Schloss Kartlow

Schloss Kartlow
	Kruckow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
	Schloss Kartlow
	Floor plan of main floor
	Schloss Kartlow
Coordinates	53°53′35″N13°16′03″E / 53.893056°N 13.2675°E
Type	Schloss
Site history
Built	1853-58
Built by	Woldemar von Heyden

Last updated February 21, 2019

Schloss Kartlow is a Gothic Revival Schloss in Kruckow municipality, Germany.

Schloss, formerly written Schloß, is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace or manor house. In the United Kingdom, it would be known as a stately home or country house.

Kruckow is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It consists of the former municipalities of Borgwall, Heydenhof, Kartlow, Kruckow, Marienfelde, Schmarsow, Tutow-Dorf and Unnode. The municipality offers some important landmarks, such as the Renaissance/baroque Schmarsow Castle, the Neo Gothic Kartlow Castle, the ruin of Osten Castle or the Peter Joseph Lenné garden in Kruckow.

History

The presently visible building was erected in 1853 to 1858 and designed by architect Friedrich Hitzig. It was built for Woldemar von Heyden on land that had belonged to the von Heyden family since 1292. It stayed in the family until 1945. During the East German era, the castle was expropriated and used as a school, a local store and for residential use. Renovation of the castle started during the East German era and continued after the German reunification. It is today private property.^[1]

Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig was a German architect, born into the Jewish Itzig family, converted to Lutheranism. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state", and the territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II — the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.

The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz (constitution) Article 23. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity, celebrated on 3 October. Following German reunification, Berlin was once again designated as the capital of united Germany.

Architecture

The design is said to have been loosely inspired by the French Château de Chambord. A set of notable original wall decorations have been preserved in the main hall of the castle. The park surrounding the castle, laid out at the time of the construction of the castle but subsequently much altered, was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné.^[1]

Château de Chambord château in Chambord, France

The Château de Chambord in Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by King Francis I of France.

Peter Joseph Lenné was a Prussian gardener and landscape architect. As director general of the Royal Prussian palaces and parks in Potsdam and Berlin, his work shaped the development of 19th-century German garden design in the Neoclassical style. Laid-out according to the principles of the English landscape garden, his parks are today part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

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References

1 2 "Gutshaus (Herrenhaus, Schloss) Kartlow". Gutshäuser und Schösser in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). QM3 UG (haftungsbeschränkt). Retrieved 20 July 2015.

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[kartlow-1] 1 2 "Gutshaus (Herrenhaus, Schloss) Kartlow". Gutshäuser und Schösser in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). QM3 UG (haftungsbeschränkt). Retrieved 20 July 2015.