Bredenfelde Castle

Bredenfelde Castle is a manor house in the Mecklenburg Lake District. It was built in the mid-19th century in the Tudor style according to designs by the architect Friedrich Hitzig.

The builder Ernst Hans Heinrich von Heyden grew up in Kartlow, where his brother Woldemar von Heyden had Kartlow Castle built at the same time according to Hitzig's designs. The plan for the landscape park, already designed in 1840, also came from Peter Joseph Lenné, like the one in Kartlow. Lenné's plan still assumed a symmetrically arranged manor house. However, nothing is known about the fate of the previous building. Bredenfelde Castle was built between 1852 and 1854. When Ernst Hans Heinrich von Heyden died in 1859, his widow Charlotte Bernhardine Sophie continued to manage the Bredenfelde estate until her death in 1908.

Due to the indebtedness of her son Ernst Werner von Heyden during the Great Depression of 1929, the estate was settled in 1932. The settler family Ladendorff acquired the manor house and established a restaurant and a colonial goods store there. After the expropriation in 1945, the restaurant continued to operate. In addition to housing the administration of Bredenfelde, displaced persons were accommodated here. After it was vacated in 1968, the Bitterfeld housing construction combine acquired the complex. However, no renovations were carried out. Instead, the demolition of the already dilapidated building was considered in 1972. After the roof collapsed, it finally became a ruin.

It was not until 1997 that the house returned to private ownership and was fundamentally renovated by 2002. A hotel with around 40 beds was established in the building.