Conference hotel Landgut Stober in the Berlin area on the lake
Newly built from ruins and rubble
Conference hotel in the Berlin area by the lake
Conference hotel Landgut Stober near Berlin on the lake
Before and after the renovation
You can imagine what the whole property must have looked like when Stober came here for the first time, in 2000, actually looking for a house for himself. “A friend told me that this property was for sale.” , he says, “and I, an idiot, went there.” The trees grew through the roofs of the houses. But Stober, who has had some experience with renovations as a builder — “a few thousand units” — was able to see something that no one but him thought possible. “You could say I had a vision,” he says today, “and unlike Helmut Schmidt, I don’t believe that people with visions should go to the doctor.” He began to implement his vision.
It took a while until the concept was finalized because it was clear that the Stober estate was not suitable as a family home. “I was looking for an implementation that had a public impact, a sustainable business activity that served a cultural background.” The cultural background that August Borsig and later his descendants set could not be broader. Technology, agriculture, biology (all Borsigs were dendrologists - non-utility tree researchers) - combined with social and community commitment right up to the Kreisau Circle, the Nazi-era opposition group around James von Moltke and Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, who were friends with the resistance fighters of June 20, 1944 to Count von Stauffenberg. The “Kreisauers” developed ideas for the time after what they saw as the inevitable downfall of the Third Reich, and they discussed their ideas on agriculture here, with Dr. Ernst von Borsig junior (the Borsigs had since been ennobled)