Zützen Manor

The Zützen manor is documented by several feudal charters. It was located south of the village, which was laid out as a circular village, and existed until the land reform. Parts of the manor with the "castle" are still preserved today. Southeast of the castle, a park designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1832 adjoined it, of which only a few trees are still visible. In 1879, the General Address Book of Manor Owners in the Kingdom of Prussia, published for the first time, listed 710 ha for Zützen. The owner is listed as the ennobled family von Colmar, represented by Major (ret.) von Colmar, who comes from a late-ennobled family originally from Rügen and is a delegate of the Angermünde I Agricultural Association. Before 1900, the Handbook of Land Ownership documented an area of 683 ha for the manor. Around 1900, the manor consisted of 750 hectares of land, while the farmers probably had about 30 hectares at their disposal. The manor-owning family was considered well-situated around 1904 and was officially included in the Yearbook of Millionaires without further details. Until 1945, the manor was owned by the officer Christoph von Colmar-Zützen (1884–1978), who also owned the neighboring Meyenburg manor. In 1945, the family was dispossessed by the communists.