Rohlfscher Hof

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Photo taken in 1974

The Rohlfsche Hof in Neuenbrook was a listed farm that was built in the 17th century and burned down in 1975.

Building history

The Rohlfsche Hof in Neuenbrook was one of the oldest houses in Neuenbrook and the whole Kremper Marsch. Little is known about the original courtyard: (See chapter "The original courtyard") In 1790 the half-timbering was renewed, apart from that, not much has changed over the centuries, although it was permanently inhabited. One of the few changes was the removal of the wall beds in 1885. The floor plan showed the typical march house with a continuous hall. The inner framework, the mighty studs, beams and rafters and above all the staggered, windowless gables date from the oldest time.

Known dates

The Rohlfsche Hof was a Zwöffach house with a continuous hallway. It was 34.46 meters long and 22.96 meters wide. The stems of the Fachhallenhaus were 40 × 40 cm thick and made of oak, each with a distance of 2.65 to 2.70 meters. The stems are connected lengthways with a flat frame, approx. 40 × 20 cm thick. At right angles to this are the floorboards with a thickness of 40 to 45 cm squared.

The beams span the floorboard and protrude between 2 and 2.5 meters above the stems on both ends. The stems have long tenons that run through the flat frame into the beam.

The beams that held the thatched roof were mortised at a 45 degree angle and formed immovable triangles. At the end of the beams, the rafters were approx. 25 × 25 cm thick, mortised on top.

The courtyard was carefully measured several times, once around 1920 and once in 1938. The floor plan of the courtyard can be seen in several books. The floor plan and a model have been on view in a museum in Frankfurt am Main since 1946 , which was mentioned several times but not named.

The original yard

Little is known about the original courtyard, which was built around 1230. He was one of the founding houses of Neuenbrook. It can be proven that the builder was Adolf IV (Schauenburg and Holstein) . In 1628, in the middle of the Thirty Years' War , the farm was burned down by the departing Wallensteiners , as was the rest of Neuenbrook-West. They had captured the fortress in Brimpe , which was held by Danish troops. Immediately after the Wallensteiners left, the Rohlfssche Hof was rebuilt, as was the rest of Neuenbrook.

owner

The first owners were probably Dutch, as Neuenbrook was founded by them. Of the first owners of the building, erected in the 17th century, about whom little is known, only one is named Claus Schröder, who lived on the farm around 1730. This came to Neuenbrook from the community of Sommerland . The Rohlfs family came to the farm around 1746 and stayed on the farm until 1978 (232 years). At times the neighboring farms, including the "Vogtspflug" on both sides of the Rohlfschen Hof, belonged to the family, but were given to other related families before 1800. The entire Rohlfs family was closely associated with the church.

The first Rohlfs named was a Reimer Rohlfs (1718–1785), the son-in-law of Claus Schröder.

Art in the yard and their sale

There were several works of art in the courtyard. In one book it is written:

“The richly carved corner room also dates from around 1790, some of which still contains inlay work and almost all of its parts are still preserved today. (...) The painted room in the summer house is almost completely preserved here. It is painted in the Empire style and shows wreaths and garlands of colorful, partly gold-painted peasant flowers with interspersed medallions and other circular images depicting land and sea battles on a green ground. Above one door there is a larger painted painting that depicts the and bears the year 1803, the owner of the farm was certainly not a poor farmer. "

In 1938 and around 1960 the corner room and several chests and cupboards were photographed, you can see the garlands and wreaths described in the book, as well as the medallions and tondo (round pictures). The photos show, among other things, that the artist who carved the room was called "Riemenschneider". Which one is meant remains open. In another book, the corner room is described as the paneling "Four Seasons". The panels are delimited from the ceiling by a series of images showing current affairs and mythical scenes.

Around 1970, the painting was presented to the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the custodian of the Altona Museum , the highest order archivist of the Freemasons in Berlin and, in pictorial form, also three professors in Kiel. Even after about a dozen museums and professors had the picture in their hands, there was no new knowledge, except that the picture probably has an unknown copperplate as a model. The previously suspected Masonic background could be ruled out.

Recording the blackboard

The oil painting was created in 1803 and shows dozens of allusions to Bible verses or biblical stories. It shows a crowd likely to be fighting over religion and technology. In the middle stands a man who is probably supposed to represent Socrates .

Both were sold to the publisher Axel Springer in 1964 together with an oil painting of the same age , although the corner room was already a listed building at that time .

The oil painting was bought back a year later and in 2014 became the property of an Itzehoe landlord. The wall paneling and the old chests are still owned by the Springer family.

The fire

At noon on September 3, 1975, a neighbor who was coming from the field with his tractor drove past Rohlfschen Hof and noticed black smoke coming from holes in the gable. He turned around and alerted the 36-man fire brigade. When this approached, the yard had burned down so far that it could no longer be saved. The firefighters concentrated on those with thatch to keep covered roofs of neighboring houses about to catch fire, leaving the yard to burn controlled. This event can be seen in the form of a four-minute clip in a film. the heat of the fire was so high that all the windows of the adjacent houses burst.

At the time of the fire, the family was in the field at work and the children were in school. Since around 1970 no one lived in the courtyard but in the neighboring house, which also belonged to the family, nobody was harmed.

The newspaper estimated the damage at 350,000 marks.

Trivia

  • The farm was a listed building and was supposed to be moved to the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum in Molfsee.
  • Despite being a listed building, an underground car park was added shortly before the fire.
  • A picture of the courtyard adorns the book “375 Years of the Neuenbrook Village Guild” from 1991.
  • An information board was set up on the property as a souvenir of the court.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f unknown: Building history of the Rohlfschen Hof . 1st edition. Neuenbrook 1926, p. 1-5 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Johannes Gravert: The farms of the Kremper and Kollmar Marsch . tape 1 , 1928, pp. 409,410 .
  3. ^ A b c Ortschronik eV (ed.): Village history Neuenbrook . 1st edition. Neuenbrook 1987, p. 159.161 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Dorfgilde Neuenbrook: 375 years Dorfgilde Neuenbrook . Ed .: Dorfgilde Neuenbrook. 1st edition. Neuenbrook 1991, p. 2.3 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Alfred Kamphausen: Farmhouses in Schleswig Holstein . Ed .: Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 4th edition. Heide 1976, p. 43 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jörg Benz: Steinburger Jahrbuch 2001 . Ed .: Heimatverband für die Kreis Steinburg eV. 2001, ISSN  0561-9920 , p. 225 to 264 .
  7. ^ Gustav Wolf: House and farm of German farmers Schleswig-Holstein . tape 1 , 1982, ISBN 3-8067-0818-5 , pp. 94.98.99 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Kim Heitmann: Monument-marked place . Ed .: Norddeutsche Rundschau. Itzehoe October 8, 2019.
  9. ↑ a b Information board about Rohlfschen Hof on property West 36
  10. ↑ a b book "The Building History of the Rohlfsschen Hof", approx. 1920.
  11. ^ Alfred Kamphausen: Farmer's parlors from all edges and coasts of Schleswig-Holstein . Karl wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02654-9 , p. 31 .
  12. ↑ a b c Johannes Gravert: The farms of the Kremper and Kollmar Marsch supplementary volume 1/2/3 . 1999.
  13. ↑ a b Documentation: The year 1975 in Neuenbrook (approximately two-hour film with video recordings from Neuenbrook)
  14. ↑ a b c Norddeutsche Rundschau (ed.): Fire in the Rohlfschen Hof . Itzehoe September 1975.