Schönhausen

Schönhausen combines an expansive landscape of meadows and forests with remarkable traces of its history. The village and Lake Schönhausen are located in the Brohmer Berge. At the same time, the half-timbered village church, a preserved prison cellar, and the manor house tell different chapters of the village’s history. Here, you can discover nature and historic buildings as two defining aspects of Schönhausen.

Meadows, forests and Lake Schönhausen

The landscape of the Brohmer Berge gives Schönhausen a rural setting: meadows and forests are as much a part of the scenery as Lake Schönhausen. If you value a green setting when choosing a holiday destination, you can take this landscape into account when considering a holiday apartment. The lake is not just part of the village’s name: the estate park is also right by the water. This clear connection between the park and the lake sets the park apart as a distinct point of reference within the landscape described here.

An old chestnut avenue leads from Schönhausen towards Matzdorf. It is another distinctive feature of the landscape and points in a direction out of the village.

Half-timbering and Baroque interior features

The village church is a half-timbered building dating from the 18th century. Its layout is easy to describe by compass direction: to the east, it has a three-sided chancel extension, while a half-timbered tower stands to the west. The tower’s upper storey is octagonal and topped with a dome. In addition to these exterior features, the church also has Baroque interior features. The half-timbered structure and Baroque furnishings are two distinct aspects of the same building that you can look out for as you learn about Schönhausen’s history. For families keen to discover historic architecture together, the church offers specific features to talk about while looking around, without needing any specialist knowledge.

Castle Hill, the prison cellar and the manor house

Another glimpse into history can be found on Castle Hill, a hill in Schönhausen Park. A prison cellar, uncovered in 1925, has been preserved there. The cellar belonged to a castle built by Joachim von Rieben in the first half of the 16th century. The combination of the hill, park and historic cellar alone makes this a special part of Schönhausen’s history. The year 1925 is a date in its own right: it marks the uncovering of the cellar, not the construction of the castle.

The manor house also has its own historical connection. Heinrich von Michael had it built in 1842 on the remains of a castle that stood on a peninsula in the lake until the beginning of the 17th century. These details place the manor house in a sequence of earlier buildings without conflating the different structures and dates. The church, cellar and manor house thus represent different historical themes: sacred half-timbered architecture, the history of a castle, and the development of the manor house on the remains of a castle.

Choose Schönhausen as your holiday destination

If you are looking for a holiday apartment in Schönhausen, you can consider which aspect of the village appeals most to you: the landscape of lakes, meadows and forests, or the historic buildings and their different stories. Your decision will therefore depend on which of these aspects of Schönhausen you would most like to focus on during your stay.

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For the broader travel overview: Amt Woldegk.