Gut Emkendorf

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The Emkendorf estate is located in Schleswig-Holstein in the municipality of Emkendorf in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district . It is a strictly symmetrically designed courtyard. In addition to the manor house, several farm buildings and other outbuildings have been preserved. The Hasensee, which was formerly connected to the Westensee , is located in the extensive English-style landscape park . A 250-year-old linden and chestnut avenue touches the estate to the south. It is part of the old road from Kiel to Rendsburg and has been under protection as a natural monument since 1936 .

Manor and courtyard of the Emkendorf estate

history

Site plan of the property

After 1743, when the estate belonged to Jean Henri Desmercières , the manor house was completed, which was started around 1730 under his predecessor, the Hanoverian Field Marshal Cuno Josua von Bülow. In 1745 Desmercières received King Friedrich V there . Later he sold the estate to Detlev von Reventlow , who in 1783 bequeathed it to his son Friedrich Karl Reventlow . He was married to Julia , the daughter of the Danish treasurer Heinrich Schimmelmann , since 1779 . Schimmelmann had become rich through the Atlantic triangular trade . At his death in 1782 his children inherited each one-fifth of the annual, generated profit of slaves of the Caribbean sugar - plantations . The couple used this money, among other things, for the rich development of their estate.

Here, Julia Reventlow received a large number of famous personalities of the era, including Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Matthias Claudius and Johann Caspar Lavater , Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg . These debating circles , the so-called Emkendorfer Kreis , gave the estate the name “Weimar des Nordens”. During the French Revolution , numerous French nobles found refuge on the estate, including La Fayette .

After the death of Friedrich and Julia Reventlow, who were childless themselves, their adoptive son Joseph Graf von Reventlow-Criminil Emkendorf inherited . With brief interruptions, the estate was owned by the Reventlow family from 1764 to 1929. After the death of Adolf Cécil Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (1861–1927) it had to be sold in 1929 due to over-indebtedness. The buyer was the Dr. Curt and Carl Heinrich, publishers of the Kieler Nachrichten . It was probably the largest estate in Schleswig-Holstein and was responsible for the administration of many surrounding villages, farms and lakes.

At the end of the Second World War , war refugees were quartered in the mansion; after the surrender on May 8, 1945, a British garrison moved into the building.

Today the mansion is privately owned. It has been extensively restored and is known for its concerts, including those of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival .

The buildings

The mansion

Exterior construction

The mansion (middle wing) seen
from the courtyard side

The manor house was built in the late Baroque style between 1730 and 1745 and was remodeled in a classical style by the Saxon master builder Carl Gottlob Horn (1734–1807) towards the end of the 18th century . It is a two-storey plastered brick building with a mansard roof . The building has 13 axes and shows a three-axis, two-and-a-half-storey risalit on the courtyard side . This is structured by Ionic colossal pilasters and has a flat triangular gable. The clock in the gable was used in the course of a plaster renovation in 1850. The ground floor is rusticated , above the first floor there is an attic-like wall strip. The garden side is a little simpler overall. There the risalit has a continuous balcony. Two elongated one and a half story wings adjoin the courtyard side and surround the courtyard together with the main building in a horseshoe shape.

Interior

In addition to Carl Gottlob Horn, the painter Giuseppe Anselmo Pellicia and the plasterer Francesco Antonio Tadey were brought in to redesign the manor house at the end of the 18th century . A lower, classicist ceiling was inserted under the baroque stucco ceiling of the ballroom on the upper floor, which is still in existence today. Although a large part of the movable interior fittings was lost by the beginning of the 20th century, no major structural changes were made, so that the rooms have been preserved in a largely original condition. Parts of the furnishings, such as a copy of the portrait of Julia von Reventlow, are in the Emkendorf room in Ahrensburg Castle .

  • ground floor
Vestibule with Tuscan columns
Garden room with pilasters, grisaille paintings and painted ceiling stucco
Salon (Eagle Room) with four overdoors Roman scenery
Bedroom with ceiling picture of Helios
Dining room with adjoining breakfast room and wall paintings
  • First floor
former library with wood paneling
Ballroom with parquet floor and rococo stucco ceiling
Blue salon with blue wall paneling served as a room theater
Etruscan room with Pompeian decor and classicist stove
Telemach room with grisaille painting from the life of Telemach
Dining room with mythological scenes
Cabinet with a painted view of a landscape
several bedrooms

(Former) collector's items

The horse stables

The horse stables built by Carl Gottlob Horn 1797–1802 are two single-storey buildings facing each other at the entrance to the estate. They bend at right angles towards the entrance to the estate. The exposed brick buildings with a hipped roof have a one-and-a-half-storey three-axis central projection. This is structured by pilasters. A riding hall was added to the rear of one of the horse stables in 1855.

The old cow house and the old barn

The old cow house from 1730 is an elongated brick building with an originally thatched half-hip roof . While the southern end wall with two gates was originally preserved, the northern one was presumably redesigned by Carl Gottlob Horn at the end of the 18th century.

The old barn is opposite the cow house. It is a brick building built in 1745 with an originally thatched roof with a crooked hip.

The old dairy

The building probably also comes from Carl Gottlob Horn and was erected after 1791. It is a single-storey brick eaves house with a crooked hip roof. The middle part is two-storey, rusticated and is closed by a flat gable. A farm wing is built on the back.

The garden shed

The garden house, also known as Klein Emkendorf or Claudiushaus , was built in 1796 by Carl Gottlob Horn. Matthias Claudius lived here temporarily. It is a single-storey eaves house made of plastered brick with a crooked hip roof. The walls are divided by rusticated wall strips, in the middle there is a classicistic entrance door with a skylight. Small, unplastered brick side wings adjoin on both sides.

  • Central projection of the horse stable

  • Old cow house

  • Dairy farm

  • Garden shed

  • Bridge in the park

The park

The originally Baroque park was converted into an English-style landscape garden based on plans by Carl Gottlob Horn. This happened at the same time as the classicistic redesign of the main building at the end of the 18th century. Only parts of the park are preserved today. Behind the manor there is a lawn with old trees between a hill and the Hasensee . A long bridge spans the lake. Most of the park is open to the public.

literature

  • Johannes Noodt: The painting and antique collection on the noble Guthe Emkendorff in Holstein. (J. Noodt's LXXV. Catalog) Altona: und hammerich and Heineking 1829 ( digitized , Kiel University Library )
  • Frauke Missfeldt: Emkendorf Castle: Art collection and furnishings. A stylistic representation of his interiors at the turn of the 18th century. Diss. Kiel 1954 part print in Nordelbingen 23 (1955), pp. 115-130; 24, pp. 62-93 (1956)
  • Art topography Schleswig-Holstein . Processed in the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein and in the Office for Monument Preservation of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-02627-1 .
  • 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. 113.
  • Johannes Hugo Koch: Schleswig-Holstein . Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-0936-8
  • Dieter Lohmeier , Wolfgang J. Müller : Emkendorf and Knoop: Culture and art in Schleswig-Holstein mansions around 1800. Heide in Holstein: Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens 1984 ISBN 3-8042-0298-5 (Small Schleswig-Holstein Books 35)
  • 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. 152

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baedeker, Karl: Baedekers Kiel: City guide from Karl Baedeker . Baedeker, 1990, ISBN 3-87954-081-0 , pp. 88 ( worldcat.org [accessed July 3, 2020]).
  2. ^ Copy from Raphael's School of Athens
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schiering : "Kaunus and Byblis" or "Amor and Psyche". Effects and migration of an ancient marble group from Rome to Emkendorf. In: Antike Welt 25 (1994), pp. 47-53
  4. ^ Art of Classicism ( Memento from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 42.9 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 15.3 ″  E