Gut Wotersen, Baroque estate in Roseburg, Germany.
Gut Wotersen is a Baroque manor house in Roseburg featuring symmetrical architecture, detailed stone carvings, large windows, and an ornamental main entrance. The estate includes agricultural buildings and continues to operate as an active farm today.
A village called Wotersen was first recorded in 1230. The estate passed from the von Schack family to the von Dalldorf family in 1408, and in 1717 it was bought by Hanover minister Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff, who had a new estate built from 1720 by Johann Caspar Borchmann. His grandson Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff had it remodelled by Johann Paul Heumann until 1765. The Bernstorffs kept it until 1996.
The name Wotersen first appears in the Ratzeburger Zehntregister of 1230, and the estate stayed with the Bernstorff family until 1996. Concerts of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival are held in the riding hall, and the halls can be rented for private events. Exterior shots of the ZDF series Das Erbe der Guldenburgs were filmed here between 1987 and 1990.
The manor house itself is not open to visitors; the farmyard and halls are used for events, including concerts in the riding hall during the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and can be rented for private functions. The estate lies in Roseburg, reached from the A24 via the Talkau and Hornbek exits, with a bus connection in Roseburg to Mölln and Büchen. The E1 and E9 long-distance footpaths pass by the estate.
The estate was transformed from a French formal garden into an English landscape park design during the mid-19th century. This change is still visible today in the spacious grounds surrounding the manor house.
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