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Book "Manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg"

In Volume 4, we present 51 estates on 156 pages with short texts and more than 220 historical and current photographs.
A manor house for a whole group!

The guest house Zietlitz offers the suitable ambience for family celebrations, small seminars, groups of friends of historical manor houses; nature lovers, yoga groups and much more.
Manor House Moltenow, Municipality of Alt Meteln
In Moltenow only a few farm buildings, a circular flower bed, and old trees remind us of the location of the manor house. The former estate complex is barely recognisable and nowadays has the character of a scattered settlement.


Moltenow was referred to as a feudal estate as early as 1433, which was owned by the von Raven family in the 16th century. The estate was in possession of the von Witzendorf family from 1736 to 1785. From 1785, the owners changed in rapid succession: until 1792 Gottfried August von Suckow, the Schregel family or respectively their creditors until 1810, Joachim Christian Brasch until 1817, Christian Otto Wilhelm von Witzendorf until 1840, followed by the Crull
family, Friedrich Lübbe and Joachim and Alfred Reck. The latter; however, merely owned the remnant rest of the estate, as the majority of the estate was opened to settlements in 1927.
The manor house, which served as refugee accommodation for a long time after 1945, was later demolished due to dilapidation.
Structure of ownership prior to 1945:
(1778)-1785 |
August Friedrich Wilhelm von Witzendorf |
1785-1797 |
Gottfried August (von) Suckow; He was raised to the nobility in 1782. |
1797-1804 |
Ulrich August Schregel |
1804-1808 |
Friedrich Ludwig Schregel |
1808-1810 |
Friedrich Ludwig Schregel's creditors |
1810-1817 |
Joachim Christian Brasch |
1818-1840 |
Christian Otto Wilhelm von Witzendorf |
1840-1842 |
Christian Friedrich Crull |
1842-1895 |
Heinrich Crull |
1895-1916 |
Friedrich Lübbe |
1916-(1938) |
Joachim Reck |
Another source gives the following dates:
1927 - Moltenow has been bought up by a settlement company. Four farmowners, one small holding farmer, and three cottagers, also a landed squire bythe name of Karl Knitschky are listed as owners. The landowner is associated with the remnant rest of an estate.
