Jagdschloss Prillwitz, Former hunting lodge in Hohenzieritz, Germany
Jagdschloss Prillwitz is a two-story red brick building with a steep brown tiled hipped roof and a row of small dormer windows along its lower slope. Light-colored pilasters divide the facade, with quoins at the corners, white-framed rectangular windows, a projecting bay on the right, and a central entrance reached by a short stone stair with a metal railing. A wall-mounted lamp hangs left of the entrance, and the base is lighter stone or stucco. It stands on a grassy slope by the Lieps lake.
The hunting lodge was built in 1887–1889 for Adolf Friedrich V, heir to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz throne, beside the older manor house of 1706 that still stands. His father, Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II, commissioned the Neorenaissance design from Eugen Müschen, the grand-ducal master builder in Neustrelitz. After Adolf Friedrich VI took his own life in February 1918, the lodge passed to his mother, Grand Duchess Elisabeth.
The building's name, Liepser Schlösschen, comes from the Lieps lake at whose shore it stands. Since 1995 it has operated as a hotel with a restaurant, and the former great hall serves as the dining room. Author Frank Pergande set his regional crime novel Der Fluch der Ente here, and the ARD series Die Toten von Marnow used the house as a protagonist's residence.
The grounds are accessible by forest paths and can be explored on foot, with the surrounding area suitable for longer walks. Visitors should prepare for changeable weather and bring appropriate clothing for woodland areas.
The lodge is also known as the Liepser Schlösschen because it stands on the bank of the Lieps lake, at the end of the park of Hohenzieritz Castle. A tower in the park, built in the 19th century in Neo-Tudor style, was not rebuilt during the 2012–2014 works, while a tower demolished in the GDR era was reconstructed.
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