Wilhelminenholz

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Wilhelminenholz

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

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location Lower Saxony , Germany
surface 3 ha
Geographical location 53 ° 28 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '22 "  N , 7 ° 27' 45"  E
Wilhelminenholz (Lower Saxony)
Wilhelminenholz

The Wilhelminenholz is a forest on the outskirts of the East Frisian district town of Aurich in Lower Saxony . Today's landscape protection area is located in the Sandhorst district , but was previously assigned to the village of Walle.

history

The forest near Aurich was called Nanienholtz until the 18th century. Carl Edzard von Ostfriesland gave it to his wife, Princess Wilhelmine Sophie von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1714–1749). She had the grove redesigned into a “core of a baroque ground floor park”.

Carl Edzard, the last local prince to rule the county of East Friesland , had a hunting lodge built there as a summer residence for himself around 1734 and named it Gut Wilhelminenholz in honor of his wife . When East Friesland fell to Prussia after the death of Carl Edzard in 1744, the palace remained the property of Wilhelmine Sophie. Her heir, Alexander , the Margrave of Bayreuth , sold the estate in 1750 to the first Prussian District President of East Friesland in Aurich, Christoph Friedrich von Derschau . He probably had it redesigned by the Rastede court gardener Christian Ludwig Bosse . Derschau died on his estate in 1799 and was buried in a burial mound in the grove. He bequeathed his 14,000 volume library to the government in Aurich . After his death, the house became the property of the upper appelations over rates Sassen. The manor house with its semicircular entrance area, the balcony with painted stucco and the ornamental gable with polygonal porch was built around 1820. In 1964 the area was designated as a landscape protection area.

Todays use

Today, Wilhelminenholz is a predominantly forest-like landscape park with 300-year-old trees, moats and sculptures. The forest is predominantly made up of mixed deciduous trees (approx. 3 ha). In the transition area to the open landscape there is a wall hedge , next to it near-natural wooded areas with individual swampy zones and small bodies of water characterize the area. The baroque ground floor can still be seen in outline. On the south-eastern edge there is a round mound in the forest. The 3.5 hectare area belongs to the Osterkamp family and as a private property is not open to the public.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bund Heimat und Umwelt: Park von Gut Wilhelminenholz . Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Fridrich Arends: Earth description of the principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland . Emden 1824, p. 112.
  3. ↑ Kühlmann, Wilhelm, 1946-, Aurnhammer, Achim: Killy Literature Lexicon: Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Volume 3, Dep-Fre . 2nd, completely revised edition Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020935-8 .
  4. ^ A b Eberhard Pühl: Parks and gardens between Weser and Ems. Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89995-716-7 , p. 69.
  5. ↑ Wilhelminenholz. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Landscape master plan. (PDF; 17.3 MB) Aurich district, March 1, 1996, accessed on July 1, 2020 .
  7. ^ Bund Heimat und Umwelt: Park von Gut Wilhelminenholz . Retrieved October 28, 2015.