Steinhorst manor house

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The Steinhorst manor house, view of the courtyard facade

The manor house Steinhorst in Steinhorst in the Duchy of Lauenburg was originally the manor house of the noble court of the same name and later the administrative seat. Due to this dual function, it was mostly only used as an office building; as the manor house of Gut Steinhorst, it was only inhabited for one generation in the 18th century. Steinhorst is one of the most important baroque buildings in Schleswig-Holstein . It is currently privately owned.

historical overview

In the Middle Ages, the Steinhorst estate was initially owned by the von Borstele family, who built two small moated castles on the site in the 14th century, which were destroyed again around 1349. Ownership of the von Steinhorst family has been documented for the late 14th century. The Steinhorst estate went to the Dukes of Lauenburg in 1408 , who elevated it to office and later pledged it to the Duchy of Gottorf . The farmyard was destroyed as a result of the Thirty Years War and renewed after 1648. In 1691 the office went to the Gottorfischen minister Magnus von Wedderkop , whose son Gottfried had today's manor house built in the 18th century. Steinhorst was transferred to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1738 , which led to repeated disputes with the Kingdom of Denmark due to its location near the border . In 1739 Steinhorst was reunited with Lauenburg, after the completion of the so-called state as a whole , the estate passed into the possession of the Danish king in 1815 and after the war of 1864 to the Kingdom of Prussia . From 1876 the manor house housed the district court and the estate was settled.

After the Second World War , the manor house was used to house war refugees, and later it housed several apartments, a police office and a doctor's office. The state of Schleswig-Holstein sold the manor house in 1973 to the Schwarzkopf cosmetics company , which used it as a representative, training and guest house and had a small museum set up for the Schwarzkopf Collection. The manor house was also the seat of the Schleswig-Holstein Foundation during these years. Steinhorst served the then state government as an unofficial guest house; Prime Minister Uwe Barschel was one of the regular guests of the house . In the 1990s and 2010 there were further changes of ownership, the estate is now privately owned. The manor house and the baroque gardens cannot be visited.

Building stock

The mansion

The mansion was built around 100 meters away from the farmyard, unlike the country, and there as the center of a baroque courtyard and garden. The master builder was the architect Johannes Nicolaus Kuhn , the work began in 1720 and ended in 1736. The manor house has a low base, a high main and a low upper floor and is covered by a high mansard roof. The building is made entirely of brick and has no plaster. The facades are sculptured with brick pilasters and accentuated with cornices and portals made of sandstone, the three-axis central projection is emphasized by a frontispiece . The client's coat of arms is located above the portal.

The floor plan of the mansion is largely symmetrical: the centrally located vestibule , which also serves as a staircase, is followed by two salons on either side, as well as two cabinets in the east and three cabinets in the west; the rooms are connected en filade according to the French model . The mobile furnishings have been partially lost over the centuries, but the wall-mounted decoration in baroque stucco in the style of the Regency has been preserved to the present day. The portal is decorated with the coat of arms of the von Wedderkop family .

The garden

The house is surrounded on three sides by a moat and forms the center of a spacious baroque garden , the basic features of which were laid out from 1722 and have been preserved to the present day. From the south a long avenue leads to the courtyard facade of the manor house, to the north is the garden, which has lost its original form since the 19th century and has been transformed into a landscape garden. The central main axis of the facility leads several kilometers north from the garden to the neighboring forest area.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein , page 848. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1994
  2. ↑ Office Sandesneben: Steinhorst - Geschichtliches ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amt-sandesneben-nusse.de
  3. ↑ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from September 18, 2007

Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′ 14.6 "  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 13.4"  E