Groß Schwansee Castle Estate

Groß Schwansee Castle, the manor house at the end of the former farm yard

The Groß Schwansee castle estate is a manor complex built in the 18th century in the baroque style and converted in the classical style in the Groß Schwansee district of the municipality of Kalkhorst in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The manor house has served as a hotel and conference center since 2004.

history

Gut Groß Schwansee

In 1745, Baron Wilhelm Ludwig Hartwig von Both , whose family came from Westphalia, built the eleven-axis, late Baroque main building in the immediate vicinity of the Bay of Lübeck . In 1780 it became the property of the Counts of Brockdorff . In 1850 the Hamburg merchant Johann Heinrich Schröder acquired the estate. It remained in the possession of this family, who later became a baron, until 1945.

After the Second World War , the manor was dissolved and the manor house was used differently during the GDR era. Initially it housed refugees, later it housed a school and boarding school. Because of its location only 300 meters from the beach in Lübeck Bay, the estate was part of the restricted area of the GDR border . A 300 meter long avenue of lime trees extends to the beach ; a convoy path to monitor the coastal strip led behind the dune belt along the property. After the fall of the Wall , the building was initially empty.

Use after 1999

Middle risalit

Castle and former stable

In 1999, Silvius Dornier GmbH & Co KG bought the complex. In 2002 the castle estate was opened as a hotel. The castle restaurant is also located in the castle estate . Until 2007 it was counted among the best restaurants in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2010 it was rated with two wooden spoons in the Schlemmer Atlas .

In 2005, recordings for the children 's film Paula's Secret were shot in the Schlossgut .

At the Federal Horticultural Show in 2009 , Groß Schwansee was one of three outlying locations in the Northwest Mecklenburg district.

building

The courtyard, the manor house and a line of sight leading to the Baltic Sea are oriented to the north-west; the baroque features of the complex have been preserved to the present day. Groß Schwansee is related in its symmetrical structure to the neighboring complexes of Schloss Johannstorf and Schloss Bothmer . The courtyard was originally lined with typical manor buildings such as barns and stables, none of which have survived apart from the riding house. In 2008, the construction of a two-storey bed house began, which has been completed as a new courtyard building since summer 2009 and which, with the riding house opposite, renews the former symmetry of the complex.

Mansion

The mansion was built in 1745 in the Baroque style and later rebuilt in the Classicism style. It is a castle-like structure with eleven window axes in width and four axes in depth. The house consists of a low basement and two full floors, covered with a large hipped roof. The mansion, which may have been designed based on the model of the Corps de Logis at Bothmer Castle, was originally brick-faced and only received today's white plaster during the classicist redesign.

Above the entrance in the gable of the central risalit , an alliance coat of arms reminds of the client, his wife Marie Amalie von Plessen, who died in 1724, and his second wife Dorothea Margarete von Dorne . The coat of arms contains the initials of the aforementioned and the motto Deo Duce ( Latin with God as leader ). The stone slab below contains the chronogram “Fa v ente • I eho v a • Ere xi • Fa v eat • D o mi n v s • I eho v a • Cv stos • Ere c t i •” (Latin: Through God I have erected [the house] favorably; may the Lord God [continue] to be favorable [and] guardian of what was erected ) the year of construction 1745.

The building was renovated in 1999 and converted into a hotel by the architects Thomas van den Valentyn and Matthias Dittmann . Kitchen, storage and technical rooms were housed underground.

Former riding stable

The former horse stable is a two-wing building that faces the manor house to the south and was one of the manor's former farm buildings. It has served the hotel business since the renovation, including a restaurant. The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania supported the building project with an investment grant.

Further use

The Klütz registry office offers weddings in the manor house. In the former transformer house there is a weather station of the Swiss meteorology entrepreneur Jörg Kachelmann .