Roest Manor

Gut Roest, located at the western entrance and exit of Kappeln, is one of the oldest estates in Angeln.

The original castle is already mentioned in King Valdemar's Cadastre of 1231 as part of the Geltinger Forest. It changed hands several times: the families Lembeck, Split, among others, are mentioned. In 1498, Schack Rumohr bought the estate, which remained in the possession of the Rumohr family until 1797, almost 300 years. Schack Rumohr fell shortly after acquiring the estate in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.

The oldest part of the manor house was built in 1590 by Asmus von Rumohr, who also owned Gut Rundhof; his grandson Heinrich built the left wing in 1641. The two gabled houses are built together on the eaves side in the style of the time, but offset from each other. In the ancient knight's hall with an open fireplace, there is a mural from 1640, which shows as an emblem a squire on a falcon hunt, with the Latin subscriptio velle at non posse dolendum est (English: To want but not to be able is painful).

In 1667, Detlef von Rumohr took over the estate. He later rose to the rank of Major General in Danish service and fell as Governor of Rügen in the Battle of Warksow on January 8, 1678. In 1667, however, he tried to force the citizens of the town of Kappeln, which belonged to the estate, to swear an oath of allegiance to him, whereupon 64 families left the town and founded Germany's smallest town today, Arnis, on a spit of land in the Schlei. Detlef von Rumohr's epitaph adorns Kappeln's St. Nikolai Church.

This church was commissioned by Hans Adolph von Rumohr in 1789 – shortly before he sold Gut Roest to Landgrave Carl von Hessen in 1797, who already owned Louisenlund Castle. He parceled out the huge landholding of the estate and thereby abolished serfdom. The estate then fell to the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The manor house was sold and has been in private ownership for years.