Herrenhaus Vogelsang, Manor house in Krakow am See, Germany
Herrenhaus Vogelsang is a two-storey brick manor house in the municipality of Lalendorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, built in the Tudor Gothic style around 1884. Its pale yellow rendered central bay rises above the brick wings, with a four-light pointed-arch window, a carved family crest above it and a stepped gable topped by a thin spire between two small pinnacles. A crenellated brick parapet runs around the roof.
Vogelsang was first documented in 1379, when Prince Lorenz von Werle granted the estate to the von Wozenitz brothers, a Rostock noble family who held it for over three and a half centuries. The von Plessen took over in 1734 and founded the village of Vogelsang. Hans Carl Peter Manecke, owner from 1836, had the Tudor-style manor built by 1840 with an English landscape park. Hamburg merchant Julius Hüniken acquired the estate around 1880 and had park and manor renewed in 1893, placing his family crest and the purchase and renewal year on the central bay.
The estate's name, Vogelsang, means "birdsong" in German. The village of Vogelsang was laid out by the von Plessen family, who held the estate from 1734 to 1834. The manor's central bay carries the Hüniken family coat of arms with the year of purchase and renewal, set there when Julius Hüniken had house and park reworked in 1893.
The manor stands in the municipality of Lalendorf, in the Mecklenburg Lake District, and has been privately owned again since 2010; a rescue stabilisation of the ruinous building ran from 2011 to spring 2012. It is not a public museum, so access to the house and grounds depends on the owner. The estate also retains a Marstall of 1897, a water tower, the coachman's house and the inspector's house.
The manor stayed in the Hüniken family until expropriation under the 1945 land reform, after which it became a Volkseigenes Gut, a state-owned farm. It returned to private ownership in 2010, and an emergency stabilisation of the ruinous building ran from 2011 to spring 2012. The estate also keeps a Marstall of 1897, a water tower, a coachman's house and an inspector's house.
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