Schloss Grabow, Heritage château in Grabow, Möckern, Germany.
Schloss Grabow is a castle estate in Möckern, Saxony-Anhalt, built on an artificial hill and surrounded by mature trees. The two-story manor house features baroque design and stands on the foundations of a medieval water castle, with substantial fortress remains still visible on the elevated site.
A water castle here was first mentioned around 940 and was given by Otto I to the Magdeburg Mauritius monastery in 948. In 1334 it passed to the von Wulffen family, who built the baroque manor house in 1621 and remodelled it in 1713. After 1945 the estate was expropriated and used as a school and municipal office; since 1997 it has served as a private residence.
The estate's name comes from the village of Grabow, first recorded as a castle around 940 and given to the Magdeburg Mauritius monastery in 948. The baroque manor house, built in 1621 for Hans-Christoph von Wulffen, incorporates a 1621 coat of arms above the entrance. The surrounding landscape park was laid out from 1901 by forester Olof von Lindequist, who managed imperial hunts in the Letzlinger Heide.
The castle is a private residence and not open to the public, so visits cannot be booked and there are no tours. It stands at Schulstraße 5 in the southern part of Grabow, a village belonging to Möckern. The ring moat, the single-arch stone bridge and the section of ring wall in the northern area can be seen from the outside.
The estate's 719-hectare Rittergut was farmed in direct management until the 1920s. When the only son of owner Olof von Lindequist died in the First World War, his grandson Hans Olof von Rohr (1908–1966) took over as estate manager; he later served as a consul in South Africa.
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