Wichtringhausen manor
The Wichtringhausen manor is located in the Wichtringhausen district of the town of Barsinghausen in Lower Saxony . The complex has its origins in the 12th century and has been owned by the von Simmern family since 1743 . She still lives in the manor today , which has a restaurant in some of the earlier farm buildings and is used for events.
location
The estate is located north of the B 65 . In the Middle Ages, the Hellweg before Santforde , a trade route that connected Hildesheim and Braunschweig with the cities of Westphalia , ran along the route of the federal road . The estate is surrounded by a park with mature trees.
Building description and history
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The two-story manor of the manor stands on an island surrounded by a wide moat, which is accessible via three bridges. The manor house, which has been a listed building since 1948 , was probably built in the 16th century. The lower part of the building with the basement and the ground floor consists of rubble stones , and the upper part of plastered half-timbering .
In the 17th century the manor house was first converted. On the east side it received a renaissance- style bay window , which is dated by the number "1611". In the 19th century there were further structural changes on the manor and the manor house, which greatly changed the complex and no longer reveals its original shape. The Hanoverian politician and member of the Reichstag Heinrich Langwerth von Simmern (1833–1914) fundamentally repaired the estate, with the manor house being redesigned in the neo-Gothic style in 1866 . A stone stair tower , a söller , a bay window and a turret were built.
On the estate, next to the manor house, there is an administrator's house built in 1865 with extensions, a massive cowshed from 1905 and stone and half-timbered buildings as farm buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries.
history
The forerunner of the manor was a saddle yard in the Middle Ages . In 1188 Wichtringhausen is mentioned for the first time as "Wicmeringehusen" in a feudal register of the Minden bishop . The bishop gave the estate to his vassals as a fief . In the Middle Ages, the manor served as an outbuilding and rest stop on the trade route that passed by. In the 15th century the manor came to the Schaumburg counts , who also lent it and built a smaller castle here. In the 16th century the castle was converted into a moated castle with a crypt, chapel and gatehouse. As the first Lehnsnehmer of goods Otto received speeches in 1600 by Duke Heinrich Julius the lower courts for Wichtringhausen, Bantorf , Hohenbostel and Winning Hausen . With Georg Reinhard Langwerth von Simmern , the Lords of Simmern followed in 1743, whose descendants still own the estate today. Heinrich Langwerth von Simmern enlarged the estate to 1,300 acres in the 19th century through rounding- up purchases .
In the former manager's house of the manor there is now a wine tavern as a branch of the Freiherrlich Langwerth von Simmern'sches Rentamt winery in Eltville .
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. Hanover, 1912.
- 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. 198
Web links
- Description of the place and the manor Wichtringhausen
- Photo of the mansion with a moat
- History at burgen und schloesser.net
- Brief description at hannover.de
- Website of the manor
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '58.7 " N , 9 ° 26' 1.9" E