Tüschenbek Manor

Tüschenbek was initially called Toradesdorp and was first mentioned in 1212 as a moated castle of the noble Gronow family and then also in the Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230. The later name Tüschenbek describes its location "tüschen" (between) "Bek[en]", i.e., between the waterways of the Wakenitz and the Grönau, a tributary of the Wakenitz, from which the neighboring Groß Grönau takes its name. The old Tüschenbek estate, as a moated castle, was located about 800 m west of the current farm complex on the Grönau and can still be recognized today as a wooded area in nature. In 1476, the noble von Carlow family from Mecklenburg owned Tüschenbek, until it passed into the possession of the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1500. In 1563, the Danish governor of Schleswig-Holstein, Heinrich Rantzau, acquired Tüschenbek for the Rantzau family, who kept it until 1624. Heinrich Rantzau built a new farm complex on the site of the old castle. This Renaissance new building is documented on the oldest surviving illustration of Tüschenbek on the edge of the Rantzau panel as Stift Nosocomion around 1585 and on a woodcut by Peter Lindenberg from 1590, showing a square farm complex fortified with palisades, with a typical multi-gabled half-timbered house and a forecourt with other half-timbered buildings. In 1624, Heinrich Rantzau's son sold Tüschenbek back to the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg, who last used it as the residence of the widow Sibylle Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg. The land was leased, and the buildings increasingly fell into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War. In 1690, Saxe-Lauenburg passed to the House of Hanover. In 1703, Sibylle Hedwig bequeathed the estates of Tüschenbek and Groß Sarau, which Hanover had left to her, in her will to her childhood friend Armgard Margarete von Bernstorff, sister of Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff and wife of Christian Ulrich von Wackerbarth. The Lauenburg family von Wackerbarth was based in Kogel.

Towards the end of the 18th century, Tüschenbek passed to the Lübeck patrician family von Brömbsen. Under Karl Friedrich von Brömbsen, the farm complex was moved to its current location. He erected a single-story half-timbered manor house. Already in 1797, the von Luckner family settled in Tüschenbek, but had to give up the estate again in 1828 to the Scot Captain J. Stanley Carr due to the economic upheavals after the French period. Carr modernized agriculture in Tüschenbek. Around the middle of the century, the Danish Royal House acquired Tüschenbek and gifted it to its Master of the Hunt, Julius von Hollen, in recognition of his services. Carr emigrated to Australia in 1850 and acquired an agricultural property in Westgarthtown near Melbourne. Julius von Hollen's son built the villa-like manor house, which still stands today, by 1889. The neo-Gothic mausoleum was also built by the von Hollen family and served as their burial place. Since 1998, the manor house has been used as the corporate headquarters of the insurance broker Gaedertz & Schneider. The agricultural areas of the estate were cut through by the construction of the A 20.