Neo-Baroque manor house in Brandenburg, restored since 2013 as Schloss Selchow.
Schloss Selchow, also listed as Landhaus Selchow, is a former manor house in Brandenburg, Germany. Built in 1913 by architect Alfred Breslauer for banker Paul Mankiewitz, the neo-Baroque building stands in a two-hectare garden. Since 2013, it has been undergoing restoration as a future cultural and event venue.
Schloss Selchow, also listed as Landhaus Selchow, is the manor house of the former Selchow estate in Brandenburg, Germany. In more recent usage, as of 2013, it has increasingly been called “Schloss Selchow.” The house was built in 1913 by architect Alfred Breslauer for the banker Paul Mankiewitz. It is described as a neo-Baroque rendered building with a three-axis central risalit, set beneath a mansard hipped roof in a garden complex covering about two hectares. During the Nazi period, the Jewish Mankiewitz family was forced to sell the estate and emigrated to Argentina and Great Britain. In the GDR era, the building successively housed an agricultural production cooperative, the Konsum, a bank, and later a children’s holiday camp run by the Eisenhüttenstadt meat combine. The house stood empty from 1991 and eventually became dilapidated. In 2012 it was acquired by Christoph Kamps and his wife Susanne Groß. Since 2013, the couple has been renovating and restoring the property with private funds and European Union support under the name Schloss Selchow. According to the source, they intend to make it publicly accessible as a cultural and events venue, with ideas including bicycle groups, yoga courses, and workshops.
