Gutshaus Boldevitz, Manor house in Parchtitz, Germany
Gutshaus Boldevitz is a three-storey, five-axis rendered manor house on a nearly square plan, built around 1600 and topped by two parallel saddle roofs whose curved volute gables are divided by vertical double cornices. Two-storey, five-axis side wings were added from 1783, and the alliance coat of arms above the courtyard portal on the first floor recalls that work. The house stands in an eleven-hectare park with a swan pond.
The estate belonged to the von Rotermund family from the 13th century; under Claus von Rotermund the core of the house was built around 1600, and Landrat Philipp von Rotermund had it rebuilt in 1635 or 1655/58, reportedly using stone from the dissolved Maschenholz commandery church. In 1712 it passed to the Swedish general Carl Gustav Count Mellin, in 1744 to the von Putbus family, and in 1762 to Adolf Friedrich von Olthof. The two side wings were added in 1783/1784 under Christian Friedrich von der Lancken, whose alliance coat of arms sits above the courtyard portal.
The name Boldevitz goes back to the Rotermund family, who held the estate from the 13th century. In 1762 Adolf Friedrich von Olthof gathered relatives and friends here and brought the young painter Jakob Philipp Hackert, who between 1762 and 1764 made six large landscape wallpapers with Rügen motifs. Goethe mentioned the estate as "Bolwitz" in his 1811 biography of Hackert.
The side wings and outbuildings now hold holiday apartments, and the 1839 chapel is used for weddings. The park covers about eleven hectares; the Tellertor gate on the south side was reconstructed in 2011, and the north entrance is a gate crowned by lions. The manor also serves as a film set, standing in for "Gut Rodewitz" in the series "Hallo Robbie!".
The two curved gables of the main house are now the only surviving pair of their kind on Rügen; the comparable manor at Üselitz collapsed into a ruin in the 1970s and was only rebuilt by 2018. The park's southern Tellertor gate was reconstructed in 2011.
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