Top 12 Castles around Zossen

King Frederick William I, known as the "Soldier King", loved the town of Wusterhausen since his youth. Here he prepared for his reign, developed new ideas for a well-organized and economical state administration and began to build a respectable army, known as the "Tall Guys".

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Genshagen Castle is a mansion built between 1878 and 1880 in the former Gutsdorf Genshagen of the same name, a district of Ludwigsfelde in the Brandenburg district of Teltow-Fläming. It is southwest of Berlin. Genshagen was first mentioned in 1289 and was divided before the 15th century. The larger part came into the possession of the von Otterstedt family, a significantly smaller part to the von Zicker family. Before 1655 the noble von Hake family acquired Otterstedt's share. The Zicker share came in 1677 to Friedrich August von Thümen. In 1700, a manor house was built in the former Otterstedt share, when Lewin Friedrich von Hake married Maria Dorothea, née Schaefferin. Wilhelm von Hake kept the estate throughout the wars of liberation. From 1791 to 1819 the Genshagener manor house served as the district office of the district of Teltow.[1] His son, Ludwig von Hake, sold it in 1838 for 130,000 Reichstaler to the royal Prussian Privy Councilor Karl Ferdinand Schulz. He commissioned Anton Gebauer with the administration for many decades. In September 1854, father Karl Ferdinand[3] left the manor house, which now belonged to the debt-free estate, to his daughter Friederike Pauline von Eberstein as a wedding gift on the occasion of her marriage to Max Freiherr von Ebenstein, a second lieutenant in the Emperor Franz Grenadier Regiment. On her behalf, a new manor house was built between 1878 and 1880 under the direction of the Berlin building inspector Lindemann, which after the conversion in the 1910s was primarily referred to as a palace. A one-storey, thirteen-axle rendered building in the Neo-Renaissance style was built on a high base with bossage. In their explanations in Die Guts- und Herrenhäuser im Landkreis Teltow-Fläming, Hiltrud and Carsten Preuss describe a symmetrical façade structure with “decorative façade decoration”. In the middle on the courtyard side was a flight of steps that stretched three axes wide. Visitors entered a portico that bore a triangular gable with the von Eberstein coat of arms. On the park side, another flight of steps led into the park. In the mansard roof there were ten dormer windows on the courtyard side, which were arranged above the window axes on the ground floor. After the von Eberstein family moved in, the manager used the old manor house as a residence and manager's house. In 1888 a distillery was built. (Source Wikipedia)

Königs Wusterhausen Castle in the town of the same name south-east of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg became known as the preferred residence of the "soldier king" Friedrich Wilhelm I and as the location of his tobacco colleges. The listed building has been a museum since 2000. The two-storey, almost square structure was built up to the upper floor using fieldstone. It shows the type of “solid house” that was obligatory for the Renaissance. The north and south sides of the building show the gable fronts with steep and parallel gabled roofs that are characteristic of the palace. On the northern courtyard facade is the upstream stair tower, shifted from the central axis, with a slate-covered tail cap. In the ballroom of the castle there are about 40 paintings that the soldier king painted himself between 1735 and 1739 in Kossenblatt Castle and that only came to Wusterhausen in 1863. In front of the castle are the two cavalier houses, which together form the trapezoidal courtyard. Source: Wikipedia

The castle ensemble is a wonderful place. Several restaurants, a hotel and many events throughout the year make the well-kept castle and its buildings - actually it is a large estate - a popular destination for excursions. https://www.schlossdiedersdorf.de/

Baruth Castle has medieval roots. For almost 400 years it was the residence of the Counts of Solms-Baruth. The oldest part of the castle was extensively restored by the city of Baruth/Mark. In this "open house" you can see impressive frescoes in the Belle Floor, fine stucco and modern color schemes on the ground floor and an imposing barrel vault discover in the basement.

Guided tours are offered in the castle.