Wasserschloss Quilow

En un regard

Le château en bref

Wasserschloss Quilow, in the municipality of Groß Polzin in Western Pomerania, is a Renaissance manor house begun in 1575 between the village pond and the edge of a forest, not far from the Peene valley. Its decorative gables and stair tower make it one of the few Renaissance manor houses still standing in Western Pomerania. It was originally surrounded by a moat, a trace of which remains. The estate belonged to the von Owstin family in the late Middle Ages and, until the expropriation of 1945, to the von Ploetz family. In East German times the building served as housing, an agricultural cooperative canteen and a municipal office, then stood empty after 1990 and fell into disrepair. Taken over by a foundation in 2007 and restored over three years, it reopened in autumn 2020 as a museum, café-restaurant and event venue.