Gut Schötzow

Alexander Duncker (Sammlung Duncker), Wikimedia Commons, gemeinfrei

Acquired jointly by the brothers Ludwig Wilhelm August and Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach in 1781 and sold again by Carl Friedrich Leopold in 1796/97 – the proceeds paid for Rohrbeck. The present house was built only by the later owners, the Schroeders, in 1839.

Chronicle

1. 1276

   First mention as "Schotsow": the Bishop of Cammin confirms the Kolberg cathedral chapter's tithe rights.

2. 1661

   Enfeoffed anew to the Brandenburg officer Caspar von Cronenfels.

3. 1750

   The von Cronenfels have Schötzow converted to allodial property (rescript of 20 June 1750) – the fief becomes freehold.

4. 11. April 1781

   The five daughters of Christoph August von Cronenfels sell Schötzow to the "von Gerlach brothers".

5. 1796/97

   Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach sells Schötzow, Ganzkow and Mechenthin – so the family informed Bagmihl (1843). The buyer of Schötzow is a Herr von Müller; in 1804 Lieutenant Anton von Zastrow is named.

6. 1811

   Sold to the Danish consul Ernst Friedrich Schroeder of Kolberg; in 1838 to his son Heinrich Louis Ottomar Schroeder. By then the consul already owned Rützow, bought in 1807 – the third part of the Gerlach property in the Kolberg country. Within four years he had two of the three estates together that the family had given up fifteen years earlier.

7. 1839

   The Schroeders build the neoclassical manor house with two towers depicted by Duncker in 1866. It still stands – only the east tower survives – and is a listed monument.

8. Um 1910

   The house the later owners had built in 1839 survives in elevation. The monograph on the architect Ernst Rossius-Rhyn carries three sheets: "Schloß Schötzow. Alter Zustand" shows the courtyard front before the rebuilding – two storeys, eleven bays, a central projection and two projecting corner pavilions, exactly as on Duncker's lithograph. Beside it stand two designs for a rebuilding, one with a lantern over the centre, the other with a shallow gable and an outside stair. Whether anything was built the book does not say. For the family the sheets matter only indirectly: they show not their house but their successors' – yet it is the only elevation of Schötzow known.