Bennigsen manor

manor

Portal to the manor

Coat of arms of the von Bennigsen family above the portal to the manor

The Bennigsen manor is a manor in Bennigsen , which has been the ancestral seat of the Lower Saxon noble family von Bennigsen for more than 700 years .

history

A moated castle was built on the estate in 1311 and has served as the family residence ever since. Parts of the property were destroyed during the Hildesheim monastery feud , including the manor house , which was then rebuilt in 1566 as a half-timbered house with rich carvings on the upper floor. Structural changes were made under Jacob Franz von Bennigsen (1654–1731) in particular , but the property , which was always used for agriculture , and the manor buildings were enlarged and changed again and again until the 19th century.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves built the so-called “New Palace” in 1863; the villa served Rudolf von Bennigsen as a retirement home in old age. Bennigsen also had the park laid out on the estate; the 4.5 hectare area with its rare trees is now a nature reserve .

In 1990 Roderic von Bennigsen took over the property and converted it into a cultural site . For example, he converted a smaller hall from the 17th century and a large barn from the 18th century into a concert venue with a stage for large philharmonic orchestras. In 1995 the cellist and conductor founded the summer festival Rittergut Bennigsen , at which well-known artists and international orchestras performed. In 2014 it took place for the seventeenth time.

Web links

Commons : Rittergut Bennigsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bennigsen manor (court portal) in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
• Rittergut Bennigsen (manor house) in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
• Roderic von Bennigsen (responsible): 700 years of Rittergut Bennigsen on the website bennigsenfestival.de , last accessed on July 7, 2014
• Dirk Sarnes (responsible): Rittergut Bennigsen on the hannover.de site , last accessed on July 7, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Roderic von Bennigsen (Responsible): 700 years ... (see under the section Web Links )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Dirk Sarnes (responsible): Rittergut ... (see under the section Weblinks )
3. ^ Roderic von Bennigsen: Biography , in: XVII Summer Festival Rittergut Bennigsen , brochure accompanying the festival, Bennigsen: von Bennigsen, 2014, p. 2

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 13.3 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 9.7"  E