Gerbstedt manor
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The Rittergut Gerbstedt ( Steubensches Rittergut ) is an estate in Gerbstedt .
history
The documented enfeoffment to the Von Steuben family goes back to the 15th century: after 1442 Bernd or his son Hartwig Steube took over the property together with the peasantry Ribbesdorf north of Gerbstedt as a fief from the Counts Volker and Gebhard von Mansfeld (since 1400 there was a evidenced entitlement, the exact date of the first loan has not been recorded).
The Gerbstedter line begins with Bernd von Steuben , it ends in 1605 with the death of the last feudal man Christian Ernst von Steuben - the property passed to the Friedeburg line. In 1653, Martin Christoph von Steuben also bought Tresewitz , a preliminary work of the Gerbstedt monastery . Nevertheless, it was not possible to save the recently heavily indebted property from the threatened forced sale.
On September 10, 1720, the property was initially pledged to the Royal Prussian administration , three years later a loan of 20,000 thalers could no longer prevent the final loss: In 1738, soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I bought the manor and the associated lands for 42,775 thalers from the von Steuben family, took over the neighboring cloister courtyard from the von Plotho family and united both properties under the new name “ Amt Gerbstedt ” as the official residence of his youngest son, Prince Ferdinand of Prussia .
The Gerbstedt office remained the property of the Prussian prince until 1810, when it was bought by the chief bailiff Johann Friedrich Neumann . He bequeathed the property to his son Friedrich Wilhelm von Neumann , who was raised to the nobility as the Royal Prussian Legation Councilor . With the marriage of his daughter, the property later came into the possession of the Count von der Schulenburg .
In 1945 the family was expropriated.
Testimony from the Steubens in Gerbstedt was an inscription above the entrance:
My love, my life, honor and good,
also soul, heart, mind and courage,
my faithful God
keeps in hat, so that the enemy does no harm to me.
- Heinrich von Steuben. Dorothea of Weddingen. 1573
present
Coats of arms of the von Steuben and von Quitzow families (Christoph and Metilla von Quitzow , 1596) on the tower of the Gerbstedt manor are preserved. There is also a stone slab above the entrance to the house, in which three coats of arms with the names Catharina Hedwig von Wrisberg , Christoph Otto Steube and Augusta Maria von der Asseburg are listed under Steuben's coat of arms “sub tutela altissimi semper” .
Text of the inscription:
God as you have ruined what the house built so it is now
further entrusted to your protection , let all accidents hear rich blessings and give that he possesses you
gratefully may honor
you
- ANNO MDCLXXIIIII (year 1675)
Web links
- Gerbstedt manor (after Alexander Duncker, around 1875) (PDF; 238 kB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 6 " N , 11 ° 37 ′ 30" E