Brokeloh manor
The manor Brokeloh is located in Brokeloh in Lower Saxony .
description
The castle as the central part of the manor is a four-wing complex. It consists of a residential building with strong walls on the ground floor and a half-timbered structure on the upper floor . In addition to the residential building, three timber-framed building wings enclose an inner courtyard measuring approximately 15 × 10 meters. The building complex used to be surrounded by a double moat.
history
In 1545 Clamor von Münchhausen built a moated castle in Brokeloh, where he felt safe from the dangers of a campaign in a difficult-to-access place in the moor. During the construction he used stones from the family seat in Munichehausen . His son Erich-Hans von Münchhausen completed the building around 1600. In 1602 he went bankrupt and had to sell the property. Long-term trials, including with the Loccum monastery , had devoured his fortune.
The buyer was Colonel Otto Plato von Helversen, who was enfeoffed with the estate in 1616. In the middle of the 17th century it came to the von Roth family by inheritance, from them to Colonel Dietrich August von Adelebsen in 1725 . He soon parted with this property and in 1734 found a buyer in the bailiff Christian Eberhard Niemeyer , who ushered in an era that continues to this day for Brokeloh Castle. For a time the estate belonged to several descendants in ideal shares, but in 1858 Friedrich August Wilhelm Niemeyer was able to unite it in his hand through inheritance and purchase. The current owner, Carsten Niemeyer, leased the property from his grandfather Erich Niemeyer in 1982 and has been managing it himself since 1986.
Since 2004 the live role-playing game Conquest of Mythodea has been taking place annually on 60 hectares around the manor , in which up to 8,000 fantasy role-playing game fans from Europe and other countries take part.
literature
- The manors of the principalities of Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen. Description, history, legal relationships and 121 illustrations. Published by Gustav Stölting-Eimbeckhausen and Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen-Moringen at the decision of the knighthood and with the participation of the individual owners. Hannover, 1912, pp. 30-33.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 8,000 fantasy fans fight for Mythodea in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 4, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 2.8 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 33.4 ″ E