Herrenhaus Vietgest, Manor house in Lalendorf, Germany

Herrenhaus Vietgest is a late-Baroque manor house built from 1781 for Hofrat Joachim Friedrich Boldt to plans by court architect Johann Joachim Busch, completed in 1786. The white-plastered brick building is two storeys high with eleven axes and a tall mansard roof; two single-storey gallery wings link it to two square cavalier houses. A three-axis central riser ends in a segmental gable with a round window.

Vietgest was first documented in 1346; by 1449 members of the Oldenburg noble family held the estate. In 1781 Joachim Friedrich Boldt bought it and commissioned court architect Johann Joachim Busch, whose late-Baroque manor was completed in 1786. In 1819 Colonel Cornelius Freiherr von Herzeele bought the estate at auction for 246,000 Reichstaler; in 1841 it passed to Georg Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe, whose family held it until expropriation in 1945.

The manor house operates as a castle hotel and hosts cultural events and performances throughout the year. Visitors experience the space as a working venue where celebrations and gatherings take place regularly.

Schloss Vietgest stands in Lalendorf in the Rostock district and is rented out for seminars, conferences and celebrations; the Barocksaal hosts concerts, readings and exhibitions. The house is a listed monument and was fully restored between 2013 and 2016.

The front and park façades are nearly identical, but the park side lacks the rusticated stonework framing the central bay and corner pavilions, replaced by a veranda with an upper balcony. The building is also unusually wide and shallow, with an eleven-axis main block linked by two single-storey galleries to square cavalier houses.