Good Seekamp

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Illustration from 1862

The former aristocratic Seekamp estate in the north of Kiel is now part of the Kiel-Schilksee district .

history

Map of Seekamp and the surrounding area 1898
Depiction from 1586

Seekamp, ​​which was initially called "Sehekampf", was first mentioned in documents in 1350 and was initially owned by the von der Wisch family . Seekamp came into possession of the Rantzau family in 1450 , with whom it remained for almost 200 years until 1632.

The Seekamp estate emerged from the efforts of the Holstein nobleman Christopher Rantzau to be able to satisfy his three heirs with sufficient land. Rantzau already owned the Knoop and Bülk estates , on whose territory he built a new farm. Four years after the father's death, his sons agreed in 1575 on the boundaries of the three estates. Otto Rantzau († 1511) owned Seekamp as well as the Knoop, Borghorsterhütten and Schinkel goods . Seekamp itself was at the beginning a kind of moated castle with two floors, a windowless basement with 9 foot thick foundation walls, the remains of which were only removed in the 19th century, and a kind of lookout.

In addition to the village of Holtenau, there were also the villages of Pries and Schilksee in the estate district . All three villages are therefore older than the Seekamp estate and they only came into the Seekamper ownership when the Danish aristocracy was colonized by the Holstein nobles.

Otto's son Christoph Rantzau inherited the property, his son Hyronimus Rantzau in 1561, Heinrich Rantzau in 1571 († 1579). His four sons shared his property. Paul Rantzau inherited Gut Knoop , Hyronimus Rantzau Gut Seekamp, ​​Lorentz Rantzau Gut Bülk and the last, whose name has not been passed down, inherited a farm, a town house and cash.

In 1615 the two women Engelke Krabbenhöft and Abelke Kohberg were accused of witchcraft and executed at Gut Seekamp . In 1626, Cai von Ahlefeldt from Mehlbeck, Steinburg district, acquired the Bülk estate as well as the Knoop and Seekamp estates. In 1632 he sold all three goods to Christian IV (Denmark and Norway) . The reason was the building of the Friedrichsort fortress . After this had been razed, Claus von Buchwald bought the three goods back from the Sierhagen house. He bequeathed it to his son Wulf von Buchwald, who went bankrupt.

Serfdom was lifted at the end of the 18th century, the estate was parceled out and downgraded to a parcel farm. Johann Erich von Berger (1772–1833), professor of philosophy and astronomy at Kiel, bought the Seekamp farm in 1801. He was also the commander of the coastal militia in the area of ​​the Friedrichsort fortress .

The mother of the painter Hans Olde (1855-1917), Auguste née Wriedt, came from the Seekamp estate, which her father managed and bought in 1878. Olde learned to be a farmer, but was more interested in painting. His son Hans Olde the Younger (1895–1987) was also a painter and sold most of the estate to the city of Kiel in 1925.

In 1927, the future mayor of Kiel, Andreas Gayk - at that time editor of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung - proclaimed the first free German “children's republic” at Gut Seekamp, ​​a large youth camp for 2,300 working-class children from Germany, Denmark, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The first "Seekamp Children's Republic" took place from July 16 to August 12, 1927. Even Willy Brandt took part and gave here his first radio interview.

Todays situation

Gut Seekamp can be reached from Fördestraße in Kiel-Schilksee. Today there is a sculpture park by the artist Hans Kock on the former estate, which belongs to the city of Kiel . In the immediate vicinity is the privately owned former studio house of Hans Olde the Younger, which he had rebuilt around 1938 to its present state.

literature

Andreas Gayk: The Red Children's Republic (special publications of the Society for Kiel City History Volume 84), Kiel 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Holtenauer witch persecution on www.apt-holtenau.de
  2. ^ Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, Department 65.1, No. 513
  3. Gut Seekamp at www.apt-holtenau.de
  4. ^ Herbert Fuchs: Falkenliederbuch, Hamburg 2006, self-print, p. 59.

Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 43 ″  E