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    May 25, 2023

    Manor Falkenhain
    City of Meuselwitz, district of Altenburger Land


    construction time
    19th century,
    architectural style
    classicism, historicism
    builder

    Builder/Architect

    Condition
    The manor house of the Falkenhain manor is in a damaged condition. The farm buildings are in a damaged to ruinous condition. The park is well maintained.
    Todays use
    Mansion: vacant,
    Commercial buildings: residential, commercial, vacant
    Access
    The grounds of the manor in Falkenhain are not accessible. The mansion cannot be visited. The park is well maintained and accessible.


    Description

    Layout
    very large, open, irregular estate, today in the form of a large block perimeter development with buildings built in later, eastern part of the farm yard probably built on earlier, integrated manor house and estate chapel,
    structure
    two storey
    facade
    Plaster facade with plaster ashlars on the ground floor, window roofs and front entrance, prominent tower in the farmyard,
    roof shape
    mansion: gable roof,
    Farm buildings: flat roofs, gable roofs, tower with tent roof,


    Further information
    park


    There is a landscape park at the manor Falkenhain.
    persons


    Hans, called the younger von Minckwitz (owner until 1494),
    Nickel von Minckwitz (owner 1538),
    Jobst von Minckwitz (owner 1544),
    Salomon von Minckwitz (owner 1600),
    Rudolf the Elder by Minckwitz (owner 1632),
    Rudolf the Younger von Minckwitz (owner 1659),
    Rudolf Siegfried von Minckwitz (owner 1714),
    Adam and Moritz August von Minckwitz (owners 1746),
    Hans Heinrich von Minckwitz (owner 1751),
    Johann August von Schönfeld (owner from 1751),
    Sahrer von Sahr family (owners until 1789),
    hereinafter the von Ponickau family,
    von Falkenhain family (owners around 1848),
    Julius Treuherz (owner from 1905),
    Phönix AG for lignite recycling Berlin (owner from 1915)


    Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/schloesser-herrenhaeuser/rittergut-falkenhain-meuselwitz-gera

    Translated by Google •

      March 21, 2021

      The manor was built at the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century and used as a manor with a manor house - a former four-wing complex. The mansion is a very imposing building, but has been vacant since 1995.

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