Weyhausen (Eschede)

Weyhausen Eschede municipality Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 32 ″ N , 10 ° 23 ′ 5 ″ E
Height :	89-102 m
Residents :	94 (2000)
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	29348
Area code :	05827
Location of Weyhausen in Lower Saxony
	Listed house according to the bar inscription from 1740. Probably the house of Margarethe Madlene Müller, born around 1706 in Wolthausen, wife of Peter Graue, born Aug. 25, 1689 in Weyhausen, married on Dec. 3, 1732.

Weyhausen is a district of the municipality of Eschede . It is located in the northeast of the district of Celle ( Lower Saxony ) and the Südheide nature park , in the middle of a large forest area.

geography

Headwaters of the Lutter near Weyhausen

The Lutter rises north of Weyhausen and later flows into the Lachte . A near-natural Heidebach, which has been renatured by a major nature conservation project costing millions . In 2007 the headwaters and the entire course of the stream were placed under nature protection. The stream is, among other things, the habitat of river pearl mussels and otters . Since 2005, the area has been designated as FFH area 086 Lachte-Lutter-Aschau as part of the EU nature conservation project Natura2000 .

Main building of the former Grauen-Hof (later Michaelis-Hof) (from 1840), today the nursing home “Haus in der Heide”

history

In 1589, a farm in Weyhausen is mentioned for the first time in the Celle cattle treasure register that records the cattle on every farm. Helmeke Grumann is documented as the owner. In 1741 it is mentioned that a “Brinksitzerstelle” ( small farmer's place ) has settled in Weyhausen. In the 18th century a farm was built near the hunting lodge . It is called “Grauen-Hof” and later “Michaelis-Hof” after its owners . Wilhelm Michaelis (* 1866) (married to Marie Bühmann) is considered to be the founder of the large estate in Weyhausen. Nearly 6,000 acres of forest belonged to the farm . At times up to 4,000 sheep were kept. Erika Michaelis (1898–1970) later became the owner of the farm. Because of the size of the property, she was popularly called the "Heathen Queen" . The main building of the Grauen-Hof is rebuilt in 1840. In the house there is now a nursing home for addicts, the “Haus in der Heide”. Hans-Hubertus Bühmann (1921–2014), district administrator and member of the state parliament ( CDU ), Erika Michaelis' cousin inherits the property.

On January 1, 1973 Weyhausen was incorporated into the municipality of Eschede.

The hunting lodge

Site plan of the buildings of the former hunting lodge

Around 1654–1665, immediately after the end of the Thirty Years' War , during the tenure of Duke Christian Ludwig (* 1622 † 1665) in Celle , a hunting lodge with a forester's house was built in Weyhausen . The vast forests offered the Celle dukes an excellent hunting ground , as it had a rich game population and was located near Celle. This hunting lodge is mentioned in the files of the Beedenbostel District Bailiwick in 1663 and 1775 . It is later also used by Duke Georg Wilhelm (* 1624 † 1705) for par force hunts . After his death, the property passed to Elector Georg I (* 1660 † 1727), who also became King of Great Britain in 1714 and probably stayed in Weyhausen several times as king. His mistress, Countess Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg , who later became the Duchess of Kendal, also owned rooms in the hunting lodge. His younger brother, Ernst August II of Hanover (* 1674 † 1728), the Duke of York also owned rooms in the hunting lodge.

The complex originally included the two-storey mansion in massive construction , m in size of 30 x 14 m and in the framework construction , a large and a small Kavaliershaus as a residence for the nobles , a stables as a horse stable for 200 horses, a blacksmith , a carriage house (Wagon shed), a kitchen building (the French cook had his own house) and a chicken coop. Later a hunter's house, with an extension for the forester, a bakery and a slaughterhouse were added. A 30 m long dog stable for the parforce dogs had its own kitchen for the care of the animals. In 1707 the inventory of the district bailiff included a total of 14 buildings. After the death of Duke Georg Wilhelm, Celle lost its status as a royal seat . The aristocratic hunting parties gradually withdrew from Weyhausen. The hunting lodge fell into disrepair and was last mentioned in writing in 1775. During this time, the demolition and sale was probably started. Between 1775 and 1790, a forest yard was built on the former castle grounds from the demolition material. This is where the Eschede-Weyhausen district forester's office was based. The Helmerkamp forester's house , the Lüneburg paper factory, parts of the Grauen-Hof, the tithe barn (storage building) in Beedenbostel and other buildings in the Celler Land also used the demolition material from the hunting lodge as building material. A rediscovered only recently wells and the vaulted cellars of the forestry house (probably the basement of the old hunting lodge) are the only remaining remnants of the original castle grounds.

Infrastructure

Several military and freight roads ran through Weyhausen. From Celle a post route led via Rebberlah, Starkshorn, (districts of the municipality of Eschede ) Schafstall and Unterlüß , and from there on a dead straight path (now the L 280) towards Weyhausen. Before Weyhausen, today's bridge over the Lutter did not yet exist. Here the path turned south-west just before the stream in the valley, led over a dam and then crossed a bridge directly to the palace complex. Another route led from Dalle and Lohe , north of the Lutter and today's B 191 , to Weyhausen. The salt transports from Saline Sülze to Bodenteich and further into the Altmark also ran on these routes, coming from Dalle or from Marwede (municipality of Scharnhorst) via Weyhausen. There was a restaurant in the gray courtyard .

In 1830 the B 191, which runs from Celle to Uelzen , is built through the town. Originally it was planned to lead this road further west via Lohe. The B 191 runs right through the town and dominates it strongly. After 1866 the construction of the state road L 280 began from Unterlüß via Weyhausen to Sprakensehl .

school

The Weyhausen students had to go to school in Dalle from 1713 . Because of the dangerous nature of the path, the schools in Hösseringen and Sprakensehl were later also responsible. In 1950 Weyhausen got its own school, but it was closed again in 1963.

Population development

year	Residents
1821	30th
1848	81
1905	48
1939	46
1946	153
1961	88
1970	71
2000	94

Attractions

Eugen Egner's Synthetic Deer Monument in Weyhausen

On September 13, 1998, on the day of the open monument , the “Synthetic Deer” was inaugurated in the center of Weyhausen . The work of art was created based on the design and drawings by Eugen Egner , a person with multiple artistic talents. He is also known as a writer of absurd stories and novels. The figure was not created by Egner himself, but by local, artistically gifted craftsmen, the carpenter Peter Weckmüller, Jurij Gontar and helpers from the carpentry shop who belonged to the "Haus in der Heide" nursing home .

Fiction

Sometime between 1952 and 1964 Arno Schmidt returned to Weyhausen at Otto Knoop's pension. He immortalized the mounted gendarme Otto Knoop (a local original ) in his tales of cows in half mourning as Jean Darm from the coffee HANNIBAL.

literature

Erika Michaelis: The ducal Celle'sche, later electoral Hanoverian and royal British hunting lodge in Weyhausen b. Eschede in the district of Celle. (published 1924).

Web links

Commons : Eschede-Weyhausen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ genealogy.net family of Peter Graue and Margarethe Madlene Müller

↑ NLWKN information about the " Lutter nature reserve " .

↑ Nature reserves that have been designated for the implementation of the Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive in Lower Saxony, see serial no. 77. ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ House in the Heath
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 224 .
↑ The synthetic stag ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
^ Cows in half mourning

[1] y.net family of Peter Graue and Margarethe Madlene Müller

[2] NLWKN information about the " Lutter nature reserve " .