Clemenshafen
Clemenshafen refers to the former northern terminal port of the Max-Clemens Canal shortly before the Neuenkirchen district of St. Arnold in northern North Rhine-Westphalia between 1729 and 1771. From 1729 the port and shipping building of the same name was built here, in which from 1731 a forwarding agent and a post office operator were at home. The port was named after the then Prince-Bishop, Clemens August I from Wittelsbach . The Seven Years' War brought the canal and the harbor a golden age. With the continuation of the canal to Maxhafen near Wettringen , the port became superfluous and abandoned.
After the port was given up, Clemenshafen turned into an agricultural property , which after secularization came into the possession of the Duke of Looz-Corswarem through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . In 1830 the Clemenshafen estate comprised 96 acres . From 1842 at the latest, the Münster banker and later mayor Johann Heinrich von Olfers became the owner of the estate, which remained in the family until 1917. By this year the property had grown to almost 1000 acres before it passed into the possession of Baroness Franziska Magdalena von Kerckerinck zu Borg , who sold it three years later to the “Rote Erde” settlement company. By 1927 the size had reduced to 117 acres after the remaining space was sold. By 2007 the size was further reduced to around 60 acres.
When applying for the transfer of the liquor license in 1898, it was mentioned that there had been a liquor license at Gut Clemenshafen for over a hundred years. With an interruption between 1908 and 1926, there has been an inn on Clemenshafen since that time. The old shipping company building in which the restaurant was located was demolished in 1965 and replaced by a new building. It contains three valuable, carved doors from the original building from 1730. Since the expansion in 2009, the restaurant has presented itself as the “Landgasthof Clemenshafen”.
Historic landmarks
Clemenshafen was created in the immediate vicinity of the border with the County of Steinfurt . A number of historical boundary stones still mark the former border line. The Max-Clemens Canal runs almost parallel to the old border from Grafensteinen to Clemenshafen.
The Grafensteine, old border markings in the great Mark almost 2 km southeast of Clemenshafen
Old boundary stone on Frischhofsbach in Clemenshafen, west side with the swan as a sign of the Steinfurt county
East side of the old boundary stone with the coat of arms of the bishopric of Münster
Column-shaped boundary stone on the western border of Clemenshafen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 39 " N , 7 ° 24 ′ 56" E