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The Groß Zecher estate is a noble estate in the Groß Zecher district of the community of Seedorf am Schaalsee .
history
In the Middle Ages, not far from today's manor complex, there was a tower hill castle Boko with a diameter of 15 m on the Zechersche Werder , a peninsula in the Schaalsee. The 5 m wide surrounding moat can still be partially recognized. In the course of medieval colonization, the von Zülen family, who came from Saxony, settled here and named themselves von Zecher after this newly acquired property . The castle was destroyed in 1349. In the 14th century, the von Carlow family first came into the possession of Groß Zecher, then from 1497 the von Parkentin family . The Parkentin (later spelling Berkentin ) sold Groß Zecher in 1691 to the von Witzendorff patrician family from Lüneburg . The Braunschweigisch-Lüneburg Secret Council and Chamber President Hieronymus von Witzendorff thus became a member of the knighthood of the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , which fell to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg when the Dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg died out in 1689 . Hieronymus von Witzendorff established a Fideikommiss for Groß Zecher . The estate has remained in the von Witzendorff family ever since. In 19th century politics in Lauenburg, Ottokar von Witzendorff played a bigger role as district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg. After his death in 1890, the neighboring Gut Seedorf , which until then had also belonged to the family, passed to his widow, who passed it on in her family.
Estate
The estate is characterized by two approach avenues that converge. The farmyard consists of two courtyards, which are accessed by another avenue that runs in the central axis towards the manor house.
Mansion
The baroque mansion in Groß Zecher from 1720 was for the most part demolished at the beginning of the 19th century to make way for a new building in the same place. Using parts of the old substance, a plastered new building was built in the classical style, which today also characterizes the estate. The eleven-axis mansion is single-storey with a half-hip roof. Above the dormer windows there are two bat dormers with a roof train in the pointed roof. The five-axis central risalit is two-story with a flat triangular gable with an oval window above. The wing at the back of the house is also two-story timber-framed and comes from an older time.
literature
- Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Kunst-Topographie Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1974, p. 335
- Hellmuth von Ullmann, Walter Hahn: Walks to the mansions and estates in the Duchy of Lauenburg, Schwarzenbek 1981, pp. 95–97, ISBN 3-921-595-05-3
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions , Husum 1989, pp. 75–76, ISBN 3-88042-462-4
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 23 ″ E