Forsthaus in Christianental
The forester's house in Christianental (until 1900 Christianenthal ) is a striking building at the exit of Christianental in Nöschenrode near Wernigerode . The former fishmaker's house with a pond and the Christianental wildlife park are adjacent to the building.
history
The foundation stone for this new house in front of the Christianen Thal , which Käthe Papke also placed a literary monument, was laid in 1755. Due to the increasing shortage of money for the Counts of Stolberg due to the Seven Years' War , only the shell could be completed in 1756. For more than two decades, the count's building coffers did not have the money needed for further expansion. In the construction budget for 1766 there is the proposal to sell the Oberforster's apartment via Nöschenrode and with this money to finally complete the house at the entrance to the Christianental valley, which was started in 1755. However, this proposal was not implemented. The ruins remained in place for a further 13 years as an outward sign of the shortage of money after the war. The building was not completed until spring 1779 and was initially used as a servant's house. Here u received a. the forester Johann Georg Regensburger his official residence. He lived here with his wife Juliane geb. Struck. Furthermore, from 1812 the young Revierjäger Valentin Usbeck, who came from Schwarza in Thuringia and who moved into the apartment of the old hunter Georg Brandes, lived here with the childless Regensburger couple. The family of day laborer Gottlieb Hasenhauer also lived here.
After the retirement of the forester Regensburger, the Ilsenburg forest controller Wilhelm Theodor Kallmeyer took over the office, which he held until 1833. In that year, the former court steward Johann Heinrich Friedrich Ohnesorg was appointed as the new forester in Christianental. Regensburger died very old in 1837. Ohnesorg performed his position as forester much better than that of steward, until 1852 he worked in Christianental. He was followed by the district forester OF Eilers for only two years.
On August 18, 1854, the rifle wrench Schmidt was appointed district forester and, after Eiler was transferred to the Schmerplätzer district, on October 4, 1854, he moved to the forester's house in Christianental. He died at the age of 83 in 1893 as a senior game master a. D. His son Hermann Schmidt continued his office.
The foresters living in the forester's house in Christianental were not only responsible for the zoo, but also for the entire count's or princely forest area of Wernigerode.
literature
- Käthe Papke: The forester's house in Christianental. Historical story from the time of the Thirty Years' War. , Stuttgart: Christl. Publishing House, 1994. ISBN 3-7675-3038-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Construction budget 1756
- ↑ Construction budget 1766
- ↑ Payment from the lordly construction industry April 19 - May 1, 1779
- ↑ Wernigerode Chamber, Rep. Reg., V No. 1
- ^ Wernigerode Chamber, Rep. Reg., P II No. 127, Bl. 3
- ↑ Ibid., P. 8
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 48 ′ 26 ″ E