Gutshaus Ludorf, Manor house in Ludorf, Germany.
Gutshaus Ludorf is a plain two-storey manor house of 1698 built in the Danish brick Renaissance style, measuring 15 by 4 axes and covered by a hipped roof. A triangular gable with the coat of arms of its builder Adam Levin von Knuth marks the courtyard front, while the garden side regained its two-storey wooden veranda, added in the last third of the 19th century, in 1999. Its foundation stones came from the old castle of Morin.
The manor was built in 1698 for Adam Levin von Knuth, who grew up at the Danish court alongside the future King Christian V. Its foundation reuses granite from Burg Morin, a castle northeast of the house that was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and never rebuilt. The estate stayed with the von Knuth family from 1686 until it passed to the von Bülows through Bertha von Knuth's marriage; they held it until the 1946 expropriation.
The ceiling paintings covering large areas date from the builder's era at the end of the 17th century and are considered unique in Mecklenburg. The wooden portal beam bears the inscription "Moritz, Jakob, Joachim Gebroder de Knuth. Anno Domini 1576"; it is older than the house and was moved here from the Knuth house in Leizen. The original Knuth coat of arms now stands in the hall.
The property now operates as a hotel offering overnight accommodation and event spaces for guests throughout the year. Visitors can explore the grounds and interior during their stay or attend special functions held at the location.
The octagonal Ludorf parish church, built by Wipert von Morin on the model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, stands near the manor; the family von Morin died out after the Thirty Years' War, and their castle, Burg Morin, on the early medieval motte northeast of the house, was destroyed and never rebuilt. Its granite stones went into the manor's foundation.
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