Großheide Castle
The so-called Großheide Castle in the municipality of the same name in the Aurich district is a former manor in East Frisia .
location
The facility is located on the southern edge of the town on Schloßstraße.
history
Around 1900 the Ten Doornkaat family bought land in Großheide. It is said that Kommerzienrat Jan (III.) Ten Doornkaat Koolmann has acquired “Wüsteneien” and wasteland to a size of 1,045 acres (267 hectares) in Großheide / Menstede-Coldinne. On the area a should therefore Mästerei arise in which the accumulating in the Norder distillery mash should be used for cattle feeding. At the time of acquisition, 5/6 of the areas purchased for 347,000 marks consisted of heather and 1/6 of cultivated green space. As can be seen from other sources, further plots of land must have been added, because after the completion of the building around 300 hectares of arable land, meadows and remaining heather areas belonged to the estate.
Gut Friederikenfeld, named after the first name of the owner's mother, was built on this site. In 2010, the former Großheide school center was renamed “Friederikenschule” in memory of the mother of the former owner of the “Schloss Großheide” estate. At that time, according to the Doornkaat AG annual report from 1906, the “Schloss Großheide” estate consisted of several cattle stalls, a solid barn and two field barns. The property also included a court master's apartment with a horse stable and three workers' apartments. The livestock consisted of 16 dairy cows, 26 horses and 70 working oxen, which were used to work the heather. The large ox barn was almost exactly where the Volks- und Raiffeisenbank Großheide stands today. The agricultural implements and machines included a complete threshing set that was powered by a locomobile, later by an electric motor.
The so-called castle was built in 1901 as the estate manager's seat of the Ten Doornkaat family (Doornkaat AG Norden) in the entrance area of the estate on the Großheide / Berumerfehn road (today Großheide, Schloßstraße / Großheider Straße).
Up until the First World War, the arable and meadow areas that belonged directly to the estate and had been used up to that point were also offered for sale. In 1919 most of the buildings and the remaining land became the property of what was then the north district.
The castle building, at the time owned by the district of Aurich, was used as a restaurant ( castle restaurant ), for training purposes and privately after the sale . In 2006 it was completely renovated.
In 2007 the child and youth welfare facility “Schloss Großheide” GmbH, today's Renial human care projects GmbH , (managing partner René Meyer) became the owner.
The "Schloss Großheide" now houses ten children and young people in the so-called "Wohngruppe Schloss Großheide" of the Ostfriesischen Kinder-, Jugend- und Familienhilfe GmbH (OKJFH), which was founded in 2007 by the sole shareholder and managing director René Meyer.
In June 2012, the company's founder, René Meyer, sold his shares in OKJFH to the Leinerstift . The OKJFH thus became a subsidiary and tenant of "Schloss Großheide".
Todays use
Today there is a residential group of the Ostfriesischen Kinder-, Jugend- und Familienhilfe GmbH (OKJFH) in the listed building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d www.schloss-grossheide.de: History of "Schloss Großheide" , seen on September 3, 2012.
- ↑ www.on-online.de: Fehntjer Leinerstift buys “Schloss Großheide” , as seen on September 3, 2012.
- ↑ Leinerstift takes over Großheide Castle ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 842 kB), viewed September 3, 2012.
- ↑ www.oz-online.de from April 9, 2011: Monument protectionists demand a clear view of the castle , seen September 3, 2012.
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 7.2 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 36.2" E