Lütgenhof Castle
The manor house Schloss Lütgenhof near Dassow in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg goes back to a manor house from the 19th century. The building in the classicism style was sold by the city of Dassow to Jägermeister Mast AG after reunification in 1992, extensively renovated until 1999 and used as a hotel with two attached restaurants. After giving up the hotel business, after extensive renovation work, since 2020 it has housed an "acute clinic for personal medicine".
Lütgenhof Castle
historical overview
In the Middle Ages, there was a small castle on the site of the current building, which guarded the crossing of the nearby Dassower Bridge . The later name was first mentioned around 1744 under Clawes Parkentin zu Lütgenhaue. Christian August von Berkentin sold Lütgenhof to Friedrich von Eyben in 1746 . Since he died childless in 1787, ownership passed to his nephew Adolf Gottlieb von Eyben , who was accepted into the Mecklenburg nobility in 1791. In 1815 the judicial councilor Moritz Christian Paepcke (1776–1857) acquired the estate. The von Paepcke also sat at Gut Quassel near Hagenow from 1755 to 1901 . When he was ennobled as a noble von Paepcke in 1839 , he had a first mansion built on the property, which is the origin of today's castle. The estate was cultivated until the 20th century. The Edler von Paepcke family went to Holstein in 1945 and took over the Bredeneek estate (district of Lehmkuhlen ) near Preetz .
Christian August von Berkentin & Ida Helene von Berkentin 1707
AG von Eyben & Schlitz called von Gorizia 1787
HFL Edler by Paepke & MT Canning 1870
M. Edler by Paepke & Clara Helene Schroeder, 1889
After the Second World War , the manor house was used as refugee accommodation and a children's home, and from 1947 to 1960 it housed an agricultural college. From 1961 to 1990 the castle, located near the inner-German border , served as barracks for the GDR border troops stationed here . After the fall of the Wall , the building was sold to an investor who had it converted into a hotel by 1999. After a resale, the concept was modified from an open restaurant and hotel to a pure event business. A private clinic has been operating on the property since 2020.
The building, the courtyard and gardens
The core of the castle goes back to the manor house from 1839. Originally it was only a matter of the nine-axis central building, the west-facing central projection of which was crowned with an accessible roof terrace. Around 1890 the building was extended to include the narrow, wing-like north wing. The southern counterpart was not built until the hotel was converted into a hotel at the end of the 20th century, so the building was asymmetrically structured for almost 100 years. The castle is plastered in light colors, the central axes are gabled. The east-facing courtyard facade shows two main floors as well as an attic storey and the half-height basement, the rear, west-facing facades are above a high cellar due to a hillside location. The building is elegant in the forms of historicist influenced Classicism designed. In the interior of the building, due to the long period of third-party use and the conversion to a hotel, little of the former furnishings has been preserved. Among other things, the wooden coffered ceiling of the garden room has been preserved.
The building stands at the end of a long driveway, the actual estate, of which only a few auxiliary structures have survived, was to the east of the complex. Around the manor house, in front of whose west facade the Stepenitz flows, an English-style landscape garden was laid out with groups of trees and bodies of water.
literature
- Neidhard Kraus, Egon Fischer: Castles, manor houses and parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Hinstorff, 2002, ISBN 3-356-00947-8
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Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 19.5 ″ E