Wehlburg

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The main building of the Wehlburg in the museum village of Cloppenburg, 2018

The Wehlburg is from 1750 on a dialed Castle place in Wehdel built farmhouse , which in the 1972 Museum Cloppenburg translocated was. It consists of a main building in the form of a hall building and associated farm buildings . In the literature, the main house of the Wehlburg is sometimes referred to as one of the most beautiful farmhouses in Germany.

history

The Wehlburg farm complex consists of a hall house from 1750 as the main building, the gate barn from 1760, the baking house from 1761, the pigsty with shed from 1870, the grain and threshing barn from 1888, the shed from 1888 and the woodshed and toilet from 1900. The buildings form a square inner courtyard typical of the region. The main building was an ancestral farm and was built in the Artland style in Wehdel. At the time the main building was being built, the Artland belonged to the Osnabrück Monastery , an imperial territory of the Holy Roman Empire . At that time there was an independent and prosperous farming class in Artland .

The Wehlburg got its name after its builders who, according to the gable inscription from 1750, were Henrich Wehlborg and his wife Maria, née Queckemeyers. They were named after the medieval castle Wehlburg (Wehdel-Borg) in Wehdel. After its demolition in 1444, the farm family Raderd acquired the Outbound castle site owned by the von Dincklage . Soon the new owners were called Wehdelborger or Wehlburger . The castle site was an elevation similar to a Wurt , which was surrounded by a moat fed by the Wrau .

In 1750, the master carpenter Hermann Wehage erected the main building of the Wehlburg on the former castle site in a building competition for the most representative gable . This was done in competition with the carpenter Gerdt Rantze, the builder of the neighboring Wohnungerhof and today's Hof Berner . In the competition, which was also about the most wood-rich carpentry, the builders of the Wehlburg achieved victory. The competition was only passed down orally, but was confirmed by the findings made during the relocation of the building in 1972.

In the middle of the 18th century, possessions like the Wehlburg were extensive economic complexes and dominant corporate units of their time.

In 1970 the Wehlburg was acquired by the Museumsdorf Cloppenburg Foundation and moved to the Museumsdorf from 1972 to 1975. During construction, the main building collapsed on November 13, 1972 due to the Quimburga storm, except for the chamber compartment (living area of ​​the house). Immediately afterwards it was rebuilt.

The last restoration of the Wehlburg took place in 2017.

Architecture and meaning

Courtyard gate, 2017

The main building of the Wehlburg is a hall building in the form of a two-column house with indicated tubs. Construction began in 1750 and was completed in 1752. It is 14 meters wide and 36 meters long. The construction cost 3500  Reichstaler , which was the value of 100 horses. It is particularly distinguished by its four-fold overhanging half-timbered gable, in which the stems are still placed on top of one another according to the Gothic half-timbered division. Behind the protruding four floors is a large attic space; the gable shows a number of brick sheds, going down from six to three from bottom to top.

According to museum director Helmut Ottenjann, the Wehlburg is the "high point of rural secular architecture in Lower Germany" and is considered an "example par excellence for the Low German half-timbered hall house" and the "crowning glory of the Artland farmhouse landscape", which the recent house research attests to "supra-regional importance".

In the half-timbered building culture, the Wehlburg forms the rural counterpoint of the Low German house landscape to the urban, stretched-out bone carving office in Hildesheim. In the Brockhaus Encyclopedia , the Wehlburg is shown graphically as an example of half-timbered construction in Lower Saxony, which was maintained in rural areas for much longer than in cities.

In the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover and in the Bersenbrücker Museum in the monastery there are detailed Wehlburg models on a scale of 1:20, which the Artland artist Karl Allöder created around 1930.

See also

literature

  • Helmut Ottenjann (Ed.): The Artländer Wehlburg . A contribution to settlement archeology and folklore of the north of Osnabrück, preliminary report. Cloppenburg 1975.
  • Christoph Reinders-Düselder: The Wehlburg: House and material documentation in the museum village. In: Uwe Meiners: 75 years of local history museum - museum village - Lower Saxony open-air museum in Cloppenburg. Museumsdorf Cloppenburg Foundation, 1997, ISBN 3-923675-68-2 , pp. 54–58, 143–144.
  • Hermann Kaiser, Helmut Ottenjahn : Museum Village Cloppenburg. Lower Saxony open-air museum. Cloppenburg 1998, ISBN 3-923-695-14-3 , pp. 16-31.
  • Laura Endrizzi: The Flett of the Wehlburg court complex. Museum village of Cloppenburg . Term paper (advanced seminar) at the University of Vechta, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department for Cultural History and Comparative State Research, 2011. ISBN 9783656941866 . Partial digitized version , accessed June 28, 2021

Web links

Commons : Wehlburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Busch : Land of Lower Saxony. (= The German Lands . Volume 10). 5th edition. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1956, p. 92, quote: "Wehlburg (1759) near Badbergen, probably the most beautiful old German farmhouse that has been preserved". (8th edition, 1973, ISBN 3-524-00010-X )
  2. ↑ Hans Pusen : The north and the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Hamburg. (= Library of German Regional Studies / Regional Studies Department of North and West Germany ). Glock and Lutz, Heroldsberg 1973, quote: "Wehlburg in Wehdel, which is called the most beautiful farmhouse in Northern Germany".
  3. ↑ Arnold Beuke: The museum in the monastery Bersenbrück. Monastery - official seat - district museum. Verlag Florian Isensee, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7308-1695-0 , p. 38.
  4. ↑ Gable tour in Artland. Kulturschatz Artland, ed. from Badberger Heimatverein, p. 36.
  5. ↑ Helge bei der Wieden : The Radiation of the Reformation - Contributions to the Church and Everyday Life in Northwest Germany. V & R Unipress, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-814-0 , p. 195.
  6. ↑ Weltkunst , No. 17, Munich, 1975.
  7. ^ Heinrich Böning: Das Artland. Sutton, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-845-4 , p. 27.
  8. ↑ Storm with speeds of up to 200 km / h. So far 54 dead from hurricane in Western Europe. In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung. No. 266, November 14, 1972. Vechta.
  9. ↑ Reiner Kramer: Natural disaster. Storm destroyed valuable Wehlburg. In: www.nwzonline.de. Nordwest Zeitung (online edition), November 10, 2012, accessed on June 28, 2021 .
  10. ^ Project restoration of the Wehlburg. In: http://schraad-bau.de . Schraad Bau GmbH, accessed on June 28, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Heinz Ellenberg: Farmhouse and landscape from an ecological and historical perspective. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8001-3087-4 .
  12. ↑ Dirk Baumgart: The Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act in the light of the property guarantee . (= European University Writings Law. Volume 4974). Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59603-6 .
  13. ↑ Hans Luxner: half-timbered houses. ed. v. Reinhard Welz. Vermittlerverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-86656-127-X .
  14. ↑ Arnold Beuke: The museum in the monastery Bersenbrück. Monastery - official seat - district museum. Verlag Florian Isensee, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7308-1695-0 , p. 38.
  15. ^ Helmut Ottenjann, photos by Helmut Tecklenburg: Old farmhouses between Weser and Ems . Verlag Schuster, Leer 1979, ISBN 3-7963-0184-3 , p. 3.
  16. ↑ Dirk Baumgart: The Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act in the light of the property guarantee . (= European University Writings Law. Volume 4974). Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59603-6 , p. 267.
  17. ↑ Herbert Saas, Heinrich Böning, Gerhard Hülskämper, Franz Buitmann: Our Bersenbrücker Land . Published by the Kreisheimatbund Bersenbrück eV with the support of the Kreissparkasse Bersenbrück. 2nd Edition. 1992, ISBN 3-921176-58-1 .
  18. ↑ Hans Luxner: half-timbered houses. ed. v. Reinhard Welz. Vermittlerverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-86656-127-X .
  19. ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia . Vol. 7, 1996, p. 59.
  20. ^ Heinrich Böning: Art Guide Bersenbrücker Land. 1st edition. Verlag Thoben, 1976, ISBN 3-921176-28-X , p. 153.
  21. ↑ Arnold Beuke: The museum in the monastery Bersenbrück. Monastery - official seat - district museum. Verlag Florian Isensee, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7308-1695-0 , pp. 41 and 42.

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 56.9 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 26.1 ″  E