Wedigenstein estate

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Wedigenstein estate

Gut Wedigenstein is a former manor house in the Barkhausen district of the city ​​of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district . It is located on the southern slope of the Wiehengebirge and on the left bank of the Weser not far from the Porta Westfalica breakthrough .

history

The date on which the manor was first built is unknown. In a document from the Count of Oldenburg from 1282, a Franco von Dehem ( Dehme ) is mentioned as castellan at Wedigenstein Castle. The Lords of Dehme were enfeoffed with part of the castle.

On May 25, 1379 severe thunderstorms devastated the country north and south of the Wiehengebirge. Minorite friars passing through were surprised by this storm and, out of gratitude for their survival, renewed a decaying chapel on the grounds of the Wedigenstein estate.

It is documented that the wooden court met on the Wedigenstein in 1652 . All march comrades had to appear at the court. Until 1818 Gut Wedigenstein was owned by the Minden Cathedral Chapter .

On July 1, 1817, the "economist" Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher (1779–1856) took over the estate from the Prussian treasury on a long lease . In memory of the "Duke of Saxony" Wittekind, he had a "Wittekind memorial stone" set up on Gut Wedigenstein not far from today's Kaiser Wilhelm monument at Porta Westfalica , which was inaugurated on October 18, 1829 and is Germany's first Wittekind monument . He also took part in the financing of the " Wittekindstein " surveying and observation tower . Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher's son Carl Wittekind Schumacher (1818–1870) acquired the debt-free estate from his father in 1852 for 60,000 riksdaler . Father and son supported the needy lower class, especially schoolchildren, through foundations and donations.

Todays use

The property is used privately and is not accessible to the public. The Middelschulte family has owned it for a long time.

Others

  • The Westphalian painter and writer Ida C. Ströver was born on September 16, 1872 as the daughter of the then landowner at Gut Wedigenstein. She spent her childhood and youth here and was buried on the estate's hereditary funeral.
  • In the years 1729–1730 the cathedral chapter sued residents of Aulhausen and Barkhausen for a right of grazing on the grounds of the Wedigenstein estate and sheep right of the Wedigenstein estate in the fields of Aulhausen and Barkhausen. In this context, the women were imprisoned for the tumult.
  • Report by the forester Stein about the devastation of the forest in Wedigensteinschen Berg by soldiers of the garrison, repair of the way on Wedigenstein, Holzhauser to Wedigenstein; Appointment of a wooden court 1754–1780
  • In 1829 today's Moltketurm was built as the trigonometric point "Wittekindstein" at the suggestion of the chief geometer Johann-Jacob Vorlaender (1799–1886) with the substantial contribution of Heinrich-Ludwig Schuhmacher (1779–1856), the leaseholder of the Wedigenstein estate at the foot of the mountain .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marianne Nordsiek: A forgotten Wittekind monument. In: Messages from the Minden History Society. Vol. 49, 1977, ISSN  0340-188X , pp. 149-152.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Schröder: The charitable foundations of Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher (1779-1856) and his son Carl Wittekind (1817-1870) in Wedigenstein. In: Messages from the Minden History Society. Vol. 61, 1989, ISSN  0340-188X , pp. 91-104.
  3. ↑ Neue Westfälische: Memory of a courageous painter

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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 25 ″  E