Hohenstein Landscape Park

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The Hohenstein Landscape Park is located in the Schwansen landscape in the municipality of Barkelsby near Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein . The park is located on the steep northern bank of Eckernförde Bay . Hohenstein is a typical romantic landscape park from the last third of the 19th century. The listed manor ensemble is private and not publicly accessible. The entire ensemble is on the list of cultural monuments in Barkelsby .

history

Hohenstein manor

Visible side of the manor house with artificial tower ruins (left) and Lindendom (right)

The Hohenstein estate was a Meierhof of the Hemmelmark estate until 1717 . Then it belonged to Detlev Friedrich von Rathlow (d. 1740). Johann Rudolph von Ahlefeldt (d. 1770) was the owner from 1764 to 1770. His younger son Jürgen von Ahlefeldt (d. 1823) inherited Hohenstein and sold it in 1794.

In 1802 it received the status of a noble estate and the associated coveted privileges. The classical manor house for Johann Diederich Cordes was built on the occasion of this survey . This has only been handed down figuratively.

In 1854 Theodor Milberg (1826–1868) and his wife Harriet, née von Schröder , (1836–1899) acquired the property. They had the manor house expanded and redesigned historically with neo-Gothic decorative elements and wood carvings in the Swiss style . The front side of the building faces the park. The hexagonal tower on the southern corner of the building forms a belvedere , from which the view extended to the Baltic Sea. The open staircase to the east , flanked by two Molossian dogs made of Carrara marble , opens up a view over the pleasure ground into the agricultural landscape. In 1879, Harriet Milberg, who was widowed at an early age, married the founder and first director of Hapag Adolph Godeffroy (1814–1893). Both decided to undertake an extensive park renewal.

The estate park

The design of the baroque complex is not documented. Only the so-called "Lindendom" made up of eight ancient trees northeast of the manor house and a mighty row of linden trees in the southeastern part of the park are probably the last documents of this early garden from the 18th century. The Hohensteiner Gutspark was subsequently redesigned twice.

The first landscape park

The history of the garden began with the renovation of the manor house in the middle of the 19th century by the Milberg couple. In the course of these measures, the landowners had the existing park remodeled. The landscape park had a floor plan of three joined rectangles, which mostly followed the district lines schematically. High kinks obstructed the view of the surroundings. Two miniature staffage structures have survived from this time : A Swiss dairy hut with a protruding roof and an artificial tower ruin stood on the former pleasure ground. The vegetable and orchard was already along a limiting bend in the east. This area was largely afforested from 1965. The first Hohenstein Landscape Park was planted with a variety of species, which corresponded to the contemporary botanical fondness for collecting.

The romantic extensions

After their marriage in 1879, Adolph and Harriet Godeffroy decided to extensively renew and expand the landscape park. This work was completed in 1883, as indicated by a memorial stone in the shape of a small boulder above the tiered ponds. The latest research ascribes the design to the Hamburg garden architect Friedrich Joachim Christian Jürgens (1825–1903). He opened the eastern part of the park by partially laying down the curtains. Towards the south, it doubled the parking area down to Eckernförde Bay. There was a bathing pavilion (now a campsite). The romantic park contains, among other things, a forest clearing, and the damming of a floodplain created several ponds with an island, a waterfall and a rocky area, a so-called "rockery", which form a delightful lake landscape. On the foundations of the former ice cellar stands a tea house with a thatched roof, from which the individual parts of the garden can be opened up through lines of sight in a fan shape. The view of the Baltic Sea can no longer be experienced today due to the reforestation of the Auetal.

In 1992, the park and the entire estate were placed under protection by the Schleswig-Holstein State Office for Monument Preservation .

In Hohenstein there is an estate museum with agricultural equipment.

literature

  • Ingrid Alexandra Schubert: Hohenstein. In: Adrian von Buttlar , Margita Marion Meyer (Hrsg.): Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Boyens & Co., Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , pp. 311-319.
  • Ingrid Alexandra Schubert: Jürgens, Friedrich Joachim Christian. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Edited by the Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Vol. 11, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02640-2 , pp. 194–196.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . 3rd revised and updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 .

Web links

  • Hohenstein Estate Garden (PDF; 108 kB). Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein
  • 18. Gut Hohenstein (PDF) - historical architecture and romantic park, in: Adelheid Schönborn: Historische Gutsgärten in Schleswig-Holstein , 2012, p. 39 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hohenstein Estate Garden . Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein
  2. ↑ Jörg Matthies: The order of nature . Lectures on historical gardens and parks in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Rainer Hering (Ed.): Publications of the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives . tape 96 , p. 82 ( uni-hamburg.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ a b Ingrid A. Schubert: Hohenstein. In: Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. , P. 311.
  4. ^ Ingrid A. Schubert: Hohenstein. In: Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. , P. 312.
  5. ↑ a b Ingrid A. Schubert: Hohenstein. In: Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. , P. 314.
  6. ^ Ingrid A. Schubert: Juergens, Friedrich Joachim Christian. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, p. 195.
  7. ↑ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , p. 181.

Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 32 ″  E