Stödten Manor
The manor Stödten in today's Sömmerda district in Thuringia , was southeast of Schwerstedt on the northwest corner of today's flood retention basin of the Unstrut , on the brook Öde and south of the Hippelsberg (191 m). The estate was completely disposed of during the GDR .
history
In 1840, in addition to the actual buildings, the manor also included five other houses and 7 stables. In the place 25 inhabitants lived from agriculture. At that time, the village corridor was determined to be 333 acres , 240 acres of arable land and 88 acres of meadows and pasture - reaching as far as the meandering unstrut. The yield from the fields was assessed as very good. In 1903 the adjacent farms and outbuildings were demolished, the map from that time only shows the estate on the edge of the valley, laid out as a four-sided farm.
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Manor and village belonged until 1815 to the Saxon Office Weissensee and 1815 for the district Weissensee of the governmental district Erfurt of the Prussian province of Saxony . It existed as an independent manor district until 1928 and was merged with the municipality of Schwerstedt in the course of the dissolution of the manor districts in Prussia.
From 1842 Stödten was bought by August Lucius (1816–1900) from Erfurt: farmer, painter and later a politician. In 1868 Robert Lucius bought the estate. Because of his services as a politician, he was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1888, as Baron Lucius von Ballhausen. His son Hellmuth Freiherr Lucius von Stoedten took over the manor. He was a diplomat and, as the German envoy in Sweden, played a key role in maintaining the benevolent neutrality of this country during the First World War . He was also a great patron of the arts. In the mid-1930s, most of the Stödten estate was parceled out and sold. The courtyard area itself (with farm buildings, farm buildings, farm workers' houses, subsequent gardens, orchards and meadows) was last owned by Reinhart von Lucius (1906-1996), a nephew of Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten, until 1945 . Reinhart was the sixth bearer of the name Lucius as the owner of Stödten. He was a diplomat, until 1970 Consul General in Cape Town and also very interested in art.
The economically successful estate with initially 700 acres (until 1935) included its own dairy and butter factory as well as large poultry farming. Lucius' family took in refugees from the Eastern Territories from 1944 onwards. In 1945 the property located in the Soviet occupation zone was expropriated without compensation , although it only comprised 6.3 hectares. The entire courtyard area, including the residential buildings of estate employees, was torn down in the 1950s, and the land was flooded by the retention basin of the Unstrut. Today the only remnant that exists is a walled-in cellar opening as a bat refuge on a small slope. If the retention basin has run empty, remains of the foundations of buildings can still be seen.
The family of Lucius "always valued the manor with its special charm" (Reinhart von Lucius).
Residents of Straussfurt report that they liked to hike along the wasteland to the manor to observe the numerous storks that live there.
literature
- Robert von Lucius : The Erfurt family Lucius . Erfurter Heimatbrief No. 37 (1978), pp. 28-32
- Carl August Noback : Detailed geographic-statistical description of the Erfurt administrative district , 1841
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ TK25 sheet 4831 Gebesee - 1903 edition. (No longer available online.) In: Map portal "Geogreif" of the University of Greifswald. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 17, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
