The Estate

The Count's family's supplies yard

From the 18th century onwards the farm buildings were relocated from the Schlossinsel, resulting in the construction of the estate house. Until the 19th century the properties were consistently expanded and modernised, serving as supply yards for the count’s family and providing servants for the count’s estate. The farm consisted of stables for dairy cattle, calves, pigs and work horses. In addition, other workshops necessary for agriculture were also to be found there, including a blacksmith’s shop and a cartwright’s shop. Sheep pens were located on the outskirts of the estate. The financial proceeds of the distillery were significant for the overall economy of the estate, and massive barns ensured sufficient storage space. Reapers‘ barracks and apartments for farm workers completed the economic infrastructure.

In 1945, soldiers of the Red Army were lodged at the estate for a short time, and during a period of land reform individual buildings were assigned to new settlers. The estate is also home to the headquarters of Philipp Müller agricultural production co-op (LPG) of Boitzenburg.

In 1991, the municipality of Boitzenburg acquired theTreuhandanstalt area and invested in new technical infrastructures. The land was subsequently sold to various interested parties but the arrangement of buildings on the estate has been deliberately maintained.

The house you see before you was the residence of the estate administrator (the last of which was Chief Inspector Karl Loeper) and his staff until 1945. District forester Karl-Friedrich Schneekluth lived here with his family from 1945 to 1985.