Knabenburg (Lauenstein)

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Knabenburg , also Knapenburg , is the name of an estate in Salzhemmendorf in the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln nature park . The listed complex , which has been linked to the local Vorwerk , Lauenstein Castle and numerous aristocratic families for centuries , gained great importance in the end due to the approximately 4,000 square meter plot of land : The owner Ernst Rudorff , who died in 1916 and who was the founder of the Nature conservation applies in Germany . The location of the ensemble can be found at the address Im Flecken 48 in Lauenstein .

description

In the park-like green area, which directly to the cemetery the former St. Anne's Chapel borders, a three-piece group of buildings is used as a two-storey truss tracts under shingled slate roofs , protected by the after Sollingturm designated Sollingturm plates . The beginning of the 18th and early 19th-century group consists of a manor house and two to agricultural erected purposes farm buildings that are at right angles around a laterally open courtyard. A stairwell was added here in 1840 as a connection .

history

The name "boys Castle" was derived from the fact that, according to the Erbregister the house Homburg the members of the knighthood , in the lower flange of Eschershausen Office lived, " Homburger boys " were mentioned.

After numerous changes of owners, mostly aristocratic families and, especially after the Thirty Years' War , bourgeois owners, the preserved mansion was built during the Electorate of Hanover in 1724, the farm buildings during the so-called French era in 1812 and during the Kingdom of Hanover in Year 1840.

By Ernst Rudorff before deforestation rescued oaks - Allee behind the boy's castle;
Colored postcard around 1900

As in 1886, the centuries-old oak trees - Avenue at the foot of Crow hill behind the boy's castle for a land consolidation should be like, who bought the Berlin composer Ernst Rudorff, the end of the 19th century, the boys castle often referred to as summer residence used, the entire avenue ado the magistrate in Lauenstein to save the trees from deforestation . This act "represents one of the earliest civil society conservation actions ."

At the beginning of the 1980s, the entire property, when it was used for living, as a museum and for agriculture, was for sale by the von Gottberg owners at the time .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ulrike Jendis (text): Hameln-Pyrmont / Lauenstein district , in: Monuments for sale in the Hanover district. Catalog 1982 , ed. from the district government of Hanover in cooperation with and photographs from the Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation . Hahn-Druckerei, Hanover 1982, p. 16f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Amtsrichter Fiedeler: Historical notes about Mandelsloh's prehistory , in: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Niedersachsen 1859, pp. 227-330, here: pp. 262, 264; Full text in Google Book Search
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the description and labeling of the photos in the image index ... (see under the section Web Links )
  4. ↑ Eichenallee ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the page image cultures of ecological research of the Technical University of Darmstadt in cooperation with the University of Marburg , with the digitized version of a colored postcard from around 1900, from the archive, forum and museum on the history of nature conservation in Germany .

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 16.8 ″  E