Castle Blankensee
Name, address
Castle Blankensee
Dorfstraße 1
D - 14959 Trebbin OT Blankensee
Location
Blankensee is a part of the village Trebbin. The next motorway slip-road
(Berliner Ring) is Michendorf, the nearest town is the district principal town.
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General facts
Blankensee (380 inhabitants) in the administrative district of Teltow-FIäming is embedded in
the Nuthe-Nieplitz triangle to the south of Berlin, only a few kilometres to the west of Trebbin.
The gentle countryside around Blankensee and Größinsee with fields, meadows and the mountains of Glau
are an attractive place of popular resort – not only for visitors from Berlin and Potsdam.
Castle Blankensee is a typical baroque building of Mark Brandenburg. In its unity of castle
and park it is an example to the manor house areas of the 18th and 19th centuries in Mark Brandenburg.
The castle has been built in 1740 for the Saxon district captain Christian Wilhelm of Thümen – a descendant
of an old noble family who has lived in that place since the end of the 14th century what is also
called "Thümenscher Winkel".
The main house is a two-floor plaster building with a rectangular ground plan with highly
plastered plinth. The entrance side has in its centre a portal axis with balcony, gable and emblem
decoration. At the park side a double-barrelled curved flight of stairs connects house and garden.
From both side wings which have been built in 1900 is kept only the western wing with gardening house.
To the tasks of prime importance has belonged during the redevelopment the building of the eastern wing.
A special jewel of the castle is its landscape park with ca. 3,5 hectares. Its redesign in the style of
turn of the century has been organized by the writer Hermann Sudermann who has been the owner of the castle
from 1902 to 1928. The park is very valuable as far as the history of art is concerned. Numerous garden
pieces of architecture, sculptures and fantastic views give you a very impressive event.
Castle and Park are owned by BSG.
The redevelopment of the castle has been carried out from 1993 to 1998. Until 2004
the house has been used by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as conference- and
guest house. From May 2006 the castle and the area are used as conference- and event house
with accommodation and as a summer café. The park is open for public.
