Gut Auermühle

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Gut Auermühle

The Good Auermühle is a farm in the municipality Steinhorst in Gifhorn in Lower Saxony . The estate with its in Art Nouveau style built mansion is one of the most important architectural monuments of the South Heath and a century was almost long owned by the family to the sole owner of the Herlitz , Fritz Beindorff .

history

Auer mill, Auermühle estate

The place Auermühle goes back to a watermill driven by the Lachte , the Auer-Mühle . The mill, first mentioned in a document in 1488, was owned by the Rodewald family for centuries. Its catchment area included the towns of Allersehl , Behren , Blickwedel , Hagen , Lüsche , Masel , räderloh and Sprakensehl . At the beginning of the 19th century the mill was taken out of service.

The enthusiastic hunter Fritz Beindorff acquired the Auermühle estate during the time of the German Empire in 1908. He expanded the property considerably and developed it into a model farm from 1909 onwards . At the same time, he was the builder of the manor house and the outbuildings designed by the Hanoverian architect Karl Siebrecht until 1914 , while the artist Georg Krüger from Berlin designed the ornamental sculptures for the 22 large ovens.

The operation of the estate, which "[...] had specialized in the production of particularly wholesome, high-fat milk", was able to conquer the nearby town of Celle as a market by the mid-1930s .

In July 1933 the Beindorff'sche Mausoleum Foundation Auermühle was founded, which still looks after the Beindorff family's mausoleum in Auermühle today . Fritz Beindorff, who died on June 2, 1944 at Gut Auermühle in the middle of World War II , was buried in the family mausoleum he built near the estate. The estate remained in family ownership until 1998. The monograms FB and EB on the access roads to Gut Auermühle still remind of its owner at the time, Fritz Beindorff, and his wife, Elisabeth Beindorff.

On January 1, 1972 or March 1, 1974, the previously independent community of Lüsche, to which Gut Auermühle also belonged, was incorporated into the Steinhorst community.

Auermühle children's home

After the Second World War was during the occupation period at Gut Auermühle a DP - children's home , which the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was established (UNRRA) and operated at first. It was located in the manor house and was used for “unaccompanied children” between the ages of 0 and 7 who were classified as “ displaced persons ” (DP) by the Western Allied occupying powers . The Auermühle children's home has developed into the largest facility for babies and toddlers in the Hanover region, with places for up to one hundred children and the associated staff . In the documents of the organizations involved, the mansion building is mostly referred to as a " villa ".

When the local German authority was planning to accommodate former prisoners of war in the manor house in autumn 1945, a German doctor came to the military authority in September 1945 and indicated that she would look after several Dutch babies there. The military government and UNRRA then visited the “villa” and found 25 Dutch youths and children there who had been evacuated from Nijmegen and Arnhem by the National Socialists in the summer of 1944. Following a decision by the military government, the “villa” was converted into a large children's center from late 1945 / early 1946 under the direction of UNRRA. The home manager was NN Jurzynska, a Polish woman from Warsaw. As a result, the children's home mainly took in children abducted from Poland by the National Socialists and the children of deceased Polish forced laborers . At times there were unaccompanied children from eight nations in the home, most of whom had been discovered by UNRRA during searches in the Hanover region, but some were also transferred there from other regions of the Western Allies, such as children with suspected or already identified Dutch origins.

The conditions in the home, especially the sanitary facilities, were inadequate; there was a lack of equipment and, in some cases, qualified staff and adequate supplies. In July 1946, the Canadian UNRRA officer Irene Page , one of the few child search experts in the British occupation zone, was tasked with establishing the identity of the children and preparing for their repatriation or emigration . The children, who for the most part had already changed institutions several times, were partly in poor physical condition and in many cases showed development deficits. Page therefore tried to develop Auermühle as the last care station before the UNRRA repatriated the children to their home country or the children emigrated. After the official dissolution of UNRRA at the end of 1946, the Auermühle children's home was operated for several years, initially by the previous UNRRA team and then by the successor organization of UNRRA, the International Refugee Organization (IRO) of the United Nations.

In 1948/49, for example, the German-American social worker and political emigrant Marianne Welter worked on behalf of the American aid organization Unitarian Service Committee (USC) at the Auermühle children's home.

Location and infrastructure

Auermühle is located near the Auerwald , just under two kilometers west of federal highway 4 . Auermühle belongs to Lüsche and the local network Sprakensehl . The Auermühle estate is located northwest of Dedelstorf and west of Hankensbüttel . Bus routes run from Auermühle to Groß Oesingen , Hankensbüttel and Steinhorst.

Auermühle is the seat of a specialist trade for horse supplies.

Views

  • Place name sign on the bypass road

  • Access road to the estate

  • Entrance

  • Local part

  • Mansion

  • Laughed at Auermühle

literature

Web links

Commons : Auermühle (Steinhorst)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

Note: Individual references given at the end of paragraphs refer to the entire paragraph before.

  1. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Beindorff, (1) Fritz. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 47; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b Yearbook of the Geographical Society in Hanover , p. 48; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b Klaus Frieling: descendant of Pelikan industrialists maintains family cemetery in Steinhorst . cellesche-zeitung.de. November 24, 2017. Accessed February 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ Robert Breuer: A mansion in the Haide / built by Arch. Karl Siebrecht - Hanover , with photographic images by MR & C illustrated article in Alexander Koch (ed.): Interior decration. My home, my pride. The entire art of living in pictures and words , Volume 15 (1914), Issue 1, Stuttgart; Darmstadt: Koch, 1914, pp. 56-61; Digitized via DigiZeitschriften
  5. ↑ Beindorff's Mausoleum Foundation Auermühle. Internet portal FreiwilligenServer Niedersachsen of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  6. ^ History of Steinhorst. steinhorster.blogspot.com, accessed April 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 227 .
  8. ↑ a b c Iris Helbing: “Poland's lost children. The search and repatriation of kidnapped Polish children after 1945. " University publication, European University Viadrina , Frankfurt (Oder) May 2015, p. 142, 154–157 ( digital copy [PDF; 2.8 MB ; accessed on April 30, 2020] dissertation).
  9. ^ Sara Fieldston: Raising the world. Child welfare in the American century . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts / USA) 2015, ISBN 978-0-674-36809-5 , pp. 39, 252 (footnote 16) (English).
  10. ^ Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications (Ed.): Ortverzeichnis Post. Bonn 1983, p. 33

Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 37.2 ″  E