Our Weekly Postcard (XXXVI)

December 18, 2006

Our Weekly Postcard (XXXVI)

Schloss Boernicke

Schloss Börnicke near Berlin, Germany, 2006

A more-sided postcard. And at a sharper look you can detect the billy goat from our blog header in it.

We visited Schloss Börnicke this summer (a visit themed Deutschland - dein Denkmalschutz, in English: Germany - its monument conservation). In the past, Schloss Börnicke was a splendid manor in the possession of the Jewish family Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The Mendelssohn bank company was Aranyzed in the 30s, and today Schloss Börnicke is nearly a ruin. German magazin Cicero has an excellent article about the whole subject online (Dieses Bild gehörte uns by Julius H. Schoeps, in German language only).

Deutschland - dein Denkmalschutz is a very complicated and often sad story. It’s said that there are serious efforts under way now to reconstruct Schloss Börnicke. More then 60 years after WWII… But, better late then never.