Wilhelm Homeyer acquired the Wrangelsburg estate in 1862. Carl Leopold von Homeyer, who was raised to the nobility in 1865, had the new manor built around 1880. It is said to have been built on the middle part of Wrangel Castle. A few putti heads were still preserved from the old castle , which were walled into the front of the ramp. On the ramp, like the office building opposite on the rest of the Marstall, smooth-hewn stone blocks from the demolished Wolgast Duke's Castle were built.
The two-and-a-half-storey plastered building above a high basement is designed in neo-Gothic shapes. The rectangular structure has three with Fialtürmchen decorated stepped gable , at the narrow sides of the building and on the biaxial means risalit the east side. From the three-axis central projection on the eleven-axis west side, a tower-like structure with a stylized crenellated wreath and pinnacle turrets at the corners grew above the eaves, reaching in depth and height to the roof ridge of the house. The spire was shaped like a truncated pyramid and had a viewing platform with a flagpole at the top. The entire tower structure was later removed, as were the four semicircular hipped dormers on the western side of the roof, as well as the four on the eastern side. The large skylight on the eastern roof area was also removed. There remained only the two front and the two rear flat roof dormers, which are still there today. After the tower structure had been removed, the western risalit in the attic was plastered smoothly and ends with a flat gable.
The Homeyer coat of arms, which represents a cereal plant , is located above the upper floor . The two-axis central projection on the park side was preceded by an extension with an exit to the park, which, according to the photos, was removed before 1910. A high terrace on the south side of the house was later expanded into a closed extension. During the GDR era, a staircase was set up on the east facade in the south wing, which ended in an outside staircase to the park. This second exit was probably due to safety in the event of a fire. The shaped stones of the balcony above the entrance portal were replaced by metal grids.
Some stucco ceilings and interesting door panels have been preserved inside.
In 1929 the mansion came into the possession of Karz von Kameke by inheritance . After the Second World War, the owners were expropriated without compensation and the building became the quarters of the Soviet military administration . In 1946 it became a retirement home and from 1950 to 1957 a youth work center was housed here. It then served as a nursing home until 1958. After that it was used as a children's home until 1997.
Several of the farm buildings are still preserved, the northern stables are mainly made of field stone, but the southern barns are made of a mixture of field and brick. The latter are partially plastered and whitewashed. The royal stables are under monument protection because of the shape and the stones used in the construction of the Wolgast Duke's Castle.
In 1999 the building was bought by the municipality and used until 2012 to prevent further deterioration. During this time, the renovation began, so the upper floor was renovated. The EWE Group bought the castle in 2012 and wanted to renovate it by 2017. However, this did not happen. A Neubrandenburg entrepreneur bought the building for a seven-figure sum and has been renovating it since summer 2017. Afterwards the castle will be used by his family for private living purposes. The park is to remain partially open to the public. The originally existing tower was reconstructed in 2018 and placed on top of the building on July 5, 2018.
Office building
The so-called office building is located southeast of the manor house. There is evidence that it dates back to the 16th century and was the gatehouse of what was then the "Wrangelsburg" castle. Under Homeyer, the building was used as a grain store. Later the house was used as a barracks for the reapers ( seasonal harvest workers ) from Poland and Galicia , which is why it was called the "reaper's house" in the village.
In the left entrance area there are two sandstone replicas, the originals are in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald. The figures were previously attached to the gable (mansion side). The exterior of the building no longer corresponds to the state of the 16th century, as it was plastered over in a modern way and the doorways and other parts of the building were significantly changed. The current bat dormers were only erected in the 19th century.
Since 2013 the gatehouse has been restored on behalf of the owner in coordination with the monument office. The aim is to put the only preserved gatehouse of a late baroque four-sided complex in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania into public cultural interest. Excursions will also be offered there for those interested. From 2016 there will also be the option of renting a holiday apartment there.
park
Christoph von Neuenkirchen had already had a pleasure garden divided into quarters. An inventory from September 1641, drawn up after von Neuenkirchen's death, only listed fruit trees of good quality. In an inventory made in 1643 when the estate was taken over by Wrangel's family, a walled renaissance garden with borders was described. For Carl Gustav Wrangel, the garden next to the palace was of great importance as a prestige facility. He ordered plaster statues from Hamburg and bought a fountain there. Barthel Volkland had two pavilions built as summer houses .
The names of several master gardeners who were in Wrangel's service have come down to us from this time. Since some of the exotic plants in the garden were not up to the local climate, Wrangel ordered glass bells from his accountant in Stockholm , which were used to cover melons , among other things . The garden was made accessible to respected officers and nobles, but also to people from the bourgeoisie, upon invitation or at their own request for viewing and recreation.
Changes were made in 1672 as the facility had been classified as old-fashioned. In an inventory in 1678 830 trees were counted. In addition to a pleasure pavilion with four towers, there were twelve sculptures in the park. The Swedish land survey of Western Pomerania showed a size of approximately two hectares for the garden in Wrangelsburg. There were also other 1.25 hectares of orchards. A round castle church built in 1674 had to be removed after less than 100 years because it was in disrepair.
The park, which stretches along the south bank of the castle lake , was expanded to become an English landscape park at the end of the 19th century. There is an ash tree in the park that has been declared a natural monument .
literature
- Neidhardt Krauss, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania. Hinstorff, Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7 .
- Ivo Asmus: The Governor General's master gardener. Baroque gardens in Pomerania and Sweden using the example of Carl Gustav Wrangel's estates. In: Baltic Studies . New episode. Volume 86, Elwert, Marburg 2000, ISSN 0067-3099 , pp. 71-89.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Meerkatz: Greifswald / Wrangelsburg: New splendor for old castle in: Ostsee-Zeitung of November 29, 2017.
- ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , p. 48.
- ↑ Joachim Zdrenka: The pilgrimages of the Pomeranian dukes to the Holy Land in the years 1392/1393 and 1406/1407 . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series Vol. 81, NG Elwert, Marburg 1995, pp. 14-17 ( digitized version ).
- ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 2, Dietze, Anklam 1868, p. 1132 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Cornelia Meerkatz: New investor for Wrangelsburg Castle . In: Ostsee-Zeitung , April 24, 2017, accessed on September 8, 2017.
- ↑ U. Kranich: The castle in Wrangelsburg has received its tower , published in the Vorpommern-Magazin, August 2018, p. 54
- ↑ Information on the community at www.vorpommern-sued.de
Web links
- Literature about Wrangelsburg Castle in the state bibliography MV
- Annette Krug: Wrangelsburg - mansion
Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 56.36 " N , 13 ° 35 ′ 52.01" E