Schlossgut Groß Schwansee takes board meetings, seminars, company functions and weddings for 5 to 120 guests across eight rooms in its manor house and former horse stable. Larger parties of up to 400 can use the hall on the neighboring Gut Brook estate. The hotel lies on the Bay of Lübeck, on the Baltic coast near Kalkhorst in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with 63 rooms and suites on site.
Seminars and company events
Meetings range from private boardroom sessions in the small salons to company events in the Pferdestall. A full-day meeting package covers what a working day needs, and breaks can be timed to the program. Breaks bring hot and cold drinks, wraps in the morning, fruit and sweets in the afternoon. Lunch and a gourmet dinner are served in the Schlossrestaurant. Teams can end the day in the park, on the lime avenue that leads to the beach, or in the sauna. A PDF of the meeting packages is available on the hotel's site.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are planned to the couple's wishes, with food and a setting by the coast. Civil ceremonies are arranged with the Klützer Winkel registry office in Klütz. Church weddings can take place in nearby villages: Kalkhorst and Elmenhorst for Protestant ceremonies, Klütz for Catholic ones. The hotel sends a first proposal on request, and a paid consultation with a site tour can be booked. Guests stay overnight in the manor and the park building.
Rooms and capacities
Festsaal: 78 square meters, extendable to 140 with the foyer, with stucco work and direct access to the balcony; about 60 people for a meeting. Pferdestall: about 120 people for events and company parties, on the ground floor and combined with the Brasserie, which can only be booked with it. Salon von Both: an oval table for up to 8, with a view of the park and the lime avenue. Salon von Schröder and Salon von Plessen: up to 10 each, overlooking the castle pond, for small meetings or breakout groups. Herrensalon and library: book-lined walls, an open fireplace and an oak floor.
Accommodation
The hotel has 63 rooms and suites in six categories. Ten rooms and suites are in the manor itself, including the Schloss-Suite, and 53 are in the park building, which has large windows. Categories include Classic and Superior rooms, Junior Suites and Suites. Parking and three electric charging points are on site.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The Schlossrestaurant 1745 serves menus that change daily, with a considered wine list. The Brasserie in the former stables serves the breakfast buffet and regional cooking. A small wellness area offers treatments and a sauna, and a natural bathing pond is run along ecological lines.
History and setting
The estate is first recorded in 1316. Wilhelm Ludwig von Both built the manor house in 1745, a rendered brick building on a fieldstone base modeled on Schloss Bothmer in nearby Klütz. It passed to the von Haeseler, von Ladiges and von Schröder families, was expropriated in the 1945 land reform, and was bought in 1998 by Silvius Dornier, who restored the manor and the stables and added a park building. David Dornier has run the hotel since 2019, and it marked 20 years in 2022.
Getting there
The hotel stands directly on the Baltic, with a lime avenue down to the beach, about an hour by car from Hamburg.
