Gut Langelage, Manor house in Bohmte, Germany

Gut Langelage is a manor house compound in Bohmte with two main buildings, with the eastern structure built in 1724 using fractured stone and featuring a double-flight staircase. A water moat fed by a stream surrounds both the older mound and the eastern building, linking the medieval earthwork to the later residential structures.

The estate was originally in the hands of the von Bar family from the 14th century and changed ownership several times before returning to them in 1884. The eastern building constructed in 1724 and the facilities added later in the 20th century show how the property was reshaped across different periods of its long history.

The name Langelage does not come from a family called Lange; the estate belonged to the von Bar family in 1388 and returned to them in 1884. The grounds show a working Rittergut, a knight's estate, with the older 16th-century manor house and the 1724 house set 100 m east of it.

The property sits on flat ground and can be explored on foot, with the water moats clearly marking out the different areas. Visitors should note that not all parts of the grounds are freely accessible and some buildings can only be viewed from outside.

On an 1805 estate plan, a mound about 160 m across with a roughly 50 m round plateau is drawn west of the manor, matching a large motte. The stream feeding the moat flows around this hill, so it was probably ringed by a water ditch. The present manor may have been the motte's outer bailey.