Sztynort

Sztynort
	Sztynort
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 8 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '54 "  N , 21 ° 41' 5"  E
Residents :	170
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kamionek Wielki ↔ Harsz - Pozezdrze
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sztynort (German Steinort , until 1928 Groß Steinort ) is a village in the municipality of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The middle baroque , currently ailing Steinort Castle is in the village .

Geographical location

The village is located in the north of the Masurian Lake District on the Jez peninsula between Mauer , Dargeinen and Dobensee . Rastenburg / Kętrzyn is 25 kilometers south-west, Angerburg / Węgorzewo 19 kilometers to the north.

history

At the beginning of the 16th century, the von Lehndorff family, who were resident in the Königsberg area, were enfeoffed with a large piece of land called the "Steinort Wilderness". Many neighboring places were part of it.

The first owners were Casper, Fabian and Sebastian. They were official governors of Preußisch Eylau and Oletzko , followed by Meinhard (District Administrator von Rastenburg , Lieutenant Colonel, born 1590). He laid out the Steinorter Park, the oak avenue and the cloister from Ionic columns . A part of the oak stands for every child of the von Lehndorff family born in Steinort.

Until 1945

The decaying Lehndorff Castle (2004)

The dilapidated Lehndorff Castle (2008)

The port of Sztynort

The place with the associated estate is also the headquarters of the von Lehndorff family . Ahasuerus , born in 1637, was his successor at Steinort. His third wife Eleanor had the manor built. His son Ernst Ahasuerus took over the successor. From 1758 his son Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich (* 1727) continued the line. His son Carl Ludwig was born in 1770 and then took over Steinort. He had five children. The eldest son Carl Meinhard took over Steinort in 1854. Carl Meinhard married his cousin Anna, née Countess Hahn-Basedow, who after his death in 1883 took over the management of the property until her son Carl Meinhard came of age. This Carl Meinhard ("Caroll") remained unmarried. Since he was childless, the property passed to the Preyl line of his uncle Heinrich in 1936 (after his death) . The younger of his two sons, Manfred (the older, Heinrich, had died in the First World War ) inherited . Manfred renounced and handed it over to his son Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff , who was executed for his involvement in the assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. Since Heinrich's brother Ahasuerus had died in the war, Count Hans von Lehndorff (cousin von Heinrich) could have continued the line.

Under the direction of the most experienced restorer of the Royal Palaces in Berlin, the palace underwent a thorough renovation - room by room - at the end of the 1930s. It was in pristine condition until the entry of the Red Army in January 1945.

Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff lived with his family in a wing of the castle; in the other half, the "field quarters" were set up in 1941 by Reich Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop . His staff lived in the nearby Jägerhöhe guest house on the Schwenzaitsee.

Six kilometers north of Steinort, the Army High Command had built its Mauerwald field camp with an extensive bunker system. Himmler's field command post in Hegewald was eleven kilometers east of the village .

District Steinort (1874–1945)

On May 6, 1874, was District Steinort built, the period of its existence to the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. At the beginning seven, at the end three more places were included:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Groß Steinort	since 1928: Steinort	Sztynort
Kirsaiten Hof		Kirsajty	1928 incorporated into Steinort
Pristani	Passdorf	Przystań
Stawiska	Ponds	Stawiska	1928 incorporated into Steinort
Stawken	Stake	Stawki	1928 incorporated into Pristan
Stumble		Pniewo	1928 incorporated into Steinort
Taberlack		Tarlawki
since before 1908: Klein Steinort		Sztynort Mały	1928 incorporated into Steinort
since 1928: Serwillen		Surwile	until 1928 district of Salzbach , Kr. Rastenburg

On January 1, 1945, only the communities of Passdorf, Steinort and Taberlack belonged to the district of Steinort.

After 1945

Memorial stone at the castle for Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff

After a long period of occupation by the Red Army since 1945, an agricultural production cooperative (PGR) was housed in the castle from the 1950s . In the 1990s, the entire facility with the economic sector came into the hands of an Austrian who was overwhelmed by it, and then to a Warsaw company (yacht operator). Currently, the castle can only be viewed from the outside as it has deteriorated over time and renovations have only recently started. The greatest treasure of the dilapidated building were the painted and carved baroque wooden ceilings in the middle section. In November 2009 the Polish-German Foundation for Cultural Preservation and Monument Protection acquired the castle. After extensive renovation measures, it will be used as a meeting place. Together with the German sister foundation, a usage concept is being struggled to obtain generous funding. So far only “small steps” have been taken, with money from private German donors and funds from the Polish Ministry of Culture. Urgent emergency safety measures were carried out by autumn 2013. Auxiliary structures introduced statically stabilize the building, especially the basement, the wall crowns of the central section are strengthened, the window openings are temporarily closed by foils with slits, and an emergency roof was raised. So far it has rained in and the sponge spread. The valuable, partly already destroyed ceiling boards (1500 m²) were removed years ago and not properly stored. They were disinfected and impregnated in 2013.

The grave chapel of the Lehndorffs has been plundered several times since 1945 and has become a ruin. The roof structure of the mausoleum was renewed in 2018.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the Lehndorff family's hunting lodge in Sztynort was rebuilt in Gałkowo ( Galkowen , 1938 to 1945 Nickelshorst ). Since 2006 it has been a restaurant and pension.

The palace park was completely overgrown. It was worked on in the summer of 2012 as a project pruning the wild growth in the historic castle park of the youth building hut of the German Foundation for Monument Protection by 40 German young people in a two-week deployment. In particular, the historic park paths and lines of sight were exposed again.

Civil engineer Wolfram Jäger is heavily involved in the ongoing renovations.

On June 22, 2009, a memorial stone was inaugurated at the castle on the 100th birthday of Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff.

The Sztynort marina is one of the largest on the Masurian Lakes. TIGA was the owner and operator until 2014; then the plant was auctioned.

church

Before 1945 (Groß) Steinort was parish in the Protestant Church of Rosengarten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Angerburg Church of the Good Shepherd in the Diocese of Warmia .

The Protestant church members of Sztynorts are now assigned to the church in Węgorzewo, a branch church of the parish Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The Catholic residents are oriented towards the parish of Radzieje in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Web links

Commons : Sztynort  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• To the history of the property

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marion Countess Dönhoff: Names that nobody mentions anymore. Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-424-00671-8 , pp. 167-168.
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Steinort District
3. ↑ German-Polish Foundation for Cultural Preservation and Monument Protection ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Schabe: Emergency security work at Steinort Castle . Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung, July 27, 2013
5. ↑ ^{a b} Topping-out ceremony at the Lehndorff mausoleum in Steinort. In: ermland-masuren-journal.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Gałkowo - Galkowen / Nickelshorst
7. ↑ STEINORT / SZTYNORT. In: deutsch-polnic-stiftung.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .