Manor Quassel

Quassel was originally a fief of the ancient Mecklenburg noble family von Lützow. Around 1600, it was briefly owned by Philipp von Pentz-Volzrade before passing to the Silesian Count Eckstedt von Peterswaldt around 1721, whose family was already established in Pritzier. In 1755, the von Peterswaldt family sold the estate to the bailiff Christian Friedrich Paepcke. His son Moritz Edler von Paepcke, ennobled in Vienna, inherited the property. The von Paepcke family, who also owned other estates in the Klützer Winkel, had the original half-timbered manor house built in 1857. In 1886, a renovation by the Hamburg architect Martin Haller gave the building its current Neo-Gothic facade. The von Paepcke family sold the estate in 1901 to Egbert von Meding, who in turn sold it to Gustav Aufschläger in 1902. After Aufschläger's death in 1934, the margarine manufacturer Fritz Homann became the new owner. Towards the end of World War II, in April 1945, the manor house served as the command post for Luftflotte Reich. Following expropriation in 1945, the property was managed by an Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) and temporarily used as an SED party school and later as an agricultural school.