Carlsdorf Manor

Carlsdorf Manor House was built in the Neo-Baroque style around 1895. The builder was Baron von Möller-Lilienstern, whose ancestors acquired the neighboring Rothspalk together with Carlsdorf in 1811 from the bankruptcy estate of the von Thomstorff family, who had been resident here since 1792. In 1804, Johann Peter Möller (also Moeller), originally from Hamburg and having become wealthy as a partner in the firm Parish & Co, had himself elevated to the rank of Imperial Baron (German: Baron) by the last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in Vienna for an undisclosed sum. The well-preserved Lilienstern coat of arms on the front of Carlsdorf Manor House shows lilies and stars in two of four fields under the crown.

In 1910/11, an heir sold the now independent estate of Carlsdorf to the evangelist and lieutenant general Georg von Viebahn. In Rothspalk, the era of the von Möller-Liliensterns only ended in 1928, when farmer Captain Schulz acquired the estate from compulsory administration. With Georg von Viebahn, the owners of Carlsdorf changed in quick succession. The Mecklenburg State Calendar lists Friedrich Wilhelm Krümelberg in 1912, Arthur Wex in 1914, Dr. Otto Steven in 1917, Wilhelm Köppen in 1927, Hans Bär in 1927. The church chronicle states:

"The constant change of ownership, resulting from the character of a luxury good, must have a disastrous effect on the village."

In 1930, Dr. phil. Justus Schreier, from a Hamburg merchant family, bought Carlsdorf from a forced auction and managed the estate until his flight from the Red Army in April 1945. The estate was divided among former estate workers and refugees during the land reform in the Soviet Occupation Zone starting in September 1945.

Since 1900, attempts to survive economically through secondary income and the refinement of agricultural products have been documented. A Carlsdorf dog breeding of noble breeds is recorded, a dog biscuit factory, a huge chicken farm for the production of egg cognac, which even received trade fair medals. Today, only the so-called Egg Tower (former chimney) reminds of the "Carlsdorf Egg Cognac". In the post-war years, the manor house was used by resettlers (displaced persons) and war refugees; up to three hundred people were temporarily accommodated here. After their departure, the "Civil Defense" of the GDR used the secluded house as a secret depot for medicines and bandages. In the last years of the GDR, three families from Saxony jointly acquired the manor house to create homes for themselves and their children in healthy air. However, they gave up after German reunification and sold to a Berlin association, which used the building for training apprentices in construction trades, but also failed after about three years. In 2003, it was resold to the Berlin entrepreneur Michael Geisler, who is converting the former coachman's apartment in the stable, but is allowing the manor house itself to continue to decay.

The once luxurious manor house seems to be left to decay. The roof and intermediate ceilings have collapsed, only the outer walls are still quite well preserved. "Carlsdorf," writes the Schweriner Volkszeitung, "was sold to the wrong person." In 2011, lawyer Robert Unger from Berlin acquired the estate complex. Riding horses are once again in the old stables, and the barn was converted into a riding hall in 2012. A reconstruction of the manor house, though not in historical perfection, is planned according to his own statements.