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Nustrow Manor

Gut Nustrow is a listed former country estate in Nustrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The complex is located on the northern edge of the village. Today, the castle houses a hotel operation.
The manor house is a neoclassical, rectangular building with an east-west orientation. To the east of the north facade, and thus on the side facing away from the street, extends the narrow, two-story wing to the north, which remains from the older building fabric. Above a basement designed as a Souterrain with a granite plinth are two full floors. The facade is designed with eleven window axes with rectangular casement windows. Two risalits, barely protruding to the south at the edges of the building, each comprise three window axes. The original entrance with a representative, two-flight external staircase leads into the right (eastern) risalit. Another entrance with a single-flight external staircase into the left risalit was added later. The facade plaster features a cornice band above the basement and small cornices above the windows. The once strongly designed dentil frieze on the roof cornice is no longer present on the street facade. The side facade was designed with lunettes above the windows on the upper floor of the side facades, which were bricked up for a time but have now been restored. Cyma moldings adorn the lunettes. The roof is designed as a half-hipped roof, that of the annex as a simple gable roof.
The eastern part of the main house is dominated on the ground floor by the entrance hall, structured by three columns. A ballroom dominates the western half of the building. A prominent furnishing feature of these rooms is the largely preserved parquet flooring, artfully patterned with two-tone woods. The ballroom also features well-preserved ceiling paintings with sphinx and griffin motifs.
The estate's park features, among other things, a lime tree avenue that has been preserved to this day, as well as several older individual trees. Of the surrounding farm buildings, a pheasantry and the round building of a bee house have been preserved; both in half-timbered construction from the end of the 19th century. The pigsty was demolished, the orangery and several farm buildings were so heavily rebuilt that their original character is no longer recognizable.
Previous Buildings+
By the 15th century at the latest, Nustrow was owned by the noble house of Behr. When the Behrs built their first castle there is unclear. However, it is certain that this castle was razed in 1420 during a feud by troops from the cities of Greifswald and Stralsund. The successor building, already with castle rather than fortress character, but still with moats, was built at the beginning of the 16th century. In 1794, Georg Christoph von Behr sold the estate and the village of Nustrow to the House of Schack. At this time, the castle was in very poor condition. Nevertheless, the new owners seem to have inhabited the complex, as the former Danish courtier Engel Karl Ernst von Schack (* 1750) died there in 1811. His son Ernst Peter von Schack (1783–1842), Mecklenburg Landdrost since 1813, had the old castle demolished in 1830. Only the foundations and a newer wing, which had been built before 1800, remained.
By 1837 at the latest, the construction of the new manor house under Ernst Peter von Schack was completed. The complex is attributed to the architect Carl Theodor Severin, but this cannot be proven beyond doubt. The estate was allodified in 1907. Hans Emeke Karl Arthur von Schack sold the manor house in 1912 to the cavalry officer Prömmel, commander of the Parchim Dragoon Regiment. Prömmel was murdered in 1945 by soldiers of the Red Army together with his daughter in the estate's pigsty. Their grave in the castle park is now marked with a glacial erratic. During the GDR era, the estate served as a residential and community center. The grandson of the last estate owner, Klaus Prömmel, leased the estate with its approximately 800 hectares of agriculture in 1991 and bought the manor house from the Tessin housing association in 1998.
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