Wustrow Manor House near Rerik

The ruins of Wustrow manor house lie on the peninsula of the same name between the Baltic Sea and the Salzhaff (Salz [Salt] Lagoon) in front of the Baltic Sea spa town of Rerik.

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Herrenhaus Wustrow

Wustrow is first documented in 1273. In the fourteenth century the estate was owned by the von Moltke family, followed by the von Oertzen family until 1590.  Between 1648 and 1803 the peninsula wasyunder Swedish rule.  In 1926 Hans von Plessen acquired the property and in 1933 sold it to the German military, which established an air force training facility and anti-aircraft gun battery school there.  In only five years barracks and an airport were built on the peninsula, along with small ports on the Baltic Sea and the Salzhaff and a garden city for civilian employees.  Wustrow became a Soviet garrison in 1949 after the end of World War II.  Military use ended only in 1993.  Soon thereafter the German federal government sold the entire peninsula to the Fundus investment group.  There has been no noticeable movement since.  A coherent and practicable traffic concept, which according to the invitation to bid the investor was required to provide in order to buy the property, is still outstanding.  The same holds true for a tourist development concept.  Thirty years after reunification we must still wait and see.  Of the former manor house, a two-storey plastered building, only the outer walls remain standing.

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