Neo-Baroque manor house in Wahlsdorf, later used as school.
Gutshaus Wahlsdorf is a neo-Baroque manor house in Wahlsdorf, a district of Dahme/Mark in Brandenburg, Germany. Built in 1914–1915 for Otto Gustav Walter Schwietzke by the Berlin architects Cremer & Wolffenstein, it later served as a school and is used as a youth guesthouse since 2010.
Gutshaus Wahlsdorf is a neo-Baroque manor house in Wahlsdorf, a district of Dahme/Mark in Brandenburg, Germany. It stands north of Schulstraße, near the village church, on a property enclosed in part by residential buildings and in part by a historically valuable wall. Plans from the 1830s already show an earlier manor house on the site. The present building was erected in 1914–1915 on the initiative of the landowner Otto Gustav Walter Schwietzke, whose family had owned the village since 1827. He commissioned the Berlin architects Cremer & Wolffenstein to design the new neo-Baroque house. Before the economic crisis of 1929–1930, sheep farming was the main activity on the estate. After the Second World War, the Schwietzke family was expropriated, and from 1949 to 1993 the building served as a school. In the 1970s a gymnasium was added on the west side, and in 1988 an extension was built on the north side. From 1993 it was used as a training center, the seat of Qualifizierungsverein Niederer Fläming e. V., and also as a hotel. After reconstruction based on the historical model in 1999–2000, it has been used since 2010 by Neue Lebenswelt e. V. as a youth guesthouse.
