Hagen Manor

The Manor House

Hagen Manor was built for Hinrich Blome and Lucia von Pogwisch from 1647 to 1649. Iron wall anchors on the central wing with the letters HBLB commemorate the builders. Hagen was built as a two-story, three-winged structure on a cellar plinth. The center of the courtyard of honor is marked by a slender stair tower, which also contains the main portal emphasized with sandstone decor. Another building wing protrudes from the south-facing garden facade, which was added to the existing manor house in the mid-18th century, giving the castle an almost Y-shaped floor plan.

The building was constructed at the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque, a phase that only took place in Holstein after the Thirty Years' War. The originally horseshoe-shaped complex with its uniform window arrangement already shows Baroque influences, but it lacks typical contemporary ornamentation, and the strict stepped gables and the stair tower crowned with a lantern still refer to earlier building traditions of the Duchy. The manor house was once surrounded by moats, which further reinforced its rather defensive character. The moats are now drained and filled in on the courtyard side, but still partially visible on the southern side. In contrast to the strict exterior of the manor house, the interior design of the symmetrically divided building was already more clearly influenced by the Baroque era. The rooms of the castle received elaborate stucco decoration, supraports, and ornamental fireplaces until the beginning of the 18th century, and some of the furnishings have been preserved to the present day. The furnishings include the so-called Pogwisch Room, whose Baroque wall design from around 1725 is unique in a Schleswig-Holstein manor house. In the Pogwisch Room, the wall paintings were elaborately restored from 2009 to 2011 with significant financial support from the federal and state governments. Visitors today have the opportunity to view the restored rooms of the manor house, such as the so-called Blome Room and the Fireplace Room.

Farmyard and Garden

Some of the buildings in the farmyard, with large barns, still dated from the 17th century. After the estate operations ceased, outbuildings such as the gatehouse and the tenant's house were sold, and the large half-timbered barn from 1626 and a cow shed from the early 18th century were demolished. The former courtyard is now only recognizable in its basic features, as its original area has been built over with modern residential houses. In the 17th century, a Baroque garden was created simultaneously with the manor house and to its northwest, which was built over in the 1960s. South above the manor house is a 4.5-hectare landscape park, which was planted in the mid-19th century with valuable individual trees and tree groups. After the park had received little horticultural care for many decades and had taken on forest-like features, numerous wild-growing trees near the manor house were felled in the spring of 2009. As a result, the manor house has become more visible from the park. In this context, the area around the manor house has also been redesigned and replanted.