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1. Groß Zecher Manor – Teufelsbrück Viewpoint at Schaalsee loop from Groß Zecher

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2. Groß Zecher Manor – Teufelsbrück Viewpoint at Schaalsee loop from Klein Zecher

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3. Schaalsee bathing area in Seedorf – Groß Zecher Manor loop from Seedorf

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June 7, 2023

The Groß Zecher estate is a noble estate in the district of Groß Zecher in the municipality of Seedorf am Schaalsee.

In the Middle Ages, not far from today's estate, there was a Boko hilltop castle with a diameter of 15 m on the Zecherscher Werder, a peninsula in the Schaalsee. The surrounding moat, which is 5 m wide, can still be seen in part. In the course of the medieval colonization, the von Zülen family, who came from Saxony, settled here and named themselves von Zecher after this newly acquired property.

The castle was destroyed in 1349.

In the 14th century, the von Carlow family first came into possession of Groß Zecher, then from 1497 the von Parkentin family. The Parkentin (later spelled Berkentin) sold Groß Zecher in 1691 to the von Witzendorff patrician family from Lüneburg. The Brunswick-Lüneburg Privy Councilor and Chamber President Hieronymus von Witzendorff thus became a member of the knighthood of the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, which fell to the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1689 when the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg died out. Hieronymus von Witzendorff established an entail for Groß Zecher.

The estate has remained in the von Witzendorff family ever since. Ottokar von Witzendorff played a major role in Lauenburg politics in the 19th century as district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg.

After his death in 1890, the neighboring Seedorf estate, which had previously also belonged to the family, passed to his widow, who passed it on to her family. Most of the baroque mansion in Groß Zecher from 1720 was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century to make room for a new building on the same site.

Using parts of the old structure, a plastered new building was built in the classical style, which today characterizes the estate. The eleven-story mansion is single-storey with a half-hipped roof. Above the dormers there are two bat dormers with roof rails in the pitched roof. The five-axis central avant-corps is two-storey with a flat triangular gable with an oval window above it. The wing at the back of the house is also two-storey in half-timbering and dates from an earlier period.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_Gro%C3%9F_Zecher

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February 21, 2024

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Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Groß Zecher Manor House

1. Groß Zecher Manor – Teufelsbrück Viewpoint at Schaalsee loop from Groß Zecher

2. Groß Zecher Manor – Teufelsbrück Viewpoint at Schaalsee loop from Klein Zecher

3. Schaalsee bathing area in Seedorf – Groß Zecher Manor loop from Seedorf

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