Historic manor house with park and family mausoleum in Brandenburg.
Schloss Laasow, also known as Herrenhaus Laasow, is a manor house in Laasow, a district of Vetschau/Spreewald in Brandenburg, Germany. Built in 1856 for Jacques Alfred von Pourtalès, it is a registered monument together with its estate park and hereditary burial site.
Schloss Laasow, also known as Herrenhaus Laasow, is a manor house in the Laasow district of the town of Vetschau/Spreewald in Brandenburg, Germany. Together with its estate park and a hereditary burial site, it is listed as an architectural monument in the Brandenburg heritage register. The building stands on the western side of Laasow at the end of the street Im Park. It was built in 1856 for the estate owner Jacques Alfred von Pourtalès, whose grandfather had acquired the estate fourteen years earlier. In the early 20th century, the house was enlarged with side wings to the west and east, and around 1923 a large west-side extension was added. After the Second World War, the manor house was first used to accommodate displaced people from the former eastern territories of Germany. It later served as a nursery, a polytechnic secondary school, and the seat of the local municipal administration. After German reunification it was temporarily unused. The building was renovated in 1996 after foundation damage caused by ground subsidence linked to groundwater lowering for the nearby Gräbendorf lignite mine. Since 2015 it has stood empty again. Architecturally, the house was built in the Swiss villa style, with a landscaped park around it and the Pourtalès family burial site within the grounds.
