Domänenpächterhaus Lietzow, Heritage monument in Lietzow, Germany
The Domänenpächterhaus Lietzow is a brick building with a rectangular plan, a rendered facade without ornament and an unusually tall mansard hip roof. Nine dormers face the street, with five bat dormers above them. The central entrance on Hamburger Chaussee 22 is reached by an exterior stair; a rear porch with columns carries a balcony facing the park.
On 14 February and 1 May 1917 the state domain of Lietzow was leased to Oberamtmann Max Voigt for the period June 1918 to 1 July 1936, including fishing, reed and heath use in the Havelländisches Luch. In the early 1920s Voigt had the present tenant house built south of the Hamburger Chaussee and reshaped the existing estate park. The older, smaller tenant house north of the road was demolished in the 1980s.
The name Domänenpächterhaus refers to the house of the tenant of the Lietzow state domain, leased by Oberamtmann Max Voigt from 1918 to 1936. The lease covered the domain with its fishing, reed-cutting and heath use in the Havelländisches Luch, plus hunting rights. In the GDR era the building housed a kindergarten; after 2008 it was converted into lodging with ten rooms upstairs and two holiday flats in the cellar.
The main entrance sits at the centre of the street facade and is reached by an exterior staircase; a second staircase on the park side climbs to the porch carrying a balcony on columns. The house stands on the Hamburger Chaussee in Lietzow, south of the road, with the former estate park behind it.
The park behind the house holds a dry pond with an island reached by a bridge; the near-square layout is thought to descend from a medieval moated castle of the early German Middle Ages. Late Slavic pottery shards were found north of it, and the pond may already appear on maps drawn between 1767 and 1787.
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