Gerswalde manor, Manor house in Gerswalde, Germany.
Gerswalde manor is a two-storey house on the south-western edge of Gerswalde, east of the ruins of Gerswalde Castle. The estate comprises the manor house, a landscape park with grave slabs of the von Arnim family, a park wall and a estate nursery with gardener's house, greenhouse and palm house. After a fire in the mid-1960s the mansard roof covered with glazed tiles was not rebuilt.
The estate belonged to the von Arnim family from 1463. A manor house was built in 1724 and converted into a Schloss from 1832. Around 1900, Felix von Arnim, married to a wealthy German-American, gave it its final form, the "Weiße Hof", financed with US dollars. In 1929 it passed to the Anthroposophical Society, which opened a curative-education institute; after 1945 the authorities closed it and arrested Franz Löffler. A state children's home followed in 1950, and since 1994 a youth welfare organisation has run a children's and youth home here.
The estate's name recalls the von Arnim family, who held Gerswalde from 1463 and rebuilt the house around 1900 as the "Weiße Hof". The park holds grave slabs of the family, and the former estate nursery, with its gardener's house, greenhouse and "Palmenhaus", still stands. The park is open to the public.
The grounds provide various amenities including a library, music room, and shared kitchen for guests to enjoy. Walking through the park and neighboring woods is possible directly from the property, making it easy to explore the surrounding landscape.
The estate park holds the grave slabs of the von Arnim family, who owned Gerswalde from 1463. The manor's glazed-tile mansard roof was never rebuilt after a fire in the mid-1960s, so the building still shows the altered roofline. The park is open to the public.
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