Degenershausen Estate

The Degenershausen Estate (German: Gutsbezirk Degenershausen) was established in 1872 in accordance with the Prussian County Act of 1872 as an independent municipal estate together with a manor house.

In 1928 the municipal estate was disbanded by an act of 27 December 1927.

The estate then belonged to the municipality of Wieserode, now a village in the borough of Falkenstein, Harz county in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The estate figured in the Allied discovery of the Marburg Files as World War II was ending.

The estate is now a landscape park (Landschaftspark Degenershausen) which is also checkpoint no.