Gut Seestermuhe
The Seestermühe estate in Seestermühe is next to the Haseldorfer Gut the second estate in the Pinneberger Elbmarschen . In addition to the representative manor house, several outbuildings have been preserved. A 680 meter long four-row lime tree avenue, at the end of which is a baroque garden pavilion, is significant in terms of horticulture . The avenue is a relic of a larger French garden that was laid out around 1710.
history
Seestermühe was first mentioned in a document in 1141. At that time it belonged to the possessions of Archbishop Adalbert von Bremen and his successors. The history of the estate probably also goes back that far.
- In 1494 Hans von Ahlefeldt acquired sovereignty over the marshland estates of the Bailiwick Haseldorf from the Danish king. These included the parishes Haseldorf , Bishorst , Haselau , Kollmar and Neuendorf including the Seestermüher Marsch . The Seestermühe estate remained in the possession of the Ahlefeldts for several centuries .
- In 1697, construction of a three-story mansion began in the current palace garden - not where the current manor house stands. In 1713, shortly after its completion, it burned down and was not rebuilt.
- In 1710, the royal Danish diplomat Hans Hinrich von Ahlefeldt laid out a splendid garden in the French style. Of this, the 680 meter long avenue and the garden pavilion have been preserved.
- In 1752 Georg Ludwig Graf von Kielmansegg bought the indebted property for 150,000 thalers.
- From 1758 to 1899 ownership changed four times.
- In 1920 Alexander Graf von Kielmansegg inherited the property. He married Princess Elisabeth von Schönaich-Carolath, the daughter of the neighbor in Haseldorf.
- From 1956 Friedrich Christian Graf von Kielmansegg was the landlord in Seestermühe, he died in 1982.
- In 1976 his son Georg Ludwig Graf von Kielmansegg took over the estate.
- Gisela Countess von Kielmansegg has been managing the family property after the death of her husband since 1997.
Preserved buildings
The manor house from the 18th / 19th century Century is a single-storey, nine-axis building with a central projection facing the avenue of lime trees . The house stands at the south-east end of the line of sight , at the north-west end of which the tea house stands. To the southeast of the building is an almost square plot of land enclosed by ditches. The first mansion stood there. It burned down in 1713 and was not rebuilt.
The tea house is at the end of the four-row lime tree avenue. It was built in 1760, probably according to plans by the baroque master builder Ernst Georg Sonnin . It is a brick building with a domed roof over an elongated octagonal floor plan. The walls are divided by pilasters . The interior was redesigned in 1818. After a renovation in 1927, the building came under heritage protection (today a listed building). Further renovations took place in the 1960s and 1981. An apartment has been built into the tea house since 1981.
The mausoleum of the Kielmansegg family was built in 1904 a little away from Lindenallee. It is a brick building with a flat gable roof. The top of the gable is closed by a cross, and a coat of arms is placed above the entrance portal.
The so-called bell house is a brick building with a gable roof, which has a roof turret for the tower clock and bell. It serves as the farm building of the estate. Originally built before 1800, it burned down in 1900 and was then rebuilt in its current form. In 1958 it was redesigned, among other things to create storage for pome fruit.
The former poor house from 1835 goes back to a foundation of the noble von Ahlefeldt family from 1645. It was also used as a village school for a long time. Between 1952 and 1954, the building was rebuilt and a side wing was added. In 1974 the school in Seestermühe was stopped. Today the building is owned by the community and serves as a community center and kindergarten. The building is a three-wing, single-storey facility in brick construction. The middle wing has a narrow two-storey risalit , the gable of which is closed by a cross.
Tea House (1760)
Mausoleum (1904)
Bell house (1900)
Poor house (1835)
The manor garden
Between 1700 and 1710 the baroque garden of the noble estate Seestermühe was created for Hans Hinrich von Ahlefeld (1656–1720). He was a royal Danish diplomat at the Saxon and English courts and accompanied the Danish Crown Prince on trips abroad as chamberlain. There he got to know the famous classic French gardens of Versailles , Marly and Chantilly . The construction of the baroque garden and the expansion of the estate are presumably due to him. He probably received practical support from the gardener Johann Driessen, who worked in Seestermühe from 1706 to 1712. The garden was already one of the most important facilities in the country when it was built. It was the first manor garden in Schleswig-Holstein, stylistically based on the ideas of the French garden architect at the court of Louis XIV , André Le Nôtre (1613–1700).
The manor complex consists of two roughly square islands lying one behind the other, surrounded by a moat of different widths and connected to one another by a bridge. The pleasure garden at that time was located west of the Wirtschaftshofinsel, the canal axis of which was aligned with the manor house. A double avenue of linden trees, framed by a tapis, stretches behind the rounded canal . About half a kilometer to the west, it aims at the baroque tea house as a point de vue . This was probably built by the Hamburg architect Ernst Georg Sonnin (1713–1794). Extensive orchards and kitchen gardens lay south, east and west of the two islands.
Unlike many other baroque gardens, the Seestermühe garden was not landscaped in the 19th century. Its basic structure with the large double avenue with canal and the tea house at the end of this 680 meter long main garden axis has been preserved to this day. In 1904, William Graf von Kielmansegg (1854–1920) had a neo-Romanesque mausoleum built in the alder forest north of the main axis.
Hans Hinrich von Ahlefeldt's son Benedikt von Ahlefeldt had a French baroque garden laid out on Gut Jersbek in the years after 1726, like his father in Seestermühe before , which was even more grandiose than von Seestermühe.
Management / nature protection
The Seestermühe estate includes extensive land in the Seestermüher Marsch. After the Elbe dike was built in 1969, the diked agricultural areas could be used more intensively because they were flood-proof. Previously leased areas in this so-called outdoor area were taken back by the owner . A grain drying plant with a warehouse was built there for grain cultivation.
The Eschschallen, an area that is exposed to the changing tides, are located outside the state protection dike. This five-kilometer outer dyke area between Pinnau - and Krückau mouth belonged originally to the Gutsländereien. It was sold by the estate administration to the Schleswig-Holstein Nature Conservation Foundation and has been a nature reserve since then .
literature
- Henning v. Rumohr: castles and mansions in northern and western Holstein , reworked by Cai Asmus v. Rumohr and Carl-Heinrich Seebach 1988, 2nd edition, Verlag Weidlich Würzburg, ISBN 3-8035-1272-7 , p. 254.
- Karen Asmussen-Stratmann: Seestermühe , in: Adrian von Buttlar , Margita Marion Meyer (Hrsg.): Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Boyens & Co., Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , pp. 573-579.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . 3rd revised and updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 897.
- Herwin Ehlers: Gardens and Parks in Northern Germany . Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1195-5
- Family history yearbook Schleswig-Holstein , 2005
- Seestermühe community (ed.): A village writes history . 2008. ISBN 978-3-00-025894-7 .
- Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. Processed in the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein and in the Office for Monument Preservation of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-02627-1 .
- 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. 541.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karen Asmussen-Stratmann: Seestermühe. In: Adrian von Buttlar , Margita Marion Meyer (Hrsg.): Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Boyens & Co., Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , p. 576.
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . 3rd revised and updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 897.
Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 26.6 " N , 9 ° 34 ′ 4.7" E