Hoppenstedt (Lohheide)
Hoppenstedt was a former dwelling place with a farm and a water mill in the district Lohheide in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony . After the Bergen military training area was built , only the manor house of the former Hoppenstedt estate and a farm building have survived to this day .
history
1380 farm Hoppenstedt is the first time in a bill of Celler bailiff mentioned. The court then had to deliver a tithe of rye to the duke. Two hundred years later this tax was waived for reasons unknown. In 1809 the Hoppenstedt family got into financial difficulties. The property has been sold. In 1871 the Refardt family bought the farm. A well-known pub and distillery also belonged to the property . Hof Hoppenstedt remained in the possession of this family until the military training area was built. Then the mansion was converted into the headquarters of the armed forces commander . On February 20, 1945, Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld , most recently Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht, became the commander of the Bergen military training area. He was the last Wehrmacht general to live in the manor house.
In 1945, after the end of the Second World War , the site was taken over by the British occupation forces . The manor house then served the respective brigadier of the 7th Armored Brigade Bergen-Hohne as the official residence until the British withdrew in 2015 . It is now empty. The further use of the property has not yet been clarified.
Hoppenstedter watermill
In 1517 Heinrich I, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, gave a Casper (Jasper) Luder permission to build a mill. To the north of the manor house, the Meiße was dammed into a mill pond. The water mill was operated as an oil and flax mill. In the following years it changed hands several times. In 1769 it was separated from Hof Hoppenstedt by inheritance . It remained in the fief of the Müller family until the end of the 19th century . In 1874 the mill burned down. The reconstruction took place closer to the estate and became the property of the Refardt family. In the course of the establishment of the Bergen military training area, the resettlement of the population and evacuation of the area took place from summer 1935 to May 1936. The mill building was demolished. Only the former mill pond remained.
literature
- Hinrich Baumann: The Heidmark - Change of Landscape: The History of the Bergen Military Training Area. 2005, ISBN 3-00-017185-1 .