4504 x 2831 px | 38,1 x 24 cm | 15 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
24 juillet 2018
Lieu:
Dorfstraße, 17391 Stolpe an der Peene, Germany
Informations supplémentaires:
Germany, Stolpe an der Peene, Gutshaus Stolpe Estate. Historic old restored farm building & modern Spa Gutshaus Stolpe history: The Stolpe estate was owned by Swedish Royalty after the 30 years war when Pomerania became Swedish - Peace of Westphalia, 1648. After the Nordic War and the 1720 Peace of Stockholm, Western Pomerania was divided. The northern part remained Swedish but the part south of the Peene river became Prussian and Stolpe became the personal domain of Friedrich Wilhelm I. His great grandson King Friedrich Wilhelm III sold the estate to the state in 1807. During the following years it changed hands several times until von Bülows bought the property in the 1850s and leased it to tenants. After World War l, Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Hans v. Bülow and his wife Sophie settled on the estate. The couple had no children and after Sophie’s death, Hans Bülow adopted his wife’s niece, Ursula von Maltzan. In 1926, Ursula Bülow-Maltzan married Kurt Stürken, who came from a Hamburg merchant family but had studied agriculture in Göttingen. Kurt Stürken renovated the property and built new farm buildings. Kurt and Ursula Stürken had six children but during the Second World War Ursula Stürken had to manage the estate as her officer husband was away. She fled to Hamburg with her children as the Red Army approached the Oder in1945. Kurt Stürken, the second youngest son of Kurt and Ursula Stürken, returned to Stolpe for the first time in 1990 and shortly afterwards negotiated re-purchase of the family property, which had been expropriated in 1945 by the Soviet military administration and thereafter transferred to the state owned estate (VEG) Seaatbau Stolpe. Kurt Stürken bought back the estate and about 150 hectares of land from the German state in1994 with the intention of establishing a business. On 1.12.1996 the GUTSHAUS STOLPE was opened as a hotel and restaurant. Kurt Stürken also bought the old h
