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ManorWangels-Ehlerstorf
Ehlerstorf Manor
The Ehlerstorf Estate is located in the municipality of Wangels in eastern Schleswig-Holstein, near Oldenburg in Holstein. The estate has been managed from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. It is privately owned and not publicly accessible.
In the Middle Ages, the lands of the later estate belonged to Count Adolf III and consisted of a small village, as well as arable and meadow areas. The Schauenburger sold Ehlerstorf to the Lübeck bishops, through whom it in turn came into the possession of the Lübeck St. Johannis Monastery. In the 14th century, Ehlerstorf briefly belonged to the ancient noble Rantzau family, but then reverted to the monastery. In 1464, Ehlerstorf was sold to the Pogwisch family, who established the actual estate management on the site and also began construction of the present manor house in the 16th century.
Through inheritance, Ehlerstorf passed to the closely related von der Wisch family in 1557, who managed it until the Thirty Years' War. Briefly, the property came into the possession of the Buchwaldt family and in 1632 to the Ahlefeld family, who also acquired the nearby Guldstein Estate. Under the Ahlefelds, a major fire raged at Ehlerstorf in 1666, destroying the entire outwork. In 1702, the Levetzow family acquired the estate district and had the manor house rebuilt and enlarged around 1760. The Levetzows remained at Ehlerstorf until the beginning of the 20th century, when they had to part with the property in 1900 for economic reasons. The buyer was Ernst von Abercron, whose family had already acquired the neighboring Testorf Estate in 1879. The estate with its extensive lands is managed by the Abercrons to the present day.
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The Manor House
The manor house was built in a sequence of construction measures from the 16th to the 18th century. It combines regional Renaissance features with more modern Baroque forms. The entire manor house is two-story and built of brick, the three individual houses together have an almost square floor plan.
The oldest parts of the house date from around 1550. It was originally a building consisting of two parallel longhouses, thus corresponding to the traditional double-house construction method in Schleswig and Holstein. Unlike today, the roofs were originally not hip roofs, but gable roofs, and the gables were adorned with high gables, similar to how the Nütschau Manor House still appears today.
From 1760, the manor house was extensively rebuilt. The building was extended to the west by a third parallel longhouse, and the roofscape was simultaneously redesigned. While the facade facing the garden retained its tripartite form, the courtyard-side facade was unified: the individual roofs were joined by a transverse, fourth roof, so that the manor house on this side gives the impression of a closed building, and the three individual facades also received a unifying plaster.
The Courtyard Complex
The farmyard has been repeatedly destroyed by fires throughout its history, so the buildings had to be replaced multiple times. A major fire in the 17th century destroyed stables and barns, and another fire in 1913 destroyed a large barn. After the fire of the 20th century, a new farmyard was planned to be built outside the former courtyard area. Since then, only the single-story Kavalierhaus from the beginning of the 19th century stands in the immediate vicinity of the manor house. The new courtyard was provided with a large cow house, which was built in historical forms from 1921. To the east, the area was bordered by an elongated, curved gatehouse. However, due to a relocation of the neighboring country road, this access became insignificant and the gatehouse as such was never used.
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