Gutshaus Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cultural heritage monument in Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Germany.
Gutshaus Märkisch Wilmersdorf is a manor house whose core is a U-shaped three-wing baroque building from the first half of the 18th century. In 1801 it was rebuilt as a single-storey, nine-axis plastered building on a rectangular plan with a hipped roof; a later Tudor-style conversion made it two storeys. It stands north of the village centre within a walled estate, with the village church directly to the south.
The manor house emerged in the late 1600s when chamberlain Henning Bernd von Schwerin acquired the village in 1684 and later received it as a fief from Friedrich I. The estate passed through different ownership periods and took its present form during the 1800s.
From 1945 to 1956 the manor housed refugees and resettlers; then a children's home moved into most rooms, later named Ernst Thälmann, while a school used other rooms until 1974 and the kindergarten occupied the gardener's house. The estate park once listed 243 woody species in 1917, but only 116 remained by 1959.
The building is visible from outside and lies close to the village center, making it easy to find. The estate with its walled grounds can be viewed well from public pathways nearby.
During the tenant farming period in the 1800s, Fritz von Schwerin operated a Gordon Setter breeding facility here, specializing in hunting dogs. This unusual breeding operation brought attention to the estate beyond the local area.
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