Our forests, some of which have been in our possession since the 17th century, are managed and cultivated sustainable and naturally in accordance with the exemplary Edict by the Duke of Mecklenburg of 1706. In terms of forestry as part of our family operation this means for all four districts that we constantly provide optimal quantities of wood and forest infrastructure services to ensure the preservation of a balanced natural habitat for a rich variety of creatures in an appropriate rural and cultural setting for the public good and the benefit of mankind.
Forest estates III and IV became part of our business after the German reunification and are somewhat of a particular attraction. After the dispossessions in 1945-49 and the escape of the "von Klinggräff" family, who had been expelled from their estate in Chemnitz in the region of the Stavenhagen offices, the reunification merely presented the family as former owners with a right to "repurchase" their old family estate.
Unhappy about this "constitutional shortcoming" of our state, this "restitution" all but partly made up for the past. At first, the family of "Baron von Loë" acquired the forest estate in Kotzow on the free property market. After years of negotiations with the relevant trust company (BVVG) the family brought forest estate IV Basedow at a reduced price for the injustice suffered by their ancestors.

Estate I Wolfskuhlenhof Rheinberg/North Rhine-Westphalia >> more	Estate II Schwabenberg Olsberg/North Rhine-Westphalia >> more
Estate III Kotzow Rechlin/Mecklenburg-West Pomerania >> more	Estate IV Basedow Basedow/Mecklenburg-West Pomerania >> more