Schlossresidenz

A sauna, a natural pond and a park to lose yourself in.

Fourteen apartments and suites in their own park, a quarter of an hour from Hanover.

The natural bathing pond with its wooden deck — A bathing pond, not a pool.

Time out does not need a spa with twenty treatments. It needs quiet, space and things you can do without booking them. The Schlossresidenz has plenty of all three: 80,000 square metres of parkland, a sauna that is ready around the clock, a natural swimming pond and a tennis court. All without booking, without a key card and without an extra charge.

The sauna

The sauna is yours day and night. You switch it on yourself; it needs a short time to heat up, and then it is all yours. It is small and meant for the guests of a house with fourteen units, not for day visitors. A curtain separates the sauna area from the corridor, and there is a relaxation room as well.

If you are looking for a large sauna complex with brine pools, the Königliche Kristall-Therme in Seelze is ten minutes away, and afterwards you come back to the quiet of the park.

The natural swimming pond

Right in front of the apartments lies a swimming pond for the guests of the house: no chlorine, just a plant filter, with a wooden deck at the entry point. From spring to autumn it is where guests spend their afternoons. One note that belongs here: the swimming pond is a natural body of water and is not supervised. The stones at the entry point can be slippery, so please step in carefully. Swimming is at your own risk.

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Sauna, pond and park

The sauna with its starlit ceiling, stove and water bucket — No booking and no time slot.

The relaxation room by the sauna with two loungers

The way to the sauna with a Buddha figure and a chest of drawers

The gym with cardio and strength equipment

Two players at the net of the clay court

Two guests in bathrobes at the edge of the swimming pond — In summer, the reason not to plan the day.

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Staying active

Tennis court, open around the clock, evenings included.
Fitness room with cross trainer, treadmill, Power Plate, ergometer, recumbent bike and mats, also open at any time.
Table tennis outdoors.
Bicycles to borrow free of charge from the house. The Leine-Heide-Radweg cycle route runs right past the estate.

The park

The park is large enough to walk in for an hour without passing the same tree twice. Two ponds, old weeping willows, meadows stretching to the horizon and a nature trail through flowers and herbs. The grounds are home to alpacas, hens, geese, white and black swans, and the bees whose honey is on the breakfast table each morning. The enclosures are at least three hundred metres from the apartments: you visit them when you feel like it.

Some visitors are not ours but come anyway: deer out on the fields at sunrise and at dusk, storks, now and then a fox. If you are on the terrace with a coffee at that hour, you need no programme.

Behind the park the fields begin, and they do not stop for a while. In front of most apartments there is no road, only meadow. The estate is private ground, and that is where the quiet comes from: no public path runs through it, so nobody passes who is not staying here. A quarter of an hour from Hanover, that is rarer than it sounds.

Walking without leaving the gate

You do not have to drive anywhere to go for a walk. Paths lead along the ponds, over the nature trail, out to the enclosures and back again. If you want to go further, you walk through the gate onto the field tracks that begin behind the estate. One round before breakfast, one after dinner, and as many in between as you like.

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Outdoors

The grill kota at dusk, light in the windows — In summer for grilling, in winter for the warmth.

An alpaca eating from a man’s hand, the sun setting over the paddocks behind — They come over by themselves when someone stands at the fence.

The geese on the pond — They are awake before you are, every morning.

House, pond and meadows from above — The grounds do not end at the last tree.

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Switching off, even when you are here on business

Many guests come during the week to work and stay because the evening looks different here from an evening in a city hotel. No reception desk, no bar with a television, no road outside the window. Instead a park in which the phone becomes less important on its own, a sauna you can still switch on at eleven at night, and breakfast at the long table before you drive into town. The network is stable throughout the house, so you are giving nothing up. You simply decide for yourself when to use it.

In the evening there is the Grillkota, a Scandinavian-style hut with a fire pit in the middle of the park. It is free of charge; just let us know in advance so that we can reserve it for you.

Indoors, when it is grey outside

The lounge with its fireplace, the library and the honesty bar are open around the clock. Coffee, tea and cake are available all day. And because every unit has its own kitchen, you need not leave the house for a quiet evening.

What you will not find here

No massages, no treatments, no walk to the pool in a bathrobe. The Schlossresidenz is a house with a park, not a wellness hotel. Guests who know this before they arrive find exactly what they came for.

When it is at its best

From April to October the park is the living room of the house, with the natural pond and lawns for lounging. In winter it gets cosy indoors: sauna, fireside and long evenings. Both have their charm, and in the quiet months the house is especially peaceful.

Free for all guests

Wi-Fi, sauna, fitness room, tennis court, the Grillkota by reservation, bicycles and parking right in front of your apartment. The electric vehicle charging point in the courtyard is charged by consumption.

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