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The Good Glüsig in Magdeburg is a working farm with an area of about 140 hectares . The estate is the largest organic slaughterhouse in Saxony-Anhalt. Its products have been processed and marketed in accordance with Bioland guidelines since 1993 . The estate goes back to a forework of the former Cistercian monastery in Althaldensleben from the 15th century.
The Glüsig district is now part of the village of Ackendorf in the Hohe Börde municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
The Glüsingen settlement emerged in the area originally inhabited by Sueven . In the years 1270 to 1300 Konrad von Wudenswegen gave the Althaldensleber monastery the first land holdings near Glüsingen. In 1310 the monastery acquired additional land there. The abbess at the time, Jutta I, incorporated Wedringen and Vahldorf as well as Glüsingen into the monastery area. After a plague epidemic around 1450 Glüsingen was deserted. Around 1460 the Vorwerk Glüsig was built east of the old village by the monastery .
During the Thirty Years War the Vorwerk and the associated St. Anna Chapel were destroyed. From 1648 onwards, the property and the nearby chapel were rebuilt.
Around 1700 the entire property of the former village of Glüsingen belonged to the monastery in Althaldensleben. In 1757 the abbess at the time had the main building of the farmyard built, which is still preserved today. In 1806 the Vorwerk and the chapel were plundered by French troops as part of the Fourth Coalition War .
Johann Gottlob Nathusius
In 1810 Magdeburg merchant and tobacco producer bought Johann Gottlob Nathusius from the Westphalian government under Napoleon repealed monastery and the farm in Glüsig.
Under Nathusius, the former agricultural use of the property was withdrawn, because soon after the acquisition, tree nurseries were set up at Glüsig as part of the commercial market gardening in Althaldensleben . Essentially, commercial goods ( mallow trees for color production) were grown, and fruit trees were also raised here. In addition to the economically more effective use of the land, the rededication to a tree nursery also met the aesthetic ideas of Nathusius. The formerly bare mountains of the Vorwerk were planted with fruit trees and bushes, to park-like areas. In one valley a pond was even stocked with swans.
Engraving for the Glüsig tree nursery from around 1820
Nathusius' pigeon apple grown at Gut Glüsig
Pilgrimage Chapel of St. Anna, photo from around 1920
After his father's death in 1835, Philipp von Nathusius took over the property in Althaldensleben and Glüsig. In 1849 he sold the Althaldensleber property to his younger brother Heinrich von Nathusius , the Glüsig Vorwerk initially remained in the ownership of Philipp, it was only managed by his brother. Around 1866 Heinrich von Nathusius ran a private hospital in Glüsig for those wounded in the German war . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, a military hospital was set up there again.
In 1883 or 1884 the Vorwerk was transferred to the Jenrich sugar factory , Druckerbrodt u. Co sold to Ackendorf.
On September 30, 1928, the Glüsig manor was combined with the rural community of Althaldensleben. With effect from April 1, 1934, the former Glüsig estate was changed from the Althaldensleben community to the Ackendorf community. In 1938 a new farming settlement was built in Glüsig. After the Second World War , the former Vorwerk was expropriated and made a state- owned estate with a focus on animal production , which was operated in cooperation with the also expropriated company at Hundisburg Castle . It existed in this form until 1990.
Caritas
After various changes of ownership, the Caritas Regionalverband Magdeburg eV took over the estate with 32 hectares of arable land from the Treuhandanstalt in 1992 and began to set up a social work and employment project “St. Francis ”. In addition to the conversion to ecological land management in 1993, a slaughterhouse and processing house was built on the site in 1998 and Gut Glüsig GmbH was founded as a social enterprise. From 1998 Gut Glüsig was also a training company and recognized place of work for the Voluntary Ecological Year .
In the summer of 2018, the Caritas regional association Magdeburg sold the property to a Catholic family from Hettstedt , whereby the ecological orientation of agriculture, the employment of disadvantaged people and the St. Anna pilgrimage are to be continued.
Agricultural business of the Caritasverband Magdeburg e. V.
136 hectares (90 hectares of arable land and 46 hectares of permanent grassland) were cultivated on the farm. Vegetables and fodder plants were grown and orchards were run. The main business area was pig rearing and slaughtering. Here 500 to 600 animals were fattened per year. In addition, around 50 cows and cattle ( German Angus ) were kept. There was also a small flock of sheep and horses (own and attitude). Gut Glüsig is a member of the network of demonstration farms for organic farming .
Gut Glüsig GmbH
Gut Glüsig GmbH, another subsidiary of Caritas, also belongs to the Gut Glüsig association. She processes the slaughter products of the estate, markets the ecological sausage and meat products and takes care of the sale of the fruit and vegetables that they produce themselves. Eleven employees and three apprentices belong to the company, which is designed as a social gainful enterprise: at least ten people, especially older long-term unemployed, are to be guaranteed permanent jobs. In return, the company receives financial support from Caritas, the employment office, the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the European Union.
Support association
The Gut Glüsig Association was founded on August 3, 2000 under the patronage of the Magdeburg Bishop Gerhard Feige . The goals of the association are the preservation of the Vorwerk as a monument to the history of architecture and art as well as a testimony to history, the use of the facility for church services and other cultural events, and cooperation with various institutions of the Catholic Church. It was planned to convert the former manor building into a guest and education center in addition to the already established agricultural operation. This would have required further exterior and interior renovation.
architecture
The manor house in Glüsig is a two-storey baroque quarry stone building with 13 axes and was built around 1750. On the asymmetrically arranged portal there is a segmented gable and an inscription. Other buildings in the courtyard date from the 18th century. The entire courtyard complex is a listed building.
Pilgrimage chapel of St. Anna
The nearby St. Anna pilgrimage chapel, which originally belonged to the estate, is a small, single-nave, Romanesque quarry stone building from the 13th century. Archbishop Wilbrand of Magdeburg donated the chapel to the Cistercian convent in Althaldensleben in 1236.
The chapel, which was partially destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , was renewed in 1658. The portal, the windows as well as a half-timbered choir gable and a hexagonal roof turret are evidence of the renovation that took place at the time. The choir house of Romanesque building, is only a little get from the old stonework, opens in a round arch to the Baroque altar with a statue of St. Anne . In the chapel is the only bell in the region that bears a chronostich . It gives the year 1711.
In 1812 the last abbess of the monastery in Althaldensleben, which was secularized in 1810, was buried here, "Domina and Mater" Ludovica Dederich. Her tombstone is on the outside wall of the chapel. In 1934 the building was restored. Today the chapel belongs to the parish of St. Christophorus based in Haldensleben . The chapel is still the destination of the annual St. Anne's pilgrimage.
St. Anne's pilgrimage
A Annen -Verehrung at this location has been proven since the 13th century. After the devastating medieval plague epidemics, the Althaldensleben monastery founded an annual procession to Glüsig in the 16th century. It is still carried out once a year as a foot pilgrimage . On the first Sunday in August, the pilgrims gather in the parishes of St. Johannes Baptist in Althaldensleben and St. Peter and Paul in Groß Ammensleben and move to Glüsig. A joint service takes place on the Kapellenberg. The figure of the chapel patron shown in the procession today comes from the holdings of the Diocesan Museum in Paderborn .
Entrance to the estate
Information board about the organic farm from 2010
View over the farm yard to the baroque main building
Today's pigsties
References and comments
- ↑ according to Article tractor donation for Gut Glüsig on the website of the Diocese of Magdeburg from August 4, 2010
- ↑ or Konrad von Gutenswegen, after the place Gutenswegen
- ↑ according to Author collective, Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon , 1902–1910, FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894–1896, 12th volume, page 192
- ↑ turn to Nathusius commercial establishments Althaldensleben included
- ↑ according to Christina Heil (?), Johann Gottlob Nathusius - a pioneer of the Haldensleber industry , in an unknown publication from August 1992
- ↑ according to Otto Dieskau , Das Kloster-Vorwerk Glüsig , in: From Althaldensleben's Past, III. Part, No. 14, Verlag von Simmerlein, Neuhaldensleben / Althaldensleben 1924, pp. 10–28
- ↑ a b according to Marlise Harksen, Die Kunstdenkmale des Kreis Haldensleben , in: Die Kunstdenkmale im Bezirk Magdeburg , EA Seemann, 1961, p. 276
- ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 226 .
- ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1935, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 4 .
- ↑ according to Information board on the estate in summer 2010
- ↑ Gut Glüsig has a new owner. mdr.de, July 26, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018.
- ↑ Future for Gut Glüsig. In: Tag des Herr (newspaper) , edition 31/2018 of August 5, 2018, p. 1
- ^ Caritas Association for the Magdeburg deanery
- ↑ according to Julia Kuttner, in the article So many possibilities in the magazine Day of the Lord , issue 5/2002
- ↑ a b according to Website of the traditional foot pilgrimage to St. Anne's Chapel at Gut Glüsig
- ↑ according to Article Traditional foot pilgrimage to St. Anne's Chapel at Gut Glüsig on the website of the Caritas Association of the Magdeburg Diocese of July 29, 2010
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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 11 ° 27 ′ 2.6 ″ E