Krevese Manor

Krevese (formerly also: Crevese) was first mentioned in a document in 956. The village belonged to the local Benedictine convent "Marienthal", which was dedicated to the Mother Mary and Saint Anisius.

The dispute with the Benedictine convent Dobbertin in Mecklenburg over the Sandpropstei village of Lärz was resolved in favor of Dobbertin on September 21, 1249, in Röbel.

According to the legend "The Haunting Nuns in the Convent Church of Crevese", the convent ceased to exist in 1540; the last abbess was Catharina von Jeetze († 1569).

"The Legend of Emma's Cross", however, reports that the convent burned down in 1268 due to arson by an unwilling nun, was rebuilt, burned down again in 1280, and then did not revive due to lack of money. Krevese used to have its own church, but since it burned down, divine service for the estate and village community was established in the convent church.

In 1562, the von Bismarck family received the Krevese provostry in exchange for their property, Burgstall Castle, and converted it into a feudal manor. During the Thirty Years' War, the manor and especially the village of Krevese were severely affected. It took until 1725 for the new strictly Prussian-Baroque manor house to emerge from the ruins of the war and for the orphaned farmsteads in the village to be reoccupied.

Until the 19th century, the Krevese manor belonged to the von Bismarck family. In 1819, it passed into the possession of the von Jagow family, who managed it until 1860 and then sold it to the industrialist family Brückner from Calbe/Saale. The last lord of the manor was Joachim Brückner, who died childless in 1939.

After expropriation, the manor house was used as an SED party school for the Osterburg district and redesigned accordingly; later, the Krevese Polytechnic Secondary School used it, which had to close in 1993. The estate's lands were managed by two agricultural production cooperatives during GDR times, one active in plant production, the other in animal production.

After ten years of vacancy and decay, the manor house and park have been in private ownership since 2003 and are being carefully revitalized. The manor house is now once again a residential building and is used as a design studio and for cultural events.