Gut Basthorst
The Gut Basthorst in Schleswig-Holstein community Basthorst lies between the upper reaches of the Bille with the adjacent Hahnheide and the eastern edge of the Saxon Forest , covered by fertile plains and the typical Knicks . Today, thanks to the reunification of Germany, the village is located in the triangle between the city-state of Hamburg , the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the state capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin , which is growing in importance. Basthorst is less than an hour's drive from each of these locations and can be reached via the Berlin A 24 motorway.
history
The courtyard, which has grown over the centuries, consists of several former farm buildings, some of which are still in use today for agriculture, such as a warehouse from 1771 (office building) and a barn (drying room) from 1862. The core of the manor house was probably built around 1750 and after numerous renovations and extensions took the form of an asymmetrical three-wing system, characteristic are the round Dutch dormers . About 120 years ago the manor house was judged and the three villages Basthorst , Dahmker and Hamfelde were administered.
For a generation, most likely coming from Hamfelde settlers, thickets of the local jungle were cleared and the land made arable. The Germanic word Basthorst means something like clearing site. Basthorst was born in 1278. The families living there influenced and shaped events in the Duchy of Lauenburg in many ways. The Basthorst estate was also one of the old aristocratic dishes.
The knight dynasty of the Schacken , who came to the North Elbe region in the 12th century as comrades in arms of Henry the Lion, was one of the most influential and important landlords in the region alongside the Duke of Lauenburg. In 1612 they still owned 14 villages to the right of the Elbe. With the mention of "Johan Schacken to der Basthorst" in 1391, the verifiable history of the aristocratic estate begins, which at that time was a fortified castle, similar to Gülzow, Hasenthal or Müssen. The 1400 ha Hahnheide also belonged to Schack's property. With the division of Basthorst in 1545 in favor of two sons, a disastrous development began which almost contributed to the complete dissolution of the property (24 children). During the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, the younger brother of the Duke of Lauenburg, Duke Franz Albrecht, quickly occupied the estate and had the estate fortified with bastions and a wide moat around 1640, which can still be seen in some places today.
Due to the dire need during the Thirty Years War (until 1648), the widow (Dorothea) von Schack sold Basthorst for 29,000 thalers and 100 ducats to the rich Dutch merchant Peter von Uffeln after her husband's duel death in Lübeck in 1645 . The Schacks then moved away from Basthorst, but named - probably out of a certain nostalgia - another of their possessions near Schwerin Basthorst .
When purchasing the property, Peter von Uffeln, owner of Roggendorf, Veddel-Grevendorf and estates in Denmark, had ensured that Basthorst became a Kunkel feudal estate , meaning that a woman could inherit the estate, which happened several times.
Between 1721 and 1796 the von Plessen owned Gut Basthorst; The present mansion was built under them, the oldest parts of which date from 1750. The eldest son of the family disappeared without a trace in 1760; it has never been fully clarified whether it was an attack, whether he sank into the moor or whether he committed suicide. His sister Elenore Elisabeth, married to Schack von Buchwald auf Johannstorf , then took over the farm in 1796. Basthorst belonged to Schacken von Buchwald until 1819. One person was particularly prominent: Amalie Sophie Schack von Buchwald (1747), lady-in-waiting to the Danish Queen, later Countess of Holstein. Amalie Sophie remained loyal to her queen after she had to leave the country in 1772 due to an affair with the court doctor Struensee. Incidentally, the illegitimate child of the beheaded court doctor and the queen became great-grandmother of the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Franz Freiherr von Ruffin then took over Basthorst from his uncle Joseph von Brusselle during the war. The reason for this was the threatened expropriation by the National Socialists after Joseph von Brusselle wrote a condolence telegram to the widow of the shot Count von Stauffenberg . Only through the initiative of the villagers could the Gestapo be dissuaded.
In 1945 57 refugees lived in the manor house alone, and a total of 150 refugees lived on the estate, many of them from the former German eastern regions , today's Poland. The population of Basthorst tripled to 615 people.
Agricultural use
Today mainly winter wheat, winter rye, winter rape, winter barley and sugar beet are grown on an area of 400 ha. Oilseed rape and grain are dried, cleaned, ventilated, stored and marketed through Cerealis in our own drying facility . Cerealis emerged from a producer group in which Gut Basthorst is involved together with a number of other farms. For 15 years, Cerealis has made it possible for the buyer to follow the course of the flour production right through to the bread at the bakery, thereby ensuring a high level of production quality. The grain is tested by independent research institutes and Cerealis is ISO 9002 certified. Nordzucker AG processes sugar beets into sugar products. The farm also has its own permanently installed 50-ton scale.
The drying facility has a storage capacity of 3,000 tons and can handle around 20 tons per hour. The farm has 22 high-rise steel silos and five flat storage facilities.
Other fields of activity are horticulture, forestry, hunting, rental and the regular markets in spring, autumn and Christmas.
Regarding forestry: Forest is managed by the Forstbetriebsgemeinschaft Herzogtum Lauenburg. Basthorst has an area of around 150 hectares of forest, most of the woodland consists of mixed forests, with the proportion between conifers and deciduous trees being around 50 to 50. The Basthorst hunting area comprises the private hunting district of Basthorst, the community hunting area Basthorst and the community hunting area of the neighboring village Mühlenrade. Is state wildlife especially roe deer and wild boar , and in some quieter forests and fallow deer and red deer .
Public use
The current owner of the estate, Enno von Ruffin, and his wife Vicky Leandros , who was still living here at the time, expanded the business with new usage concepts from the late 1980s.
In addition to a Christmas market, a spring market is held every year in May and the autumn fair “Leben auf dem Lande” in September at Gut Basthorst. New fields of activity on the estate are z. B. Open-air operas by the ensemble of the Silesian State Opera. In addition, the buildings, which are no longer used for agriculture, offer space for celebrations and events of all kinds. There is a small hotel and the farm “Zum Pferdestall” on the estate.
literature
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions. Husum-Druck- und Verlags-Gesellschaft, Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-462-4 .
- Peter von Kobbe: History and description of the country of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Volume 3, p. 338ff, digitized Gut Basthorst
- Johann Friedrich Burmester: Contributions to the church history of the Duchy of Lauenburg , p. 179ff, digitized list of preachers
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ He died on June 3, 1645 near Krempelsdorf west of Lübeck in a duel with the bailiff and landowner Otto Blome , who also fell in this duel.
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 52 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 12 ″ E