Lauterbach farm

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Lauterbach farm
Vöhl municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 361 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.21 km²
Residents : 30  (Feb 16, 2009)
Population density : 7 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 34516
Area code : 05635
Entrance to the "Hof Lauterbach" estate (2010)
Entrance to the "Hof Lauterbach" estate (2010)

Hof Lauterbach is an estate and hamlet in the municipality of Vöhl in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . The small town is in the district of Obernburg , in the northern part of the Kellerwald-Edersee nature park .

Geographical location

Hof Lauterbach is located about 1.5 km east of Obernburg and about 6 km southeast of Korbach on an extensive plain on the edge of the Bucholzes at 361  m above sea level. NN . The main town of Vöhl is about 4 km further south.

history

1126 is Lutterbach or Liuterbec in Ittergau first mentioned: the abbot Erkenbert the monastery Corvey confirmed for its abbey of the noble ladies Riclinde and Frederun of Itter their inherited allodial at the Castle Itter with market and customs as well as the associated allods and gradients in the Villages of Itter ( Dorfitter , Thalitter ), Ense ( Nieder-Ense and Ober-Ense ), Liuterbec and Dalewig .

In 1381 Thile I. Wolff von Gudenberg became the owner of the Waldeckschen , then in 1383 also the landgrave-Hessian half of the Itter estate through pledging . Lauterbach was a desert at that time . But since the Itterburg became too small for the steadily growing Wolff von Gudenberg family , Thile II. Or Thile III. Wolff von Gudenberg built a fortified farm in Lauterbach.

The Wolff von Gudenberg ruled Itter for 180 years until they were forced by the landgraves to redeem the pledge in 1562 and had to retreat to Höringhausen . Hof Lauterbach now belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse with the entire former Itter rule. The Itter court was responsible .

The Itter rule then came to the Darmstadt line when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided . The Lauterbeck , like the landgrave estates in Vöhl and Itter, became a dairy farm in Darmstadt .

From 1661 to 1676 Lauterbach was one of the two residences of the landgrave brother Georg III. , who ruled Itter as Paragium from his brother Ludwig VI. from Hessen-Darmstadt. After 1661 he had a castle surrounded by a moat built here, which he lived in alternation with the old Wolff von Gudenberg castle in Vöhl , which he had renovated . Georg died in his Lauerbach Castle on July 16, 1676 without male descendants; he was buried in Vöhl. With his death, his possessions fell back to the main Hessen-Darmstadt line.

In 1718 the Lauterbach dairy was converted into a hereditary estate . The first tenant was the chamberlain and chief miner Freiherr Philipp Franz Forstmeister von Gelnhausen , heir, court and co-owner of Aufenau . After his death on July 13, 1738, his widow Charlotte had the estate run by four conductors . Due to disputes between the tenants and the landlord, the estate gradually came into a critical condition.

On July 10, 1760, during the Seven Years' War , the French-occupied estate was completely destroyed by Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and his allies after a heavy battle in the area between Korbach and Lauterbach . Only parts of the former moat still exist today.

In 1768 Johann-Anton Eigenbrodt, who had married a daughter from the Forstmeister von Gelnhausen family, bought the lease on the estate with the help of his father, the "Landkommissarius" Reinhard Daniel Eigenbrodt, for 5,000 guilders and rebuilt it. A grain distillery was set up in 1786 and is still in operation today. A year later he sold the long lease to his brother Wilhelm-Ernst, since his own marriage remained childless. Wilhelm-Ernst was in Dutch military service and spent a lot of time in the Netherlands , where he had considerable income. He laid the family cemetery west of the courtyard and died on February 10, 1806. He was succeeded by his fifth son, Wilhelm Alexander, who had the old palace building completely converted into a mansion in 1817, so that it became the pride of the court again. When Wilhelm Alexander Eigenbrodt died in 1824, his four children were still underage, and since the building costs for the manor house could not be paid, his widow wanted to return the farm to the Princely Court Chamber until she finally found a suitable administrator, who managed the farm until 1843. Then her second son Alexander Georg Eigenbrodt (* December 23, 1813, † July 30, 1864) took over the estate in their own hands. He married Henriette Staudinger from Gutshof Thalitter and had 12 children with her. In 1864 he went to Darmstadt as a member of the state parliament , fell ill with typhus and died on July 30, 1864. At first his widow managed the estate until her second son, Karl Christian Eigenbrodt, joined her in 1871, who took over the estate in 1891 after he had resigned Siblings took over independently. The estate remained in the family until the death of Karl Christian Eigenbrodt on October 29, 1934.

Then an undivided community of heirs emerged, which so far could not be finally dissolved. Kurt Wittmer-Eigenbrodt (1889–1975), who later became President of the Hessian Farmers' Association and 1957–1965 member of the German Bundestag , who married Karl Eigenbrodt's youngest daughter Hildegard (1891–1984) and changed his name accordingly, took over the management of the community of heirs Lauterbach farm by lease . His youngest son, Klaus Wittmer-Eigenbrodt, took over the lease from the community of heirs in 1967, his son Karl Wittmer-Eigenbrodt in 1994.

today

The property is still used for agriculture; today it specializes in the production of seeds . There is also one of the oldest grain distilleries in Hesse, founded in 1786, on Hof Lauterbach , which has been back in operation since the mid-1990s after a break in the 1980s.

Personalities

literature

  • Johann Adam Kopp: Brief historical news from the Lords of Itter, an ancient noble house in Hesse . Ed .: Carl Philipp von Kopp. Müller, Marburg 1751 ( Google Books ).

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Hof Lauterbach, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 26, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The village of Reckeringhausen , which fell desolate in the 17th century , was also part of this donation.
  3. ↑ Kopp, p. 15.
  4. ^ Dorner, Patricia: Helene Schuppan, b. Wirth as a descendant of Philipp Franz Forstmeister v. Gelnhausen .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Alexander's older brother, the lawyer Karl Christian Eigenbrodt (1769–1839), became a Privy Councilor of State and Minister of Finance in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
  6. ↑ Hof Lauterbach grain distillery

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