Bothkamp

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Bothkamp (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '  N , 10 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Plön
Office :	Preetz country
Height :	28 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.85 km 2
Residents:	268 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	19 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24250
Area code :	04302
License plate :	PLÖ
Community key :	01 0 57 011
Office administration address:	Am Berg 2 24211 Schellhorn
Website :	www.bothkamp.de
Mayoress :	Stefani Preuss (WGB)
Location of the municipality of Bothkamp in the Plön district

Bothkamp is a municipality in the Barkauer Land region in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein . Dosenbek, Steinhorst, Klein Buchwald, Leckerhölken and Hof-Siek are in the municipality.

Geography and traffic

Bothkamp is located on the federal highway 404 between Kiel and Bad Segeberg about at the level of Preetz . Bothkamp also includes the Bothkamper See , from which the Eider rises, and the Bothkamp estate. Landstrasse 49 runs directly through the village, it connects the B 404 at Nettelsee with the A 7 at Bordesholm.

history

Bothkamp estate in renaissance condition (based on the Rantzau panel ), drawing from 1862

Gut Bothkamp, ​​Seeseite, Winter, 1996

The history of Bothkamp is closely linked to the history of the homonymous property, which was once the largest in Schleswig-Holstein with an area of ​​6000  hectares . The Bothkamp community was established in 1928 when the manor districts were dissolved from part of the Bothkamp manor district.

The Bothkamp estate emerged from the Bistekesse estate, first mentioned in 1243. When the monasteries were dissolved in the course of the Reformation, the Danish military leader Johann Graf zu Rantzau (1492–1565) initially acquired 3300 hectares of land from the property of the Segeberg and Bordesholm monasteries in 1531–1538, expanding this to 6000 through individual purchases of smaller goods ha and built the first mansion in Bothkamp in the early Renaissance style to manage these lands between 1538 and 1547 . Here also was Josiah Graf zu Rantzau born (1609-1650), of an important commander of the Thirty Years' War was.

After the death of Paul Graf zu Rantzau in 1670, the estate went to his nephew Cai Bertram von Brockdorff by lottery among his sisters and their descendants . He initially promised the property to his son from his first marriage, Cai Lorenz Graf von Brockdorff , but remarried in 1671 and then wanted to give the property to one of his three daughters from this marriage. This was followed by a legal dispute that stretched over three generations to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar , from which Heinrich von Ahlefeldt was awarded the estate in 1726 , which he had been administering since 1705. During this time, between 1711 and 1714, two gatehouses were built, which, in contrast to the usual system, were not in the axis of the manor house, but at right angles to it. First the small gatehouse was built in the direction of Kiel and three years later the large gatehouse with its two four-storey towers in the direction of Hamburg .

After Ahlefeldt's only son died deeply in debt in 1760 at the age of 26, his brother-in-law Johann Rudolf von Rumohr took over debts and property. His son Heinrich made extensive alterations to the manor house and rebuilt it around 1780 in the style of early classicism . The rooms on the ground floor were given stucco work attributed to the Italian Francesco Antonio Tadey .

Due to his childlessness, Heinrich von Rumohr bequeathed Bothkamp to the second son of his sister Christine Friederike, Detlev Heinrich von Bülow , who later became district administrator and bailiff of Gottorf. After his death, he was followed by his second son Friedrich Gustav von Bülow , who had the private Bothkamp observatory built on the edge of the estate on a small island in the lake in 1870 . This was the largest in Germany and, under Professor de Ball, became a leading research institution in the field of astrophysics over the next few years .

The estate is still owned by the Bülow family today. In the post-war period, however, refugees from the eastern regions were initially accommodated here and considerable parts of it were given up for settlement purposes. From 1957 to the 2000s, the mansion was rented to the Order of St. John , who used it as a retirement home and later rented it to a private individual. At that time, the Bülow family cultivated the land from the nearby Siek farm.

In the middle of the 19th century, the illustrator and children's book author Fanny von Bernstorff lived and worked temporarily in Bothkamp.

The municipality of Bothkamp belonged to the dissolved district of Bordesholm until 1932 , then to the district of Plön , and finally merged into the Preetz-Land district after the regional reform in 1970 (dissolution of the Kirchbarkau office) .

politics

Community representation

Since the municipal elections in 2013, the WGB voter community has all nine seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a golden tip, inside a red cylindrical observatory, top right a golden oat panicle, top left a 14-pointed golden star."

The main character of the coat of arms is the representation of the observatory built by Friedrich Gustav von Bülow in 1869 on the main courtyard of Bothkamp, ​​the foundations of which are still preserved today. The blue stands for the Bothkamper See . The golden tip stands for the Bothkamp farm, which protrudes as a headland into the Bothkamper See. The golden oat panicle represents the main line of business in the community, arable farming. The 14- pointed star stands for the 13 living spaces of the very large municipality of Bothkamp and the planetoid named Athamantis , representative of the numerous astronomical discoveries from the Bothkamp observatory up to the end of the 19th century.

economy

Agriculture is currently still an important economic sector.

Attractions

Large (Hamburg) gatehouse of the Bothkamp estate (c. 1710)

The list of cultural monuments in Bothkamp includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

Bothkamp cultural landscape - Hof Siek educational trail

In 2004, the nature work group of the Barkauer Land citizens' association brought the nature trail to life on Conrad von Bülow's land. Since then, it has been continuously expanded to include new boards, topics and, above all, the soil adventure trail. The nature trail can be walked on at any time.

Personalities

• Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp (1897–1976), fighter pilot in World War I, squadron commodore in World War II.

literature

• Henning v. Rumohr: castles and mansions in northern and western Holstein, reworked by Cai Asmus v. Rumohr and Carl-Heinrich Seebach 1988, 2nd edition, Verlag Weidlich Würzburg, ISBN 3-8035-1272-7 , p. 36
• Neuschäffer, Hubertus: Schleswig-Holsteins Schlösser und Herrenhäuser , Husum 1989, pp. 40–41.

Web links

Commons : Bothkamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bothkamp community
• Official website of the Herrenhaus Bothkamp

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North Statistics Office - Population of the municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein 4th quarter 2019 (XLSX file) (update based on the 2011 census) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 2: Boren - Ellerau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-926055-68-2 , p. 53 ( dnb.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
4. ↑ Official coats of arms in the official appendix to the permit application.