Üplingen Manor

The manor house was built between 1775-1780 by Drost Georg Wilhelm von Wahnschaffe. Wahnschaffe's 5th son became his successor in Üplingen. In 1811, the estate was sold and changed hands twice within the following 7 years. In 1818, the estate passed into the possession of the Ducal Brunswick Chamber, and the Wahnschaffes became tenants. In 1945, the tenant Arnold von Wahnschaffe and his family were forcibly dispossessed by the communists and fled to West Germany. The estate was subsequently placed under the administration of the Foundation Estates of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1953, the estate was placed under the "Administration of People's Own Estates" and in 1958 declared "People's Property".

After German reunification in 1990, the estate went to the Treuhand and subsequently to the Braunschweig Foundation. In 1999, the "Stiftungsgut Üplingen GbR" acquired the manor house, the former farm workers' houses, and the park grounds. It leased the distillery and the arable land from the Braunschweig Foundation - the tenants are farmers Jörg Hartmann and Horst Düll, and Karlheinz Lichtschläger is the managing director.

Under the leadership of Karlheinz Lichtschläger (died 31.7.2009), the estate complex and the village of Üplingen developed into an idyllic gem in the Magdeburg Börde. His work was characterized by social and regional-political entrepreneurship and made the village of Üplingen and its inhabitants known beyond regional borders.