Schloss Güterfelde, Manor house in Güterfelde, Germany.
Schloss Güterfelde is a manor house built 1803–1804 to plans by David Gilly, with a fieldstone base and a strictly symmetrical layout around a central tower. Its façades were reworked in French Neorenaissance style under Albrecht von Roon and Gerson von Bleichröder, adding rustication, cornices, pilasters and curved gables. The side wings carry smaller towers and the main building a hipped roof.
August Friedrich Grothe-Buckow acquired Gütergotz in 1803 and had David Gilly design a palace with park and estate farm by 1804. After several owners, Prussian war minister Albrecht von Roon bought it in 1868 and called it his "Brandenburg Tusculum"; banker Gerson von Bleichröder, owner from 1873, had the facades rebuilt in French, German and Italian Neo-Renaissance forms. From 1894 a lung sanatorium, later Reichswehr and SA use, then a GDR retirement home followed.
The name changed from Schloss Gütergotz to Schloss Güterfelde in 1937. Albrecht von Roon, who owned it from 1868, called it his "Brandenburgisches Tusculum", after the Roman summer retreats. The 1952 clay building in the park was a test of rammed-earth construction by the GDR building academy.
Schloss Güterfelde stands in Güterfelde, part of the Stahnsdorf municipality south of Potsdam, not at Stahnsdorf station itself. The grounds are private after conversion into 36 condominiums, so the building and park are viewed from the public paths and street. The southern park section was redesigned by the Nuremberg office Oehm & Herlan.
The 1952 Lehmbau beside the castle was a test build by the GDR's Bauakademie for rammed-earth construction, placed at right angles to Gilly's house so it flanks the park like a side wing. Its counterpart on the west side is still missing. In 1985 the former seniors' home served as a filming location for the crime film Polizeiruf 110: Treibnetz.
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