Wahrstorf Manor

The formation of the Wahrstorf estate began at the end of the 18th century. The construction of the manor house, which still exists today, also falls within this period. It was rebuilt and repurposed several times over the course of two centuries. The first owner of the estate, according to the "Herzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staats-Kalender" of 1796, was Major Joachim Franz Detloff von Bilow from 1796 to 1832, who also owned the Brookhusen estate until the separation of properties in 1802. From 1836 to 1882, the estate was in Meyer's possession. Under Peter Meyer, a day laborer's cottage was built in 1843 on the right side of the access road, which briefly served as a substitute school after the Pölchow school burned down. In 1847, another cottage was built on the left side of the road. In 1869, under Peter Adolf Heinrich Georg Meyer, the brickworks located on the estate was put into operation.

In 1882, the estate, with 350 hectares of arable land and 50 hectares of meadows, a brickworks, cattle farming, and steam engines, passed into the possession of Grand Ducal Building Inspector Friedrich Saniter. The focus of the estate's economy was sugar beet cultivation. The beets were shipped via the Warnow to the sugar factory in Rostock. A two-kilometer-long, fixed field railway was used for transport, which was also used for the operation of the brickworks located near the Warnow. The horse-drawn trolleys primarily transported agricultural goods, fertilizer, fuel, and building materials to or from the fields, as well as ice for the ice cellar.

In 1909, the farm was sold by Saniter's heirs to Johannes Lüttmann, who kept the farm until the forced auction in 1929. In those two decades, a small but high-quality and then modern dairy was built. A bakery was also set up and leased.

In 1932, the diplomat Ernst Ludwig Voss bought the estate. Under his leadership, the estate's economy began to recover. The estate developed into a recognized seed production business. For this purpose, a commercial nursery was established. Milk production with registered breeding cattle and processing in the dairy constituted an important part of the economic operation. Voss endeavored to improve the sometimes very poor living conditions of the agricultural workers employed on the estate through structural changes. During the National Socialist era, Voss was forced by laws to lease the land. He did not succeed in clarifying the convoluted administrative conditions during the war.

Since March 1945, the manor house had been occupied by East Prussian refugees. On May 1, 1945, Soviet soldiers marched into Wahrstorf. On June 21, the Soviet commandant took over the estate for self-management.

In the course of the land reform, the estate was expropriated without compensation in December 1945.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the manor house was partially renovated.

Today, the building houses apartments, a kindergarten in the side wing, the offices of the mayor and the municipal council, the premises of the village association with pottery and library, and a ballroom with a winter garden. The historic manor park with its protected trees is worth seeing. The manor house and manor park are increasingly developing into the community center of the municipality of Pölchow.