Auburg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Auburg in Wagenfeld

The Auburg is a listed building belonging to the Wagenfeld community in the Lower Saxony district of Diepholz .

history

In Wagenfeld, the Counts of Diepholz had a protective fortress named Auburg built on the Wagenfelder Aue , a small tributary of the Hunte , at the end of the 15th century . This moated castle , located on an island between a branched off arm of the floodplain and the Wagenfelder floodplain, was intended to deter the neighboring residents of Minden , who then regularly invaded the area. However, they felt provoked precisely by the construction of the Auburg and destroyed it several times in the period that followed.

A legal dispute over the territorial affiliation of the Auburg office broke out when Count Friedrich II. Von Diepholz , who was not even 30 years old, died in 1585 . At the end of the same year, the Auburgs paid homage to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel as their new sovereign.

In 1592 Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg , an illegitimate son of the Hessian Landgrave Wilhelm IV , was given the position of Auburg and the village of Wagenfeld. The last owner from this family was Theodor von Cornberg , who sold the building to the Osnabrück manufacturer Schlicker in 1904 . At the Auburger Mühle there is a Cornberg-Freytag (or Frydag) alliance coat of arms . Carl Wilhelm von Cornberg (* 1739; † 1816) was married to Sophie Charlotte von Frydag (* 1745; † 1801) from the Daren family, his son Georg Wilhelm (* 1772; † 1847) was married to Wilhelmine von Freytag (* 1789; †) 1870). Carl Wilhelm was in turn a son of Carl von Cornberg (* 1708; † 1738) and Dorothea von Münchhausen (* 1717; † 1795), a sister of the famous baron of lies , who - after her husband fell out in Hattendorf on Christmas 1738 the car had a fatal accident - in his second marriage Ludwig von Hammerstein (* 1702; † 1786) married on Gesmold , Hornoldendorf and Apelern and thus became the ancestor of the Hammerstein-Gesmold line. Dorothea's sister Anna von Münchhausen (* 1722, † 1789) was married to Georg Freiherr von Frydag auf Daren; they were the parents of Sophie Charlotte von Cornberg.

In 1820, the Auburg District Bailiwick was again affiliated with the Diepholz Office .

In 1941 the Focke Museum in Bremen bought the high medieval dodelinus bell from a descendant of the Cornbergs , a so-called beehive bell from the 12th century, which had previously hung in the manor house for a long time. In 1937 the then joint municipality of Wagenfeld acquired the Auburg building and 26 acres of land. Refugee families lived there for eight years after 1945. The buildings then served as an agricultural vocational school until 1967 .

Only the mansion and servants' quarters are located on the site of the Auburg . The historic building of the Auburg was restored in 1998/1999 . Since then, the “Kulturkreis Auburg” has offered a cultural program in its premises. The Auburg is also the namesake for the companies based in Wagenfeld "Auburg Quelle" (mineral water) and "Auburg Möbel".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Grohne : The oldest bell in Northwest Germany , in: Old treasures from the Bremen cultural area , Bremen 1956, pp. 28–40.

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 43 ″  E