Bollensdorf

Bollensdorf Estate in Lower Lusatia was purchased by Count Heinrich von Brühl in 1756. In his will, he bequeathed the estate to his secretary Carl Heinrich von Heineken (1707-1791) in gratitude for 24 years of loyal service. In 1775, Heineken established the right of succession. His descendants held the estate until the 1945 Land Reform. The last owner was Margarethe Freifrau von Bischoffshausen, née von Heineken, with whom the family died out in 1952. The Bollensdorf manor house was looted and razed to the ground in the last days of the Second World War.