CastleGültz

Gültz Castle

Gültz Castle

To be privately owned

Gültz Castle is a manor house in Gültz in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Gültz was, with few interruptions, an estate of the Pomeranian branch of the Maltzahn family since the 15th century. In the 19th century, a landscape park in the English style was laid out according to a design by Peter Joseph Lenné. Between 1868 and 1872, Helmuth Ludwig Wilhelm von Maltzahn had the neoclassical manor house built. After the Second World War, the Maltzahns were dispossessed and the manor house was plundered.

During GDR times, the castle housed an agricultural vocational school with a boarding school. Between 1980 and 1988, the building underwent extensive renovation. Another renovation in connection with the establishment of a hotel took place in 1999. In 2004, the building was foreclosed.

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The architect of the building was the Mecklenburg master builder Georg Daniel. The L-shaped manor house is located on the eastern edge of the former estate. The two-story building, with fourteen axes on the courtyard side, has a striking three-axis and three-story central risalit, in whose gable triangle the Maltzahn coat of arms is located. A columned portico with an altana above served as a covered driveway. A three-story tower is located on the southern edge of the courtyard side.

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