Burg Lutter rents out a self-catering seminar and holiday house to groups. It stands inside an old castle site at the foot of the northern Harz mountains, in Lutter am Barenberge, part of Langelsheim in Lower Saxony. The house is split into four apartments with their own kitchen, bathroom and common room, and one booking option adds a seminar room.
Seminars and company events
The house is aimed at groups that run their own program: seminars, workshops, retreats and camps. It is a self-catering house, so the group cooks and cleans for itself. Four apartments can be rented separately or as a whole house. A larger common room of 40 square meters sits in the upper right apartment, and the lower right apartment has a small common room fitted with work tables and chairs. For a larger session, a booking of nine beds can include a seminar room, and a brewhouse on the grounds can be hired for seminars. A projector can be rented. A group of 40 or more people has its own information page. The site gives no total number of beds for the whole house, so state your group size when you register.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are not offered. The site does say the brewhouse can be rented for parties, and the outdoor kitchen, rented for groups of 20 or more, supports a party outdoors. There is space on the grounds to play, to grill and to make a campfire.
Rooms and capacities
The house has four apartments, each with a kitchen, a bathroom, a common room and several bedrooms of two to six beds. Apartments come as units of 6, 9 and 14 beds, and the 9-bed apartment can be taken with the seminar room. Mattresses are covered, and guests bring pillows, blankets or sleeping bags. The entrance, the shared shower and the two lower apartments are step-free, and the lower left apartment has a toilet reachable by wheelchair. Camping is possible, but only with a rented apartment.
Accommodation
Bedrooms are two- to six-bed rooms with bunk beds or doubles, spread over the four apartments. A shared shower with running hot water serves all apartments. The whole house has heating, and stoves are there for those who want to gather around a fire; wood or briquettes must be brought along.
Catering
There is no catering. Gas stoves or wood-fired kitchen ranges are in each kitchen, with dishes and pots provided. Guests bring their own food or buy it in the village, where a supermarket open until 9 pm Monday to Saturday is a five-minute walk away. The estate sells what it produces: eggs in spring, sheep cheese in summer and apple juice all year.
History and setting
The house stands on the old castle grounds, in green surroundings, run by the autonomous businesses of Burg Lutter, which also operates a juice press on the site. Guided tours of the grounds can be requested at registration.
Getting there
Burg Lutter is in Langelsheim, at the foot of the northern Harz. The site has a page on how to get there and a location page. To book, call the office during its hours on Monday and Thursday from 9 to 10 am, or write with your dates and space needs, then return the registration form once the reservation is confirmed.
