Fikensolt

Fikensolt City of Westerstede Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 25 ″  E
Postal code :	26655
Area code :	04488

Fikensolt , formerly also Fikensholt, is a district of Westerstede , the district town of the Lower Saxony district of Ammerland . It is located south of Westerstede itself and has about 300 inhabitants.

history

Fikensolt is mentioned for the first time in 1127 in the chronicle of the Rastede monastery , in which it is reported that the knights of Fikensolt donated the building of the St. Petri Church in Westerstede in 1123 . The gender of the Fikensolter belonged to the nobility and was the Count of Oldenburg ross support duty .

In addition to extensive estates, numerous Meier and serfs in the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst also belonged to the Fikensolter estate. The headquarters of sex was a Gräftenburg which was probably built before the 1,123th Today's Fikensolt Castle was built in its place in the 18th century .

In the immediate vicinity of the castle was the Kobrink house , which had belonged to the von Kobrink family since 1587 , who had their headquarters at Gut Altenoythe and who owned other manors and lands in Westphalia . The farm was leased, among others, to the former bailiff Anton Günther Maxwell , who previously had his official residence in Burgforde and had to vacate it after his dismissal in 1677.

The bride of Fikensolt

According to a legend, there was a long feud between the Junkers of Fikensolt and Wittenheim ( Burgforde ). In order to end the disputes, the Junker von Fikensolt wanted to take the daughter of the Junker von Wittenheim as his wife. But when the bride came to Fikensolt on the morning of the wedding to pick up her bridegroom, she was told that the junker had been poisoned by the housekeeper out of jealousy and had died shortly before.

The legend is based on the story of Johann von Waddewarden . His father Hedde inherited Fikensolt Castle in 1613 after the death of Johann, the last Junker von Fikensolt, who remained without male descendants. Johann von Waddewarden remained a bachelor all his life. But when he wanted to get married at the age of 53, he died on the morning of the planned wedding of all times.

literature

• Hermann Ries: Chronicle of the community Westerstede . Plois Verlag, Westerstede 1973.
• Silke Köhn: The magic of a legend: The bride of Fikensolt. The portrait of Princess Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoille, Countess of Aldenburg (1652–1732). Oldenburg 2005, 132 pp.

Web link

• Brief portrait on the website of the city of Westerstede

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to information in the short portrait on the website of the city of Westerstede.
2. ^ Dieter Zoller: Contributions to the archaeological survey for the Ammerland district, Westerstede community (II). In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch, year 91.1991 , p. 160 , accessed on January 28, 2013 .