Moated castle Fürstlich Drehna

The moated castle Fürstlich Drehna is a moated castle in Brandenburg . It is located in the south of the country in Fürstlich Drehna , a district of the city of Luckau in the Dahme-Spreewald district . The Renaissance was from the 14th century seat of Niederlausitzer Standesherrschaft Drehna .

The castle as well as the castle park and pavilion, the manor and the official building are listed as monuments in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg .

Architecture and building history

Fürstlich Drehna Palace in the 19th century, painting from the Alexander Dunckers collection

As early as 1301, the year Fürstlich Drehna was first mentioned, there was a moated castle in the village. From the 14th century the castle was the seat of the Drehna lordship. Originally, the building consisted of three separate buildings, today's east wing and two separate residential buildings . These three buildings were connected with each other in the 15th century and, after being taken over by the von Minckwitz family, were brought together under a single roof. The roof structure is dated to 1524. From the outside the southwestern ornamental gable with donkey arch and pinnacles as well as the brick cornice made of shaped stones on the south side of the castle can be seen.

Around 1560, the castle was expanded into a four-wing complex. The roof of the north wing is dated to 1562. In addition, the defensive wall with two round defensive towers and the presumably free-standing chapel on the south side were included. The square gate tower on the east wing at that time was expanded, and in 1752 an octagonal half-timbered tower and a lantern were added. The north facade of the castle has two tower-like rectangular buildings decorated with stepped gables from the late Renaissance period . Between these there is an arbor on a high, two- bay arcade .

The moated castle was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War . The first repair work began in the second half of the 17th century, but the building was not refurbished as planned until 1697, after the castle and estate were acquired by the Counts of Promnitz . In the course of the renovation, the interiors were restored and the wings were standardized. The west wing was probably expanded from 1737 and provided with regularly arranged windows. In 1807 the castle was bought by Moritz zu Lynar , who had been made Prince the year before. He had the former place name Deutsch Drehna changed to Fürstlich Drehna , with which the castle also received the new name. From around 1877 the interior was redesigned for the Wätjen family from Bremen .

The groin vaulted arcade in front of the south wing was added in the 18th or 19th century. The fountain that originally stood there is now on the bridge to the east wing.

Inside the castle, most of the original vault has been preserved on the ground floor. Barrel vaults , rib vaults , groin vaults and cell vaults can be found here. On the upper floor of the east wing there was a large hall with a heavy wooden beam ceiling from 1527. The hall was redesigned and subdivided in the 19th century. The former chapel is now located in the central part of the south wing, is vaulted with cells and has a three-sided east end, i.e. a three-sided rear wall. On the upper floor there are stucco ceilings with the Promnitz coat of arms from around 1700.

On April 20, 1945, the castle was attacked and looted by Red Army soldiers . The then owner of the castle then fled to Bremen with her second husband. After the Second World War , the castle was expropriated . In 1948 it was initially supposed to be torn down, then in GDR times it was initially used as an FDGB school and later as a youth work center. From 1986 the castle was empty. In 1995 the building was taken over by the Brandenburgische Schlösser GmbH with seven other surrounding buildings . A comprehensive renovation took place between 1994 and 2007. On October 20, 2007, the castle was handed over to a private operator who converted it into a hotel .

Castle Park

Castle with pavilion and castle pond in the foreground

The park of the moated castle was probably created in 1807 by Peter Joseph Lenné . From 1819 it was redesigned into a landscape park under Prince Otto Mandrup Heinrich zu Lynar . From 1877 the castle park was extensively expanded by the new owners.

From the end of the 1970s, large parts of the outer park were included in the Schlabendorf-Süd open-cast lignite mine . As a result, the inner park was reduced in size and redesigned. The cast-iron pavilion with colored glazing, which was erected on the castle pond in 1992, dates from around 1925 and was previously in the Saßleben castle park .

Former manor

Service yard of the moated castle

On the triangular Lindenplatz in front of the moat is the former palace and estate of Fürstlich Drehnas. In front of the entrance there are gate pillars from 1895 and high pedestals with stone deer. On the other side of the square is the former farmyard with over-molded barns and stables , mostly from the second half of the 19th century.

The brewery , a two-story plastered building from the 18th century, adjoins the farmyard to the west . This was later greatly expanded and provided with a neo-Gothic tower.

Office building

The former office building is a two-storey plastered building from the second half of the 18th century. The floor plan is L-shaped with a covered hipped roof . The ground floor was partly used as a horse stable in the 19th century. Between 1997 and 2007, the office building was extensively renovated; today it is part of the castle hotel.

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments : Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 364–366.

Web links

Commons : Wasserschloss Fürstlich Drehna - Collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

^ Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on November 19, 2017.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments : Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 364 f.
^ ^A ^b Carola Nathan: Marrying on Fürstlich Drehna. Monuments Online, December 2007, accessed November 19, 2017 .
↑ Drehna Castle website
^ ^A ^b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments : Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 366.

51.760083333333 13.802694444444Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 36.3 " N , 13 ° 48 ′ 9.7" E

[bldam-1] Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on November 19, 2017.

[Dehio-2] Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments : Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 364 f.

[monumente-3] A ^b Carola Nathan: Marrying on Fürstlich Drehna. Monuments Online, December 2007, accessed November 19, 2017 .

[4] Drehna Castle website

[Dehio2-5] A ^b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments : Brandenburg. Edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 366.