Main building (also ) is a

schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...

Wangels Wangels is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Ru ...

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, Germany. It is next to the

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and about 100 km away from

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. The 75 hectare estate, including several restored historic buildings and a village, is owned by

Jan Henric Buettner Jan Henric Buettner (born 1964) is a German entrepreneur. Born in Hamburg, Buettner studied business management there and did an internship at a precursor of Vodafone, then started his career as a trainee at Axel Springer AG, where he worked on in ...

, who bought it for €7 million in 2005 and opened a luxury resort there in 2014.Martin U. Müller, tr. Ella Ornstein
"For Millionaires, By Millionaires: Transforming a Baltic Sea Village into Paradise"
'' Der Spiegel'', 11 January 2013.Maren Hoffmann
"Luxusresort Weissenhaus: Keine Angst vorm Millionärswatching"
'' Der Spiegel'', 20 June 2014 Maren Hoffmann
"75 Hektar Luxus"
''Manager'', 27 June 2014 €7.5 million in the funding for the renovation and conversion was raised on the crowdfunding site

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, where it drew more investment than any other for-profit European organisation to that date. The resort's luxury restaurant Courier was awarded a Michelin star in the 2015 ''Guide'' and 16 Gault Millau points.

References

External links

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Weissenhaus official website
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