Well Waterneverstorf
The Waterneverstorf estate (formerly also: Neverstorf ) - also sometimes called Gut Waldersee after the current owners - is located in the municipality of Behrensdorf on the Great Inland Lake in eastern Schleswig-Holstein . The former noble estate with its neo-classical manor house that emerged from a moated castle is privately owned, and holiday apartments are rented on the site.
historical overview
Waterneverstorf was mentioned for the first time in 1433 in the Lübeck church tithe register. At that time it was still called Neverstorpe, which probably meant the village of Never and pointed to a previous owner of the same name, possibly the word Never is also of Slavic origin and meant village of the infidels . The place was only given the addition Water neverstorf in the 19th century to distinguish it from another Neverstorf near Malente , which from then on was called Mönchneversdorf .
Since the Middle Ages, the property has been in the possession of the ancient Rantzau family , who were part of the so-called Equites Originarii and who owned a large number of estates and aristocratic residences in the country. Under the Rantzaus, a fortified aristocratic residence in the form of a moated castle was built on Neverstorf around 1390, which became the mansion of the estate with the establishment of the manor in the 16th century. In 1592 the property passed to the Reventlow family , who sold it to the Blome family in 1662. The Blomesche family branch had its main residence at Gut Hagen in neighboring Probsteierhagen and used the manor house on Neverstorf primarily as a hunting seat.
At the beginning of the 18th century, plans were drawn up for the medieval manor to transform it into a contemporary, baroque country estate. However, the designs were not fully realized. 1776 Blome died in the male line and the estate went through a female line of succession to the originally from Mecklenburg originating counts of Holstein-Holsteinsborg . During their time, Neverstorf developed into a cultural center in Holstein and guests such as Matthias Claudius and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock were welcomed to the estate, and later Hans Christian Andersen was one of the occasional visitors.
In 1804 serfdom was revoked on the estate . Since the living conditions of the now free farmers did not improve for the time being, new houses, a modern mill and a school were built in the course of the 19th century at the instigation of the Holsteins. In 1897 the local line of Count Holstein-Holsteinborg also died out in the male line and Neverstorf went to the Count Waldersee through an inheritance contract , to whom the property still belongs to this day.
The farm has continued to this day, even if large parts of the land are leased. Several of the manor buildings as well as the east wing of the manor house are set up as holiday apartments and are rented out by the manor management. The mansion itself is not accessible to visitors, but the garden may be entered by guests or upon registration.
Buildings
Mansion
The structure of today's mansion goes back in part to the medieval moated castle. The residential building of the complex, which was once protected by a ditch, was designed as a double semi - detached house typical of the region , as it has been preserved in a very similar way on Gut Wahlstorf . The almost square floor plan of this building has been preserved in the mansion's basement to this day.
In 1730, the old building was widened by a window axis and the protruding central projection was added, the main building has had a T-shaped floor plan ever since. In 1730 two solitary wing structures were erected to the east and west, separated from the main building, of which the western one was later demolished. Around 1780 the house was widened by two additional window axes. To the left of the building there is a veranda lit by arched windows, the corresponding building on the opposite side serves as a three-axis gallery, which established the connection to the eastern wing from 1852. The appearance of the mansion goes back to renovations in 1852, when the main building and the wing were redesigned in the late Classicist style. The courtyard facade is adorned with a large gable above the risalit, which still bears the coats of arms of the Blomes and the Rantzaus, and the garden facade is accentuated with a low attic .
Inside the manor house, the late Baroque layout and the furnishings of the rooms have largely been preserved. The building is dominated by a large staircase that is illuminated by a skylight. Behind it, in the main axis, is the garden room designed in the style of the Regency . Other important rooms include the dining room and the library decorated in Bandelwerk . The imperial post office of the manor district was housed in the eastern wing of the building from the 19th century.
park
The park goes back to an early Baroque garden from the 17th century to the west , the main axis of which was only shifted a few degrees from 1730 and then enlarged several times as part of the redesign of the estate. From then on, it was a rectangular garden, delimited by double-rowed avenues, designed according to Dutch models with central parterres , fountains and surrounding bosquets . The garden was devastated by a severe storm surge in 1777 and converted in the style of an English landscape garden at the beginning of the 19th century. The large lawn north of the manor house was designed with meandering watercourses and groups of trees and made accessible by circular paths.
The basic structure of the originally baroque complex can still be seen from the air today; the eastern and northern avenues have largely been preserved. To the west of the castle, three mythological figures have been placed that once adorned the planted parterres. The landscape garden was later simplified, the watercourses largely abandoned and the path system no longer maintained. The current owner is trying to restore the landscape garden almost to its former shape.
Estate
Waterneverstorf is hidden between Lütjenburg and Behrensdorf on the north west bank of the Great Inland Lake. From 1730 the manor with its farm buildings was aligned strictly axially symmetrically to the manor house and its wing structures, the driveway was designed through an avenue several kilometers long parallel to the inland lake. The designs for it came from Rudolph Matthias Dallin . However, the facility was never fully completed, and the farmyard was expanded in the following centuries in part, also from a practical and less aesthetic point of view.
Of the buildings from the Baroque period, only the so-called construction horse stable has been preserved, which was rebuilt and expanded in the 19th century and is located directly in front of the side wing of the manor house. Other buildings that have been preserved include the former dairy and the coach house from the late 18th century. Several workers' houses from the 19th century can be found at the entrance to the estate as well as at the avenue-lined driveway. In 1965 a large fire destroyed a barn and the farmyard's cow house and were not rebuilt afterwards.
Counts born on Waterneverstorf
- Heinrich Christoph von Holstein (1786–1842), lübscher canon
- Conrad von Holstein (1825–1897), MdR
Web links
literature
- I. Bubert, H. Walter: Manors, castles and mansions in eastern Holstein . Sventana-Verlag, Schellhorn 1999.
- Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994.
- Deert Lafrenz: manors and manors in Schleswig-Holstein . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86568-971-9 , p. 608.
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 3.9 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 22 ″ E