Good Rixförde

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The Good Rixförde is a landmarked farm with an ensemble of a large manor house and a garden pavilion set in a private park . The property is located near a country road between meadows and fields in Hambühren, around 16 kilometers west of Celle . The neo-classical pavilion, temporarily used as a tea house and meeting place for illustrious guests from the worlds of business and politics, was built by the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1869–1949) during the German Empire . It is considered a prime example of the ideal of clearer and simpler structures that gently blend into the landscape, as propagated by the co-founder of the Deutscher Werkbund .

History and description

One of the buildings at the entrance to Gut Rixförde

For future hunts on deer in settled in 1883 Hamburg shipowners operating Friedrich Leopold Loesener († 1903), a building in the so-called "in Rixförde near the hunting ground Swiss style " building, which now forms the core of Rixförder farmhouse. After the shipowner's death, an oil speculator bought the property in 1903. However, when he did not come across oil in various test drillings, he sold the property to Oskar Barckhausen after only a year .

Barckhausen initially had the moor and heathland around the present park cultivated and used for agriculture. In his function as commander of the 2nd Rhenish Hussar Regiment No. 9 , he was closely related to the Prussian royal house , even in a private friendship with the then Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia . Through this connection, the new Rixförde landowner and major came into contact with the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg, who at the time was in demand among the upper classes and the nobility , who then also provided the designs for the garden pavilion.

The building, also known as the tea house, was built between 1910 and 1911 for the family of the client and captain Barckhausen . Visually and architecturally unique, the pavilion soon rose on a slight hill in the middle of the park as a single-storey building on an oval floor plan and a base made of brickwork. Of the three rooms, the middle room was 50 m², with a library and a sleeping cabinet on the side.

The construction work was up to the earlier, 1904 vonSchultze-Naumburg and the writer Fritz Koegel in Bad Kosen founded Saalecker workshops .

In the park, which was now dominated by a pond and old oaks and later overgrown, which merged into the heathland when the pavilion was built, the tea house was also intended to serve as a cozy refuge after the hunt. But the client only had a few years on Rixförde - the officer died in 1918 in the First World War .

After Barckhausen's death , Willy Tischbein, a former cyclist and director of the Continental Caoutchouc and Gutta-Percha Company , who lived in Hanover , bought the property. He had the Rixförde estate expanded into a large farm, a farm yard with stables, from which the entire area around Celle could be supplied with food until the late 20th century. In addition, the manor house got an extension in the style of neo-classicism .

The surrounding meadows and forests remained the scene of elegant company hunts. On these occasions, high-ranking personalities from politics and business met in the garden pavilion, including Wilhelm von Prussia and Paul von Hindenburg . After the hunt, Willy Tischbein usually received various letters of thanks as the host.

During the Second World War , the garden pavilion - a concrete ceiling was put in between the basement and the main floor - served as an air raid shelter . The large agricultural business was not destroyed by aerial bombs , however, and after Tischbein's death his wife continued to run it until 1950. The architectural gem in the middle of the former park, however, served only as a storage room for many years, was not renovated and threatened to crumble.

After years of vacancy, Sabine Bosch's family acquired the ensemble with the manor house on Landstrasse and the garden pavilion from the descendants of Tischbein in 2014. First of all, during the renovation of the listed residential building, "[...] every tile and every joint" was struggled to preserve as much of the original structure as possible. Only after the residential building was ready for occupancy could at least start to repair the pavilion roof.

The garden pavilion is to be made accessible to the public for the period after the renovation, which was carried out with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , for example for cultural events or for use by local associations in the area for readings or concerts.

At the beginning of 2015, the VGH Foundation funded a partial renovation of the historic garden pavilion with a grant of 15,000 euros.

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See also

Web links

Commons : Gut Rixförde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Julia Ricker: The garden pavilion at Gut Rixförde is in danger / Crumbling comfort on the page monumente-online.de from 2015, last accessed on May 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d o. V .: The garden pavilion on Gut Rixförde is in danger  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the German Foundation for Monument Protection [undated], last accessed on May 8, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv.denkmalschutz.de  
  3. ^ Norbert Borrmann : Paul Schultze-Naumburg. 1869-1949. Painter, publicist, architect. From the cultural reformer at the turn of the century to the cultural politician in the Third Reich; a life and time document , Essen: Bacht, 1989, ISBN 978-3-87034-047-6 and ISBN 3-87034-047-9 , p. 243; Preview over google books.
  4. ↑ Editor: VGH Foundation funds the renovation of the historic garden pavilion on Gut Rixförde on the celleheute.de page from February 4, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 51.6 ″  E