Wensin Manor

The history of the Wensin estate dates back to the Middle Ages, when it became the ancestral seat of a German knightly family. An initial moated castle was built in Garbek, north of the current site. In 1421, ownership passed to the Buchwaldt family, who held it until the 17th century. A major fire in 1625 destroyed the moated castle and the farmstead. Ten years later, in 1635, the Brockdorff family acquired the property. Joachim von Brockdorff relocated the estate to the southern shore of Lake Wardersee and had the current manor house built there between 1635 and 1642.