Geesthof
The Geesthof is an estate in Klint ( Hechthausen ) in the Elbe-Weser triangle on the Oste .
history
The Geesthof was originally built as a Vorwerk of the Kranenburg. Seen from the Kranenburg it is on the other side of the Oste and belongs to the village of Klint . The Geesthof was first mentioned in a document in 1542 in a contract between Johann von Marschalck and Franz von Marschalck, in which Franz is the first owner of the Geesthof. The Geesthof is still described here as a Vorwerk. Franz built the first manor house in 1566. The entire farm consisted of the two-story manor house and several manor buildings that were protected by ramparts and moats.
Since the Archdiocese of Bremen as part of Sweden belonged to the Protestants, the owner, again Franz Marschalck, fought with the Swedes against the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War . The wooden bridge that led over the Oste and connected the Geesthof with the town of Kranenburg did not survive the war. It was destroyed by the Swedes when the Catholic Tilly troops approached . The loss of the bridge and the Thirty Years' War caused Franz von Marschalck great economic difficulties. In 1691, Jürgen von Marschalck, who inherited them from his cousin, described the buildings as very dilapidated.
His descendant Franz von Marschalck had the manor house rebuilt in 1745. His grandson Carl Wilhelm bequeathed the manor house to his nephew Gustav with the request that the manor house be converted into a castle. He followed the request and commissioned an Italian architect who plastered the manor house in 1869 and added another wing. Details such as a balcony and the gutters were also made from cement plaster. The resulting castle was only inhabited in summer from 1874, as the masonry was damp. The frost had cracked the plaster and the water ran into the masonry. The wooden construction, which was now plastered on the outside, could no longer dry off. In 1895 the building, which had meanwhile been infested with dry rot, was demolished.
What was left was the stables or stables, which then served as a tenant house.
Large parts of the palace park were also preserved. In particular, the farm garden with its fruit trees with old types of fruit was continued after the castle was demolished. Many of the old park trees have also been preserved in the castle park.
On 4 April 1949 with a big fell thatch roofed barn on fire. Due to the drought of the previous weeks and a strong southwest wind, the fire quickly spread to a large fire in the northeastern town of Klint . All farm buildings on the Geesthof and 32 buildings in Klint fell victim to the flames. The volunteer fire brigades from Klint and twelve surrounding towns were brought together and rescued eighteen other buildings that had already caught fire. Most of the burned down buildings were rebuilt in the following years.
This barn burned down again in 2001 and was rebuilt as a two-part building. Today there is a holiday park on the grounds of the Geesthof. In the place of the castle there is now a swimming pool and the old horse stable has been converted into a restaurant.
Myths and legends
- The witch's ghost on the Geesthof
literature
- FJ Alstedt (Ed.): Chronicle of Hechthausen . Self-published, Hechthausen 1983.
- Knighthood of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (Hrsg.): The goods of the knighthood in the Duchy of Bremen . Stade 2001.
- Willi Klenck: home book of the former district Neuhaus an der Oste. Verlag A. Pockwitz Nachf. Karl Krause, 1957.
- Hans G. Trüper : Knights and Squires between Weser and Elbe. The ministry of the Archbishopric of Bremen. Stade 2000, ISBN 3-931879-05-4 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 30.4 " N , 9 ° 12 ′ 16.5" E
swell
- ↑ Heimatverein Hechthausen (ed.): Heckethusen . No. 12 , 2003.