Gut Ehlerstorf
The Ehlerstorf estate is located in the municipality of Wangels in eastern Schleswig-Holstein near Oldenburg in Holstein . The estate has been cultivated since the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. It is privately owned and is not open to the public.
historical overview
The lands of the later estate belonged to Count Adolf III in the Middle Ages . and consisted of a small village, as well as arable and meadow areas. The Schauenburger sold Ehlerstorf to the Lübeck bishops , through whom it again came into the possession of the Lübeck St. Johannis Monastery . In the 14th century, Ehlerstorf briefly belonged to the ancient Rantzau family , but then returned to the monastery. In 1464, Ehlerstorf was sold to the Pogwisch family , who founded the actual estate business on the site and began building the present manor house in the 16th century.
By inheritance, Ehlerstorf passed in 1557 to the closely related von der Wisch family, who ran it until the Thirty Years' War . The property came briefly to the Buchwaldt family and in 1632 to the Ahlefeld family , who also acquired the Güldenstein estate , which was not far away . Under the Ahlefelds, a large fire raged on Ehlerstorf in 1666, which destroyed the entire Vorwerk . In 1702 the Levetzow family acquired the manor district and around 1760 had the manor house rebuilt and enlarged. The Levetzows stayed on Ehlerstorf until the beginning of the 20th century, when they had to part with their property in 1900 for economic reasons. The buyer was Ernst von Abercron , whose family bought the neighboring Testorf estate as early as 1879 . The estate, with its extensive estates, has been farmed by the Abercrons to this day.
Buildings
The mansion
The mansion was built in a series of construction works from the 16th to the 18th century. It combines features typical of the country from the Renaissance with more modern forms of the Baroque . The entire mansion is two-story and made of brick, the three individual houses together have an almost square floor plan.
The oldest parts of the house date from around 1550. Originally, it was a construction of two parallel long houses, which corresponded to the traditional construction of the semi-detached house in Schleswig and Holstein. Unlike today, the roofs were not originally as Walm - but as gabled roofs designed and decorated the faces with high gables, similar poses the still Mr. Nuetschau represents.
From 1760 the manor house was extensively rebuilt. The building was extended to the west by a third parallel nave and the roof landscape was redesigned at the same time. While the facade facing the garden retained its three-part shape, the facade on the courtyard side was combined into one unit: The individual roofs were united by a transverse, fourth roof, so that the mansion on this side gives the impression of a closed structure three individual facades a composite plaster.
The courtyard
The farm yard has been repeatedly destroyed by fires in its history, so that the buildings had to be replaced several times. A large fire destroyed stables and barns in the 17th century, and another fire in 1913 destroyed a large barn. After the fire of the 20th century, a new farmyard was planned, which was to be laid out outside the former yard area. Since then, only the one-story cavalier house from the beginning of the 19th century has stood in the immediate vicinity of the manor house . The new farm was provided with a large cow house, which was built in historical forms from 1921. To the east, the area was bounded by an elongated, curved gatehouse. By relocating the neighboring country road, however, this access became meaningless and the gatehouse as such was never used.
Web links
literature
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions . Husum Verlag, Husum 1992, ISBN 3-88042-462-4 .
- Henning von Rumohr: Castles and mansions in Ostholstein . Wolfgang Weidlich publisher, Frankfurt 1973.
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994.
- Deert Lafrenz: manors and manors in Schleswig-Holstein . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein, 2015, Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-86568-971-9 , p. 148
Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 23.5 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 55.5 ″ E