Arenberg-Meppen GmbH
| Arenberg-Meppen GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1928 |
| Seat | Meppen , Lower Saxony , until 1967 Nordkirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| management | Winfried Frölich |
| Number of employees | 20th |
| sales | 3.5 million euros (2010) |
| Branch | Private forestry and property management |
| Website | www.arenberg-meppen.de |
| As of December 31, 2010 | |
The Arenberg-Meppen GmbH is a Non-profit forestry and land management in Lower Saxony , which manages its own properties. It is one of the very few forest companies in Germany that manage its own forest in the legal form of a GmbH. In accordance with its articles of association, the company now pursues exclusively charitable and benevolent purposes within the meaning of Section 58 of the Tax Code ( non-profit GmbH ).
It is based in Meppen . Your property is mainly in the Emsland , the Münsterland and the Lüneburg Heath . With its self-managed forests of over 9,500 hectares , Arenberg-Meppen GmbH is the largest private forest administration and largest private forest owner in Lower Saxony . The agricultural property of over 2500 hectares is leased.
Arenberg-Meppen GmbH was founded in 1928 and is one of the oldest private forest companies in Germany in the legal form of a GmbH. It emerged from the former property of Duke Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg ( Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen ) in the Emsland . His son, Duke Engelbert-Charles von Arenberg (also known as Engelbert Karl or "EnKar") was the main or sole shareholder until his death in 1974. His widow Mathildis Duchess von Arenberg geb. Callay founded the "Herzog Engelbert-Charles and Duchess Mathildis von Arenberg Foundation" as the subsequent sole shareholder. She stipulated that after her death (1989) this foundation became the sole shareholder of Arenberg-Meppen GmbH and the below mentioned Arenberg-Nordkirchen GmbH. This non-profit foundation under German law is legally and actually independent, it is subject to the state supervision of foundations.
The Dukes of Arenberg had been rulers of the former prince-bishop-münster office of Meppen since 1803, and later rulers of the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen in the Kingdom of Hanover. The Arenbergers acquired heather and Wehsand areas from the brand divisions mainly through purchases. In the second half of the 19th century they had this property afforested, mainly with pine trees . In preparation for this reforestation , they used a steam plow system for the first time in German forestry , in which over 2,000 hectares were cultivated under the direction of the Arenberg Chief Forest Inspector Rudoph Clauditz. This property was expanded to around 13,000 hectares in the Emsland until the GmbH was founded in 1928 and was later reduced by expropriations (especially for the Krupp shooting range near Meppen ) and for building land sales in the 1960s and 1970s. The real estate around Schloss Nordkirchen (Südmünsterland) acquired by Duke Engelbert-Marie von Arenberg in 1903 was converted into Arenberg-Nordkirchen GmbH after expansion through acquisitions in 1933 and managed under the same shareholders and identical management as Arenberg-Meppen GmbH and at the beginning of 2010 her fused.
As a result of the Lower Saxony Orcan on November 13, 1972, the forests of Arenberg-Meppen GmbH were particularly hard hit. Over 540,000 cubic meters of wood were thrown to the ground on the 3,347 hectares of bare forest areas and in the other disheveled Arenberg forests, about 88% of the entire wood supply in the forests. No other larger forest enterprise suffered similar damage. For the subsequent reforestation project, the Sögeler strip plowing method was developed under the Arenberg forest director (and later managing director) Heinz Blankenspeck . A snowplow-like front plow was used in front of a caterpillar to plant the planting strips on the damaged areas. With this method, the stay rhizomes and the brushwood and the ecologically important humus - and nutrients get to the forest areas. This forestry working method has meanwhile established itself well beyond the borders of the Emsland in Lower Saxony as a soil-friendly and at the same time cost-saving.
literature
- Franz-Josef Heyen and Hans-Joachim Behr (eds.): The Arenberger - history of a European dynasty . Volume 2: The Arenbergers in Westphalia and Emsland . Koblenz 1990.
- Arenberg 2003. Aspects from 200 years of Arenberg-Meppen and 100 years of Arenberg-Nordkirchen . Published by Arenberg-Meppen GmbH and Arenberg-Nordkirchen GmbH. Meppen 2003.
- Christof Haverkamp: The Arenbergers and the Emsland in the 20th century and in the present . In: Yearbook of the Emsland Heimatbund . Volume 49 (2003), pp. 252-280, and word for word in: The Arenberger im Emsland . Sögel 2003, pp. 140–161.
Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 53.8 " N , 7 ° 17 ′ 57.2" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nlwkn.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=7903&article_id=39215&_psmand=26
- ↑ Annual financial statements in the electronic Federal Gazette, accessed on January 5, 2010
- ↑ http://www.biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/Ethologie/projekte/projekt_wisent_auswilderung.htm
- ^ Stiftung Herzog Arenberg buys back Karlswald , NOZ from August 7, 2005
- ↑ a b c d http://www.noz.de/deutschland-und-welt/politik/niedersachsen/53374809/ritter-haeuptlinge-waldbesitzer ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.noz.de/archiv/vermischtes/artikel/93083/arenberg-meppen-gmbh-einigt-sich-mit-erbpachtnehmer
- ↑ 30 quintals of coal burned per day , NOZ from March 3, 2011
- ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/46900108/stiftung-vetzt-forstverwaltungen ( 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.
- ↑ http://www.noz.de/artikel/4432434/gedenksteine-erinnern-in-den-arenberger-waeldern-an-die-orkanschaeden-vom-13-november-1972
