Rittergut Endschütz, Manor house in Endschütz, Thuringia, Germany

Rittergut Endschütz is a manor house with outbuildings and farm courtyard forming a historical agricultural estate in Thuringia. The property includes several structures arranged around a central yard, typical of 19th-century noble estates.

At the end of the Middle Ages the estate belonged to the von Wolfersdorf family; the surviving manor house and farm buildings date from around 1805, when the estate covered 150 to 160 hectares. The last Wolfersdorf owner died in 1869 and Joseph Reichardt of Kauern took over. He sold it in 1897 to Karl Heinrich Sieber, a businessman from Ronneburg, whose family leased the land to tenants until 1936.

The name Endschütz is first documented in connection with the Wolfersdorf family, who held the estate at the end of the Middle Ages. Marlene Dietrich visited the estate on 2 April 1930, when the actor Günter Sieber, son of owner Karl Heinrich Sieber, invited her. A local history room (Heimatstube) in an outbuilding was destroyed by arson in October 2023.

The estate is privately owned and has been gradually restored and farmed by its current owner since 2003, so it is not a public visitor site. The manor house is a registered cultural monument; the timber-framed building adjoining it on the left is part of the ensemble. Access and any viewing should be arranged with the owner in advance.

The estate received the Greiz County Monument Protection Prize twice, in 2007 and again in 2015. The awards recognise the step-by-step restoration begun after Susann Schmidt bought the long-vacant property in 2003. In October 2023 a fire destroyed the local history room in a historic outbuilding; arson was established as the cause, and the owner plans to rebuild it.