Hagen Castle

After the Probsteierhagen community acquired the manor house, the building was used as a primary school. Since the construction of the village community school in 1969, the manor house has made a name for itself as the “cultural center of the Probstei.”

Hagen Castle in the municipality of Probsteierhagen near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein is the manor house of the former noble estate of the same name. The 17th century building has housed a cultural and event center since 1969. After being extensively renovated from 2007 to 2011, it has been open to visitors again since 2011.

The first mention of Hagen is documented in the Kiel city register in 1264 as indago comitis ("Hag des Grafens"). In the area of the later estate there was an instendorf called Schrevendorf (s'Grevendorf) and to the west there is the noble estate called Schrevenborn (s'Grevenborn, des Grafen Brunnen). All this indicates that the area northeast of Kiel was once a hunting ground of the sovereigns, the Schauenburg Counts of Holstein, who resided in Kiel Castle. The noble estate economy in Hagen (as well as in Schrevendorf) was therefore only founded in the 16th century, after King Christian I of Denmark was elected the new ruler of the Duchy of Schleswig and the County of Holstein in 1460 and Kiel was ceded to the Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf line in 1544, which resided in Gottorf Castle in Schleswig and no longer needed the Kiel hunting ground.[1]