Degenershausen manor district

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Degenershausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 13 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 11 ″  E
Postal code : 06463
Area code : 034743
Degenershausen mansion with the original obelisk
Old brick factory Degenershausen after its restoration
Obelisk from 1993
Landscape park plan

The manor district of Degenershausen is a landscape park and former manor district near Wieserode in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

Degenershausen is located in the Lower Harz in the Harz Nature Park . It is located in the south-eastern part of the Harz district 2.1 km west of the Falkensteiner district of Wieserode on the district road  1344 leading from the Falkensteiner hamlet garden house to the Falkensteiner district of Neuplatendorf at about 325  m above sea level. NHN .

The Degenershausen Landscape Park is included as no. 202 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.

history

The Degenershausen manor district was made an independent manor district in 1872 in accordance with the Prussian district order of 1872 and thus equated to a manor. In 1928 the manor district was dissolved by law of December 27, 1927. The estate then belonged to the community of Wieserode , now part of Falkenstein , Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . During this time, the property was owned as Fideikommissherren Hans-Heinrich Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener (1839-1912), Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener (1868-1918) and Hans-Wilke Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener (1901-1937).

Originally the area of ​​the later manor district of Degenershausen belonged to the Prussian tax authorities, which was administered by the chief forester Friedrichshohenberg near Ermsleben. As a result of the Napoleonic occupation, Prussian finances were badly shattered. For this reason some areas were auctioned that were unprofitable for the crown. This included the Friedrichshohenberg forest district. The District Councilor Johann Christian Degener (1775-1854) acquired the forest district in 1834 from the Royal Prussian government in Merseburg. Further areas were also bought. In the period that followed, residential and farm buildings were built. A brick factory was built on the way to Meißdorf in 1836/37. It was closed in 1914. In 1841 the property was named Degenershausen with Friedrichshohenberg Forest District . Degener's daughter Amalie (1813–1843) married the Royal Prussian Chamberlain Hans Constantin Freiherr von Bodenhausen (1799–1862) in 1833. The marriage had seven children. In his will, Johann Christian Degener decreed, among other things, that a Fideikommiss should be formed from this property, whose legacy must bear the addition of 'Degener' to the name Bodenhausen. Another requirement was the erection of a monument near the house. The last requirement was realized as a cast iron obelisk by the Herzoglich Bernburgische Eisenhütte in 1860 (demolished in 1968, rebuilt in 1993). The inscription on the obelisk reads:

“The founder of the Degenershausen and Rüben Fideikommiss, Mr. Johann Christian Degener, b. died at Braunschweig on September 28, 1775 at Leipzig on November 22, 1834 ” .

The first heir was the grandson Hans Heinrich von Bodenhausen-Degener (1839–1912). He married in Bridgeport-Connecticut in 1865 Frances Brooke (1838-1903) born Livingston-Butler. The marriage had two children, Eleonore (1867–1941) and Hans Eberhard (1868–1918). The second heir, Hans Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener, married Dora Countess von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1877–1969) in 1897. The marriage had three children, Karin (1898–1920), Hans Wilke (1901–1937) and Julie (1902–1951). Guests in Degenershausen at this time were among others Rudolf Borchardt , Henry van de Velde , Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Harry Graf Kessler , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Rudolf Pannwitz . In the years 1912 to 1914, the park was expanded to 54 acres, and the forester's house and the double dwelling were newly built. The third heir was Hans Wilke Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener. In 1925 he married Countess Anga von Douglas (1900–1976). The daughter Reinhild (1932) was born from the marriage.

The family grave complex in the park was designed in 1920 by the architect and writer Rudolf Alexander Schröder and laid out under his supervision.

In 1919 the family fideikommisse was lifted in Germany. In the period up to 1926, the landscape park that still exists alongside the manor house was created. In 1928 the former Fideikommissgut Degenershausen fell to Kraft von Bodenhausen in Burgkemnitz according to the inheritance contract . He gave it to his son Bodo Eberhard in 1938. On September 3, 1945 the property was expropriated. After the end of the war, displaced persons were quartered in the manor house, after which it was temporarily a rest home for those persecuted by the Nazi regime and then a children's home. In 1953, a central school for the surrounding villages was set up in the manor house, which was later converted into a polytechnic high school, which existed until 1972. After that, the house stood empty and deteriorated until it was demolished despite being listed. A barn is still preserved from the farm buildings, which is now used as a visitor center for the landscape park.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 202 / Landschaftspark Degenershausen (Degenershausen) , on harzer-wandernadel.de

literature

  • Maria von Katte: The park of Degenershausen and its people - a chronicle of the years 1806-2012. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Private print, Wolfenbüttel 2012.
  • Georg Langlotz: Between Selke and Wipper - villages and towns of the Lower Harz, known and unknown to their history. Selke Wipper GbR, ISBN 978-3-00-020316-9

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