Good Altenkamp

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Altenkamp house - front
House Altenkamp - park side
Gardens from the air (2013)

Gut Altenkamp is a former estate in Papenburg . The Altenkamp house and the park were designed by the architect Peter Pictorius the Younger at the beginning of the 18th century and are surrounded by a moat . The builder was Hermann Anton von Velen , whose alliance coat of arms with his first wife Anna Dorothea von Ascheberg zu Botzlar is above the portal. The heiress Anna Theresa von Velen married Clemens August von Landsberg , owner of Wocklum Castle , in 1756 . Count Ignaz von Landsberg-Velen and Gemen sold the estate to the manager Georg Behnes in 1856. For four generations, the estate was owned by the Behnes family, who provided numerous lawyers, bailiffs and district administrators in the Emsland, including Clemens August Behnes and his son Georg Behnes, and built an extensive library and archive in their house, which is now in Lower Saxony State Archive - Osnabrück location is accessible to the general public.

The property, which was bought by the city in 1981, includes baroque gardens. In the premises of the former manor house, exhibitions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation are presented annually on art and cultural-historical topics. In addition, concerts and public events are held in the gardens, which are organized by the Papenburg cultural group .

literature

  • Rudolf vom Bruch: The Knights' Seats of the Emsland, Münster 1962, pp. 17-18.
  • Karl Noehles: Altenkamp House. A document of the history of the Emsland. In: History of the City of Aschendorf, ed. v. Gerd Steinwascher, Papenburg 1992, pp. 244-269.
  • Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Garden of the Altenkamp House in Aschendorf in: Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony, catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . Hannover, 2000, pp. 132-133.
  • Paul Thoben: Emsland Castle Tour. Castles, palaces, knights' seats and mansions in the Emsland. Tunxdorf and Altenkamp. In: Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 9, Haselünne 2001, pp. 134–150.
  • Paul Thoben: The Altenkamp Archive, the Behnes Family Archive and the Altenkamp Library. In: Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 23, Haselünne 2016, pp. 11–31.

Web links

Commons : Gut Altenkamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 29.9 ″  E