When you enter the house it is like coming to good friends who are on the go and have left a note "Feel at home", we will come back later.

On a nondescript former East German small town street you come to a very special holiday home. The listed brick building from 1860 is surrounded by large old trees and hides a secret under its roof. Because the rear part of the building, which was originally a stable, was converted to the Catholic chapel Maria by the angels in 1917. Including pointed barrel vault with angel head ornament. Today it is dedicated and serves as a huge living / meditation / play room for residents and guests of the former rectory.

And when you first enter the church directly from the hallway of the apartment, your mouth remains open for enthusiasm and awe. So it was with the current owners, a photographer and a designer, who discovered the building ensemble for themselves 10 years ago. They renovated it sustainably and carefully and comfortably furnished it with reused furniture. The highlight in the kitchen is the large upholstered corner in the panoramic window. And from the kitchen you go straight out onto the almost amphitheater-shaped terrace and the herb garden.

In front of the church portal, on the other side, the garden with a fireplace extends between the stallion stable and the barn ruins. An old rusty gate leads in between to nowhere over the fields and forests of the Prignitz region. The least densely populated area in Germany full of bikes and hiking trails and migratory birds. Here fox and hare say good night and deer come to visit.