Castle Schlobitten impress even as a ruin today visitors the way in the long overgrown lap parking place. Away from the small village, surrounded by old trees, is the forgotten place. 
The name of the place is Old Prussian origin. In 1525, the Begüterung fell to Peter to Dohna (1483 - 1552/53) and from 1589 to 1945 was the site of the headquarters of the line to Dohna-Schlobitten. The Dohna, located in Saxony originally came in the 15th Century of Silesia as knights and mercenary leaders in the country and were awarded for their achievements Schlobitten the Teutonic Order.
the old lime trees, planted in 1625, in rows on the lock injecting high and some of which survived, was strolling once, Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) when he in his early years from 1790 to 1793 tutor was on Schlobitten. While
the conquest of Prussia by Napoleon made for a short time Marshal Bernadotte 1807, the castle to his headquarters. Ultimately, Kaiser Wilhelm II was often his stay here when he arrived on the hunt for Prince Richards Dohna.
The first Dohna lived in the so-called "new house", built under Achatius Dohna. The following country estate in the Renaissance style on a Dutch model of the 17th Century. was 1621 - 1624 by Abraham Dohna (1579 - 1631), military architect and therefore themselves capable of planning. The house was very soon destroyed by the Swedes, but rebuilt and later became the centerpiece of the Baroque Extension. Abraham Dohna was already a hall in 1627 for his extensive library to grow. 
At the high-Baroque building of a palace, commissioned by Alexander to Dohna (1661 - 1728), where from 1696 - built in 1736 and was completed in the main, 1713, at first, the architect Jean Baptist Broebes ( born 1660), then military architect in Pillau, and Johann Caspar Hindersin (1667 or 1677-1738) involved. From 1704 the building was also affected by Joachim Ludwig mayor of Unfried, head of the East Prussian civil engineering, the middle section increased this to a low level. They built on the existing building at side galleries, perpendicular to the side wings were added to the castle. A special feature was abandoned in the central representative castle entrance and replaced them by two balanced inputs in addition to the cross wings. 
Schlobitten was transformed into an imposing baroque residence, and her business spacious courtyard and the gardens to none in East Prussia. It was also one of the East Prussian royal castles, so called because they had the task of disposal of the Prussian king on his travels through the province as an appropriate hostel available.
two symmetrically positioned rectangular Schloss ponds - former moat - with a stone bridge on the front axle were the financial statements. The administrative and commercial buildings with the main gate, the so-called gray gate on the axis of the lock, was located upstream of the system. Parallel to the castle had been erected here two outbuildings, in the north-east vertical two commercial buildings on the east side stood the stables of the entrance tower topped by Uhrtürmchen. The planned farm buildings on the west side and the two commercial buildings in the north unfortunately remained unfulfilled. Prior to the south side of the castle was the sprawling beautiful French garden. 
to possession Schlobitten were still in the mansions Prökelwitz, David (since 1730), Coellmen (since 1820) and Behlenhof (since 1845).
Castle Schlobitten had 70 rooms. In the elaborately decorated banquet hall for special occasions, 80 guests are entertained, cared for by 30 staff. A library with over 50,000 valuable books, 450 paintings, coin collections, tapestries, ornate furniture and rare pottery made Schlobitten a true treasure. Over 1,500 hectares of land were 160 farm worker families. To the social services after 1918 was even a special nursing home for lonely old people. As
oldest warmblood breeding in East Prussia, stud book of 1623, could also Schlobitten in the breeding of Trakehner look back on with great success. Famous sires as "temple guardian" were stationed here. Kaiser Wilhelm II, who appeared frequently on hunting brought the family Dohna hereditary prince in 1900 and was godfather to the last owner, Prince Alexander Dohna (1988-1997).
Prince Alexander Dohna, 1939 drafted into military service, left as a courier with one of the last aircraft to Stalingrad. In May 1944 he was fired for insubordination (shooting of American prisoners of war) from the armed forces.
already employed since 1943 he feared the flight. The result was a detailed plan of escape for more than 330 people in the West. On 22
January 1945 sat three columns with 140 horses and 38 cars in time for the arrival of the Russian army movement. After 1,500 miles, completed in 9 weeks, reached this largest single stretch of East Prussia, the Weser. Also present were French prisoners of war and 31 valuable Trakehner mares.
Schlobitten Castle was the arrival of the Red Army on 23 January 1945 destroyed arbitrarily and set on fire and burned according to statements by retarded people full 3 days.
Small bits of the device could be 1944, relocated to the west and are scattered in museums. In the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, the largest collection is in the so-called "Dohna room".
The ruins of the side wings were demolished after the war, the outer walls of the main house are up today. Stables and a brewery in the North East were taken in spring 1945 by Allied bombs and cleared away the ruins after the war. There is still the former liquor house, built in 1704/05. It is run but no more and falls.
Meanwhile, employed a number of architecture students from Poland with plans to restore the castle and its wise use. Concrete implementation intentions are not known, but perhaps arises the Castle of the Dohna but again according to the old glory. Today's owner of the plant the AWRSP (National Agency for Agricultural Property) is.
Addendum with old color photographs of the castle Schlobitten from the years 1943-45, all taken by photographer Rudolf Schulze-Marburg.
on the website of the Central Institute for Art History (www.zi.fotothek.org) can be found including the Farbdiaarchiv, which also includes recordings from Schlobitten. On the history of this Institute's website gives information: For fifty years, the Central Institute for Art History in Munich preserved for the Federal Republic of Germany, a series of 39,000 Colordiapositiven under the name "Historic Farbdiaarchiv for wall and ceiling paintings" on. This in the years 1943-1945, ie the middle of the second World War-made recordings are the result of an attempt of the National Socialist regime, solid wall of art in the entire territory of the Reich in the face of their imminent destruction by bombing as possible to document the colors correctly. On the orders of Adolf Hitlermore interior shots that show the splendor of the interior of this castle can be found here: Farbdiaarchiv
were in the early summer of 1943, first performed a few test campaigns. After the results, he could be present in the form of large-format prints on paper, had found his approval, took over the "Department of Visual Arts" of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda further administrative implementation of the "leaders order color photography." In cooperation with the Ministry Monument offices created lists of all rated as important fresco decorations in the German Empire, committed photographers, ensured the unity of cameras, lenses and film, lighting equipment procured and organized their transport to the respective locations. [...]
The photographers were drawn from completely different sectors, the spectrum handed out by the university professor and his students, such as Walter Hege, the established photo journalist (Paul Wolff), the art historian (Carl Lamb), chemists (Ralph Weizsäcker) to large enterprises such as the "Rex-Film" or the "Ufa".
took the major campaign, combined with a significant risk even if well paid for the photographer until into April 1945 ends, so virtually until the surrender of the German Empire.
source include: www.ostpreussen.net; www.masuren.de; www.arta.olsztyn.pl, Central Institute for Art History; Wikipedia
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