Oldemorstoft

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Oldemorstoft
Oldemorstoft, main building, entrance door, picture 002.JPG
Oldemorstoft (2014)
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place Oldemorstoft Bovvej 2
DK 6330 Padborg
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opening in the 1970s
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Oldemorstoft (also: Waldemarstoft) is a centuries-old farm in Denmark , near the German-Danish border near Flensburg , which is located in the village of Padborg and serves as the museum of the parish Bov ( German  construction ). The name was and is partly used as a field name for the land surrounding the farm.

history

The Oldemorstoft Farm (2014)

The name of the farm Oldemorstoft is composed of the personal name Waldemar ( actually in Danish : Valdemar ; here in the variant: Oldemor ) and the old word Toft. A toft denotes an enclosed field or parcel on which a farm is located away from the village or settlement. The legend of the wild hunters of eternal Oldemorstoft according to the court of King Valdemar (* around 1321, † 1375) as a hunting lodge have been used. Around 1345, the nearby Niehuus Castle was built to defend the city of Flensburg (see Flensburg city fortifications ). The predecessor building of the Duburg , the Hof Flenstoft, still lay above the city of Flensburg .

The Oldemorstoft farm has only really been documented since 1472. This year the farm was first mentioned in a Flensburg tax list. The owner of the farm was then Nis Petersen. This apparently died in the 1470s or early 1480s. His wife Cisser Nisses and their daughter or granddaughter stayed on the farm. The widow and the young woman could hardly manage the farm alone. During this time Henrik Lorentzen, who was called Henrik Jæger or Henrik Schack and who was in royal service, came to Flensburg as an official. One day he went hunting for Oldemorstoft. The Oldemorstoft farm was in poor condition. Henrik Lorentzen met the young woman named Mette during his visit. He married her soon afterwards and asked to be released from royal service, which he was granted. At the same time he was apparently rewarded for his loyal service, because in 1483 the property, after which the court hunter ( Danish Hofjæger ) Henrik Lorentzen had taken over, received the status of a Freihof ( Danish Frigård ). It is not known with certainty which privileges were granted. The rights presumably included an extensive hunting right in the area, the use of a coat of arms (compare with the image of the coat of arms of the Nissen family) and a concession to set up an inn. In 1528 the privileges of the court were confirmed by letter from King Friedrich I to Henrik Lorenzen's two sons.

The farm served as the Hardesvogtei of the Wiesharde in the 1600s . The wealthy Hardesvorgt Nis Asmussen (* 1565, † 1625) and his wife Catrina von Oldemorstoft donated the pulpit of the church in Bau. Various kings are said to have stayed in Oldemorstoft. The Krumme Weg , which leads via Flensburg to Niehuus and from there via Rønsdam to the village of Bov, was sometimes also called the Königsweg in the past , because the Oldemorstoft farm was a popular lodging station for nobility and kings and is not far from the village of Bov, i.e. from there can be reached quickly. For example, King Christian IV is said to have stayed here in 1616, which is documented by a letter dated by him.

In the 18th century the farm served as an inn. From when exactly Oldemorstoft served as an inn is not known. The legend of the stingy innkeeper from Oldemorstoft has been handed down from this time of the "royal privileged" inn . After the referendum in Schleswig in 1920, Oldemarstoft came to Denmark.

Today's museum

The family coat of arms of the noble Nissen family , who owned the Oldemorstoft farm for decades.

The Oldemorstoft farm now serves as a local museum .

Shortly before the museum opened in the 1970s, old ornate roof beams were discovered during previous renovations to the eastern main building. The colors of the walls were also exposed again, so that some of the rooms could be restored to their condition in 1850. A so-called “Manepæl” was found in the barn, which was supposed to keep the devil away from the farm with the help of magic.

The museum has hosted a local history exhibition since 1979. In 1989, three pyramid-shaped buildings were erected, which have since housed a large part of the museum's collection.

From March 1st, 2008 until the beginning of 2018, the Oldemorstoft Museum was part of the Sønderjylland Museum . The museum has been operating as a municipal facility since January 2018.

The museum is open from April to October from Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Entry for adults is 30 kroner , for pensioners 25 kroner. Children get free entry. From November to March the museum is only open by appointment. (As of 2014).

The Oldemorstoft Museum houses:

  • an exhibition on the Oldemorstoft farm. The mentioned letter with the royal privileges from 1528 is exhibited in the museum.
  • a department for the Schleswig-Holstein survey , which is particularly concerned with the battle of Bau .
  • An exhibition on the nearby border: The exhibition on the border has existed since May 5, 2010. It covers the period from 1920 to 2010, the period when Danish gendarmes controlled the border until 2001 and the period thereafter, as since the Schengen Agreement with the German side is working together.
  • an exhibition on agriculture in the area,

The museum offer is enriched by special exhibitions. There is also a small courtyard café .

Legends from the Oldemorstoft farm

The wild eternal hunter of Oldemorstoft

A Halloween pumpkin at the entrance to Oldemorstoft (October 2014)

The legend reports that King Waldemar once lived in the Waldemarstoft hunting lodge in summer and autumn to pursue his favorite pleasure, hunting. One day early in the morning the king rode out into the forest with many hunters and dogs. The hunt went well, but the more prey he caught, the more he lusted for more. The day passed and slowly the sun was falling. He still didn't stop hunting. When night finally came and the hunt had to be stopped, the king exclaimed: “Oh, if only I could hunt forever!” Then a voice came out of the air: “Your wish is granted, King Waldemar, von Stund ' you will hunt forever. "A little later the king died and since the day of his death he has been riding a snow-white horse every night, surrounded by his hunters, high above the forests of Flensburg through the air and rustling with them, with the barking dogs first. there in a wild hunt. The legend goes on to say that you could hear him there on Midsummer Night. He can also be heard in the Flensburg city moat on autumn nights. The air is echoed with the sound of horns and the barking of dogs, of whistles and shouts, as if a whole hunt was on the way. Such winds are therefore described with the words “King Waldemar is pulling!”.

The legend belongs to the saga of the Wild Hunter , which is said to have its origin in the Wotan myth .

King Waldemars' room in the inn

When the hunting lodge was transformed into an inn, a room was still available for a long time, which was in the same condition as King Waldemar had lived in it. In one corner there was a four-poster bed , over which a dark red velvet cover with golden fringes lay . An old organ, on which the king once played, is said to have stood there. The walls were covered with old pictures. A portrait of the king testified to an assassination attempt on the king. The assassin would have shot through the door, but only hit the portrait of the king on the wall. In the picture, the hole that was made by the ball could be seen. In addition, the ball was in the wall behind it.

In the case of an assassination attempt with the shot of a bullet, this legend has to be questioned, especially what kind of handgun it could have been, since King Waldemar apparently lived in the 14th century.

The stingy innkeeper from Oldemorstoft

Waldemarstoft, wagon on the farm in Oldemorstoft (2014)

It is said of the stingy innkeeper of the Oldemorstoft inn near Ochsenweg that he stole the horses' oats from the manger when the ox drivers and carters slept, so that the horses died of hunger on their way. When the landlord died, there was a noise in the stables at night. so that no one could sleep in the inn. The noise came from the landlord's ghost, which is why they brought in a priest to remedy the unbearable condition. The preacher had begun to admonish the unrest spirit, but when the spirit was already driven down to the hips into the earth, it knocked the book out of the hand of the priest, so that he got stuck at the height of the heart and thus with the Head protruded. Now the priest couldn't get it down any further. That is why a copper kettle was put over the rest of the ghost protruding from the ground and a wall was built over it. Since then, the inn has been quiet again. But the wall with the boiler is still there. You wouldn't dare break it away.

It can be assumed that the legend is probably set in the 1700s, when the farm was used as an inn.

literature

  • Bjørn Poulsen and Mikkel Leth Jespersen: Oldemorstoft og dens omverden på reformationstiden: - omkring et nyopdukket frigårdsprivilegium . Ed .: MuseumSsønderjylland. Bov 2013, ISBN 978-87-88376-68-5 (Danish).

Individual evidence

  1. There is also the rare variant "Olmerstofft", for example in: Georg Claeden: Monumenta Flensburgensia, first volume , 1765, page 291
  2. ^ NDR, Grenzroute: Germany's northernmost cycle path ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), from: July 12, 2012; accessed on October 12, 2014
  3. See Falk Plan
  4. ^ Map from 1904 of the north of Flensburg and Baus with the Waldemarstoft area
  5. Could be translated or interpreted differently in Danish. . See Wiktionary : oldemor , namely as: great-grandmother; A Low German reading would obviously also offer itself. “Olte Moors” could roughly be translated as “old ass”. See Johannes Sass : The new Sass - Low German Dictionary - Low German - High German, High German - Low German. 2nd edition, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2002
  6. See Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Munketoft
  7. Cf. in this context: Heinrich Beck [Hrsg.] Heldensage und Heldendichtung in Germanic , page 69 and Brothers Grimm : Deutsche Mythologie, Cap. XXXI. Ghosts , Chapter 31 and Brothers Grimm : German Mythology, Cap. XXII. Heaven and Stars , Chapter 22
  8. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Oldemorstoft, Velkommen til Oldemorstoft ( Memento from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: October 12, 2014
  9. a b Gårde og mennesker i Bov Sogn , dated: February 24, 2009; Retrieved on: October 12, 2014
  10. Fjord Region, Oldemorstoft ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 12, 2014 and Padborg ↔ Flensburg, Padborg, Bov, The Local History Museum of Bov ... , accessed on October 12, 2014 and NDR, Grenzroute : Germany's northernmost cycle path ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), from: July 12, 2012; accessed on October 12, 2014
  11. See also on the term Hardesvogtei: Amt Schlei-Ostsee, Fleckeby, Die Hardesvogtei ( Memento of December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: December 22, 2014
  12. a b c d e f g h Graenseforeningen, Oldemorstoft , accessed on December 21, 2014
  13. The Hardesvogt was a kind of head of office . See Bov Museum "Oldemorstoft" , accessed on: October 12, 2014
  14. Die Nordschleswigsche Gemeinde, Kirche zu Bau , accessed on December 21, 2014
  15. Cf. also The residents of the old parish Adelby, Nissen ; (With Nis Asmesen , Nis Asmussen is meant there.)
  16. a b c d e f Bov Museum "Oldemorstoft" , accessed on: October 12, 2014
  17. Marsch und Förde, Krummer Weg , accessed on: October 12, 2014
  18. ^ Leaflet Krummer Weg - Harrislee Community (PDF) ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): accessed on October 12, 2014
  19. Cf. Oldemorstoft, Velkommen til Oldemorstoft ( Memento of November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: October 12, 2014
  20. See Museums Sønderjylland, Museum info ( Memento from May 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and Museums Sønderjylland, Museum info (overview of the locations) ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), each accessed on: December 20, 2014
  21. Der Nordschleswiger : “Oldemorstoft” as a last resort for the customs and tax museum? , dated: May 10, 2017; accessed on: August 27, 2018
  22. Der Nordschleswiger : New start for “Oldemorstoft” , from: January 27, 2018; accessed on: August 27, 2018
  23. a b Fjord Region, Oldemorstoft ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 12, 2014
  24. Padborg ↔ Flensburg, Padborg, Bov, Das Lokalhistorisches Museum von Bov ... , accessed on October 12, 2014
  25. ^ A b Karl Müllenhoff : Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg , Kiel 1845, number 562 and: Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from Flensburg. , Husum 1992, page 20 f.
  26. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 283 f.
  27. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 284
  28. ^ Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from Flensburg. , Husum 1992, page 16
  29. Der Gendarmenpfad, A hiking guide that opens the eyes (PDF) ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), page 13; Retrieved on: October 12, 2014
  30. See also: pressemeddelelser, November 28, 2013, Bogpræsentation ( Memento of December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: December 21, 2014

Web links

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

Coordinates: 54 ° 49 '35.4 "  N , 9 ° 21' 50.1"  E