Margarethenhof (Flensburg)

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The Margarethenhof in Flensburg (2013)

The Margarethenhof ( Danish : Margrethegård ) is a building complex in the Jürgensby district of the city of Flensburg . The farm is one of the registered cultural monuments of the city of Flensburg. It is part of the Rum & Sugar Mile .

City view of Flensburg von Braun and Hogenberg , which was made between 1572 and 1618, and on which the courtyard may already be seen.

history

It is not known when exactly the Margarethenhof existed. In the view of the town of Braun and Hogenberg , which was made between 1572 and 1618, a secluded farm near Jürgensby on the banks of the Flensburg Fjord can be seen, which one suspects may have been the forerunner of today's farm. The farm has been attested since 1609. At that time the farm was owned by the Lange family. In the following years the farm often changed hands.

In the 18th century the farm changed into a company location when Peter Holst acquired the farm in 1759 and started a soap factory there. From 1762 the farm was home to a sugar boiler , which is why the farm was called the Zuckerhof . Raw sugar was imported from the Danish West Indies and processed into sugar, rock candy and syrup. In 1844 the merchant Nikolaus Jepsen acquired the farm and named it after his mother-in-law Margarethe Rottmann (* 1780; † 1846), as the bail for the purchase of the farm was provided by her husband, the merchant, shipowner and Russian vice-consul Friedrich Wilhelm Funke had been. An iron foundry was set up under Nikolaus Jepsen at the now Margarethenhof farm . Silted up land in front of the courtyard also served as the foundation for the foundry. In 1882 the courtyard was converted into a manufacturer's villa by the Prussian architect Richard Plüddemann , who also designed Flensburg's court (see Flensburg District Court and Flensburg Regional Court ). In 1896 the aforementioned iron foundry also manufactured the Rinkenis , Laagmai and Schottsbüll lighthouses , which were erected on the north side of the Flensburg Fjord .

During the Second World War , the northern warehouse, which dates from 1761, was hit and destroyed during a bombing raid on Flensburg . At the end of the millennium, a comprehensive renovation began. Between 1995 and 2003, the redesigned forecourt in front of the Margarethenhof and its buildings were built.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Margarethenhof
  2. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Margarethenhof
  3. ↑ Thomas Messerschmidt / Dieter Pust / Eiko Wenzel. The Margarethenhof. Adelspalais, Zuckerhof, Eisengießerei-Eine Flensburg Industrial History (Small series of publications by the Society for Flensburg City History), Flensburg 2018, p. 58 f.
  4. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 288

literature

  • Thomas Messerschmidt, Dieter Pust , Eiko Wenzel: The Margarethenhof . Noble palaces, Zuckerhof, iron foundry - a Flensburg industrial history. tape 42 . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2018, DNB  117645031X (143 pages).

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 46 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 37.1 ″  E