Detlev von Ahlefeldt (Haseldorf)

Detlev von Ahlefeldt († March 9, 1599 in Braak ) was the master of Osterrade and Haseldorf and was murdered by his cousin Marquard von Ahlefeldt .

Life

The memorial plaque for the murder at Haseldorfer Church

Detlev von Ahlefeldt owned the Osterrade and Haseldorf estates. The historian Coronäus wrote the following strange story about his bride: “Detlev Ahlefeldt was engaged to the daughter of Bendix von Ahlefeldt zu Ophusen and the wife Metta ... Bendix had 12 children with his wife, 11 of them in the cradle of murderous women Needle sticks in the head have been killed; only one daughter, that very bride of Detlev von Ahlefeldt, has grown up; but she too was murdered by poison shortly before the wedding ”. “But the women,” adds Coronäus, “who did this were burned with fire”. "Woman. Metta, the mother of these twelve murdered children, married Johann von der Wisch on Oehe and Olpenitz after her husband's death and brought him the Ophusen estate ”. Bendix Ahlefeldt on Ophusen died on August 24, 1579 as a bailiff of Tondern; he was a son of Wulff von Ahlefeldt auf Nör and Catharina von Sehestedt.

Detlev von Ahlefeldt paid homage to the ruling lord in Flensburg in 1580 and died in 1599, murdered by his cousin Marquard von Ahlefeldt. His wife was Clarelia von Reventlow, a daughter of Jasper von Reventlow auf Rixdorf and Ida von Rantzau from the Bothkanp family. Detlev von Ahlefeldt had four children.

The murder

Memorial plaque to Hans Brockdorff at the Haseldorfer Church

Benedikt von Ahlefeldt auf Haseldorf got into a violent dispute with his brother Wulff von Ahlefeldt over various things, in particular about the ownership and use of the outer dike on the Elbe. This fraternal dispute did not only result in lawsuits and legal disputes, but also in severe acts of violence and passed on to their sons Detlef and Marquard. A bloody family feud broke out between the cousins. At a reconciliation meal in Haseldorf, the drunken Detlev shot his cousin "with a pistol in two pieces of the bowels in his stomach, which he then had healed with a silver tube". Detlev then literally announced a feud to his cousin. At the beginning of March 1599 Detlev rode with his cousin Hans Brockdorff and some servants to a funeral in Eckernförde. On the way they stopped in a farmhouse in Braak, a village near Hamburg. In the evening the house was surrounded and shot at by Marquard and a number of horsemen. Some of Detlev's servants fell victim to the bullets. Then Marquard and his companions broke into the house and Detlev von Ahlefeldt and Brockdorff were discovered in a box where they had been hiding. Then fire was opened on the box. When the two wounded later rose and opened the lid of the box, their clothes and the box caught fire and both perished miserably in the flames. A memorial plaque on the outer wall of the Haseldorfer Church still reminds us of this "very uncrystalline and pathetic murder" (old chronicle). Marquard von Ahlefeldt, the murderer, died on July 18, 1608 in Uetersen as a result of a riding accident.

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• Louis von Ahlefeldt, Wulf August von Rumohr Drilles: The Schleswig-Holstein knighthood. A contribution to the nobility history of Germany and Denmark. Book 1: The von Ahlefeldt family. Heiberg, Schleswig 1869, pp. 11-12 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Muhs: Detlev v. Abiefeldt (1617–1686) to Haseldorf, Haselau and Kaden and his memoirs (prehistory) . In: Yearbook for the Pinneberg district in 1968.