Gut Stellichte, Manor estate in Stellichte, Walsrode, Germany.

Gut Stellichte is a former castle and manor estate in Stellichte, part of Walsrode. Its Baroque main building of 1703/04 is a symmetrical two-storey timber-framed house with nine axes, a slightly projecting upper floor, a high hipped roof and a cladding imitating stone blocks. It stands within moats enclosing an area of about 74 by 67 metres, reached by a granite bridge of 1860.

A castle existed here by the early 14th century, held by the Lords of Schlepegrell. In 1470 Duke Otto V of Brunswick-Lüneburg granted it to the knight Heinrich Behr, whose family still owns it. The medieval castle was rebuilt as a Renaissance palace in the 16th and early 17th centuries, then replaced in 1703/04 by the present Baroque house, which reused the old vaulted cellars.

The estate has served as a local focal point for generations and continues to shape how the village looks today. Visitors can see in its buildings how farming families once lived and worked in this rural area.

The estate is located north of Walsrode and is accessible by local roads, with parking available on the grounds. Plan to spend time walking around the buildings and gardens to get a sense of how the property is laid out.

The 1860 granite bridge from the economic yard to the main castle has a wooden tie rod and a parapet of fieldstones. Matthäus Merian's 1650 engraving shows an earlier Gothic brick house with a stepped gable, half-timbered wing and stair tower inside the moat.