Oßmannstedt Manor

The origins of the estate date back to the 13th century, when a collateral line of the Lords of Liebstedt, the Knights of Oßmannstedt, resided here. A castle, located at a ford of the Ilm river and the Copper Road, was granted to them by the king in 1290. However, this complex was destroyed in the Saxon Fratricidal War in 1450. Subsequently, the Counts of Harras established a knight's estate. Later, the Lords of Bünau took over the property and built the current manor house and its park. From 1797 to 1803, the estate served as the residence of the Wieland family, before being sold to the Hamburg merchant Christian Johann Martin Kühne. Today, the Wieland estate is part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.