Good campe
The Good Campe is a farm with an old half-timbered house dating back to 1350 and Wasserburg , the Hermann von Campe was built, gen. Westerholt. It is located in the village of Steinbild in the municipality of Kluse between Walchum and Sustrum in the integrated municipality of Dörpen in the Emsland district in western Lower Saxony .
Origin of the noble estate
In 1386, Count Eberwin I. Hermann von Campe from Bentheim enfeoffed the peasant property south of Steinbild near Dörpen on the right bank of the Ems, Camper Bruch. The family name was changed to "von dem Campe". In 1403 Hermann's sons Rolf and Hermann inherited the aristocratic seat in equal parts. Until 1611, the two Campesche Gutsteile wrote history separately from each other.
Campe I (Rolf's inheritance share)
Rolf von dem Campe bequeathed his share to his two sons Rolf and Hermann. This was in turn divided by the two. When Rolf died without descendants in 1430, his brother Hermann received his share. He passed away only three years later. His four sons Dietrich, Heinrich, Hermann and Otto inherited the estate and divided it up among themselves. In 1435 Heinrich sold his share to Hermann. Otto sold his share to Dietrich. In 1461 Dietrich sold his share to Heinrich. When he died, Hermann inherited the property and the original Rolf inheritance was reunited.
Hermann von dem Campe bequeathed the noble property to his son Johann. He was married to Pelleke von Heede. Their son Hermann inherited the estate in 1517. In 1521 he married Else von Brawe. Shortly afterwards he died without any descendants. After Else's death, her brother Heinrich von Brawe, a Quakenbrück Burgmann, inherited Gut Campe. Heinrich's son Hermann inherited his father's property, who meanwhile married Else von Schade zu Ihorst. Her son Heinrich succeeded him as the landowner in 1607.
In 1611 Heinrich von Brawe bought the other, Hermann's share of the inheritance, from Anna Elisabeth von Brae and her husband Philipp Ludwig von Baumbach. So the entire noble estate of Campe was reunited.
Campe II (Hermann inheritance)
In 1408 Hermann von dem Campe bequeathed the inheritance share to his son Johann. He sold the estate to the city of Meppen. This sold the property to Steven von Brae, who lived with his wife Stine and the children Roleff and Heylike on the seat. In 1433 Steven sold a small part to the neighboring brothers Dietrich, Heinrich, Hermann and Otto von dem Campe. Steven's children died early and so his nephew Friedrich von Brae, son of his brother Wynrich, inherited the noble estate. Successors as landowners were first his son Hermann and later his son Steven, who was married to Fye von Moneel from Landegge. When he died in 1531 his two children, Hans and Geseke, were still minors. So his uncle Hans von Moneel stepped in as guardian. The Bentheimer Count Eberwin III. enfeoffed Hans von Moneel in 1551 and became the new owner. His son Steven inherited the knightly estate in 1556. Since he left only one daughter after his death in 1597, Anna Elisabeth von Brae and her husband Philipp Ludwig von Baumbach became the new estate. The two had no interest in their property and sold it to their neighbor Heinrich von Brawe in 1611. So the two halves of the camp became one again after 208 years.
The reunited Campe estate
In 1614 Heinrich von Brawe married the beautiful Alma Margarethe von Plettenberg . After he died in 1622, only his eldest son, Hermann Christian, became the new landowner. When he died in 1652 with no heirs, his brother Otto Nagel von Brawe, who was married to Gertrud Cornelia von Grothaus zu Mesenburg and Vehr, succeeded him. His son Hermann Smerten Christian inherited him. When he died in 1695, the Brawe line became extinct in the male line. His sister Alma Sybille brought the estate with her to Hermann von Dincklage from the Schulenburg family. After his death in 1717, Hermann Eberhard von Dincklage, who married Eleonore Sophie von dem Bussche Haddenhausen in 1728, inherited the noble residence of Campe. He enlarged the estate by incorporating the neighboring Osterwedde estate. In 1755 his son Hermann Wilhelm became the new landowner. Because he was raised to the knighthood of Munster, the Rittersitz estate became Campe. In 1806, after his death, Campe passed on to his daughter Johanna Christine Wilhelmine, who had meanwhile married her uncle August Eberhard von Dincklage (her father's brother). Their son Hermann Eberhard Friedrich inherited the knight's seat in 1830, who was married to Julie von Stolzenburg. His son Friedrich von Dincklage-Campe became the new owner in 1886. In 1918 he bequeathed the manor to his son Hans Ulrich in his will until he passed away in 1939. His son Ulrich, who was married to Johanna Grüter, inherited the historic Campe estate. Gut Campe is still owned by the family to this day.
Appearance of the entire property
The three-winged mansion, which was built from stone and in half-timbered construction, reflects the simplicity that is typical of manor houses in the former Emsland. The courtyard is surrounded by pond-like moats. In 1888 the size of the knight's seat was put down in writing on around 600 hectares. Today the size should be around 250 hectares.
The Campe estate was part of the Nienhaus Castle district.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 55 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 29 ″ E