To be privately owned
ManorBarkhausen
Wedigenstein Manor (Barkhausen)
Gut Wedigenstein is a former manor house in the Barkhausen district of the city of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district. It is located on the southern slope of the Wiehengebirge and on the left bank of the Weser not far from the Porta Westfalica.
The date of the initial construction of the estate is unknown. In a document from the Count of Oldenburg from 1282, a Franco von Dehem (Dehme) is mentioned as castellan at Wedigenstein Castle. The Lords of Dehme were enfeoffed with a part of the castle.
On May 25, 1379, severe thunderstorms devastated the land north and south of the Wiehengebirge. Passing Minorite friars were surprised by this storm and, in gratitude for their survival, renovated a chapel on the grounds of Gut Wedigenstein that was close to ruin.
It is documented that in 1652 the wood court met at Wedigenstein. All commoners had to appear before the court. Until 1818, Gut Wedigenstein was the property of the Minden Cathedral Chapter.
On July 1, 1817, the "economist" Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher (1779-1856) took over the estate from the Prussian treasury in hereditary lease. In memory of the "Saxon Duke" Wittekind, he had a "Wittekind Memorial Stone" erected on Gut Wedigenstein not far from today's Kaiser Wilhelm Monument at Porta Westfalica, which was inaugurated on October 18, 1829, and is Germany's first Wittekind monument. He also participated in the financing of the "Wittekindstein" survey and observation tower. Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher's son Carl Wittekind Schumacher (1818-1870) acquired the debt-free estate from his father in 1852 for 60,000 Reichstalers. Father and son supported the needy lower class, especially schoolchildren, through foundations and donations.
Current Use+
The estate is privately used and not accessible to the public. The Middelschulte family has been the owner for a long time.
Miscellaneous+
- The Westphalian painter and writer Ida C. Ströver was born on September 16, 1872, as the daughter of the then estate owner on Gut Wedigenstein. She spent her childhood and youth here.
- In the years 1729 – 1730, the Cathedral Chapter sued residents of Aulhausen and Barkhausen for a co-grazing right on the grounds of Gut Wedigenstein or the sheep grazing right of Gut Wedigenstein on the fields of Aulhausen and Barkhausen. In this context, the women were imprisoned due to the riots.
- Reports from forester Stein about forest devastation in the Wedigenstein mountain by garrison soldiers, repair of the path at Wedigenstein, wood houses to Wedigenstein; scheduling of a wood court 1754 -1780
- In 1829, today's Moltketurm was erected as the trigonometric point "Wittekindstein" at the suggestion of the chief surveyor Johann-Jacob Vorlaender (1799-1886) with significant involvement from Heinrich-Ludwig Schuhmacher (1779-1856), the hereditary tenant of Gut Wedigenstein located at the foot of the mountain.
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