Rothehof (settlement)

Historical buildings, on the left the former Schulenburg forestry department, on the right the former forest workers' house

The historic residential area Rothehof is located in the Wolfsburg district of Rabenberg between the southern slope of the Rothe mountain and the stream of the Stemmelriede . From the 18th to the 20th century it was a hamlet belonging to the Count von der Schulenburg . Before the city of Wolfsburg was established in 1938, the settlement belonged to what was then the Rothehof-Rothenfelde community .

Surname

The settlement name Rothehof does not indicate a red farm, but derives from (forest) clearing . The place names with the name component -rode (old Low German: -roth ) that arose in the Middle Ages indicate that the town's founders cleared forest areas through clearing (see also -rode under basic words for place names ). The part of the name "-hof" refers to the emergence of a homestead.

history

The historic settlement used to consist of a brickworks, a forestry department and around 10 houses for forest workers. Today the few half-timbered houses that have survived have been lovingly restored. In medieval documents Rothehof is mentioned as Rother Hof , in 1362 as "a special Vorwerk der von Bartensleben". Not far from there are the remains of the Rothehof hilltop tower castle on the Stemmelriede stream in the forest .

In 1551 there is documentary evidence of a brickworks for Rothehof, which in the 18th century belonged to the manor of Count von der Schulenburg on Wolfsburg , 3.5 km away . There is nothing left of the brickworks today, it was opposite the forest building built by Count von der Schulenburg in 1884. Near the Rothehof settlement area, four ponds (Ziegelteich, Frauenteich, Krummer Teich and Kleiner Schillerteich) have been created in the valley of the Stemmelriede, which were used by Bartensleben and later by Schulenburg for fish farming. The brick pond was a clay extraction point for the brickworks and was mentioned in a document as early as 1595 as a fish pond.

On July 1, 1938, the Rothehof-Rothenfelde community was dissolved and merged into the newly founded town of the KdF-Wagen , today's Wolfsburg. With a purchase agreement dated July 12, 1938, Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg sold Rothehof together with Gut Wolfsburg to the Gesellschaft zur preparation des Volkswagens mbH (Gezuvor).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willi Schulz: Wolfsburg, center of a changing landscape. Wolfsburg 1969, p. 83.

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '  N , 10 ° 47'  E