Großgoltern manor
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The manor Großgoltern , also known as the von Altensche Gut , is located in the Großgoltern district of the city of Barsinghausen in Lower Saxony and is a listed building .
description
The farm yard in front of the property is enclosed on almost four sides by agricultural outbuildings. It is accessed through a kind of gatehouse within a building. The former machine hall, which served as a “garage” for agricultural equipment, is one of the farm buildings. Today it is used for events.
The mansion behind the farm yard is surrounded by a six meter wide moat . It consists of a larger central wing and two smaller wings. The mansion is two-story with a ground floor made of quarry stone and an upper floor in half-timbered construction . The middle wing of the mansion is dated to the 17th century. The inner courtyard of the manor house is accessed through a gate in the middle wing, the keystone of which dates back to 1700. The north wing of the manor house was replaced in 1886 by the Hanoverian master builder Hermann Schaedtler with a new building that continues the architectural style of the older part. In the inner courtyard, five grave slabs are set into the outer walls of the manor house, the oldest of which dates back to 1492. From the open west side of the manor house an 800 meter long chestnut avenue leads to the hereditary burial of the von Alten family in the Feldmark .
The mansion is a successor to a once fortified complex in the style of a moated castle , as indicated by the repellent walls of the ground floor in connection with the moat. The complex, which used to have four corner towers, stood on foundations made of sandstone blocks, on which the south wing of the manor house was later built. The drawbridge over the moat was replaced by a stone bridge in 1817.
history
The manor goes back to the gender of the Goltern. The time the property was built is not known. Its origins go back to the Middle Ages . It seems possible that it already existed when Großgoltern was first mentioned in 1158. After the von Golterns died out, Duke Erich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg transferred the estate to Rittmeister Ernst von Alten in 1558. It has been owned by the von Alten family ever since .
literature
- Wilhelm Mithoff : Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover , Volume 1: Fürstenthum Calenberg ; Hellwing Verlag, Hannover 1871, p. 38 ( link to the digitized version )
- 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. 79-81.
- Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, district of Hanover, Volume 13.1, edited by Hans-Herbert Möller , edited by Henner Hannig, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988. ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 187.
- Wolfgang W. Ewig: The grave slabs on the manor Großgoltern , Association for local and family history, 1997
Web links
- Großgoltern manor at burgen-und-schloesser.net
- Brief description of the history of the manor
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.barsinghausen.de: Großgoltern , accessed on January 11, 2018.
- ^ Historical Association for Lower Saxony: Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , Volume 122, Hanover 2000, p. 377 snippet view
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 55.5 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 53.8" E