Gut Tützpatz, Manor house in Tützpatz, Germany.
Gut Tützpatz is a single-storey, fifteen-axis plastered manor house with a mansard roof, built in 1779 in the style of a Dutch baroque palace and rebuilt after a 1908 fire. Three-axis central projections face the park and the courtyard, and much of the elaborate stucco ornament survives; the coats of arms of the von Linden and von Ramin families in the segmental gables were removed after 1945. A single-storey pavilion stands at the south gable.
In 1776 Karl Friedrich von Linden acquired Tützpatz from the von Maltzahn family and had a new manor built in 1779 in the style of a Dutch baroque palace. In 1785 it passed by inheritance to Georg Christian von Heyden, whose family took the name Heyden-Linden and held the estate until expropriation in 1945. A fire destroyed the house in 1908; Albrecht von Heyden-Linden had it rebuilt largely true to the original. After 1945 it housed flats and served as an agricultural vocational school, an institute of agricultural economics and the administration of VEG Tützpatz.
The estate gave the village its name and its social order: the von Heyden-Linden family, resident here until the 1945 expropriation, ran the 1,067-hectare Rittergut, of which 178 hectares were woodland. After 1945 the house held flats and served as an agricultural vocational school and the VEG Tützpatz administration. The building is empty today, its windows bricked up against vandalism.
The manor house stands empty and is not open to visitors; its windows were bricked up to prevent vandalism, and no renovation has been carried out so far. It can be viewed from the outside, and the landscape park west of the building with its pond and two islands is freely walkable. The 18th-century estate yard east of the house is partly used by local craft businesses.
The park west of the house was a French formal garden before being converted to an English landscape park in the 19th century. A pond with two islands lies in its northwest corner, fed by the Goldbach stream, and the tree stock includes limes, pines, Weymouth pines and a purple weeping beech.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 94,590 contributors worldwide.