Bartensleben Castle
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The Bartensleben Castle (German: Schloss Bartensleben) is a baroque castle located in Erxleben (district of Groß Bartensleben) in the district of Borde (Saxony-Anhalt), Germany. It was built in the middle of the 18th century on the foundation walls of an earlier water castle.
History[edit]
Initially, as the name suggests, the castle was home to the noble German family lineage of Bartensleben (nobility). However, the family moved in the 13th century into Wolfsburg castle.[1] From the 15th century, the castle's residents were the noble family von Veltheim. The baroque palace was built by the von Veltheim in the middle of the 18th century. In 1757 Heinrich Adrian von Veltheim had the palace expanded to include the middle and western wings, with the interior decorated in the Rococo style.
The last representatives of the family were the Brunswick Lord Chamberlain Georg von Veltheim (1843-1913); he had two daughters and then his cousin Wilhelm von Veltheim (1884-1972). The latter was a Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John and Rittmeister a. D.[2] For a long time, Bartensleben was a Fideicommissum, a determination of succession within the family at the foundation level. The estate always remained in the hands of the family, even if there was no male heir in the direct line. The property had an area of approx. 1290 ha, there was also a sugar factory.[3]
After the Second World War in 1945, the von Veltheim family fled to the western occupation zone because of the expropriation of the property due to the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone. The castle was used by the Soviet occupying forces and later by the NVA to serve as a women's sanatorium "Clara Zetkin" and until 1991 as a retirement home.[4] A significant part of the original property, such as the staircase with a gallery, was removed or destroyed during renovations during GDR times. Since the retirement home was closed in 1989, it has been privately owned and was not publicly accessible. Between 2020 and 2022, the castle was renovated by a Berlin-based company to set up a nursing home. Currently (in 2022), the castle is closed for public visitors.[5][6]
Site[edit]
The castle was built on the foundations of a former water castle, which once had three outer castles. A wide moat surrounds the castle on a castle's island, to which a bridge leads. Adjacent to the castle are larger ponds and a former English landscape park, which has been restructured. It was probably created in the 18th century from a former Baroque garden. In the construction of the castle, existing parts were recycled, as seen in the years 1471, 1567 and 1578 on different building parts. The central point of the castle complex was the staircase with a gallery.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ Band, Erster (1859). Neues allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon [New general German nobility lexicon] (in German). p. 205. Retrieved 2022-09-08.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ von Hueck, Walter; von Ehrenkrook, Hans Friedrich (1893). Genealogisches Handbuch der Adeligen Häuser [Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses] (in German). p. 508-509. Retrieved 2022-09-08.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Köhler, Oskar; Wesche, Gustav; Krahmer, H. (1922). Niekammer’s Landwirtschaftliche Güter-Adreßbücher [Niekammer's Agricultural Property Registers] (in German). p. 44-45. Retrieved 2022-09-08.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Die Schlösser Ostfalens - Bartensleben" [The castles of Ostfalen - Bartensleben] (in german). 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2022-09-08.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "In Schloss Bartensleben zieht wieder Leben ein". Immobilen Aktuell. 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ↑ Bosse, Von Carina (2022-01-03). "Kein Märchen - im Schloss Bartensleben gibt es Wohnungen" [No fairy tale - there are apartments in Bartensleben Castle] (in german). Retrieved 2022-09-07.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
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