The villa by the lake
When we purchased the house, we decided to give it the name “Schloss Selchow”. The 300 residents of Selchow (Mark) had shaped it for decades. The villa is a piece of German history. Donated to the Löschebrand family in the 16th century as a manor and lost to me, in 1913 the renowned Berlin architects Breslauer/Salinger built it into a sophisticated country house as a summer residence for the German Bank Chairman Paul Mankiewitz. Artists, politicians and industrialists came with him to Selchow in the 1920s, while the Mankiewitz family spent their summers here. Because of their Jewish religion, the German patriots emigrated in 1935 and sold the country house. An eventful history followed with the German Democratic Republic. First refugee accommodation, then grain storage, bank, consumption and finally children's holiday camp of the Eisenhüttenstadt meat combine. With the change came bankruptcy, sale and finally we purchased the house in 2011 and renovated it. We tried to preserve or reconstruct as much as possible from the 1913 period. Since 2015, Selchow Castle has once again been a country house for everyone who appreciates country life and nature in the immediate vicinity of Berlin, without wanting to forego sophisticated design. From the terrace of the villa there is a view of the Groß-Schauener Lake Chain, a unique protected area managed by the Sielmann Stift. The nature reserve starts right at the border of our park, while the villa is at the end of the village green.
