Ludorf Manor

The house was built in the style of Danish brick Renaissance. The granite stones of the old Morin Castle were used for the foundation. It is a simple two-story building of 15 by 4 axes with a hip roof. A triangular gable with a coat of arms cartouche emphasizes the courtyard front. The garden front regained its two-story wooden veranda, added in the last third of the 19th century, in 1999. Unique in Mecklenburg are the large-scale ceiling paintings from the time of its construction at the end of the 17th century. Also worth seeing is the portal of the house with the wooden beam and the inscription: „Moritz, Jakob, Joachim Gebroder de Knuth. Anno Domini 1576“, which is older than the house and originally hung above the portal of the Knuth house in Leizen, and came to Ludorf when it was demolished at the beginning of the last century. Above it is the Knuth coat of arms, the original of which now stands in the hall of the house. Due to its historical significance, as the only one from the Müritz district besides Ulrichshusen, the house was already placed under protection by the Soviet military administration in 1946.

The park, now restored, dates from the mid-19th century and was laid out in place of an earlier baroque garden. A hornbeam rondel stands at the beginning of a chestnut avenue that leads to the Müritz. The stately bathhouse used to stand here.

On the early medieval motte, northeast of the manor house, stood Morin Castle, seat of a wealthy family around the Müritz, who probably came to the country with Henry the Lion in the course of Christianization. Wipert von Morin also had the octagonal Ludorf patronal church built after the model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The castle and the Morin family existed until the Thirty Years' War. Then the castle was destroyed and not rebuilt. The Morin family died out. The last daughter of the family married Jakob Ernst von Knuth. The two sons from this marriage, Adam Levin von Knuth and Eggert Christoffer von Knuth, went to the Danish court as pages in their boyhood. Adam Levin von Knuth, the elder, grew up with the later King Christian V and rose to the rank of Oberkammerjunker. As the eldest son, he inherited Ludorf and had the "new house" built at the end of the 17th century.

At the end of the 19th century, Ludorf came into Bülow hands through the marriage of the last female Knuth, where it remained until 1945. Ludorf, with around 4000 hectares, was the largest estate in the Müritz region.

The manor house and the farm building dating from the mid-19th century were renovated and converted into a hotel in 1998/99.