Forestry Heidhof
The Forester Heidhof looks after a forest area of around 1700 hectares between the villages of Eggestedt and Hülseberg in the Osterholz district in Lower Saxony. The area belongs to the district of the Harsefeld Forestry Office .
District
The area that is looked after by the Heidhof Forestry Department includes, among other things, the Düngel forest , the Heidhofer ponds , the Schmidt's Kiefern forest and recreation area and the Bremer Schweiz cemetery . The seat of the forestry is on Eichenweg in the village of Brundorf .
history
The history of the Heidhof began in the middle of the "old forest". The different coniferous and deciduous trees in this area belong to the first generation of forests at the Heidhof. Until 1881 there was no forest here, only extensive heathland. The Heidhof was originally just a farm in the heather, which was built by the Bremen merchant Tiedemann to establish a sheep farm here. In 1854 he had a farmhouse with a barn built and acquired additional land. When it was sold to Ludwig Knoop in 1877, the Heidhof was already over 500 acres. From 1880, when the Heidhof became a forest estate, Knoop initiated the reforestation of his lands in the Brundorf district. In 1881 the now employed forester Carl Richter began to gradually plant the heather. From 1928 to 1930, the Bremen wool merchant Georg Carl Lahusen was the owner of the forest estate and the sheep farm there. Due to its bankruptcy, the area came into state custody and is now owned by the State of Lower Saxony, which set up the forestry department at Heidhof and built the old forester's house in the middle of the "old forest" , which burned down in 1962. After several large forest fires, a 30 m high fire watch tower was built in 1973.
literature
- Gabriela Keller: Where the history of the Heidhof begins. In: Die Norddeutsche from 23 August 2018