Manor estate in Laubsdorf, a village in Brandenburg, Germany.
Schloss Laubsdorf is the manor estate associated with Laubsdorf, a district of Neuhausen/Spree in Brandenburg, Germany. The village lies about two kilometres east of Neuhausen. The estate’s history is tied to a traditional Rittergut, with documented noble ownership from the 16th century and landholdings recorded into the 20th century.
Schloss Laubsdorf is associated with the former Rittergut of Laubsdorf, a village in Brandenburg, Germany, now an Ortsteil of the municipality of Neuhausen/Spree in the district of Spree-Neiße. Laubsdorf lies about two kilometres east of Neuhausen and is connected by the L 472, with additional road links via the L 47 between Spremberg and Kathlow. The available source describes the place mainly through the history of the estate and village. Laubsdorf is said to have developed as a village with a classic manor estate, and the history of the settlement is closely tied to that Rittergut. The name appears in older records from 1488 and 1501 as Labensdorf. In 1536, half of Laubsdorf was granted to Andreas von Zabeltitz, and a few years later the whole village followed. Ownership later involved the families von Streumen, von Zabeltitz, von Oertzen, von Tietzen, von Elterlein and von Kottwitz. By 1822, even the inn at Laubsdorf belonged to the Rittergut. In the late 19th century the estate covered 416 hectares of land, including 100 hectares of forest. Before the First World War it remained a 426-hectare estate, and during the economic crisis it was managed by Hans Wittigo von Kottwitz with an administrator named Steig.
