The Mirow Castle Island with its ensemble of buildings in Mirow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was one of the secondary residences of the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
The Mirow Castle Island with its ensemble of buildings in Mirow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was one of the secondary residences of the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .
The history of the castle island
The Mirow Castle Island is based on a commandery of the Order of St. John in the 13th century. After lengthy confrontations with the master masters of Sonnenburg , the Mecklenburg dukes gained influence over the appointment of the commander in the 16th century. After the death of the last Mirower Komtur, the Commandery was finally looked after only by Protestant administrators, most of whom came from the Mecklenburg ducal house and took their princely residence here in the manor house of the Commandery. The commandery was secularized in 1648 . The buildings on the castle island were constantly being built during this time.
With the Hamburg settlement of 1701 , Mirow became a founding component of the newly formed (partial) duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After the death of Adolf Friedrich II , the Mirow properties in princely ownership were used as a widow's residence, and the Mirow ducal office repeatedly had supply tasks for members of the princely family.
After a major fire in 1742, large parts of the building stock were renewed. At that time, the Mirower Hof had developed into a spiritual and intellectual center of the country for a short time, despite or perhaps because of its remoteness. Many important personalities who later gave decisive impulses to regional developments in the second half of the century belonged to the Mirow court society around the middle of the century .
Just as quickly as the rise, Mirow lost its importance again in the 1750s. From the middle of the 18th century, the role of the Mirow palace ensemble was limited almost exclusively to the appropriate setting of funeral ceremonies for members of the ducal family. “Mirow is now the place of the dead,” said a travel writer shortly before the First World War.
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Castle building
The core of the castle still consists of parts of a previous building from 1708, which was partially destroyed in the fire in 1742. The baroque ballroom dates from 1710. The present castle was built from 1749 to 1752 by order of Adolf Friedrich III. built according to plans by Christoph Julius Löwe . It is a small, two-storey building with the floor plan of an H with short, risalit-likeand three-story wings. The façades of the eleven-axis castle are only sparsely decorated; both the central courtyard and the garden-side risalit are crowned with a simple gable. The spatial structure was based on the French country castles of the 18th century. The formerly valuable facility is said to come from artists who were already active in Sanssouci , but there is hardly any work left. After the ducal family moved out, the castle has been vacant for long periods of time since the 18th century and was only used when burials were held in the nearby princely crypt.
The castle and castle island belong to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The castle was extensively restored from 2003 to Pentecost 2014 and is open to the public again.
Kavaliershaus
Since the Mirow castle was designed for a lavish royal household too modest, the courtyard of 1756 to 1758 the Kavaliershaus faced the court. The late baroque building corresponds to the actual castle in terms of width and number of axes and forms with this an enclosed courtyard, creating a stately ensemble. After a fire in the 19th century and partial destruction, the Kavaliershaus was then restored.
Both buildings (palace and cavalier house) were renovated by 2014. The castle was reopened as a museum on June 7, 2014 and today mainly presents building findings in numerous reconstructed rooms. Weddings have been possible in the castle's ballroom since 2015. Today the Kavaliershaus is an information center and permanent exhibition and is open to cultural events under the name 3-Königinnen-Palais . There is also a Mirower Tourist Information Office here.
The Johanniterkirche
The Johanniterkirche or Schlosskirche Mirow comes in parts from the Johanniter church from the 14th century. It is a hall building originally built in the brick Gothic style , which has been expanded and rebuilt over the centuries. The baroque tower tower goes back to a copper donation from Friedrich II , who as crown prince was occasionally visiting Mirow and who was on friendly terms with the ducal family. The church was also badly damaged by the great fire in 1742 and was subsequently given a magnificent baroque interior; the altar painting was done by Charles Maucourt in 1750 . At the end of the Second World WarOn the night of May 1, 1945, the church burned down again after shelling by German soldiers. The interior was largely destroyed. After the end of the war, reconstruction began with simplified means and was partially completed in 1950. For the restoration of the destroyed tower a support association was founded in early 1989 (still in GDR times!) And a new helmet could be put on in 1993. The facade of the nave was renovated from 2008.
On the north side of the castle church is the several times expanded princely crypt, in which members of the Mecklenburg family found their final resting place as early as 1670 and 1675, and from 1704 members of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz family. In the part of the princely burial place that is accessible today there are still 22 rather simple coffins, including those of five (died between 1794 and 1914) of the eight regents of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. One of them is Duke Adolf Friedrich IV of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, caricatured in the work of the same name by the Low German poet Fritz Reuter as "Dörchläuchting" (Low German for "Highness") . His brother, Karl II. , Also buried here, was Luise's father, Queen of Prussia, and first Grand Duke (1815) of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region. The last funeral to date took place here in 1996.
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