Gut Groß Zecher

The Groß Zecher estate with its historic buildings is beautifully located between Küchensee and Schaalsee. Since 1691 it has been owned by the von Witzendorff patrician family from Lüneburg. The magnificent manor house was built in the classicist style. Today you can not only dine well at the estate, but also spend the night and of course enjoy the peace and quiet.

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The Groß Zecher estate is a noble estate in the municipality of Seedorf am Schaalsee.Not far from the current estate, a tower hill castle, Boko, with a diameter of 15 m, stood in the Middle Ages on the Zecherschen Werder, a peninsula
in the Schaalsee. The 5 m wide surrounding moat is still partially visible.During 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 acquired Groß Zecher, followed by the von Parkentin family from 1497 onwards.In 1691, the Parkentin (later spelled Berkentin) was sold by Groß Zecher to the patrician von Witzendorff family from Lüneburg. The Brunswick-Lüneburg councilor and chamber president Hieronymus von Witzendorff thus became a member of the knighthood of the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, which, with the extinction of the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1689, passed to the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Hieronymus von Witzendorff established a fideicommissum for Groß Zecher.The estate has remained in the von Witzendorff family ever since. Ottokar von Witzendorff played a major role in 19th-century Lauenburg politics as district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg. After his death in 1890, the neighboring Seedorf estate, which had also previously belonged to the family, passed to his widow, who passed it on through her family.The baroque manor house in Groß Zecher, dating from 1720, was largely demolished at the beginning of the 19th century to make way for a new building on the same site. Using parts of the existing structure, a plastered new building in the Neoclassical style was constructed, which today characterizes the estate.The eleven-bay manor house is a single-story structure with a half-hipped roof.Above the dormers, the pitched roof houses two dormers with eaves. The five-bay central projection is two-story, with a flat triangular gable above it featuring an oval window. The wing at the rear of the house is also a two-story, half-timbered structure and dates from an earlier period.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_Gro%C3%9F_Zecher