Amtshof Eicklingen
The administration of the "Vogtei Flutwedel" used to be in the Amtshof Eicklingen in Eicklingen in the Celle district . Later Eicklingen lost its central importance. Today a service center for rural areas is housed here.
history
The Amtshof Eicklingen ( district of Celle ) at Mühlenweg 60 has been occupied since 1616.
The Amtshof, with its rural origins, has developed over the years through renovations and fittings into a respectable mansion . In the early 18th century there was major (re) building work. A modern and functional building was created. The district governor could now go about his business in a classicist, urban-looking representative house. The elaborate and valuable wall decorations in some rooms also heralded this. The entire complex comprised twelve buildings in 1830. Only three of them have survived. With the modernization and restructuring of the administration in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1852, the importance of the office and its representative buildings began to decline. With the dissolution of the Eicklingen office in 1859, Eicklingen lost its importance as a central location. After the abolition of the office in 1859, the Amtshof passed into private ownership and was primarily a residential and farm building.
Training center for young girls
It was not until the 1930s that it should become more “public” again: a training center for young girls based on the Nazi ideology was housed in the Amtshof. The former owner had with the head of the competent Gau East Hannover called the creation into being. In addition to housekeeping , gardening and manual labor , the girls were also taught “race and health care in the National Socialist sense”.
Dormitory for displaced persons and refugees
In the immediate post-war period, refugees and displaced persons were housed in the large house. Every room was used. Families of several people lived here tightly. A contemporary witness who lived in the house as a child also remembers the many playmates that the situation brought with it, the comfort of the lack of space and the great freedom. Nevertheless, all the compulsory residents were happy to be able to find their own place to stay later. When the house no longer seemed suitable for residential purposes, it was acquired by a local entrepreneur and served as a storage building for carpets and parquet. After that, the big house stood empty for over a decade.
Todays use
Since 1988, attempts have been made again and again to find a new use for the Amtshof. The Lower Saxony state government and the then Office for Agricultural Structure in Verden decided in 2004 when looking for a location for a teaching, training and exchange center for rural areas in Lower Saxony in favor of the Amtshof in Eicklingen. This was followed by extensive renovation work on the listed building. The building was treated carefully and in the best sense of the word as a monument : the old structure was preserved as far as possible and historical techniques and resources were used. In September 2005 the " Lower Saxony Information and Competence Center for Rural Areas " was inaugurated in the converted premises of the Amtshof . Under the motto “Competence in rural areas”, the Amtshof, as an information and competence center, was to bundle knowledge about rural development in Lower Saxony, process it and make it available to an interested public. The basic aim was to strengthen the rural area in Lower Saxony. After the model project came to an end, the former administrative courtyard has been used by various offices since July 2009, all of which have their work focus in the rural area of Lower Saxony.
literature
- Dietrich Schmidtsdorff: The Amtshof - lives! History and stories, renovation 2004/2005; Pp. 19-27; Self-published by the home association “Altes Amt Eicklingen”, August 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation of the history of the Amtshof on its Internet representation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Office for Land Development Verden
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Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '24.5 " N , 10 ° 11' 4.3" E