Schloss Blücher

Schloss Fleesensee stands on the site of the former Lebbin manor in Göhren-Lebbin, a village beside the Fleesensee lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The first house was built in 1842 for Count Ludwig II von Blücher, but after a fire in 1912 only the cellars, ground-floor walls and two towers remained. The present building is a neo-Baroque reconstruction designed by architects Ernst Paulus and Olaf Lilloe, completed in 1916.

The house was enlarged by Walter Freiherr von Tiele-Winckler, who added a winter garden and three towers, and installed electric lighting in 1889. After the 1912 fire his half-brother Raban commissioned the Berlin architects to create more than a hundred rooms, a 170-square-metre ballroom, central heating, lifts and a vacuum-cleaning system. The sweeping staircase in the entrance hall still shows the original fittings brought back from an Indian hunting expedition.

Visitors walk through the grand entrance hall past the curved staircase and into the ballroom, where high ceilings and tall windows fill the space with light. The surrounding park, laid out by Peter Joseph Lenné, still contains trees planted between 1870 and 1900. The hotel occupies the entire building, offering guests views over the lake and the older garden terraces.