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The stone trace of the state master builder
Georg Wilhelm Berlischky died 200 years ago. From 1772 to his death on the 27th of January 1805, he didn't 'let up on his hard work'. In an appointment certificate to state master builder one can read:
„Fürnehmlich aber liegen demselben ob sämtliche Bauten und Reparaturen, so in unseren Herrschaften und Gütern, bei unseren Kirchen, Schlössern, Vorwerken... Untertanengebäuden, Forst und Jagdhäusern, Magazinen, Dämmen, Brücken, Gräben und Gehegen vorfallen."
(Most of all he has to built and repair all of our estates and goods, our churches, palaces, front fortifications, subjects' buildings, forest and hunting lodges, repository, dams, bridges and enclosures.)
original built church by Berlischky in Vierraden
image author: Stadtmagazinverlag AS GmbH A hard office as the land was destroyed, impoverished and plundered after the Seven-Year War. Many houses in Schwedt and Vierraden as well as in the 40 corresponding villages were a sad sight.
The state master builder ordered the repair of the buildings, designed a typed, inexpensive, wood saving farmhouse that only costs 88 thaler. The Amtshaus Heinersdorf shows how economical and functional Berlischky's designs were. A whey room, beer and potato cellar was situated at the basement. At the first floor the office and living quarter for the bailiff's family and at the second floor held the servant chambers as well as the storage for winter supply. There were no buildings in bad condition after 34 years of service in Berlischky's three departments.
The most beautiful historical building in Schwedt/Oder
image author: Stadtmagazinverlag AS GmbH His work of representative buildings in Schwedt took lots of his time. He had to rebuild the orangery into a operetta building with 400 seats and most modern theatre technique, for instance. The pleasure about the successful work was cut short. The poor town community was not able to support the stage after the death of the margrave in 1783 and forced Berlischky, to redevelop the building into a grain storage. When a storm in 1774 brought the bell tower of the town hall down, was the whole building 'ready to cave in'. It was pulled down and under the supervision of Berlischky a new town hall was built in only four years. How meticulous he worked shows the draft of the wrought-iron banister.
The only building of Berlischky that was not destroyed during the war is also his most beautiful one: The French Church. A rotunda, inaugurated in 1779, is today a careful restored temple of cultural work. The Schwedter people call the rotunda lovingly "Berlischky-Pavilion".
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Source:
A.Piehler UM
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