Karnin

Karnin is a municipality west of Stralsund in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen. Until 1 January 2005, the municipality was part of the Office Barth country and has since been part of the Office Barth.

Geography and transport

Karnin is located about 17 kilometers west of the city of Stralsund and about 25 kilometers east of Ribnitz -Damgarten, south of the Baltic Sea bay Grabow in a flat area with no major surveys. Larger parts of the township is forested, especially in the east with the Karnin wood. In Karnin is a smaller three-part lake. Through the village leads the federal highway 105 The railway Stralsund to Rostock runs somewhat south of the community and can be reached via the Velgast station.

Districts

• Friedrichshof
• Karnin

History

Karnin was first mentioned on 25 September 1242 as the Duke Rüganer Witzlaw I. the sale of the village Karnin to the Master lwanus confirmed. The place name probably comes from the Slavic locator Karna could, therefore, mean place of Karna. In 1325, the country came to Pomerania.

In the Thirty Years' War Karnin was plundered and robbed during the siege of Stralsund. With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Karnin came to Swedish Pomerania.

After 1815, as the whole of Pomerania belonged Karnin to Prussia, it was at that time. Possession of Friedrich Wilhelm von Soden star, a descendant of the Swedish court official 1847, inherited the family of Pachelbel Gehag. The manor Karnin - with over 1300 acres of land one of the largest estates in Pomerania - were in the middle of the 19th century nor the Friedrichshof that Dabitzer meadow, two farms in Rubitz and the island Barth Oie.

1876 ​​sold the Royal. Captain A.D. of Pachelbel Gehag the whole manor for the price of 771,000 marks to the then law students Wilhelm Heinrich Henning.

Wilhelm Henning expanded the mansion by a carriage stable and settled around 1906 five Gutsarbeiterhäuser, built eight stables, and a school with restaurant. Because of their ensemble character, the buildings were made ​​already in GDR times listed building

When Friedrichshof is a Vorwerk with private mansion, a small baroque- building. Wilhelm Henning, it was for his brother, the captain of the reserve Schmidt, build, together with the other buildings on Karnin.

His son Wilhelm Gustav Christian Henning died in 1942 from lung cancer. His widow, Renate Henning, born musculus, was expropriated without compensation on September 29, 1945 during the land reform and permanently expelled from the village with its eight minor children, and the only two-year old daughter of their fallen brother. She had in the aftermath least 20 km away from Karnin reside and died in the spring of 1946 in Stralsund, on the consequences of a Hungerödems. Their children were scattered all over Germany, to the generation of direct grandson include Member of Parliament Heil and physicist Peter Henning.

The community was until 1952 part of the district Pommern -Barth and belonged then to 1994 to the circle Stralsund in the district of Rostock. Since 1990 Karnin part of the state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern.

Attractions

Castle Karnin

The castle was built in 1830 for Friedrich Wilhelm von Soden star in a combination of English and German neo-Gothic Tudor style.

The castle had 26 rooms furnished. The hall was equipped with hunting trophies and old oak furniture, frames the windows with Saufedern, on the wall there was a hunting paintings by Lilliefors. The "Blue Salon" was decorated with a baroque suite, two large mirrors and precious wood furniture, on the wall hung a painting of Douzette. The library with about 10,000 volumes contained a large pool table. One of the guest room had a fireplace made ​​of Meissen porcelain. In a tack room on the first floor valuable harnesses were housed with silver fittings

On the evening of May 1, 1945, the castle was occupied and looted by soldiers of the Red Army, by withdrawing refugees destroyed and stole the rest of the decor.

The tower of the castle was damaged by an explosion in 1945 and finally demolished in the 50s. 1975, with a reconstruction of the roof, all battlements away and the slate cover replaced by brick, so that in the current state remembers little of the original architecture.

Right next to the manor house still stands, the former carriage stable with stork nest, came about around 1900.

Castle Park

The original park was the construction of the mansion by Friedrich Wilhelm von Soden star. Here, the existing trees has been included. In this Karnin forest there is still the old ball -catching wall of a firing range from the Swedish period. With expansion of the park the creek was - the Ulenbäk - recessed so that ponds created (now on both sides of the highway 105 located ).

The excavated material was dumped into a ring -like wall structure, " Heaven and Hell" was named.

1858 Park of Peter Joseph has been revised. In the 19th century the Karnin Forestry and navigable with boats ponds were a popular tourist destination.

The two bronze deer at the entrance of the castle park were last seen by witnesses in the Russian headquarters in Neubrandenburg.