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Book "Manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg"

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.

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A manor house for a whole group!

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.

Gutshaus Zietlitz


City Guide Stralsund

City Guide Stralsund

for guests of the Hanseatic city: A richly illustrated ramble through the present and history of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund with a map of the old town.

Stadtführer Stralsund


Zapel Manor House

Until 1797 the estate was in the possession of Andreas Hartwig von Bernstorff, until 1909 of the von Lübbe family, followed by Rudolf Kressner and Paul Moeller.



In 1926 Wilhelm Borchert acquired the estate from the brothers Lt.-Col. (Ret.) Herbert Klotz and Councilor (Ret.) Paul Klotz. It remained the property of the family until dispossession in 1945.

From the winter of 1944/1945 refugees occupied the house, which was blown up in 1975.

Wolfgang Borchert, a descendant of the last owner, has been engaged in agriculture in Zapel since 1991.

The ruins of a two-storey cow barn remain from the former agricultural complex.

In the nearby park are storyboards on the history of the estate.


Ownership before 1945:

(1778)-1786

Barthold Friedrich von Bernstorffs heirs

1786-1797

Andreas Hartwig von Bernstorff

1797-1831

Gottlieb Emanuel Lübbe, since 1803 von Lübbe

1831-1849

Johann Joachim Peter von Lübbe

1849-1856

von Lübbe siblings

1856-

Emanuel Leopold Friedrich von Lübbe

-1905

Leopold von Lübbe

1905-1912

Rudolf Kressner

1912-1918

Paul Moeller

1928-1926

Herbert Klotz and Paul Klotz

1926-1929

Wilhelm Borchert

1930-(1938)

Dr. Erich Borchert

1938

Erich Borchert and Mrs. (widowed) Helene Borchert, née Bernau

1945

Mrs. Helene Borchert

We introduce Zapel in volume 4 of Fotografische Zeitreise—Mecklenburg [Photographic Time Travel—Mecklenburg].


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