Herrenhaus Divitz, Manor house in Divitz-Spoldershagen, Germany.
Herrenhaus Divitz is a former Wasserburg in the Barthe valley at Divitz, part of Divitz-Spoldershagen. The irregular complex is still enclosed by a wall and moat, with the two-storey north wing added in the 16th century and the east wing with two portals built between 1729 and 1734. The building has been unoccupied since the Wende and is in a state of decay.
Burg Divitz was founded in the 13th century during German eastward colonisation, probably by the knights von Divitz. From 1480 to 1625 the von Krakewitz family held it and added the two-storey north wing in the 16th century. Johannes von Lilienstedt began converting the castle into a Baroque manor and added the east wing with two portals between 1729 and 1734.
The estate's name and grounds recall the von Krassow family: Count Carl Reinhold von Krassow chaired the horticultural society for Neuvorpommern and Rügen and bred new fruit varieties at Divitz, which Ferdinand Jühlke helped spread. The 12-hectare landscape garden south of the house was laid out in 1857 under Prussian court gardener Gustav Meyer. The manor is now owned by the Förderverein Kulturgüter Wasserburg Divitz, founded in 2015.
The manor stands in the Barthe valley, surrounded by a wall and moat that survive from the medieval water castle. The building is unoccupied and decaying, so it can only be viewed from outside; do not expect access to the interior. The associated landscape garden, laid out in 1857 by Gustav Meyer, lies south of the house.
The 1857 landscape garden south of the house was laid out under Gustav Meyer, later Berlin's court garden director; it covered about 12 hectares. The estate's owner Carl Reinhold von Krassow bred new fruit varieties there, which Ferdinand Jühlke helped spread. The medieval moat and rampart still ring the irregular complex.
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