In 1763 the Prussian general Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz had received Quilitz, a former property of the Pfuel noble family.

The historic village was devastated by a blaze in 1801 and reconstructed as a Neoclassical model settlement according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

In 1814 King Frederick William III vested Hardenberg with the locality together with the princely title as a gratification for his merits as Prussian state chancellor.

[3] Later, Count von Hardenberg held clandestine meetings at the mansion in preparation for the 20 July plot to kill Hitler.

After reunification the manor was restored to the Hardenberg family and acquired by the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband saving banks association in 1996.