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Wichmannsdorf Manor House (Palace) near Kröpelin

Wichmannsdorf manor house lies in the middle of a 30,000 square meter (7.4 acre) park originally laid out by the landscape architect Habig, which boasts a great diversity of local as well as exotic woodland species.




The house was built between 1909 and 1911 by the architect Paul Korff as a widow’s residence for Sophie von Oertzen née Schröder. She died in 1930 and was buried beside her husband in Roggow-Russow.

From 1931 her only daughter Eleonore was the owner of Wichmannsdorf, which was then leased and worked by her second son Hans von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf. He lived here with his two sisters Gisela and Eleonore. The coats of arms on the triangular gable of the house are, left, those of the von Oertzen family and, right, of the Hamburg banker family Schröder. The owners were dispossessed in 1945 in the course of land reform. Afterwards a school was set up in the house and refugees also stayed there. In 1977 the property was taken over by the state-owned enterprise Ludwigsfelde and configured as community arts center, large kitchen, cooperative store, out-patient clinic, holiday resort, and training facility. After the sale to Ludwigsfelde in 1981 a bowling alley, tennis court, cellar bar, and restaurant were set up. In 1992 Ludwigsfelde went bankrupt. The community Jennewitz/Wichmannsdorf got the house back but was unable to pay for it, resulting in a lawsuit between the community and Ludwigsfelde that lasted for years and produced debts of some five million. There were always prospective buyers, but they shied away from the many quarrels and enormous debt load.

The current owner managed to acquire the house in 2002. The building was hardly visible at that time: the park had become a garbage dump, while the house itself had suffered terrible internal and external damage through years of neglect and lack of maintenance. Huge piles of trash occupied the interior, and everything had been destroyed; after an indescribable amount of vandalism not a single original fixture remained, not even a window crank. Lengthy effort returned the outer area to its former park-like appearance, while the house received a new roof, new windows and doors, and fresh plaster. After the rehab the interior was divided into six apartments that are available either as holiday flats or long-term commercial rental units. We offer you luxuriously appointed apartments with a unique atmosphere suited to lingering, relaxing, short breaks, or recharging.


Owners before 1945:

bis 1784

Gutzmer von Gussmann

(1778)

Josua Friedrich von Gussmann

(1781)-1784

Johann Friedrich von Gussmann

1784-1786

The heirs of Johann Friedrich von Gussmann

1786-1789

Mrs. Ida Margarete Ernestine, widower of von Moltke

1789-1794

Major Heinrich Wilhelm von Bülow

1794-1802

Wife of Major C. W. W. von Bülow

1802-1803

Colonel Ernst Vollrath von Vieregge

1803-1811

The brothers Caspar and Carl Seekt

1811-1813

Dr. Schulze for the creditors of the brothers Caspar und Carl Seekt

1813-1820

Johann Christian Otto

1820-1839

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Warncke

1839-1840

Jacob Friedrich Ludwig Warncke (see Detershagen, Hanshagen, Parchow)

1840-1860

Ferdinand von Schack

1860-1863

Dethleff Gottlieb von Bülow

1863-1904

Carl Friedrich Röttcher Freiherr (Baron) von Biel

1904-(1916)

Mrs. Sophie von Oertzen, née Schröder

(1923)-(1930)

Lessee (?) Karl August Lueder

(1937)-(1939)

Hans Graf von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Further information: www.schloss-wichmannsdorf.de


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