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The west side of the Sondermühlen estate

Gut Sondermühlen is a former castle complex and a later manor . The plant is located in the area of ​​the city of Melle in the southern part of the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony, not far from the border with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

description

The gatehouse with bridge from Gut Sondermühlen
Gut Sondermühlen - watermill

Today's (2013) Gut Sondermühlen is a castle complex completely surrounded by moats. The trenches are fed by the Violenbach . The manor house was demolished in 1841/42. The chapel from 1587, the farm wing, which was probably built in the 16th century, and the gatehouse with bridge from 1682 are preserved to this day. In the south-eastern part of the estate there is a water mill with a mill pond.

history

There are different theories about the origin of the Sondermühlen estate. According to information from today's private owners, the estate was first mentioned in a document in 1350. In fact, the fiefdom register of the same year documents the enfeoffment of Hermann Wulf and Nikolaus von Gesmele, each with a courtyard, two houses and the “mill in Nordenfelde”. In the course of the 15th century, Johann and Lubbert von Arnholte and Johann von Vincke are mentioned as feudal lords of the “Sundermühle in Nordenfelde”. In 1479 a knight Ebbeke von Vincke merged several properties in the area, which his ancestors had already owned. Many sources cite this year as the year the property was built. After the death of the knight Ebbeke, two generations of the Vincke family followed. After that, from 1558 to 1778, the von Nehem family was in charge of Sondermühlen for seven generations. After the death of the last Nehem, the estate changed hands several times within a short period of time. It was sold to the Osnabrück Cathedral Chapter in bankruptcy proceedings in 1796. After secularization , it first fell to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . A little later under Napoleon it was divided up and given to several French officers. After the Congress of Vienna it fell to the Kingdom of Hanover. Most of the estate has been state-owned since then. The lands are now divided among the former tenants and hirers . The forests are owned by the state and belong to the Palsterkamp Forestry Office. The remaining property was acquired by Clemens Graf von Platen Hallermund , Lord of Königsbrück (Melle) , in 1972 for his daughter Sabine, married to the economist Karl-Friedrich Freiherr von Richthofen, who restored the then decaying property and still lives there today.

The then well-known poet Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750–1819) lived on special mills during the last years of his life. Today the Graf-Stolberg-Allee, which runs towards the estate, commemorates him. His widow, Countess Sophie Charlotte Eleonore von Redern (1765–1842), won the poet Luise Hensel , who lived from 1821 to 1823 on Gut Sondermühlen , to be her companion and tutor to her daughters Maria Theresia, Amalie and Pauline .

Origin of the name

The name Sondermühlen is derived from the name “ Sundern ”, a term that was created in the early Middle Ages for a privately owned property. A mill apparently belonged to this property. According to some sources, special mills were referred to as "Gut Sundermühlen" in the 19th century.

literature

  • Heinz-Jörg and Christa Niedermeier: subjects and souvenirs - more than country estates ... in a 25 km radius of the city of Melle . Self-published by the authors, Melle 1999. ISBN 3-00-005370-0 . P. 102f, p. 445ff.
  • District of Melle (ed.): The Grönegau in the past and present - home book of the district of Melle . Melle 1968, pp. 304ff.
  • Friedrich Müller, Maria Heilmann: Knight seats and noble courts in Grönegau . (= Grönenberger Heimathefte, H. 11). Melle 1967, p. 14ff.
  • Rudolf vom Bruch: The Knights' Seats of the Principality of Osnabrück , Verlag H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 2004 - reprint of the first edition from 1930, ISBN 3-87898-384-0 , p. 178ff. and p. 479.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on noz.de from March 13, 2012 - Sondermühlen: a renovated wall rounds off the ensemble , NOZ from March 13, 2012
  2. ^ Homepage of the Heimatverein Melle eV
  3. ↑ Winfried Freund : I'm tired, go to rest: the life and work of Luise Hensel . Güth & Etscheidt, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 1984, ISBN 3-922828-15-9 . Pp. 30-33.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 52.3 "  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 51.7"  E