Wittenborgh
Wittenborgh is an estate in the village of Driftsethe , Samtgemeinde Hagen in Bremen in Lower Saxony . The name Wittenborgh means "white mountain" in Frisian and can be found on maps from 1595.
history
The property was originally founded as a farm by Jakob Illjes in 1851. He was engaged to Allrike Allmers, who was 15 years his junior. She was born in Rechtenfleth in 1827 as the daughter of the househusband Joh. Allrich Allmers. She came from the extensive family of the march poet Hermann Allmers . But this love ended unhappily. So there was no marriage, instead Allrike became the wife of Hermann Joppert from Rechtenfleth. After the engagement was broken, Jacob Illjes did something extraordinary for the time. He, the rich marshland builder and heir to one of the most beautiful farms in Sandstedt, left his home village and moved to the Geest in order to create a new area of responsibility (now Wittenborgh). Jacob Illjes lived there until his death on January 9, 1854.
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The property was then bought by Burchard (Borchert) Hinrich Ficke. At the time of the Weser correction from 1870 to 1880 and decades later, he supplied the bush fascines required before the correction, the so-called Schlengenbush. Several thousand of these bush leagues were loaded onto ships here every day. With these deliveries he laid the foundation for his great fortune. He was a partner in the German-Dutch company 'Hanseatische Baugesellschaft Volker, Bos, Ficke & Co.' founded in 1896. in Hamburg. The company was a main contractor in the German colonies in South West Africa with dredging work near Swakopmund as well as with the expansion of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal (now Kiel Canal ). As a result of his wealth he made a lot of expenses. In addition to the new villa in Art Nouveau style, he also had new buildings constructed on Weißenberg. He bequeathed the country estate to his son Carl Ahrend Ficke.
Carl Ficke's daughter Hildegard Allricke Ficke married Gerardus Henri van der Elst in 1933 in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ) and the property is still owned by the van der Elst family (von Bleskensgraaf).
Culture and sights
The property is a popular spot in the area for hiking, biking, horse riding and horse-drawn carriage rides. The forest has been rewilded since 2000. This process is a large-scale conservation that aims to restore and protect natural processes and core wilderness areas, establish connectivity between these areas, and protect or reintroduce apex predators and key species . The first wolf was spotted in the bog in 2015 and eagle owls have been living in the forest since 2013.
Maple Avenue
In 1904, a sycamore -Allee Carl Arend Ficke, the former owner of the farm and house Wittenborgh planted by the White Mountain. It is still the private route to this property today. The avenue consists of over a hundred trees and is around 500 meters long. By regulation of the district of Cuxhaven of December 17th, 2008 this maple avenue was declared a protected landscape component (LB CUX 51l). In March 2016, the avenue was named one of the most valuable in Lower Saxony by the Lower Saxony Heimatbund (NHB).
Barrows
On Wittenborgh there are three groups of tumuli and one larger individual grave. These probably come from the Middle Bronze Age and are therefore approx. 3000 to 4000 years old. These are probably the last surviving barrows in a group of 25, in some cases very large, hills. These are of particular cultural and historical importance because they are the last surviving example of the erection of burial mounds on the heather on the edge of the marshland in this area. In the middle of such tumuli there is often a wreath made of larger stones in which the urn and, if necessary, accessories were placed.
Bargsmoor nature reserve
The nature reserve LU 118 Bargsmoor / Rechtenflethermoor has existed on Gut Wittenborgh since 1985 and next to it the nature reserve "Gehölz am Weißen Berge", which was declared a nature reserve CUX 39 in 1938 by the district administrator of the Wesermünde district. There used to be a ground covered with heather, which is now overgrown with trees appropriate to the location.
Illjes mausoleum on Wittenborgh
The mausoleum of the Illjes family was built at Wittenborgh after the death of Jacob Illjes in 1854. He died at the age of 40. It was his last will to be buried on the Weißenberg with a view towards Sandstedt. His parents therefore had the mausoleum built, in which they themselves were later buried. The listed mausoleum was built from erratic boulders. The boulders are said to come from an old large stone grave. In the middle of the boulders there is a stone cross on a pedestal.
Mausoleum of the Ficke von Wurmb family
Behind the cemetery in Driftsethe you can find the listed mausoleum. It was built by the Ficke family around 1889 and is now owned by the von Wurmb family , descendants of the Ficke family.
legend
There was once supposed to have been a castle on Wittenborgh, with a capricious and hard-hearted mistress who was only concerned with her own well-being. One day the kitchen maid suffered a great mishap. While cleaning, she dropped one of the silver cups into the well and weeping told her mistress of her misfortune. But unmoved, she asked the maid to get the cup back. In her distress, she climbed into the well and drowned. And since then, every year on the day of her death, a white female figure looking for the mug has appeared here. Soon afterwards the lady of the castle also died and was buried in the family crypt there. When the crypt was opened years later, only a heart-shaped stone was found, which has been called the heart stone ever since.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abraham Ortelius: Frisia Orientalis . In: Jon Bloemmaerts (Ed.): Theatrum Orbis Terrarum . Amsterdam 1595.
- ↑ Illjes Mausoleum, a tragic love story - reportage. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ^ Jonkheer Jan Feith: Modern Holland . Ed .: Nijgh & van Ditmars Publishing Co. Ltd. 1st edition. Rotterdam 1922, p. 172 .
- ↑ DBNL: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 7 dbnl. Retrieved May 5, 2020 (Dutch).
- ^ J. Leschen: Extension of the Kaiser Wilhelms Canal . Ed .: Rensburg. Memories of the extension of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal 1904-1914. Rensburg, Bremen and Hamburg 1915.
- ^ Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie: Nederland's Patriciaat . Ed .: CBG. 1st edition. Jaargang 22, No. 22 . CBG, 's-Gravenhage 1935, p. 93 .
- ↑ Wolf apparently approached on A27. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Luise Bär: shots at eagle owl. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
- ^ Cuxland GIS. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Experts ennoble the avenue in Driftsethe as one of the most beautiful in Lower Saxony. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Avenue of the Month - NHB. In: niedersaechsischer-heimatbund.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Hansdiether Kurth: Unter Der Staleke 2010, nature-oriented recreation on the “Weissenberg” . Ed .: Samtgemeinde Hagen. Hagen im Bremischer January 2010, p. 38 .
- ↑ "Bargsmoor / Rechtenflethermoor" nature reserve | Nds. State agency for water management, coastal and nature conservation. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ District Cuxhaven: Landscape protection area: Gehölz am Weißen Berg LSG-CUX 39. Geoportal (GIS) / District Cuxhaven, April 21, 1938, accessed on May 6, 2020 (German).
- ^ Cuxland GIS. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
- ^ Cuxland GIS. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Drift the mausoleum. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ^ Heinrich Schriefer: Hagen and Stotel, stories of the two houses and offices . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1988, ISBN 978-3-88132-149-5 .