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Albert Borsig, son of the mechanical engineering magnate August, pioneer of German railway mobility and socially committed patriarch, bought the Groß Behnitzer manor in 1866 from the bankrupt noble von Itzenplitz family. By 1945, the Borsigs had developed and built a state-of-the-art model farm, used agricultural machinery from the Borsig works and provided their own railway connection. They donated a school and kindergarten to the village. During the Second World War, Borsig's grandson Ernst von Borsig junior made the now demolished manor house available to the "Kreisauer Kreis" resistance circle around James Graf von Moltke as a conspiratorial meeting place. With his death in Russian captivity after the end of the war, Borsig's success story on the estate ends.