Turow moated castle
| Turow moated castle | ||
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 unrenovated core castle 1993 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Turow Castle | |
| Creation time : | 12th century, first documented mention in 1387 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | unrenovated core castle | |
| Place: | Glewitz - Turow | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 2 '24 " N , 12 ° 56' 47.8" E | |
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The Moated Castle Turow , also Turow Castle , is a former moated castle , which today is a complex of castle and manor, surrounded by an English-style park. It is located in Turow , a district of the municipality of Glewitz in the Vorpommern-Rügen district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Thurow used to write it too.
investment
Today's complex is based on a presumably Slavic moth from the 12th century, which was probably initially a wooden structure on a slight elevation and was surrounded on all sides by a moat filled with water . The main castle and the outer castle , which was converted into a manor , belong to the castle . The former moat was rerouted and now runs in the typical form of English park lakes and rivers on the area. A now silted up section trench was located between the core and outer bailey. Around two thirds of the system is surrounded by water. Two bridges lead over the trenches.
The castle has been rebuilt several times since its existence and was probably expanded significantly in the second half of the 15th century. The buildings of the former outer bailey are now part of the manor complex and adjoin the inner bailey to the east. The access to the entire plant is different today than before due to a missing building. Features of the castle building are an ornate courtyard facade, some of which on the upper floors still consists of half-timbering. Thanks to renovations and uniform plastering, the facility appears to have been adapted to the present day. The former appearance can still be seen quite well.
A tour of the park still offers views and visual relationships of old bay windows, static support systems, loopholes and construction details.
history
Originally the complex dates from the 12th century, but its appearance has changed again and again through numerous additions and modifications. The castle was first mentioned in 1387. It was expanded in the 15th century on the remains of the previous castle to a moated castle with a moat and outer wall. In the 18th century a small chapel with wall paintings was built. The surrounding park was created in the same century. The core of the tower has been preserved. The so-called Blue Hall has been used as a chapel since 1900 - it is a cross vault on a central column, on the walls painted canvas wallpapers from 1820 with Arcadian landscapes. The castle has a small inner courtyard, which is closed off by a gate.
Landowners were often noble families of various origins in quick succession. The first owners that can be verified by name were members of the Lüssow family (1387 to 1409). It was followed by the Rügen noble family Bonow from 1414 to 1636, under which the structural extensions took place. Its last representative was Curdt Bonow, since 1623 court marshal of Duke Bogislaw XIV of Pomerania, and from 1614 to 1633 governor of Franzburg .
In 1633 Curdt Bonow bequeathed the indebted estate, including the villages of Wolthof and Düvier, to the underage sons Hans and Erasmus of the late Erasmus Küssow, who was his predecessor in office. The younger Erasmus Küssow sold Turow with the secondary estates Voigtsdorf, Strelow and Oelsdorf in 1681 to the widow Louise von Grävenitz, who already seven years later sold it on to Otto Johann von Grothusen , Lieutenant General and Governor of Wismar. He sold the property in 1696 to Rittmeister Paschen von Plüskow , who after only four years sold it in 1700 to Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Julius Freiherr von Königsheim - who had received his title of nobility shortly before. His daughter Ulrike von Königsheim married Johann Gustav von Ferber in 1719, who bought the Turow, Strelow, Voigtsdorf and Oelsdorf estates from his sisters-in-law. The estate remained in the possession of the von Ferber family for over 200 years . In 1927 the childless Alexandra von Ferber sold parts of the debt-laden property to the Pomeranian settlement community, but kept the moated castle, which she bequeathed to the preacher Heinrich Neumann on her death in 1939, who had been looking after the castle since 1926.
During and after the Second World War , Turow Castle was used as a school at times.
In 1957, the preacher Heinrich Neumann bequeathed the complex to the Pomeranian Evangelical Church , which was then owned by the later regional church community of Western Pomerania. She used this as a home for rest and training, later also as a seminar center. Since 2006, it has been the property of the Blue Cross Association Great Many from Zahren, who sold the listed complex in 2014, which then returned to private ownership.
Today the Wasserburg Turow is the official branch of the registry office Franzburg-Richtenberg and you can rent the premises for family celebrations, seminars, etc.
The estate archive includes documents, lease agreements and other written material about the ownership and management of the estate as well as a small part of private correspondence from some estate owners since 1632. While the castle was in the possession of the church, the holdings were in the state church archive in Greifswald and became after it was cleared, brought to the regional church archive in Kiel because of mold growth.
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annotation
- ↑ Note: A different (unoccupied) brief information on the possession of the castle can be found in the article Glewitz , where a von Horn family is also mentioned.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Turow Castle (castle). In: Castle Archives. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .
- ↑ The Gutsdorf, written today Turow , must not be confused with the Gutsdorf, written to this day Thurow , which are currently districts of Brüel in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district and of Medow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district.
- ↑ Lieutenant Colonel Julius Heinrich Claesen was ennobled as von Königsheim , see: Stammlinie von Königsheim
- ^ A b c Anne-Christin Draeger: Das Gutsarchiv Turow . In: Regional Church Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Northern Germany (ed.): Dusted off . tape 3 , 2015, p. 50–53 ( Online [PDF; 3.0 MB ; accessed on October 14, 2016]).
- ↑ a b c Gutsarchiv des Gut Turow. In: Pommerscher Greif - Association for Pomeranian family and local history. March 7, 2016, accessed October 14, 2016 .