Mellenthin moated castle

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Mellenthin moated castle
Mellenthin moated castle, rear view

The moated castle Mellenthin is a mansion in Mellenthin on the island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .

history

Mellenthin was next to Gothen , verifiably since the 14th century, an ancestral estate of the noble family von Neuenkirchen . Mellenthin Castle was built between 1575 and 1580 by order of Rüdiger von Nienkerken (Neuenkirchen), a councilor from Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern-Wolgast. The builder was supposedly Antonio Wilhelmi. The remnants of a previous building are located away from it in the estate park.

After the von Neuenkirchen family died out in 1641 and the end of the Thirty Years War , Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna was enfeoffed by the Swedish Queen Christina with the estate, which was now in Swedish Pomerania . A few years later Mellenthin came into the possession of General Burchard Müller von der Lühne . His descendants owned the estate until 1747. Then it was allodified and acquired at a public auction by the Prussian war councilor Bleichert Peter von Meyenn . After a bankruptcy, the Mellenthin estate came to the Swinemünde judiciary Wittchow in 1818, whose family remained in possession of the estate until 1910.

In 1931 the broker Wenner acquired the moated castle and 120 hectares of land. The rest of the Gutsland was settled. The landowner was expropriated after the end of World War II . The building complex was used by the municipality, which among other things set up apartments, a kindergarten and a local museum. During the GDR times, a restaurant was also opened in the castle. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the moated castle was privatized in 2001 and turned into a hotel with a restaurant. A brewery has been operating in the right wing since October 2011. In the former castle chapel there is a shop with a coffee roastery.

investment

Mellenthin Castle in the 19th century

The building is located on the south-western part of an artificial island around 100 m long and 80 m wide, which is surrounded by a 20 m wide moat. The sides of the trench are secured by lining walls .

The main building of the three-wing complex is a two-storey, seven-axis plastered brick building with a half -hip roof . On the courtyard side, the building has a wide, single-axis central projectile and two narrower side projections with a hipped roof. The all-round eaves cornice is continued in the three-storey risalits as a cornice separating the floors. The corner blocks of the plaster come from a renovation of the building at the end of the 19th century.

Between the central risalit and the right side risalit is an open entrance porch with a round arch and groin vault , which was built in 1904. There is a plaque with an inscription and the family coat of arms, which Christoph von Neuenkirchen had installed here in 1596 in memory of his father, the builder of the castle.

On the garden side there is a two-axis central projection, in front of which an outside staircase was created in 1904 and removed again at the end of the 20th century. There is a staircase porch on the eastern gable.

Inside, the basement, ground floor and first floor are designed as groin vaults ( lancet barrels ). In the entrance hall the vault is supported by a Tuscan column . There is also a renaissance fireplace from 1613, which originally stood in the hall on the upper floor.

room
Extension for brewery and terrace

On the courtyard side there are two side wings that touch the main building with their corners, but have no internal connection to it. The right, southwest side wing probably goes back to a fortified previous building with a tower each on the eastern and southern corners. Like the main building, it originally owned all parts of the prick cap barrel and was therefore probably built at the same time. In this wing there are two large hall-like rooms. These had been reduced in size by means of partition walls and fixtures, but were largely exposed again during the restoration work in the 2000s. Furthermore, there were living rooms for guests and servants as well as a chapel in the side wing . For the brewery pub, which opened in 2011, the building was given a glass extension, which houses the brewery's production and storage rooms as well as a terrace for guests.

The left side wing was built in the 17th century. Originally the royal stables were located in it, today it houses a hotel.

The former farm buildings of the estate are located on both sides of the avenue leading to the moated castle.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Wasserschloss Mellenthin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern. From the Amazon in the north to the imperial baths - a journey and reading book. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, p. 289.
  2. ↑ brewery. Moated Castle Mellenthin, accessed on January 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Coffee roastery. (No longer available online.) Mellenthin moated castle, archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 21, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '26.3 "  N , 14 ° 0' 59.4"  E