Saturday and Sunday, June 20 + 21, 2026 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Admission and musical entertainment 11 am - 6 pm Coffee & cake and cheese & wine 11 am - 6 pm Picnic in the park (please bring your own blanket) 11 am - 6 pm Permanent exhibition "The castle in the moon" on the history of the house 1 / 3 / 5 p.m. Meet & greet with the hosts about the eventful past and hopeful future of the estate
From 1803 to 1945, the von Kruse family ran their agricultural and forestry business on the Neetzow estate. In 1848, the family commissioned Friedrich Hitzig, a student of Schinkel from Berlin, to build the manor house as the family's new ancestral home. The estate with its numerous farm buildings was situated on several hectares of land and in its heyday was connected to six other estates. After the expulsion and expropriation of the family during the land reform in 1945, the castle housed a branch of the Institute of Agricultural Economics of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences until German reunification. This almost continuous use of the building has preserved impressive historical architectural elements, such as the unique rotunda in the neo-Renaissance style. Artistic parquet mosaic floors and impressive wall paintings of hunting scenes have also been preserved. The combination of honest history and timeless modernity gives the house, which is now run as a hotel, a modern, sophisticated flair with a down-to-earth feel. The enchanted landscape park surrounding the property with its small lake is particularly characterized by its old tree monuments and forms a retreat and home for over 30 different bird species.
