3-Bed Monumental 1905 House with 1,952m² Garden & Solar Panels – Vacation Home in Weener, Germany



Graf-Edzard-Straße 2, Weener, Germany, Weener (Germany)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 175m² Floor area
€380,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
175m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand in the kitchen on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand, watching light move slowly across a garden that takes a full minute to walk around. That's the pace of life on Graf-Edzard-Straße, and once you've felt it, it's hard to shake. This protected 1905 monument in Weener, Lower Saxony is the kind of property that makes people stop mid-conversation when they hear what's on offer: 175 square meters of thoughtfully renovated living space, a 1,952-square-meter garden designed by someone who clearly loved trees, and a location that puts the Dutch border just minutes away while keeping you firmly rooted in one of Germany's most underrated regions.
Ostfriesland doesn't get the tourist headlines that Bavaria or the Rhine Valley do. That's exactly why people who discover it tend to stay. The landscape here is flat, wide, and quietly dramatic — the kind of horizon that makes you feel both small and free at the same time. The Ems River runs nearby, and on calm evenings the light over the water takes on that particular amber quality that photographers drive hours to find. Weener itself is a compact, functional town with everything you'd actually need: supermarkets, a pharmacy, a GP, schools, sports clubs, and enough decent restaurants to cover a weekend without repeating yourself. It's not a tourist town, and that's the point. It's a place where people live well.
The house has been lived in, loved, and improved by people who understood what they had. The original 1905 bones are intact — high ceilings, a substantial entrance hallway with a proper staircase, proportions that feel generous without being cavernous. Renovations over the years have been careful rather than aggressive. The hardwood floors laid in 2013 complement the period character rather than fighting it. The wood-burning stove in the main living room is original in spirit if not in age, and on a grey October afternoon with the garden hedges holding their shape against the wind, that stove earns its place immediately.
Large windows in the living room frame the garden like a painting that changes with every season. In spring, the special-variety trees the current owners planted after the 2012 redesign begin to do their thing — blossom, new growth, colour returning after winter. Summer means the southwest-facing terrace becomes the real living room, with an electric sunshade handling the long evenings when the sun hangs low but still insists on shining. Autumn here is genuinely worth experiencing: the light softens, the cycling routes through the surrounding polders become spectacularly quiet, and the garden earns its keep in a different way entirely. Even January has its charms, which is something only a place with genuine character can claim.
The kitchen-diner is where this house shows its practical intelligence. It's not a showroom kitchen — it's a room you'd actually want to cook in, with proper fitted appliances and enough space for a table that seats the whole family. Direct access to the terrace means summer meals happen outside without any faff. The multifunctional room on the ground floor is the kind of bonus that different buyers will interpret differently: home office, music room, consulting space, play area. It adapts without complaint.
Upstairs, three bedrooms sit off a generous landing. The master has air conditioning — a detail that matters more than it sounds, given that German summers have been pushing temperatures that nobody planned for twenty years ago. The main bathroom has a freestanding bathtub, which is either a luxury or a necessity depending on your outlook, and a second full bathroom means morning routines don't require diplomacy. The setup works for families, for couples who invite guests often, and for anyone who uses the phrase "working from home" and means it literally.
The sustainability credentials here are genuinely impressive. A 12 kWp solar panel installation with an integrated home battery, fitted in 2023, takes a serious chunk out of energy costs. Double glazing throughout, electrically operated shutters, and a gas-fired combi boiler handling heat and hot water. This isn't a house that needs work — it's a house that's been prepared for the next twenty years.
Practically speaking, the grounds include a garage with a workshop, a separate stone storage building, a large carport built in 2021, and a driveway that can handle seven cars. That last detail is either irrelevant or essential depending on your family, but either way it signals the kind of space that's simply unavailable at this price point in most of Western Europe.
The Groningen connection is worth understanding. The Dutch university city is easily reachable, and the cross-border appeal of this area has been growing steadily among Dutch buyers who want the square footage and plot sizes that German property prices still make possible. Leer, the elegant regional capital of Ostfriesland with its harbour and weekly market, is a comfortable drive. Winschoten across the Dutch border is closer still. For cycling enthusiasts, the network of dedicated paths through the Ostfriesland countryside is genuinely world-class — flat, well-maintained, and largely car-free once you're out of town.
For international buyers considering a second home in northern Germany, Weener sits in an interesting position. Property prices in Ostfriesland remain well below national averages for comparable space and quality. The protected monument status of this building brings specific legal considerations worth discussing with a local notary, but it also provides a layer of architectural permanence that modern builds simply cannot offer. EU buyers face no restrictions on ownership, and the German property purchase process, while thorough, is well-established and transparent.
Key features of this exceptional holiday home and second home in Weener:
- Protected historic monument, built circa 1905, in good condition throughout
- 175 m² of living space across two floors
- Plot of approximately 1,952 m² with professionally redesigned landscaped garden
- Three bedrooms, two full bathrooms
- Hardwood floors installed 2013
- Wood-burning stove in main living room
- Southwest-facing terrace with electric sunshade
- 12 kWp solar panel system with home battery (2023)
- Air conditioning in master bedroom
- Garage with integrated workshop plus detached stone storage building
- Large carport (2021) and driveway parking for up to seven vehicles
- Double glazing and electrically operated shutters throughout
- Short drive to Dutch border; easy access to Groningen and Leer
- All daily amenities within the town of Weener
This is a rare property in every sense — not just the protected status, not just the size of the garden, but the combination of all of it at a price that still makes rational sense. The Ostfriesland region is not yet on every international buyer's radar, and that gap between quality and price won't last indefinitely.
To arrange a private viewing or to request a full information pack on purchasing this second home in Germany as an international buyer, get in touch with the team at Homestra today. Properties of this character and scale in Weener don't linger on the market for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 175m²
- Price per m²
- €2,171
- Garden size
- 1952m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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