Edelhof Ricklingen

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Edelhof Ricklingen; Wood-clad mansion on medieval vaults (right) and a half-timbered extension from 1904

The Edelhof Ricklingen in Hanover is the only manor complex in the state capital of Lower Saxony that has been preserved almost completely closed . The history of the medieval , listed " knight manor " is connected with a number of noble families such as those from the old and from the east , but also with the former village of Ricklingen, which was first mentioned in the 12th century . The current location of the inhabited facility between the Ihme , the dykes in the local recreation area Ricklinger Kiesteiche and the park with old trees near Beekestrasse is the street Am Edelhofe in what is now the Hanover district of Ricklingen .

history

The Edelhof chapel built on the estate by the von Altens around 1340

The richly wealthy noble lords of Ricklingen in the Calenberger Land of the Middle Ages "are said to have had the focus of their possessions [... in the village of the same name". Mechthild von Ricklingen , "with whom this family died out", transferred their goods to the "Church of Minden" at the end of the 12th century . After changing ownership, between 1202 and 1213, for example, the Hanoverian mint master Tydericus monetarius de Honovere and his wife Lucie acquired the tithe , the estate came into the possession of the von Alten family as a fief , which, according to current research, was associated with the village of Ricklingen for the first time in 1302 documentary occupied is. But it wasn't until 1336, when the von Altens donated some of the Ricklinger lands in favor of the Kreuzkirche in Hanover , that the family remained permanently connected to Ricklingen. At about the same time, she built the oldest preserved and most important building in Alt-Ricklingen, the Edelhof Chapel , formerly dedicated to Maria , which was built around 1340 on her estate .

The permanent management of the Edelhof was interrupted by the von Altens, when other Calenberg (aristocratic) families also got into existential need due to "the economic crisis shortly before the Thirty Years' War " in the first third of the 17th century. As a result, the von Alten family had to pledge the Ricklinger Gut . During the three decades of war, the notorious imperial general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly took up quarters in the manor of the estate. Although Tilly's troops had their siege-like camp just outside the city walls of Hanover canceled end of October 1625 after a few days again, but had particular addition to the city upstream villages Döhren , Wülfel and Laatzen finally beginning 1626 also Ricklingen and Wettbergen under the ravages of the soldiery to Suffer. It is believed that the rough teams also destroyed the " Castrum ", the predecessor of today's manor house.

After the end of the war, the estate around the Von-Alten-Garten in Linden became the property of Court Marshal Franz-Ernst von Platen , although the von Altens had secured a right of repurchase, which they also made use of in 1728. But it was only more than 100 years after the end of the war that Henning Ludwig von Alten , at the time the master of Großgoltern , was able to acquire the "free aristocratic Gut Ricklingen with all rights and justice [...] for 19,000 Thaler Louisdors " from Count Georg von Schlitz, called von Goertz . Also in the 18th century, “probably in the first half”, the three-storey mansion, which is now a listed building, was built on the foundations and the cellar vaults of the medieval predecessor building.

During the so-called " French era ", during which Carl von Alten played an "essential part in the victory [...] against Napoleon " in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, a school building that had been built right next to the Edelhof Chapel burned down and was rebuilt in 1813 with a half-timbered building replaced at the (today's) street Am Edelhofe .

View of the former Ricklingens village school, rebuilt after a fire in 1813, which is now used as a residential building.

In the following generations , the Edelhof was taken over by August Christian Friedrich von Alten (1822-1894), who was also the owner of the manors in Hemmingen and Heitlingen : According to the stories that are still being told, the court and chancellery was considered to be the original and was the last plait bearer in the Kingdom of Hanover his connection with "the manners and customs of the lost world of the ancien régimes " also externally expressed.

August bequeathed the Edelhof to his nephew Friedrich Curd von Alten (1822-1894), who was born in Groß-Goltern, who entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in 1847 and was appointed Lord Chamberlain in 1869 . The versatile interested researcher, author and excavator is counted among other things to the founders of the German moor path research . It was also Friedrich Curd who expanded the Edelhof into a country estate for the summer: After purchasing more land, he redesigned the extensive garden into a park and equipped the estate with historical furniture and valuable equipment even then . In her “Memories” his daughter Anna wrote : “Everything beautiful and good came to Ricklingen, [...] the life of the family was under the sign Everything for Ricklingen , because everyone loved it as much as their father”.

Inscription with the coat of arms of the connecting piece built in 1904 between the manor house and the farm building
Tomb of the sculptor Karl Gundelach for Georg von Alten in the nearby Michaelisfriedhof
In memory of Hans-Bruno and Martha von Alten next to the entrance to the park

Friedrich Curd's eldest son, the royal Prussian Major General Georg von Alten , became the heir to the Edelhof in 1894. Ten years later, however, he died in 1904 of the consequences of a disease suffered during the Franco-German War (1870/71). Like many of his relatives, he was buried in the nearby Michaelis cemetery; the sculptor Karl Gundelach created his tomb . Also in 1904 a half-timbered building was added to connect the manor house of the Edelhof and an adjacent farm building . In particular, it was Marie († 1942), born Freiin von Diepenbroick-Grüter , Georg's widow, who continued to beautify the house and farm. Heir to the farm was not the widow, but Georg's brother Paul von Alten (1853–1907), then his son Hans-Bruno (1866–1956), who after the First World War " took his leave as Rittmeister in 1919 and learned practical farming “In order to manage the estate personally. Since the then industrial city of Linden (with its Ricklingen district incorporated in 1913) and finally also the city of Hanover (which in turn incorporated Linden in 1920) continued to expand, the agricultural management of the Edelhof became more and more difficult. Hans-Buno of Old leased therefore at the end of the 1920s the previously agricultural land around the Edelhof or used it in part for the gravel open pit , on the gravel was recovered as a key raw material for the housing and construction industry. In this way, the rising groundwater, especially the Leine, created the so-called “Ricklinger Seenlandschaft”, better known to many visitors and bathers today as the Ricklinger Kiesteiche .

From the time of National Socialism , this page from the Hanover address book from 1942 lists the names of the owners, residents, status and professions, among other things

Hans-Bruno Baron von Alten , Major in the Reserve (number 8), took an active part in World War II as an officer . In the middle of this devastating war, Marie , the widow of his uncle Friedrich Curd, died in 1942 . During the air raids on Hanover in 1943 , aerial bombs destroyed both a building adjacent to the manor house and the large ox barn. The Edelhofkapelle also burned out completely. When Hans-Bruno returned from the war, all of Hanover had long been part of the British zone of occupation , and von Alten found “the manor house confiscated by the English .” So he stayed - until his death - in the former “ gardener's house ” in front of the Edelhof. living on the property, especially since the “Big House” was initially forcibly occupied with numerous refugee families after the withdrawal of the British troops . Only a few months after the end of the war, the Edelhof, although located on a slight elevation west of the Ihme, was hit by the biggest flood disaster in the history of the Lower Saxony state capital on February 10, 1946 . A little later the von Altens left part of the manor house and various farm buildings to the Hanoverian Drama School , which was originally founded by the theater teacher Hans Günter von Klöden in Linden and where he worked together with the manor's cousin from Dunau , Jürgen von Alten .

The urban dyke construction measures that began in the 1950s, including on the area around the Edelhof, have so far successfully protected the estate from further flooding.

"Considerate walkers ... are welcome to visit."

After Hans-Bruno von Alten's death in 1956, his widow Martha (1884–1975) took over the management of the Edelhof, supported by her daughter Sibylle von der Osten (1915–1999). Finally, in 1978, Victor Jürgen von der Osten assumed ownership of the farm. The “Edelhof Ricklingen Foundation, VJ v. the East ”.

Concerts and exhibitions in the park

The park, separated from the actual Edelhof by a wall, is privately owned and is generally not open to the public. This does not apply to selected cultural and artistic events organized by the Edelhof Ricklingen Foundation , such as the “ Opera in the Country”.

  • In 2013, visitors were able to visit the park on the occasion of the exhibition WasserKunst: Between Deich and Teich organized by the Hanoverian artist group Gruppe 7 . Various artistic positions by twelve selected artists, such as Timm Ulrichs , Constanze Prelle or Siegfried Neuenhausen , were distributed in the spacious park.
  • In 2017, during certain opening times from June 13 to August 14, 2017, 18 visitors can visit works by artists from the Hanover region on the subject of "deformations" selected by a jury headed by the Hanoverian curator Dagmar Brandt .

literature

Web links

Commons : Am Edelhofe (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Am Edelhofe (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfgang Neß: The old village (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Victor Jürgen von der Osten: Edelhof Ricklingen ... (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: Edelhof (see literature)
  5. ↑ Helmut Plath u. a .: Ricklingen. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 15; online through google books
  6. ↑ a b c d Klaus Abelmann (contact person): Gartenregion Hannover ... (see literature)
  7. ↑ Note: Before, but after 1124, a Theodericus de Riclinge had been officially named, compare Klaus Mlynek: Ricklingen. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 522
  8. ↑ a b c Victor Jürgen von der Osten: The buildings. In: Edelhof Ricklingen… (see literature), pp. 8–15
  9. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the city lexicon of Hanover names the so-called "Wrampenhof", the former Vollmeierhof 2 (where there is now a residential complex for the elderly on Beekestrasse ), the headquarters of Tilly, chosen in 1625
  10. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Thirty Years War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 139f.
  11. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Von-Alten-Garten. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 648f.
  12. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Alten, (1) Carl August Graf von. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 20
  13. ↑ Compare this documentation at Commons
  14. ↑ a b Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Web Links )
  15. ^ Klaus Mlynek : incorporations. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 153
  16. ↑ Compare this page from the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942
  17. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek: Hochwasser 1946. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 310.
  18. ↑ a b Compare for example Hugo Thielen: Klöden. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , passim ; online through google books
  19. ↑ Note: Deviatingly, Victor Jürgen von der Osten names the actor Jürgen von Alten as the founder of the drama school; compare VJ v. the east: Edelhof Ricklingen - vom Rittergut (see literature), p. 5
  20. ^ Victor Jürgen von der Osten: The Edelhof Ricklingen Foundation. In: Edelhof Ricklingen… (see literature), p. 20f.
  21. ↑ Ronald Meyer-Arlt: Exhibition “Deformations” in Ricklingen / Grüner won't. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from July 15, 2017; Limited preview , last accessed July 15, 2017

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