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In March 2006, the castle and its 67,000-square-foot estate was purchased at a forced sale by the present owner. The buyer was the architect, Dominik von Boettinger, who, in addition to the hotel and restaurant operation of the castle, also wants to use it as a cultural centre with exhibitions,
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in 1945, the estate remained in the possession of the von Putbus family. In subsequent years, the castle was left to decay. From the 1960s until 1989, the East German trade union federation,
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troops in 1806/07 Spycker temporarily became the seat of the French governor of Rügen. In 1815, Rügen, which had hitherto been Swedish, was handed over to
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After the death of Carl Gustav Wrangel in 1676, the property passed to his daughter Eleanora-Sophia, wife of the Lord of
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gave the now empty seat of Spycker in 1649 to the Swedish field marshal and later governor-general of
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patrician family, the von Külpens. In 1344 a daughter from the House of von Külpen married the
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Map of Swedish estates with the site of Spycker Castle in September 1694
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Spycker was first recorded in 1318. It belonged at that time to the
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sold Spycker in 1817 and it came into the possession of Prince
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Historic building in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Spycker Castle in the mid-19th century (Duncker Collection)
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in 1648. As a reward for his wartime services, Queen
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