Gut Goldenbow, Manor house in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
Gut Goldenbow is a two-storey brick manor house built in 1696, with lime-plastered cornices and pilasters and a high hipped roof. Its sloping base storey is faced with dressed granite blocks, and a baroque Dutch gable once stood above the main entrance and its flight of steps. The rear still has the remnant of the former park with a small lake among old trees; at the front, traces of the village square remain, with the water tower at its end.
Goldenbow was first mentioned in 1229 as a motte south of the village; from 1389 the von Lützow family held village and fief, and this branch stayed Catholic after the Reformation. Kurt Freiherr von Lützow built the present house in 1696 on the vaulted cellars of a predecessor. In 1797 the estate passed to the von Schilden, in 1852 to Jasper von Bülow, who had the house renovated in 1863; in 1945 the family was expropriated.
The Goldenbow branch of the von Lützow family stayed Catholic after the Reformation, unlike most of Mecklenburg. Under the frieze a painted band of inscriptions survives, naming Maria, Joseph and Jesus and quoting Ovid alongside OMNIA AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM. Dark decorative bricks in the gables spell out names, letters and dates.
The manor is in private hands since 2008 and rebuilding began in 2009; the shell was finished by August 2014 and interior work was under way, so the house is not a public museum. The water tower south of the former economic yard was restored in 2007. Visitors approach from the village side, where remains of the village square and the tower are visible.
The estate's water tower, built in the late 19th century south of the farmyard, keeps its reservoir in the lower storey rather than the head. The fial-like pinnacles on the conical slate roof hide ventilation openings that released displaced air as the tank filled. One pinnacle carries a clock; the tower was repaired in 2007.
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