Ludorf manor house
The Ludorf manor house is a manor house built in 1698 in Ludorf , a district of the municipality of Südmüritz in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
architecture
The house was built in the style of the Danish brick renaissance. The granite stones from the old Morin Castle were used for the foundation. It is a simple two-storey building of 15 to 4 axes with a hipped roof. A triangular gable with the cartouche of the coat of arms of the builder Adam Levin von Knuth emphasizes the courtyard front. The two-storey wooden veranda that was added in the last third of the 19th century was restored to the garden front in 1999. The large-scale ceiling paintings from the time it was built at the end of the 17th century are unique in Mecklenburg. The portal of the house with the wooden beam and the inscription: “Moritz, Jakob , Joachim Gebroder de Knuth. Anno Domini 1576 ”, which was older than the house originally hung above the portal of the Knuth house in Leizen and when it was demolished at the beginning of the last century came to Ludorf. Above it is Knuth's coat of arms, the original of which is now in the hall of the house. Because of its historical importance, the house was the only one in the Müritz district besides Ulrichshusen to be protected by the Soviet military administration as early as 1946.
park
The park, which has been restored today, dates from the mid-19th century and was created on the site of an earlier baroque garden. A hornbeam rondel stands at the beginning of a chestnut avenue that leads to Müritz. The stately bath house used to stand here.
history
On the early medieval tower hill , northeast of the manor house, stood Morin Castle, the seat of a wealthy family around the Müritz, who probably came to the country with Heinrich the Lion in the course of Christianization. Wipert von Morin also had the octagonal Ludorf Patronage Church built on the model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The castle and the Morin family existed until the Thirty Years War . Then the castle was destroyed and not rebuilt. The Morin family died out. The last daughter of the family married Jakob Ernst von Knuth. The two sons from this marriage, Adam Levin von Knuth and Eggert Christoffer von Knuth, went to the Danish court as pages as a boy. Adam Levin von Knuth, the elder, grew up together with the later King Christian V and rose to the position of Oberkammerjunker. As the eldest son, he inherited Ludorf and had the “new house” built at the end of the 17th century. The estate remained in the possession of the von Knuth family from 1686 to 1901 .
At the end of the 19th century, Ludorf came into Bülow's hands through the marriage of the last female Knuth , in which it remained until 1945. With around 4,000 hectares, Ludorf was the largest estate in the Müritz region.
Refurbishment and current use
The manor house and the farm house from the middle of the 19th century were renovated in 1998/99 and converted into a hotel.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 46.2 " N , 12 ° 40 ′ 11.5" E