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The former stately Hahn estate is located in the Oldenburger Land - 20 km north of the city of Oldenburg , on the edge of the Rasteder Geestrückens . It was first mentioned in 1059 as Villa Hona in the founding document of the Sankt Ulrichskirche in Rastede .

history

Oldenburg counts

Count Anton Günther
Anton I of Aldenburg

The owners were probably the ancestors of the Oldenburg counts for a long time. Graf . John II († 1314) handed over the estate in 1310 the recently in Bredehorn founded St. John - Coming . Johanniter monks erected large agricultural buildings and a chapel on the farm in the forest. In 1487, Count Gerd von Oldenburg explained to the Johannitern that his ancestors had entrusted the Hahn estate to them for management, but that they had not been granted any further powers or property rights. The order and the counts fought for decades about ownership until a settlement was reached in 1572 in which the Johanniter renounced the estate. Gut Hahn became a count's Vorwerk , which was administered by so-called Mieren . Count Anton Günther (1583–1667), the last and most popular sovereign of the County of Oldenburg , ran a horse stud at Hahn Gut. The farmers in the vicinity of the Vorwerk were obliged to cultivate the lands belonging to the count's estate. When Anton Günther died in 1667, the county of Oldenburg fell to the King of Denmark as heir .

Succession was denied to the illegitimate son Anton I von Aldenburg . According to his father's will, he only received the office of Varel , the glory of Kniphausen and the Hahn estate as free property. The Danish government did not agree and tried various political maneuvers to break the rule of the Aldenburgs. In the Aldenburg tract of 1693 she succeeded in getting the count's widow and underage son Anton II to renounce Gut Hahn. The chamber councilor von Felden, who had since become a tenant there, had to pay an inheritance wage of 200 rt to the Danish king.

Hinrich Janssen created a literary monument to the estate's “artsy singing Papagay” .

Hans-Hinrich von Stöcken

Hans-Hinrich von Stöcken (1684–1751), Danish governor in Stadland and Butjadingen , acquired Hahn Gut in 1737.

The Rasted community archivist Margarethe Pauly found documents in her archive that indicate that the French poet and philosopher Voltaire is said to have expressed an interest in buying Gut Hahn around 1750. This interest is said to have aroused Countess Charlotte Sophie Bentinck , who at that time was Count Anton Günther's great-granddaughter, who lived in Berlin. The purchase failed due to the sudden death of Hans-Hinrich von Stöckens in January 1751. His heirs are said to have not been interested in selling the estate to Voltaire in 1751.

Johann Georg von Hendorff

In 1754 the estate passed into the possession of Johann Georg Henrichs, who was in Danish service as war commissioner and judicial advisor . King Friedrich V allowed him to set up a brick factory, granted him the concession to brew and distill brandy, and elevated him to the Danish nobility with the title “von Hendorff”. In 1765, von Hendorff had the two old Vorwerk buildings demolished and the East Frisian Gulfhaus built to this day .

Gut Hahn from 1809 to 1854

13 years after Hendorff's death, the heirs sold the estate to the Dutchman Jan Zeper. He was followed in 1809 by the East Frisian Albert Eden Alberts. The next owner was the French knight Louis Marcel de Cousser. After the French Revolution of 1789 he had fled to Oldenburg as a royal trustee, had founded a porcelain business there and had been appointed chairman of the municipal council during the French era . After the liberation from the French occupation (1815), de Cousser learned that Albert Eden Alberts had put the Hahn estate up for sale. He reached an agreement with him and took over the noble free estate for a purchase price of 36,000 thalers.

Oldenburg 1866–1937

Louis Marcel de Cousser, who was anything but a farmer at home, belonged in the following years to the group of Oldenburg farmers who sought to modernize the duchy's agriculture by applying scientific principles and cultivation methods. He was elected President of the Oldenburg Agricultural Society and was awarded the silver and gold medal in recognition of his services in the introduction of new methods and the cultivation of large heather areas. The content-rich life of the Frenchman who had made his home in Germany ended in 1854.

New mansion and villa Louiswerth

His son and heir Adolph Friedrich de Cousser had the old manor house demolished in 1856 and a new one built, which is still in good condition today. At the same time he built the Villa Louiswerth on Oldenburger Strasse for his mother. The grandson Louis Marcel de Cousser was more concerned with expanding the clinker brick industry in the Frisian Wehde than with farming at Gut Hahn. In 1882 he sold the estate together with the brickworks and several houses in Hahn, which had meanwhile grown into a village with a train station. The buyer was a relative on his mother's side, the brewery owner Treitschke in Erfurt. This obviously intended to use the brewery license granted to the estate, but was unsuccessful. Treitschke's heirs in Erfurt agreed in their endeavor to sell the property, and the former owner Louis de Cousser took the opportunity in 1911 to repurchase it for 465,000 marks. But he died two years later. His widow made the mansion available as a hospital during World War I.

Gut Hahn from 1917 until today

In 1917 Ms. de Cousser realized that she was overwhelmed with managing a large estate. So she put it up for sale in a forestry and hunting magazine. The sawmill owner Friedrich Hünninghaus from Haßlinghausen near Wuppertal immediately set off to visit it. His main interest was in the forest, where he wanted to secure wood supplies for his sawmill. In Hahn he discovered that the trees did not meet his expectations. Nevertheless, he decided to buy the estate and built a new sawmill on the estate, but left the forest and the beautiful parks almost untouched. He had the wood for the sawmill transported from the Lüneburg Heath. Hünninghaus decided to renovate all buildings. The first thing he did was to have the roofs repaired and power lines laid. Then he tried to give the idyllic but slightly dilapidated property a tidy appearance again by demolishing a badly dilapidated outbuilding. The legendary water mill from 1611 also fell victim to the demolition euphoria.

Friedrich Hünninghaus bequeathed the sawmill to his daughter and son-in-law Friedrich Selle. The sawmill was shut down in 1936. During the war, a Wehrmacht motor vehicle squadron was housed on the property belonging to it. The team barracks that were also built at the time served as accommodation for so-called displaced persons after the war, mostly Latvians who did not want to or could not return to their homeland.

In his will, the landowner Selle decreed that his three underage grandchildren should receive the Hahn estate as a community of heirs. Caroline, one of the three grandchildren, married the Dutchman Wim Deekens and now lives with him and her brother Stephan in the old manor house.

The agriculture is leased. The farm's livelihood is based on dairy farming and forestry, a solar park and a riding school.

The landowner sees her idyll threatened by the plans to extend the A 20 “coastal motorway” from the Weser tunnel near Rodenkirchen to Westerstede . During the construction of the Oldenburg – Wilhelmshaven railway line , the former driveway from the north was relocated from the front to the manor house in favor of the railway to the south-west. The new motorway is to run 700 m from the manor house. The railway runs from north to south through the 163 hectare estate, the motorway would also split it in an east-west direction. Coming from Wilhelmshavener Strasse near Bekhausen, the structure would lead over the railroad tracks at a height of 14 meters. Two hectares of horse pastures and just as much forest would be lost, the lessee who runs the farm could only reach three hectares of pastureland in the north through a tunnel. In the further course, the motorway is to lead on a seven to ten meter high wall 300 meters away around the manor house through the forest.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jens Kirchhoff: Ancestry of sticks . North German Genealogies June 18, 2014. p. 146.
  2. ^ Britta Lübbers: Voltaire wanted to go to Hahn . Rasteder Rundschau . 17th January 2018
  3. ↑ Alice Düwel: Fairytale castle on traffic island - coastal motorway is supposed to cut through millennial Hahn estate , in: Kulturland Oldenburg , published by the Oldenburg landscape , Oldenburg (Oldb), issue 172 (issue 2/2017), p. 54f. ( online )


Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '58 "  N , 8 ° 10' 4"  E