Good Oberbehme

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Oberbehme manor house, inner courtyard
Front view with gate passage of the manor house
Farm buildings from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

The Good Oberbehme is a good and a former moated castle in the south of Kirchlengern , Herford .

history

The moated castle or Gut Oberbehme located in the Werra Valley was first mentioned in 1450. According to a list of the Herford Abbey, a manor Behme has existed since the 12th century. In 1426 the estate became the property of the von Quernheim family . In 1734 Friedrich von der Horst zu Haldem acquired the estate from the von Cornberg brothers. The Niederbehme estate, which no longer exists today, was in the neighborhood and also belonged to the von Quernheim family until the 18th century. In 1735, Freiherr von der Horst left the Oberbehme buildings to the von Quernheim zu Niederbehme family and built new manor buildings, Gut Steinlacke , in Steinlake . Oberbehme's rights were transferred to Steinlacke. Gut Niederbehme was demolished to be used as building material in Steinlacke; Niederbehme's rights were transferred to Oberbehme.

In 1826 the Bielefeld merchant Arnold Friedrich von Laer acquired the property. His son Carl-Friedrich managed the estate in a progressive manner. In the third generation, his second son Otto took over the property after his older brother Wilhelm evaded arrest for liberal activities by emigrating to America in 1848 . In the fourth generation, Carl von Laer made a name for himself as a successful farmer and pig farmer . After the Second World War , he was employed by the British occupying power because of his documented political distance from the Nazi regime to the district administrator of the Herford district . Carl von Laer married Friederike von Wedemeyer from Schönrade in the Neumark in 1911 . The only son Otto Max Hermann von Laer (1914-1993) was captured by the English at the end of the Second World War as a captain and leader of a Cossack unit in Carinthia , was extradited to the Russians together with his unit and did not return from Soviet captivity until autumn 1953 . After the death of Carl von Laer in 1948, the estate was therefore managed by the youngest daughter Maximiliane "Maxa" von Laer. Together with Friedrich C. Krüger, they ensured dynamic further development of the agricultural estate after the war. When Maxa's brother Otto von Laer returned in 1953 as a late returnee from Soviet captivity , he took over the inheritance and the agricultural restructuring of the estate, as a result of which the number of employees between 1960 and 1973 was reduced from 50 to 60 to 3. Heinrich Taake, the husband of Maria Taake, who has gone down in the history of the estate as a veteran, is one of the last "upper contractors" from this time. As a 14-year-old apprentice, he joined the estate administration in 1924 and worked there for over 50 years. He died in 1994. Otto von Laer's eldest son, Carl-Mauritz von Laer (born 1957), is now responsible for the large farm. In 2010 the neighboring Steinlacke manor was acquired by the von Borries family. Thus the areas of the old Oberbehme and Niederbehme estates are reunited after centuries.

Building and park

The medieval moated castle was converted into a single-storey manor house with a mansard roof and baroque roof turret in the 18th and 19th centuries and expanded in 1911. In 1977 the southwest wing of the former four-wing complex was demolished. The three-winged today main building of moats surrounded. The historic landscape park is characterized by the moats, extensive lawns and old trees. The northwestern park area is forested and can no longer be identified as a park. The entire facility has an area of ​​around two hectares .

Oberbehme was an independent manor district in the Herford-Hiddenhausen district , but was then incorporated into the Kirchlengern community on June 30, 1929 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 268 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 27 ″  E