Vorwerk Vorsfelde
The Vorwerk Vorsfelde was a Vorwerk that existed within the Wolfsburg district of Vorsfelde in Lower Saxony .
description
The Vorwerk was on a large piece of land in the Amtsstraße. It was the largest farm in town. According to the first map of Vorfeld from 1771, it consisted of six buildings with a courtyard and garden. The buildings were the two-storey residential building with the eaves facing the street , which was designed as a half-timbered house. As a public building, it had a spacious cellar, while the cellars of private buildings were much smaller. The house was 33 × 11 meters and had a small annex as a brewery . According to an official description by Vorsfeld from 1761, the four local mugs were obliged to purchase the beer brewed by the Vorwerk. The other buildings of the Vorwerk were two barns of about 25 × 11 meters, two cattle sheds and the cowherd's house. The partially paved courtyard was separated from the street by a wall with a gate.
The Vorwerk included an official sheep farm with a single-storey shepherd's house and a 32 meter long sheepfold for 500 sheep . It was the longest building in town. The sheep farm was on the Amtsstraße next to the Amtshof Vorsfelde .
history
The Vorwerk was owned by the von Bartensleben family based at Wolfsburg Castle . In the 14th century they received the village of Vorsfelde and the villages of Vorsfeld Werder from Duke Friedrich I of Brunswick as a fief . Until the middle of the 18th century, the citizens of Vorsfeld had to pay their tax liability as a tithe to the Vorwerk. It is believed that the Vorwerk had been leased since at least 1713. With the death of treasurer Gebhard Werner von Bartensleben in 1742, his line died out and the bartensleben fiefdom fell back to the Duke of Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel . From then on the Vorwerk belonged to the Amt Vorsfelde formed in 1742 and was called the Amtsvorwerk or the Princely Vorwerk. At that time, 36 hectares of arable land in the area of Vorsfelder and 70 hectares of arable land in the area of the Vogelsang desert, along with meadows and pastures, belonged to the Vorwerk. In 1735 Gebhard Wilhelm Löbbecke was the tenant. This was followed by bailiffs in the Vorsfelde office with bailiff Preuße from 1747 to 1754, bailiff Wiepking from 1754 to 1760, bailiff Brandes from 1760 to 1772 and bailiff Lambrecht from 1772 to 1784. The lease amounted to 270 Reichstaler for arable farming, meadow use, cattle breeding and garden use . 36 Reichstaler had to be paid for the official shepherd's job and 158 Reichstaler for the farmers of the Vorwerk. In 1784, 27 Vorfeld citizens leased the Vorwerk for 100 years at hereditary interest of 850 Reichstaler annually.
In 1846 the value of the Vorwerk was put at almost 32,000 Reichstaler. At that time, because of the lack of land among farmers, efforts to buy the Vorwerk. They bought it in 1858 from the Vorsfelde office for 30,000 thalers. The separation carried out in 1866 in Vorsfelde . It ended the three-field economy that had been operated in the town up to that point and also led to the division of the land in the Vorwerk.
See also
literature
- History of the apron volume 1 . Wolfsburg City Archives, Wolfsburg 1995, pp. 148–149, 170–174.
Web links
- Dieter Polte: The lease once cost several hundred thalers in Wolfsburger Nachrichten of March 4, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 50 ′ 15 ″ E