Forest house Waldhusen

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The forest house Waldhusen in January 2008, main building from 1765
The forester's house in August 2013, after the renovation and opening as a restaurant
Extension from 1807 (2008)
Site plan of the Waldhusener Forest; the forester's house is No. 2.

The Forsthaus Waldhusen is a listed building complex in the Kücknitz district of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. A cottage probably from the second decade of the 18th century and the forester's house from 1765 belong to it . Emanuel Geibel gave it historical significance .

The forester's house was one of the oldest existing offices of a forester in Germany. It was the seat of the head forester's office of the St. Johannis-Jungfrauenkloster Foundation , which emerged from the St. Johanniskloster (Lübeck) founded after the Reformation in 1173 and as a women's foundation for single women in need from 50 years on Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße ( formerly Johannisstraße ) in Lübeck still exists. The public law foundation has been administered by the city of Lübeck since 1939. In addition to the monastery buildings and the forester's house, she owns extensive forests , including the Waldhusener forest.

The forester's house is located in the south-south-east of the Waldhusener Forest on Waldhusener Weg, north-east of the 14-hectare Waldhusener Moorsee, north of the Lübeck – Lübeck-Travemünde Strand railway line and federal road 75 and west of the Waldhusen cemetery.

history

The Waldhusener Forest has been looked after by a wood bailiff since 1715. He moved into a preserved to this day Kate . One of his tasks was to prevent wood from being stolen and cleared. From 1743 grazing in the coppice area was restricted and then increasingly restricted. However, the population of the surrounding villages had little understanding of these restrictions on their traditional rights. It was not until the coupling in 1815 that the beginning of a large-scale forest culture according to today's understanding was possible. Trained foresters were employed as early as 1806. The high forest of today's form as well as the coniferous forests are based on these forest management measures of the 19th century. During the unemployment in the time of the Weimar Republic , the conversion of the forest from the dominion forest to a people's park was carried out through the use of workers from the productive unemployment welfare according to the ideas of the time, whereby the forest also became a recreational forest .

In 1765 the forester's house was built as a residence and office. It is a with thatch -roofed half-timbered house in the style of a Lower Saxony farm house with a floor area of 360 square meters. In 1807 the building received a representative extension, and the area next to the house was designed in a park-like manner. In the brick masonry, which was made with monastery-sized bricks from demolition of medieval buildings in Lübeck's old town, there are decorative motifs such as the peasant dance, i.e. St. Andrew's crosses made of bricks .

The 14 foresters who served in the forester's house from 1765 to 2006 and lived there, worked in different areas of responsibility in accordance with the changing organizational forms of the forest administration. The forester's house served from the new construction until 1806 as a forestry for the Waldhusen forest, until 1875 as the chief forestry of the St. Johanniskloster, then until 1909 as part of the forestry forestry's forestry's Israelsdorf's Israelsdorf . From 1909 to 1919 it was the chief forester of the united monastic and urban forests; Until 1934 the forester ran independently in the Lübeck district forester system. Since 1934 the forester's house has been a district forester of the Lübeck City Forestry Office, which is now called the City Forest Area .

A prominent temporary resident of the house was the Lübeck-born poet Emanuel Geibel , who spent his summers there several times in the mid-19th century. Carl Hermann Haug, head forester from 1840 to 1875, was his friend and provided the poet with a room on the upper floor, which is known as the "Geibel Room". Geibel wrote the poem Aus dem Walde there in 1847 , the first stanza of which reads With the old forester today / I walked through the forest / while the bells rang brightly in the festival bell / from the village . Haug was an important amateur archaeologist and, for example, excavated the megalithic grave in his forest in 1843 , and shortly thereafter also that in Blankensee. During this time Johannes Nöhring grew up in the forester's house.

The last forester who lived in the forester's house from 1965 was the forestry officer Hans Rathje Reimers. After he retired in 2006, the forester's house was no longer inhabited. At this point the sale, which the foundation administration of the St. Johannis-Jungfrauenkloster was considering for financial reasons, was already up for discussion.

In June 2006, 15 clubs, associations and organizations organized a district festival at the forester's house to emphasize the Kücknitzer's wish for preservation. In January 2007 the sale was stopped for the time being, which the Society of Friends of the City Forest, founded in October 2006, rated as its success. Concepts of alternative use presented by the Society of Friends of the City Forest could not be implemented for financial reasons. The city of Lübeck refused to take over the forester's house, whose renovation needs were estimated at at least 400,000 euros. At the beginning of January 2008 the final decision to sell the forester's house was announced.

In July 2008, the citizens of Lübeck decided to sell the building complex to a couple of Lübeck merchants. It refurbished the buildings for residential use and for gastronomic and tourist purposes. The renovation was completed in 2013; In June 2013 the forester's house was opened as a restaurant. After a change of operator and a temporary use as an "event location", the house was reopened as a restaurant in 2017 under a new name.

Further forest areas in Lübeck

Other urban forests are the Lauerholz , the Falkenhusen forest on the Wakenitz and the Blankensee forest , both in the St. Jürgen district .

literature

Web links

Commons : Forsthaus Waldhusen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Prey: A festival for the forest house Waldhusen. on: ln-online , June 22, 2006, accessed January 4, 2008.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Prey: Breathe easy in Waldhusen: The sale of the forester's house has been postponed. on: ln-online , January 11, 2007, accessed January 4, 2008.
  3. ↑ Sebastian Prey: Definitely: The forester's house is sold. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . January 4, 2008, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Josephine von Zastrow: The forestry department should become a forest lounge. on: ln-online . August 6, 2008, accessed August 18, 2008.
  5. ↑ Britta Kessing: A gem full of anecdotes. on: ln-online.de , July 29, 2013, accessed on August 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ Cosima Künzel: New: Restaurant JJ ​​in the forester's house . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . 16./17. July 2017, p. 16.

Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 3 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 25.1 ″  E