Gut Ludwigsburg
Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 47.5 " N , 9 ° 55 ′ 53.7" E
The Ludwigsburg estate ( Danish Kohoved or Kohøved ) in the municipality of Waabs in northeastern Schleswig-Holstein emerged from a moated castle in the Middle Ages . The noble estate near Eckernförde , originally known as Kohöved (cohovede, Danish: "cow's head") , came into the possession of Count Friedrich Ludwig von Dehn in the 18th century . Today's baroque mansion was built under the royal governor in Schleswig-Holstein .
History of the estate
historical overview
The estate was founded in the 14th century by the long-established Sehestedt family, who have a curia here ; So they built a farm yard and a small moated castle. The name Kohøved has been documented since the 15th century. By inheritance Kohøved came in 1564 to a branch of the Rantzau family . Under Paul Rantzau, who with his wife Beate (née Sehestedt ) also lived in the so-called knight's castle in Eckernförde , a new mansion was built in place of the old moated castle, and the property was later expanded to include the Bienebek and Bothkamp estates .
From the 17th century on, the ownership on Kohøved changed several times. In 1670 the estate went briefly to the Ahlefeld family , in 1672 to the barons Kielmannsegg and then to the Temming family, whose heads served as royal chancellors in Copenhagen. The Temmings, which went bankrupt in 1722, again changed hands until the property was acquired by Friedrich Ludwig von Dehn in 1729 . He had today's manor house built from 1740. Dehn was appointed governor in Schleswig-Holstein by the Danish king in 1762, and in 1768 he gave the estate, where he also died in 1771, the new name Ludwigsburg. By inheritance, Ludwigsburg later went back to the Ahlefeldt , which remained here with various Holstein and Danish branches until 1950. The property was then sold to the Carl community of heirs, whose descendants still manage the property today.
present
The courtyard and garden area at Gut Ludwigsburg are largely accessible to visitors. The estate is farmed, with horse breeding (Trakehner, Arabs, Holsteiners and ponies) and riding with a riding hall and stables for own and guest horses. Associated with this are more tourist offers such as pony rides and trips in a covered wagon. Holiday apartments are rented in Ludwigsburg, and a café and farm shop are located in the farm yard. The mansion can be visited by appointment, the large halls are also rented out for celebrations.
Buildings
The mansion
The mansion developed from a number of previous buildings. A moated castle from the 14th century was followed by a typical semi-detached house from 1590 , which was largely demolished between 1730 and 1740 or redesigned into today's baroque building . The foundation walls and the basement of the previous building are still preserved today, this is also evident in the exterior, where the structure of brick layers and horizontal sandstone bands typical of the Nordic Renaissance is still preserved at various points in the masonry . Ludwigsburg is one of the largest baroque manor houses in the former Duchy of Schleswig . The manor house from 1740 rises as a large, cuboid building directly from its moat. It has four floors; two full and two half floors and is covered by a mighty mansard roof. The house is made entirely of brick , the facades are simply modeled in baroque forms. The garden and courtyard facades have nine-axis windows, the narrow sides of the building four-axis.
The two-part floor plan of the manor house still refers to the duplex from the 16th century. In line with the later redesign of the building, the interior of the manor house is also in the baroque style of the 18th century. The wall-mounted decoration of the rooms is not completely preserved, however, as a fire in the 20th century destroyed parts of the original furnishings, especially in the upper storeys. The largest room in the building is the golden hall , which is festively designed in the Louis-seize style and forms the representative center of the house on the bel étage with the adjoining small hall . A special feature of Ludwigsburg is the so-called colorful chamber , the furnishings of which date from the second half of the 17th century. It is a paneled room decorated with 145 small portraits, emblems and sayings. Some of the small-format paintings depict the quotations listed, but there are also images of the old Kohøved manor house or the Gottorfer Neuwerkgarten . The Bunte Kammer is unique in this form in Schleswig-Holstein, only on Gut Gaarz near Oldenburg there is a similar, albeit more simply designed room.
Courtyard, gatehouse and garden
In front of the mansion there is a large farm yard, which got its present form in the middle of the 20th century. Until 1967 the square was bounded by the so-called Krummhaus , a large, semicircular building from the 18th century, which together with the manor house formed a large, architectural unit in the sense of the Baroque. The house, which was presumably built by Johann Gottfried Rosenberg from 1740 on, served as a farm building; it was demolished because its dimensions no longer met the requirements of modern agriculture. A round courtyard remained in its place, sober functional buildings were erected on the area behind it, only the end pavilions remained. Other outbuildings bordered the Krummhaus, which today form the southern boundary of the courtyard. The most important of these buildings is the manor's old gatehouse , which dates back to the 16th century, but was redesigned several times in later times. Its field side is adorned by nine sandstone panels arranged in a cross shape, which show, among other things, the coats of arms of the Rantzaus and Sehestedt.
A baroque garden had been located to the west of the manor house since the 18th century . The facility, which was once strictly based on French models, was redesigned in the style of English landscape gardens from 1845, although the basic structure formed by moats and baroque avenues has been preserved to the present day.
Web links
- Website Gut Ludwigsburg
- Literature from and about Gut Ludwigsburg in the catalog of the German National Library
Sources and literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-422-03033-6 .
- Henning v. Rumohr: Castles and mansions in the Duchy of Schleswig , newly edited. by Cai Asmus v. Rumohr, 1987, Verlag Weidlich Würzburg, 3rd edition, ISBN 3-8035-1302-2 , p. 267.
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions . Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-462-4 , pp. 68f.
- Hans and Doris Maresch: Schleswig-Holstein's castles, manors and palaces . Husum Verlag, Husum 2006, ISBN 3-89876-278-5 .
- Hartmut Freytag, Wolfgang Harms, Michael Schilling, Wolfgang Carl, Deert Lafrenz: Baroque culture of conversation: the emblems of the colorful chamber in the Ludwigsburg manor near Eckernförde . Ludwig, Kiel 2001, ISBN 3-933598-29-X .
- 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. 353.
Individual evidence
- ^ History - Gut Ludwigsburg. In: gut-ludwigsburg.de. 2013, accessed on November 5, 2013 : "Johann von Ahlefeld left two daughters, of whom the older Ingrid von Ahlefeld sold Ludwigsburg in 1950 to the undivided community of heirs Carl."