Holstre Manor

Holstre takes its name from Holstever, its owner at the end of the 15th century, when a fortified stone house, a small vassal castle, stood here. In 1494 Nicolaus Holstever received the estate as a fief, together with three villages and meadows. The castle has vanished, though remains have come out of the ground over the years, and since the 1930s a schoolhouse has stood on its site in the manor park. The finest surviving building is the early classicist kitchen house on a high plinth, built in the 1780s by General Magnus Johann von Berg, who leased the state-owned estate.