Gut Eckendorf

The Good Eckendorf is a Grade II listed former manor on the Bielefelderstraße 222 in Schuck tree , a district of Leopoldshöhe in North Rhine-Westphalia Lippe . It is the location of a plant nursery . The first mention of the property goes back to 1036.

West side of Gut Eckendorf (2011)

history

The sugar beet in the coat of arms of the municipality Leopoldshöhe

The first mention of the good comes of 25 May 1036. In the Busdorf certificate is evidence that the bishop My work of Paderborn the canons Busdorf including the main courtyard low Barkhausen in today's Leopold higher district Asemissen with the associated outworks Eckendorf, the court Oerlinghausen , Menkhausen (today Oerlinghausen), the later Meierhof zu Heepen and the later Meierhof Borgsen in Brackwede handed over to the fiefdom . Eckendorf is called Ykamannincthorp there .

In 1628 the estate came into the possession of the Count of Lippe's chief forest and hunter Arnold Schmerheim and received the status of a manor. Its heyday began with the acquisition by the von Borries family in 1774. The estate developed into a prominent agricultural operation in the region. The plant breeding established in 1849 was of particular importance and is still in existence today and is sold through the Saaten-Union . Beet growing was particularly important. It is so characteristic of the region that the sugar beet was included in the coat of arms of the municipality of Leopoldshöhe. Today the estate is owned by the von Dallwitz family through female succession .

architecture

The encircled , irregular complex consists of a manor house with two single-storey, plastered building wings . The north wing is essentially a half-timbered house from the 17th century. The early classical , massive east wing with a central risalit was built in 1776 as a connecting building to the baroque corner pavilion with a mansard roof and a bell tower. From 1910 to 1911 a new entrance porch was built in the corner of the building and the access to the east wing was changed. The so-called Rococo Hall is located in the east wing . It is adorned with supraports and mirrors in elaborate carved frames. The sandstone fireplace with a large heraldic cartouche is remarkable, the two Delft faience ovens are from the first half of the 18th century. The Kutscherkotten is a half-timbered building from the 18th century.

The farm buildings belonging to the estate are located south of the mansion on the opposite side of the street. They were built at the end of the 19th century.

Landscape park

Franz von Borries created the originally baroque manor park

history

The park was laid out by Franz von Borries with the construction of the east wing around 1776. It had a baroque ground floor and a terraced part of the park with orange trees and statues based on ancient Greek models. The conversion of this park into a two-part landscape park probably took place in the middle of the 19th century. The southern part with a large pond in the center was characterized by individual trees in lawns and meandering paths, to the north there was a small wood with paths. To the north of the building, an artificial elevation that still exists today is shown. Behind her, the park was expanded to the north in the first half of the 20th century. Today the park covers an area of ​​about 3.5  hectares .

Furnishing

The very well-preserved park is dominated by the water areas of the graves and the pond, in which the old trees are reflected, as well as an approximately 750 year old pedunculate oak with a trunk circumference of 13 meters. The tree population consists of a total of 47 types of wood from the subtropical and temperate zones. These include a river cedar , an umbrella magnolia and an East Asian hackberry tree . In the park there is an oak tree with a chest height of 8.00 m (2014).

literature

• Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .

Web links

Commons : Gut Eckendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the estate
• Summary of the story and photo
• Presentation of the history of the estate with detailed illustrations ( memento from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roland Linde: Courtyards and families in Westphalia and Lippe. Volume 1: The Amtsmeierhof Asemissen and the Amt Barkhausen . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3666-1 , p. 20 ( online ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c Regional} Association Westphalia-Lippe: Gutspark Eckendorf in LWL-GeodatenKultur
3. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 31.2 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 56.3"  E