Schloss Kartzow

Schloss Kartzow is a manor house in Kartzow, a district of Potsdam, Germany. Its Baroque appearance comes from a rebuilding carried out between 1912 and 1914 by Berlin architect Eugen Schmohl. The estate began as a knight’s holding and was first recorded in 1450 under the noble Hünicke family.

Carl Wolf Stielow reshaped the property into a castle-like residence in 1850. A fire damaged the house in 1873, and Arthur Gilka later rebuilt it as the three-winged Landhaus Gilka. Gilka’s reconstruction created a residence with 66 rooms before the property passed to Major Eduard von Eickenhof-Reitzenstein and his daughter. In 1940, Sanssouci garden director Georg Potente redesigned the grounds as a landscaped park.

War and changing social needs brought further uses, including Wehrmacht accommodation, housing for displaced people, a children’s home and a children’s kidney sanatorium. Restoration followed its sale in 2006, and since 2008 the house has also served as an external branch of Potsdam’s registry office. Weddings, events, a hotel operation added in 2010, and film and television productions now share this historic setting.