Quilow moated castle
The moated castle Quilow is a mansion in the district Quilow of the community Groß Polzin in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald . It is one of the few preserved Renaissance structures in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The renovation is an extensive model project of the “ Foundation for Cultural Heritage in the Rural Areas of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ”.
history
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Quilow was owned by the Stolpe Monastery until the end of the 15th century and was then acquired by the von Owstin family of Pomeranians . 1485 Quilow was named in a feudal letter from Duke Bogislaw X. for Hans and Claus von Owstin. In 1550 Roleff von Owstin inherited the estate and built the moated castle between 1560 and 1570. His grave slab is in the Quilower Church .
After the male line of the Owstinen on Quilow with August Philipp von Owstin († 1855) died out, the estate came to his third daughter Sophia Carolina Friederike, wife of the landscape councilor Carl Heinrich von Ploetz auf Stuchow , in the Cammin district, and later served as their widow's seat. The building was empty from 1885 to 1920. Then from 1920 a renovation took place with careful redesign of dilapidated parts of the complex by the last owner Major a. D. Claus von Ploetz. This was expropriated in 1945.
During the GDR era, there were apartments, a post office, a gym for the local school, etc. in the building. a. housed. From 1958 to 1967 the facility was restored again. In the course of this measure, the moat was mostly filled in, which led to static problems.
After the fall of the Wall , the moated castle was "pulled empty". Despite several interested buyers, it was not possible to privatize the building. It remained in the possession of the municipality of Groß Polzin. In cooperation with the German Foundation for Monument Protection , fundamental efforts to renovate the building have been made since 1992/93. In addition to re-covering the roof and securing the foundation, attempts were made to secure the structure with the help of massive steel fixtures. This work ended after severe settlement phenomena on the masonry with an emergency safety device on the ground floor, which today shapes the overall impression of the castle. Since then, the building has remained in a completely unsatisfactory state in terms of monument preservation and aesthetics without being used.
In October 2007 the moated castle with the moat that had been dry for a long time and the former estate manager's house was taken over by the Foundation for Cultural Heritage in the rural area of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . This plans a comprehensive renovation of the facility. The federal government has made available up to 213,400 euros from the Special Monument Protection Program IV for the renovation of the palace. The Ministry of Economics of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania supports the investment with funds from the joint task “Improvement of the regional economic structure” and with funds from the “European Regional Development Fund” (ERDF) amounting to almost 3.1 million euros. The total investment to make the building usable as a "tourist base station" with event rooms and exhibitions is around 3.5 million euros.
investment
The construction of the moated castle Quilow began in the 1560s and should have been completed by 1575 at the latest. It is a two-storey permanent house with a rectangular floor plan. The original groin vaults have been preserved in the basement and ground floor . The foundations consist mainly of field stones, the outer walls of plastered mixed masonry. Partly visible brick areas were added during repairs after the Thirty Years War and later renovation work. At the edges of the building, the remains of a plaster block can still be seen in places .
The roof has a horizontal roof structure based on the Upper Saxon model. A special feature of the moated castle are the dwelling houses above the south facade, which were widespread on noble and stately buildings at the time of construction (see e.g. Schönfeld Castle (Dresden) ) and are the last preserved in Western Pomerania today. The two on the north side of the roof were removed from the original four dwelling houses at the end of the 17th century. The preserved dwelling houses are divided into two storeys and built as half-timbered buildings. Their facades are covered with plastered masonry. While the lower wall area is designed in the manner of a second floor, the upper gable fields are richly structured with half columns and cornices.
The gables on the east and west sides were largely rebuilt during renovation work in the 1960s. The actually more simply designed west gable was rebuilt more elaborately, since the measurements of the east gable were used as a template for both sides.
In front of the south facade, framed by the dwelling houses, there is a stair tower with a square floor plan below and an octagonal floor plan above the upper floor. On the north side of the castle, the remains of an agricultural extension from the 19th century can still be seen.
The castle is one of the oldest preserved plastered buildings in Western Pomerania. The plaster was originally painted white. During the Swedish era, the paint was renewed in the Falun red, which was in vogue at that time , as can be seen in the plaster, as can be seen from the remains of color pigments. In the 19th century the color tended to turn back to white after lighter red tones.
literature
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8 , pp. 160-161.
Web links
- Sabine Horn: Quilow - mansion
- Foundation for cultural heritage: model project Wasserschloss Quilow
- Aid to the millions: Moated castle in Quilow is being renovated In: Die Welt from September 3, 2017.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 50 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 12 ″ E