Fischerhof (Hofgut)

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The Fischerhof is a former agricultural property in the districts of the municipalities of Niederbrombach and Kronweiler . It was set up as a model company from 1833 by the Oldenburg State President and Birkenfeld District President Laurenz Hannibal Fischer . The Fischerhof has been federally owned since 1963 and was used by the Bundeswehr as a training site until 2014 .

history

In 1831 Laurenz Hannibal Fischer became regional president in the Oldenburg exclave of the Principality of Birkenfeld . Because of the poorly fertile soils, the difficult topography and the common right of real estate on the left bank of the Rhine , the agricultural output in the principality was only small. Fischer wanted to counter this as a teaching example with a large estate based on the North German model.

The Fischerhof, named after its founder, was founded in 1833 when the municipalities of Niederbrombach and Kronweiler were banned. Fischer bought land and the Oldenburg Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August gave land from his own property so that the estate reached a size of 502 Prussian acres , of which 400 acres were arable land, 20 acres were meadows and 80 acres were forest. A main house, a servants' house as well as various stables and barns were built as an estate.

Fischer had the farm run as a model and teaching property. New products and cultivation methods were tried and tried to convey them to the local farmers. Over a period of several years, 52 different potato varieties were tried out, the cultivation of heavenly barley ( Hordeum caeleste ) was attempted or the breeding of rams was introduced. Extensive experiments on cattle husbandry, meadow maintenance and their irrigation and drainage followed. Fischer published the experiences he had gained in the local press, but was rejected by the local population in his instructive and patronizing manner. Numerous failures, also due to the poor soil and the unsuitable climate for many products, confirmed the skeptics. In 1848 Fischer was expelled from the population and left the fisherman's farm to various administrators.

In 1860 Laurenz Hannibal Fischer sold the farm to Ludwig Arenberg zu Enghien , who passed it on to Engelbert-August von Arenberg from Brussels in 1867 . In 1889 the later Prussian Minister of Agriculture Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser acquired the farm. From 1910 the farm changed hands in quick succession: 1910 the industrialist August Cron from Wiesbaden, 1913 the baron Franz Werner von Droste zu Hülshoff from Münster, 1915 the merchant Heinrich Schäffer from Münster, 1915 Reinhard Freiherr von Dalwigk at Langen Castle near Bentheim, In 1917 the industrialist Heinrich Lapp from Berlin-Wilmersdorf, who passed the farm on to the Bielefeld businessman Arnold Frick in the same year. In 1918, Franz Ott from Cologne bought the farm in order to use it as a summer residence while leaving the farm to a manager. In 1935, Carl Möhrle from Zweibrücken took over the Fischerhof in order to run it intensively on his own. In the protected environment of the National Socialist Reichsnährstand market regulation, the farm was able to be operated profitably after considerable effort. This changed under the market conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany, so that Möhrle gave up the farm in 1963 and sold the Fischerhof to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fritz Weirich Der Fischerhof In: Heimatkalender des Landkreis Birkenfeld 1968
  2. ↑ Heinrich Baldes: The hundred year history of the Principality of Birkenfeld: for the celebration of the century in 1917 , Birkenfeld: Fillmann, 1921 ( online edition at dilibri )
  3. ↑ a b Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (edit.): Kreis Birkenfeld (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Heinrich August Theodor Wolff, pastor in Niederbrombach from 1884 to 1904 reports in his chronicle (see l. E. A.): At the time there was a suspicion that the Duke of Aremberg was merely a front man of the Jesuit order. Fischer, (quote :) "who called himself a Protestant (as president of the Lutheran consistory he had to be considered for that)" , was attributed a very close relationship to the Catholic Church by the Lutheran and Reformed pastors of the Principality of Birkenfeld. So (quote): “... Fischer worked in the 1850s and 1860s in favor of the Catholic Church and the Jesuits through a whole series of articles in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung , which at that time was highly regarded as a scientific journal; these articles were all signed "a Protestant". In gratitude for this, the Jesuits, who were not lacking in money and who knew how to appreciate Fischer's work, especially since they were only supposed to invest money in lying goods, bought the court from him at the cover address of the Duke of Aremberg, which is otherwise also supposed to be in use . "

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 7 ″  E