To be privately owned
ManorRehme
Deesberg Manor (Rehme)
The Deesberg Estate is a manor house in the Rehme district of the city of Bad Oeynhausen in the Minden-Lübbecke district.
The estate is located south of the Wiehen and Weser mountains, west of the Weser river.
To the northwest lies the center of Bad Oeynhausen, and to the south lies the city of Vlotho with Vlotho Castle on the Amtshausberg.
Evidence of the Deesberg Estate is only known from the 16th century. In 1567, Droste Bertram von Landsberg, whose epitaph stands in St. Stephani Church in Vlotho, moved his residence from the castle to Deesberg. In 1655, the estate was acquired by Baron von der Horst. In 1709, the castle was sold for demolition, while the prison and barn remained with the Deesberg Estate. From 1739, the estate was a state domain. The prison was abolished in 1858. Vlotho Castle belonged to the estate until 1889.
At the end of the 18th century, the estate's brickworks was founded by the then tenant Haccius. After the bricks were initially fired mainly only for construction projects of the estate, his successor Carl Hentzen turned the brickworks into a real commercial enterprise. Mrs. Major Blecken von Schmeling, who is listed in records from 1909 as the owner of the estate and the brickworks, applied for a new ring kiln. The brickworks ceased operations in 1962.
Current Use+
The estate has been owned by the Rolfsmeyer family since 1914 and is not publicly accessible. The estate became known through its brickworks, later through mushroom cultivation, and since 1980 through organic farming. Today, several small commercial businesses are located on the estate, utilizing the former brickworks and mushroom cultivation buildings. All arable and grassland areas are managed organically. The current cultivation program includes: clover-grass, cereals, rapeseed, potatoes, and on the former clay pit areas, so-called short-rotation plantations (fast-growing woods that are harvested every 3-4 years and used as fuel). Furthermore, oxen are kept, whose organic meat, like the other products of the farm, are sold directly from the farm.
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