Hubertushöhe, Historicist hunting lodge in Storkow, Brandenburg, Germany
Hubertushöhe is a historicist lodge built in 1899–1900 for Berlin printer and publisher Georg Büxenstein, combining Neo-Gothic forms with Swiss style. Designed by architects Max Jacob and Georg Roensch, it has a plastered masonry and half-timbered main house with an octagonal tower under a pointed spire, facing an economic wing across a courtyard open to the Dolgensee.
Georg Büxenstein, a Berlin printer and publisher, had the lodge built in 1899–1900 to designs by Max Jacob and Georg Roensch. He sold it in 1916; under the Nazi regime it served as a BDM district training castle. From the early 1950s until 1989 it housed the GDR's inland fisheries engineering school, and after Treuhand privatisation it reopened in 1998 as a hotel, closing in 2012.
The interior decoration follows hunting themes: Julius Bodenstein painted the decorative murals, Karl Wagner the animal paintings, and Gotthold Riegelmann carved the animal and hunting motifs in the hall and dining room. The building later served the BDM as a regional training castle and from the early 1950s to 1989 housed the GDR's inland fisheries engineering school.
The lodge stands about 68 km southeast of Berlin, just off the B 246 between Storkow and Beeskow, and has its own stop, Hubertushöhe, on the Königs Wusterhausen–Grunow line. The castle building opens only for weddings, conferences and special events, while the park is open to the public in the summer months. The marina on the Dolgensee links to Berlin and, via the Wendisch Rietz lock, to the Scharmützelsee.
The Dolgensee below the lodge is part of the Storkower Kanal and the Dahme waterway, so the estate's marina links boating traffic both toward Berlin and, via the Wendisch Rietz lock, to the Scharmützelsee. The lodge also has its own stop, Hubertushöhe, on the Königs Wusterhausen–Grunow railway line.
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