Good Wahlstorf

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Gut Wahlstorf is a manor house and a farm in Holstein Switzerland between Preetz and Plön in the municipality of Wahlstorf . The manor house is located on the Schwentine and on the southeast bank of the Lanker See and goes back to a moated castle from the late 15th century . In 1704 it was extensively rebuilt. The property is of architectural historical importance because, as one of the oldest of its kind, it still shows features of the late medieval architectural style. The Wahlstorf estate houses the scientific collections of the explorer Victor Baron von Plessen (1900–1980), who explored the Malay islands in the 1930s . Today the estate is owned by a foundation. Their statutes provide for a right of residence in favor of the descendants of Baron Plessen.

Good Wahlstorf

location

The manor house and some farm buildings are located on an island that is surrounded by the Schwentine to the west and a moat fed by the Schwentine to the east. A several hundred meter long avenue of lime trees in front of the island also belongs to the courtyard axis , the flanking farm buildings of which today largely no longer exist. A few years ago, the several hundred year old linden trees were felled and replanted. There is also no longer a gatehouse . From the garden side of the manor house you can look over the Schwentine flowing past here over the southern part of the Lanker See.

The mansion

The origin: a moated castle

The courtyard view of the manor house

The structure of today's manor house goes back to a late medieval moated castle , which Detlev von Thienen († after 1487) acquired from Lüder von Rumohr († after 1480) in 1469 and rebuilt. It was a two-story brick semi - detached house with two pitched roofs and stepped gables . Facing the courtyard was a stair tower, in which the only entrance was via a kind of ladder or drawbridge at a height of two meters. A moat immediately ran around the building. The rooms on the first floor only had small, high windows. Overall, the house was designed to offer protection against attackers and to be effectively defended by a few people. On the garden side there are two pillars that still exist today .

Conversions

Presumably in the 16th century, the surrounding moat was created together with the farm buildings and the gatehouse. The moat directly around the manor house was now unnecessary and was filled in under Hans von Thienen in 1613. In the same year, a gable porch was added to the left of the stair tower, which enabled level access to the building; Until another gable porch was added to the right of the stair tower in 1924, the courtyard side was asymmetrical.

In 1704, under Wulf Hinrich von Thienen († 1708), the stepped gables and pitched roofs were replaced by hipped roofs, the windows were enlarged to their present size and the stairs were relocated so that the entrance is now through the former stair tower. The rooms were decorated in the Baroque style , in particular the hall received its stucco ceiling.

The farm buildings

The gatehouse was built under Claus von Thienen in 1581 (it was demolished in the 19th century). In 1584 the large wheat barn was built as a half-timbered building with a thatched half-hip roof, which was extended in 1695. There is also a grain barn from the 18th century.

owner

From 1469 - the year in which Wahlstorf was bought by Detlev von Thienen von Lüder von Rumohr - the estate remained in the possession of the von Thienen family without interruption until the 18th century. In 1736, the later heiress of Wahlstorf, Elisabeth Christine von Thienen, married the Royal Danish Chamberlain and later Royal Master of Ceremonies Mogens Scheel von Plessen , so that Wahlstorf came into the possession of the von Plessen family and the feudal line Scheel-Plessen . Because the Plessen people chose the Sierhagen estate as their headquarters, Wahlstorf became orphaned in the 19th century and was not permanently inhabited again until the 20th century.

literature

  • Ingo Bubert, Hanspeter Walter: manors, manors and castles in eastern Holstein . Sventana-Verlag, Schellhorn
  • Henning von Rumohr: Castles and mansions in Ostholstein . Weidlich publishing house, Frankfurt am Main
  • 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. 601.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 24 ″  E