Good Wotersen
The Wotersen estate , also known as Wotersen Castle , was owned by the noble Bernstorff family for almost three centuries , who played a key role in shaping Hanoverian and Danish politics in the 18th century . The estate is located in the municipality of Roseburg in the Duchy of Lauenburg in the southeast of Schleswig-Holstein .
history
A village of Wotersen was first mentioned in 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register . The noble estate of the same name , as such with its own jurisdiction at the latest since the 16th century , passed from the von Schack family to the von Dalldorf family (also Daldorff , a local family with headquarters in nearby Dalldorf ) in 1408 , who transferred the complex held for many generations (after a short pledge in 1672 to the von Falkenberg family, it was released by Valentin Johann von Dalldorf).
In 1717 Wotersen was acquired by the Hanoverian Minister Andreas Gottlieb Freiherr von Bernstorff (1649-1726). As an influential politician, he was politically active at the court in Celle and Hanover , as well as in England under King George I. In addition to Wotersen, he acquired the goods Stintenburg in Lauenburg and Gartow in Wendland , primarily as an investment . both farms are owned by the family to date. From 1720, von Bernstorff had Johann Caspar Borchmann build a new estate in place of the castle that had been destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and convert it into a family entreprise, a foundation in which the farm is inherited undivided by the family.
In 1737 his grandson and later Danish Foreign Minister Johann Hartwig Ernst Graf von Bernstorff (1712–1772) took over Wotersen and soon commissioned Johann Paul Heumann with extensive renovation work, which was completed in 1765. In 1770, after being overthrown by Johann Friedrich Struensee , von Bernstorff withdrew to his estate, where he died in 1772 at the age of 59. The garden planned under him was no longer implemented, the interior work was not completed until the middle of the 19th century. Completed under one of Bernstorff's great-great-nephews. He also had the baroque garden redesigned into a landscape park and modernized the farm yard.
The estate remained in the family until 1996, when it was sold to the real estate agent Johann Max Böttcher and is now owned by Kurt-Peter Gaedeke.
Building and plant
The system is designed in a north-south direction and was accessible via a dam. There was and does not exist a gatehouse, the manor is a three-wing complex with a courtyard . In the middle of the system there is a water basin that was used as a drinking trough or sink.
Mansion
The manor house got its present form during the renovation in the middle of the 18th century (see above), when the building was extended. The eleven-axis building with a high hipped roof has three floors on the courtyard side and only two on the garden side due to the sloping terrain. The central projection of the symmetrically rhythmically structured courtyard facade has a flat gable that shows the colored family coat of arms made of sandstone. The one-and-a-half-storey side wings are each connected to the main building via a flat angle structure.
The entrance hall leads to a representative staircase in which a large part of the Bernstorff portrait collection is on display. Most of the other rooms in the mansion are rather simple.
Farm buildings
The farm buildings, made of split field stones - a building material atypical for the region - were originally arranged symmetrically along a central axis. The bakery and wash house with oat storage and the rye barn date back to the 18th century. The administrator's house was also built in 1721, the riding hall only in the 19th century.
Todays use
Agriculture is still in operation on Wotersen, but the manor house is not accessible. However, there are regular events in the courtyard and in the halls, such as concerts as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in the riding arena . They can also be rented for private events.
The exterior shots of the series Das Erbe der Guldenburgs , broadcast on ZDF from 1987 to 1990 , were filmed at Gut Wotersen.
Transport links
Gut Wotersen can be reached from the A24 from Hamburg to Berlin via the Talkau and Hornbek exits . There is also a bus connection to Mölln and Lauenburg .
The E1 European hiking trail leads past Gut Wotersen.
Wotersen in the Duncker Collection , mid-19th century
Courtyard building and manor house
Way to the pheasantry
literature
- Henning von Rumohr, Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein . Weidlich publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1983, ISBN 3-8035-1216-6 .
- Johannes Habich u. a .: Castles and manors in Schleswig-Holstein. Art and cultural historical forays; a travel guide . L - & - H-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-24-9 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 31 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 5 ″ E