Polchow Manor

Polchow was first mentioned in a document in 1216. At that time, the Dargun monastery received the Polchow estate from Casimir, Duke of Pomerania. The monastery also received the right of patronage over the Polchow church from Bishop Konrad von Cammin. During the Reformation, around 1552, the monastery was dissolved. Polchow became ducal property. In 1613, the village became a knightly estate. As a fiefdom, it was awarded to Jürgen von Moltke. In 1631, the Moltkes were deprived of the estate due to their services to Wallenstein, and it was given to the Swedish General Acke von Tott, then Colonel Jakob von Ramsay. In 1653, the Moltkes received the estate back. In 1728, Polchow was sold for 19,666 thalers to Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz, and from 1748 to 1750, the Neu Polchow farm was established as an outbuilding of Groß Ridsenow by Baron von Wendhausen. A church dating from the 13th century was demolished in 1888 due to dilapidation, and a new church was built by 1891. The thousand-year-old summer lime tree stands in the cemetery located next to the church. It was declared a natural monument in 1937 and is the oldest lime tree in Mecklenburg.

The Polchow manor house was built from 1904 to 1907. In its place stood a previous building, which Wilhelm von Lowtzow, whose parents acquired the estate in 1893, had demolished. From 1934 to 1945, the estate was owned by the Cottbus cloth manufacturer Fritz Loll. The manor house was then a refugee camp and then a social institution. The building, privatized in 2002, was converted into holiday apartments.