Marienhof Estate (Völkershausen)

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Oldest house (1724) of Gut Marienhof, 2011
Second residential building of Gut Marienhof, 2011

The Gut Marienhof , known by that name since 1956 at the latest, is a farm in the district of Völkershausen , in the municipality of Wanfried in northern Hesse Werra-Meissner . The three main buildings of the three-sided complex - two residential buildings and a farm building - are now a listed building.

Geographical location

The manor is located about two kilometers southwest of Völkershausen, 200 m north of the district border with Großburschla and thus the state border with Thuringia . It is located 293 m above sea level on the heights of the Schlierbachswald west of the Werra , in the midst of paddocks, fields and forest, above the Teufelsthal, a side valley of the Schlierbachtal . The wooded area, right on the former inner-German border and thus on the German Green Belt and on the border with the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park , is characterized by a large variety of fauna and flora .

The estate can be reached via a side road that branches off from the K 49 to the south about 1 km west of Völkershausen, 300 m behind the Obermühle .

history

The property was first mentioned in a document in 1724, when Wolff-Dietrich von Verschuer set up the “courtyard over the Teufelsthal” and had the residential building, still known today as the Berghaus, built on the west side of the courtyard. He had bought the manor in Völkershausen from Johann Leopold von Geyso in 1722 and then received confirmation of the Fulda fiefdom over the village and estate from the Fulda monastery . The "Hof over the Devil valley" served Set in the village manor as Vorwerk , were cultivated from which the remote and higher fields and meadows. The so-called baroque stable also dates back to the 18th century and, together with the mountain house, was the only building as an L-shaped ensemble for a long time.

The Lords of Verschuer were followed by the court and chancellery Franz Ludwig Georg von Hattorf (1746–1806) as the owners of the Völkershausen estate and the Vorwerk over the Teufelsthal, and then at the beginning of the 19th century Hann. Münden merchant Carl Gottfried Huschke and his descendants, finally the von and zu Gilsa family and, through marriage and inheritance, the Roeder von Diersburg family . Only after the manor Völkershausen including the Vorwerk had passed into the possession of Baron Otto von und zu Gilsa in 1872, the Vorwerkshof was closed into a square by building further residential and stable buildings . So was z. For example, the representative second residential building opposite the Berghaus was only built around 1900, after the Vorwerk had become an estate independent of the parent estate in Völkershausen in 1896 through the division of inheritance.

The water supply to the homestead was a major problem from the start. At first there was only a cistern . It was only in 1759 began miners from the Richelsdorfer Mountains a more than 100 m deep wells into the rock to cut that still exists today.

In the 1950s, the estate was converted into a small stud and training company by its owner at the time, Baron Dietrich Roeder von Diersburg, who became the first chairman of the Hessian Horse Breeders Association in 1972 . Forests and forestry have been in the foreground since 1995 .

investment

The Berghaus is an eleven-axis, single - storey half-timbered building with a mansard hipped roof and a floor area of ​​25 × 9 m. In the middle of the east side facing the courtyard is a single-storey dwelling above the portal, the crossbar of which shows the year 1724 in Roman numerals .

The second residential building, opposite the Berghaus, is an eleven-axis, one - and - a-half - story half- timbered building with a gable roof and a floor area of ​​25 × 12 m. On the west side there is an imposing five-axis central projection with a five-step flight of steps leading to the portal. The east side is structured by a three-axis central projection. External entrances lead to the basement on both sides of the portal.

The inner courtyard between the two houses is open to the north, but closed to the south by the baroque barn and another farm building, between which there is an exit from the courtyard. Further farm buildings are grouped to the south, west and north around the central courtyard. The main entrance is between the Berghaus and the large stone barn to the north of it.

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 29 ″  E

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Wolff Dietrich von Verschuer (1676–1737) died in 1737 as a royal Swedish lieutenant general .
  2. ↑ Father of the Royal Hanoverian Major General Georg Heinrich von Hattorf (* 1784 in Völkershausen, † 1856 in Stade).
  3. ↑ Father of the well-known lawyer Philipp Eduard Huschke .

literature

  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen. Publications of the Historical Commission for Hessen 14, NG Elwert Verlag, 1974 (Unchanged reprint of the 1st edition Marburg 1926) ISBN 3-7708-0510-0 (hardcover) ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 (brosch.), Pp. 466 (Teufelsthal)
  • Peer Zietz and Thomas Wiegand: Werra-Meißner-Kreis I, Altkreis Eschwege. (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / cultural monuments in Hesse), State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1991, p. 583 (Marienhof)
  • Dieter Wunder: Noble rule Völkershausen in the office of Eschwege. Gut und Gemeinde 1650-1810, in: Jochen Ebert, Ingrid Rogmann, Peter Wiedersich and Heide Wunder (eds.): Schwebda - an aristocratic village in the 17th and 18th centuries. Kassel, 2006, pp. 287-364
  • Dieter Wunder: Economics of the Lower Nobility in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel and in the Canton of Rhön-Werra using the example of Geyso and Verschuer (1765-1800) , in: E. Conze, A. Jendorff and H. Wunder (eds.): Adel in Hesse. Rule, self-image and lifestyle from the 15th to the 20th century. Marburg, 2010, pp. 403-433
  • Jochen Ebert, Ingrid Rogmann, Peter Wiedersich, Heide Wunder: Schwebda - an aristocratic village in the 17th and 18th centuries. With a contribution to the rule and village of Völkershausen. Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Kassel, 2006, ISBN 3-925333-46-0
  • Alexander Jendorff, Heide Wunder: Nobility in Hessen: Rule, self- image and lifestyle from the 15th to the 20th century. Historical Commission for Hesse, 2010, ISBN 3-942225-00-X

Web links

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