Adelsborn manor house
The Adelsborn Manor was a manor in the Adelsborn district of the city of Leinefelde-Worbis in what is now Thuringia and until 1945 the seat of the Lords of Wintzingerode . In the last decades of its existence the house was in the district of Worbis in the administrative district of Erfurt in the province of Saxony . It was expropriated and demolished without compensation at the time of the Soviet occupation zone .
history
On January 1, 1337, Hans von Wintzingerode, who was a knight and castle man for the Rusteberge, bought the Bodenstein, a very old Braunschweig-Grubenhagen family house on the Ohmberg, with the surrounding countryside , from Heinrich the older Count of Hohenstein for 600 marks.
From 1510 to 1515 the estate was owned by the von Wintzingerode family and the construction of the Adelsborn between Bodenstein and the village of Kirchohmfeld was probably started back then, but was not fully completed until 1554. This year was under the coat of arms of the von Wintzingerode family above the entrance to the Adelsborn. Since that time, the von Wintzingerode family split into the Bodensteiner and Adelsborn lines and had two parent houses, the Bodenstein and the Adelsborn. According to a drawing in the family archive, the Adelsborn was a stately mansion at that time with five towers, an inner and an outer courtyard, surrounded by moats and walls.
As devout Protestants, the von Wintzingerode were involved in the wars of religion, so that the Adelsborn line died out after the end of the Thirty Years War . The ownership of the Adelsborn estate therefore often changed until 1664 to those of Wintzingerode, who, because they had lost a lot of property after the wars of religion and, as Protestants, saw no future in their homeland, the archbishopric of Mainz, but had to seek service all over the world. In 1802 the area around the manor house fell to Prussia . It had been uninhabited since 1750 and was only a ruin.
In 1796, the former royal Prussian captain Johann Ernst von Wintzingerode , after he had become the sole fief of the Adelsborn, had the ruins tidied up and removed and built a new house on the eight-foot-thick walls of the lower floor, which was completed in 1800. Through the Westphalian legislation, the Adelsborn Allodium was made by Johann Ernst, who however only had three daughters and no son.
After the death of Johann Ernst, the former royal chamberlain and district administrator Wilhelm Freiherr von Wintzingerode-Knorr bought the Adelsborn from his father-in-law's inheritance from Wehnde and Breitenbich. As a result, the estate fell to one of the earlier agnates and his sons of their first marriage, the royal district administrator of the Mühlhausen district and premier lieutenant in the 6th Landwehr-Uhlan regiment, Levin Freiherr von Wintzingerode-Knorr , and the former royal lieutenant, Sittig Freiherr von Wintzingerode-Knorr.
After the aristocracy was expropriated without compensation in 1945, the manor house was demolished in 1948. Today the archway with the year 1554 and the forester's house still exist from the actual estate. A little away in the forest is the Adelsborn grave.
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments : Thuringia; 2nd edition 2003
- Karl-Wilhelm Freiherr von Wintzingerode-Knorr: On the history of the manor Adelsborn. (1st part) In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 55 (2011), issue 2, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2011, pp. 43–46
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, page 119
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 53.3 " N , 10 ° 21 ′ 11.8" E