Möglin (Reichenow-Möglin)

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Möglin manor around 1900

Möglin is the name of a manor near Wriezen in the former Oberbarnim district in the Mark Brandenburg region . Today Möglin belongs to the municipality of Reichenow-Möglin in the district of Märkisch-Oderland and is part of the Barnim-Oderbruch office . It became known as the model property of the agricultural scientist Thaer .

Between 1343, when it was first mentioned in a document, and 1780, the Eichendorff , von Pfuel and von Barfus families kept changing hands. The facility "with the farmyard, the manor house, the inspector's house and the park is completely under monument protection ."

history

1300-1600

Mogylina (probably Slavic: hill town ) was first mentioned in 1343 as the seat of the von Eichendorff family, who came from the Erzmagdeburgischen . In the land book of Emperor Charles IV of 1375, Mogelin , Mogelyn 20  hooves . Of these, 8 Hufen each belonged to two members of the lower nobility family von Pfuel ( Otto Půl [mentioned 1375–1420] and his uncle, the sex was for a long time one of the richest Oberbarnim family). The pastor ( Wedemhof ) tilled the remaining 4 hooves .

church

The Eichendorff took over Möglin again from 1448–1483, albeit only halfway, since the von Barfus family had also settled there in the meantime . The barefoot replaced the Pfuel in their social position and owned the majority of the manors of the upper barnim. Their main lines were Praedikow and Möglin , which belonged to them for over 300 years. Lords on Möglin at this time were the Brandenburg Council Kuno von Barfus (lived around 1435), his son Heinrich (lived around 1480), also Brandenburg Council, his son Valentin (1492–1557) and finally his son, the Imperial Rittmeister Heinrich von Barfus (1534–1601), who built the manor house in 1592. Almost at the same time (1598) the small church made of field and brick was built as a daughter church of Reichenow .

1600-1700

In the past, a coat of arms in the church reminded of “Alexander v. Barfus, born in 1580 on December 11th, died on December 19th, 1647 ” . Field Marshal Friedrich I , Hans Albrecht von Barfus (1635–1704) also came from Möglin . In the Thirty Years War Möglin was completely destroyed; In 1652 no one lived there anymore.

1700-1800

In 1765 Friedrich Ludwig von Barfus had to sell the completely dilapidated property to the Councilor Carl Friedrich Menzel . Other owners were 1778-1794 Privy Wilhelm von Wolff , 1794-1804 Superior Court clerk Ernst Friedrich von Clermont from the Aachener patricians and Councilor Noel ceiling .

1800-1900

Thaer monument in Möglin
Thaer monument in the manor park

The Thaerzeit from 1804 to 1873: Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752 to 1828) worked as a doctor in Celle until 1804 and was increasingly concerned with agricultural issues. In 1804 he settled at the invitation of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. into Brandenburg. He gave up the medical profession, bought the manor Möglin and demonstrated his views on rational agriculture there until his death, especially for the Brandenburg-Prussian region. As an advisory council of state, he worked directly and indirectly in the Prussian agricultural reforms. In 1806 he founded the first academic teaching institute for agriculture in the German-speaking area in Möglin. From 1819 it was called the "Royal Prussian Academy of Agriculture". Between 1810 and 1819 he also taught as a professor of camera studies at the newly founded Berlin University . The educational establishment, from 1819 the Royal Prussian Academy of Agriculture, was continued by his son-in-law Körte, his son Albrecht Philipp and his grandson Albrecht Conrad until 1861. There are 773 graduates from all over Europe. Theodor Fontane also wrote about this in detail in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg - “ The Oderland ”. Thaer's grandson Prof. Dr. Albrecht Conrad Thaer taught agriculture at the University of Giessen from 1871. He leased the property in 1870 and sold it in 1873 to Auguste von Schmieden born Kuschke (1832–1901), widow of the Prussian captain Adolph von Schmieden (1822–1867) and mother-in-law of the later General Paul Baron von Collas (1841–1910) since 1867 , who married their daughter Ottilie von Schmieden (1856–1883) at Gut Möglin in 1875 .

1900-1945

Möglin remained in the possession of their children Adolf von Schmieden and Martha Bertha von Sperling and granddaughters Auguste von Lueder and Klara von Sperling (from 1904) until 1914 . In 1911, the granddaughters sold the estate to Ferdinand Schultze , who in 1914 sold the estate to Hauptmann a. D. Waldemar Knust passed over. His son managed the estate until it was expropriated in 1945; However, the estate was registered under the name Anna Marie Knust from 1936 to 1948 . According to the communists' plan, the manor house should have been razed like everything “ Junker ”. Small farm buildings were to be built from the stone . This plan was only prevented by the billeting of many refugee families in the manor house.

1945–1990

The property expropriated as part of the land reform comprised 466 hectares of arable land, 15 hectares of grassland and 75 hectares of forest. 13 farm workers and 28 resettlers / refugees received 252 hectares of arable land. The remainder of the former "manor" with 214 hectares of usable agricultural area remained in public ownership and was managed by a local agricultural enterprise, various agricultural production cooperatives and an agricultural teaching and demonstration farm until 1995. V. manages. The former Thaersche Wirtschaftshof was preserved. The manor house served in various stages as accommodation for resettlers / refugees, as a cultural and community center and for many years it housed agricultural apprentices. There was a theater room in the building. Events and exhibitions about Thaer took place on important occasions. The manor park was used for village festivals. From 1978 onwards, the A. D. Thaer working group was based in the old Thaerschen manor house. This resulted in the development company as a registered, non-profit association on June 22, 1991.

Since 1990

Park of the Thaerhof Möglin

With the turnaround, the agricultural land and real estate remaining from the land reform went to Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH (BVVG). The support company Albrecht Daniel Thaer e. V. received federal and state funding in 1992/1994 for maintaining the Thaer heritage and setting up an exhibition in the inspector's house. The exhibition on life and work was set up and opened in 1992.

Manor park in Möglin

The manor and the manor park have been privately owned since 1996.

In 2008 the permanent exhibition "Albrecht Daniel Thaer" with a presentation of his work in relation to his predecessors, his students and in the current context moved to a new, modern museum building in the center of the village. In addition to agricultural implements he developed, the exhibition and library also house a large number of original editions of his works and writings. There is also a small side exhibition in the village church.

Thaer grave

The grave of Albrecht Daniel Thaer is located in the manor park near the village church. A circular route leads to the Thaer bust and a large memorial stone with a bronze relief. The estate park is open to visitors.

Sons and daughters (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Möglin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Möglin, Möglin . Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ Funding company Albrecht Daniel Thaer: Thaer's legacy in Möglin / The Thaerhof with Gutspark in Möglin ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Johannes Schultze (ed.): The land book of the Mark Brandenburg from 1375 . Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, Barnym. Barnym dἱstrictus Strutzberg. Mogelin, p. 136.
  4. ↑ Manor houses of the nobility in the German Empire (Ma-Mu) . Retrieved March 13, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′  N , 14 ° 6 ′  E