Icebergs manor

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Rittergut Eisbergen from the other side of the Weser

The Eisbergen manor is an East Westphalian mansion and is located south of the Weser Mountains on the right bank of the Weser in the village of Eisbergen in the town of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district .

history

Main building with orangery on the right in the background

The manor was first mentioned in 1396. At that time, the owner was Florecke von Zerssen. Heinrich Julius von Zerssen was one of the many owners from the von Zerssen family . At the beginning of the 18th century, the manor was the subject of inheritance disputes between the von Zerssen and von Leuchtmar families. This legal dispute dragged on for over twenty years and occupied courts up to and including the Reich Chamber of Commerce .

The monastery governor of Quedlinburg , the privy councilor Paulus Andreas Freiherr von Schellersheim , bought the estate in 1747. It served him and his wife Benedigte Luise von Hammerstein as a retirement home. As governor of the monastery, at the request of other doctors, he forbade the citizens of Quedlinburg to seek medical treatment from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben . He asked Erxleben to take her exam within three months. Erxleben took the doctoral examination on May 6, 1754 and was the first and for a century and a half the only female doctor who was allowed to do a doctorate in Germany and officially practice her profession.

A descendant of Paulus Andreas Diomed Carl Georg von Schellersheim (* March 13, 1855) married Marie Elisabeth von der Goltz (* September 4, 1859 - May 6, 1883), daughter of Eduard Kuno von der Goltz , on June 7, 1881 , who then also moved to icebergs.

building

The estate was completely redesigned from 1747. A residential and farm building as well as the orangery date from this period. The mansion was rebuilt in 1912 as a representative sandstone building after the fire in the previous building. Two baroque female sculptures in front of the manor house are from 1783. A vase on a pedestal from the same period has also been preserved.

Todays use

To this day, the 3 hectare manor is owned by the von Schellersheim family. It is not open to the public. The estate is mainly used as an equestrian facility and for residential purposes.

Others

The nature reserve Appenhäuser Bruch north of Eisbergs belongs to the estate.

The family v. Schellersheim lies on the western edge of the Gut Oheimb park in Holzhausen .

literature

  • Claudia Simone Linten: Orangeries in Westphalia (= European university publications. Series 28: Art history. Vol. 327). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-33087-1 , pp. 154-159 (also: Münster, Univ., Diss., 1997).
  • Ina von Ketel: Because these roads lead to chaos. Novel. Nemesis-Verlag, Rahden 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4458-3 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 59 ″  E