Wiegersen manor
The Wiegersen manor is located in the village of Wiegersen in Lower Saxony and is surrounded by a brick wall, restored in 2003 , which runs through the village and is rounded off by two watchtowers.
history
The Wiegersen manor originated from a farm in the 17th century . Melchior von der Lieth, from Nieder Ochtenhausen (near Bremervörde ) took over the Meierhof from Hans Mertens in 1627 and expanded it into his aristocratic residence. In 1636/37 the Meierhof disappeared from the farm list. Since then, one can speak of a noble estate in Wiegersen.
After Melchior von der Lieth's death, the Wiegersen estate became the property of his son Christoff Hermann Sebastian von der Lieth. However, after Christoff fell ill, his two brothers, Johann Eberhard and Franz Julius von der Lieth, ran the estate. After Christoff's death, the Wiegersen estate passed to his nephew Otto Jürgen von der Lieth. Since Otto's only son died at the age of 16, after Otto's death the estate went to his sister Magdalene von der Lieth, whose husband was Diedrich Gebhard von Horn. He buys the estate from the Lieth community of heirs. Diedrich Gebhard bequeathed the Wiegersen estate to his son Claus Hinrich von Horn. Although he was formally landlord on Wiegersen until 1782, the estate was inhabited by his sister Anna Sophie (married to Major von Grotthaus). Claus Hinrich kept the administration in his hands, but left the management of the estate to a tenant from 1769.
After the death of Claus Hinrich, Gut Wiegersen went to his son-in-law Christian Arnold Dietrich von Zesterfleth . Christian Arnold was a judge at the Higher Appeal Court in Celle , which is why Gut Wiegersen no longer had a gentleman to administer the estate on site. The administration took over the Grefe Paul Steffen from Apensen . The manor house was rented to Lieutenant von Gustedt, the land continued to be cultivated by the tenant Nicolas Ratjens. When he suddenly dies in 1791, the farm comes to a standstill. It wasn't until two years later that Christian Arnold was able to choose Claus Hinrich Ratjens, the son of Nicolas Ratjens, as the new tenant. The previously flourishing farm is not recovering from this blow. In 1818, after Christian Arnold's death, his son Heinrich Christian Arnold von Zesterfleth took over the Wiegersen estate. Under the Zesterfleths, the estate went into debt more and more until it was close to bankruptcy between 1826 and 1836. Von Zesterfleth hands over Gut Wiegersen to his son-in-law Eduard von Kielmansegg in 1836 , who excludes the estate. He had a new mansion built, in which King George V stayed overnight on his journey to the church consecration in Harsefeld in 1861 .
In 1862 Count Adolf Georg Börries von Grote bought the estate, which he sold to Franz von Lipperheide in 1887 . This begins with the forestry that is still in operation today . He has the arable land in Borrel afforested, whereupon Borrel falls desolate. In 1890, Franz von Lipperheide also commissioned the manor wall that characterizes the village today. He had the Kielmansegg mansion torn down and built a wooden hunting lodge for it. Franz von Lipperheide died in 1906, after his wife died in 1932, her nephew Ludger Sulzer inherited the manor. In 1953 he replaced the wooden hunting lodge with a modern country house. In the fall of 1935, the American journalist Nora Waln and her husband spent several weeks at Gut Wiegersen, which she reported on in the 10th chapter of her book The Reach for the Stars .
Privileges
The landlords at Gut Wiegersen enjoyed tax exemption, duty exemption and had court privilege. The lord of the lord of Wiegersen was the judge of the court on the Delm and in Gyhum .
today
Today the former manor is used as a forest estate. A yoga center is housed in the manor house of the manor . Most of the former farm buildings, unless they are used for forestry, are inhabited.
Landlords
- 1627 Melchior von der Lieth
- 1674 Christoff Hermann Sebastian von der Lieth
- 1698 Otto Jürgen von der Lieth
- 1726 Diedrich Gebhard von Horn
- 1758 Claus Hinrich von Horn
- 1782 Christian Arnold Dietrich von Zesterfleth
- 1818 Heinrich Christian Arnold von Zesterfleth
- 1836 Count Eduard von Kielmannsegge
- 1862 Count Adolf Georg Börries von Grote
- 1887 Franz von Lipperheide
- 1932 Sulzer family
More pictures
Tower on Wiegerser Strasse / corner of Schusterstrasse
Tower on the street Zum Viertelsberg
literature
- Harm Prior: Manor and Meierhöfe on the Stader Geest. Wiegersen in the 17th and 18th centuries (= individual writings of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein. 32, ISSN 0585-0037 ). Publishing house of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, Stade 1995.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dt. Translation by Karl Hellwig. Suttgart: Hans E. Günther Verlag 1948, pp. 122–150 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 1.2 " N , 9 ° 32 ′ 56.2" E