Stintenburg Island
| Stintenburg Island | ||
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| Waters | Schaalsee | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 35 '36 " N , 10 ° 56' 39" E | |
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| length | 400 m | |
| width | 190 m | |
| surface | 5 ha | |
The Stintenburginsel is a small inhabited island in the Schaalsee . It belongs to the municipality of Zarrentin am Schaalsee in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .
location
The island has a length of 400 meters and a maximum width of up to 190 meters and a surface of a good five hectares. The island is located in the eastern Schaalsee and borders on the partial lakes Lassahner See in the north and Borgsee in the south.
The Stintenburginsel is only a few meters above the mirror of the Schaalsee lake, 35 meters above sea level, and is surrounded by towering trees. The shores of the island are shaped by a belt of reeds. Historically, Stintenburg has always belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg . It was not Mecklenburg until the Barber-Lyashchenko Agreement of 1945 that the island now belongs to the town of Zarrentin on the Schaalsee .
A navigable dam connects the island with the Mecklenburg side in the east and the inhabited island of Kampenwerder in the west, which is also part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
history
The Stintenburg estate was owned by the Counts of Schwerin in the 13th century . This was followed by Duchess Christine Margarete zu Mecklenburg in the years 1642–1680. Furthermore, the von Lützow came and went from 1417, von Bülow from 1434 to 1639 and von Hammerstein from 1683 to 1738. In 1740 the estate came into the possession of Count Andreas Gottlieb the Younger von Bernstorff (1708–1768).
In 1767 the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock stayed on the Stintenburg Island and dedicated the Ode Stintenburg to it .
Today's mansion, with its classicist design, was built between 1810 and 1817, presumably under the direction of Joseph Christian Lillie , on the much older foundations of a previous building possibly built in the 14th century.
At the same time as the arrest of the owner of the property, Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff , who was critical of the regime, in 1943 , he was deprived of control over his property. The administration was transferred to the farmer's leader Hans Teuner, later the state farming community of Schleswig-Holstein appointed an administrator. Bernstorff was murdered by the Gestapo in Berlin-Moabit in the last days of the war . After the war, the property first fell into the hands of the British occupation forces; in the form of an exchange of territory for traffic-related reasons, however, the assignment of the Bernstorff property to the Soviet occupation zone was regulated in the “Gadebusch Treaty” on November 13, 1945 . As part of the land reform , the estate and mansion were expropriated. Under difficult conditions, new farmers settled on the parceled estate.
From 1952 the German border police of the GDR took over the area because of its proximity to the border (the inner German border ran just two kilometers further west). The facility was later used by Main Department I of the Ministry for State Security to train a secret elite force for the GDR border troops . In addition, the facility was legendary as an object of the border troops.
Since the restitution , Herrenhaus (1993) and Gut (1997) have been owned by the von Bernstorff family again. Almost the entire area was handed over to the nephew of the murdered Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff by the State Office for the settlement of open property issues without repurchase conditions. The island is now inhabited by the family and some employees and is located in the Schaalsee biosphere reserve . It is therefore subject to some special protective provisions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Wurlitzer: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. From the Baltic Sea with its Hanseatic cities and the islands of Rügen and Usedom to the Lake District. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1996.
- ↑ Stintenburg on gutshaeuser.de, accessed on November 16, 2014
literature
- Wolfgang Karge: Stintenburg im Schaalsee: manor, refugee camp, border barracks and central school of the MfS for border scouts , Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-933255-56-3 .