Søgård

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Søgård (Denmark)
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Basic data
State : DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Region : Syddanmark
Municipality
(since 2007) : 		Aabenraa
Coordinates : 54 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E
Population :
(2020) 		318
Postal code : 6200 Aabenraa
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Søgård (dt. Seehof ) is a village with 318 inhabitants on the lake Store Søgård Sø (dt. Großer Seehof See ) in Northern Schleswig (Danish: Sønderjylland ). The settlement is five kilometers east of Kliplev , five kilometers west of Kværs , 15 kilometers south of Aabenraa and 15 kilometers north of Padborg . The village belongs to the Aabenraa municipality in the Syddanmark region and to the municipality of Kliplev (Danish: Kliplev Sogn ). The new motorway 8 from Kliplev to Sønderborg , Sønderborgmotorvejen has a connection at Søgård.

Søgård manor house

At the beginning of the 14th century a manor was built in Kliplev Sogn north of the lake. In 1344 Duke Waldemar Atterdag pledged Lundtoft Herred to the first known feudal lord on Søgaard, Johann v. Lembek. His brother Lüder v. Lembek expanded the house into a castle, protected on an island in the lake. A few traces of the defenses have been preserved after an engineering corps had laid the road at this point in 1847. The castle itself probably consisted of a tower with wooden or stone palisades . Around 1480 it was replaced by a stone building. In the 16th century there was possibly a larger rampart.

From 1398 Søgård was associated with the Ahlefeldt family. Originally feudal men of the dukes, Benedict II joined King Waldemar. His son Benedict III. followed this line and rose to the five-member Reichsrat. In the following years, the main estate was strengthened with further goods, after all Søgaard was the largest property in the Duchy of Schleswig . Landlord Friedrich von Ahlefeldt was born in Søgård in 1623.

During the campaign of the Swedish general Lennart Torstensson in 1643 the ramparts could be held, but the mansion was destroyed and burned down. It was not rebuilt, the Ahlefelds temporarily took their seat in Grøngrøft . The ruins provided building material for the construction of Gravenstein Castle . Carl von Ahlefeldt was the last owner from this family. After his death in 1722, the debts he left behind had to be paid through extensive sales. Søgaard and Gravenstein were separated, and the farms Fiskebæk, Kiding, Ballesgård, Skovbølgård, Bojskov, Ladegård, Grøngrøft, Stoltelund, Kelstrup, Årup and Årtoft were lost to Søgaard. From then on, the property was in different hands.

The royal district administrator Heltzen in Aabenraa took over Søgaard in 1854. As a result, all special legal positions of the manor district were removed, apart from the patronage of the church in Kliplev . In 1858/60 the manor house was expanded and kept its current appearance. In 1863 a distillery was built in which Bommerlunder schnapps was distilled until production had to be relocated to Flensburg after a fire .

In Prussian times, Danish-minded circles tried not to let estates fall into German hands. In 1898 the farmers' union Oktoberforeningen was founded for this purpose . In 1906, bank director Axel Heide was able to acquire the property. After the financial scandal surrounding PA Alberti in 1908, Villars Lunn, MP and son-in-law of the Mayor of Aabenraa, had to buy it temporarily in order to soon pass it on to the previous estate manager, Raben.

Uddannelsescenter Søgårdlejren

Søgårdlejren (Eng. Søgårdlager), west wing from 1858–60
Søgårdlejren, main building from 1935 on the old foundation

In 1934 the Danish War Ministry acquired the property. A new east wing was built, barracks were added in 1936/37, a gymnastics hall in 1939. After the Second World War , the complex was taken over by the newly founded Danish Home Guard ( Hjemmeværnet ), and today it serves as a training center for South and South Jutland .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
  2. ↑ Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
  3. ↑ website Søgårdby , (Danish), accessed on June 7, 2017
  4. ↑ Hjemmeværnet - Uddannelsescenter Søgårdlejren , accessed on November 11, 2018

literature

  • Jens Peter Trap: Danmark , Vol. 10.3, Copenhagen 1967.