Krummbek Manor (German: Herrenhaus Krummbek) is a

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in the municipality of

Lasbek Lasbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and th ...

. It is a listed historical monument.

History

In the late Middle Ages Krummbek, for the first time documented in 1327, was a farming village belonging to the abbey of Reinfeld. Later it was affiliated as a

Meierhof A ''Meierhof'' or ''Meyerhof'' (from ) was a farm or building which was occupied or had been occupied by the administrator (the ''Meier'') of a noble or ecclesiastical estate. The similar ''Sedelhof'' was a tax-exempt farm building owned by a ...

to Schulenburg Manor (''Gut Schulenburg''). As such it was owned by the famous

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Count Nicolas Luckner (1722–1794), the great-grandfather of the not less famous navy officer and war hero Count Felix Luckner. When Count Nicolas Luckner was beheaded at the age of 72 during the

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under the

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, Schulenburg manor including Krummbek passed to his son. Krummbek as an autonomous manor was created when count Luckner split it in 1803 from Schulenburg Manor. Its first owner was Baron Ludwig Carl Christoph von Liliencron (1777–1846), married to Countess Juliane von Luckner (1788–1863), who was an officer in the

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. He had the manor house in 1803 erected by

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in the neoclassical style. Later Krummbek came into the ownership of Hamburg merchants, thereunder Robert Jauch (1856–1909) of the

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. In 1885, when he was Lord of Krummbek it had 67 inhabitants. Both his son the

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leader and the

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Colonel Hans Jauch (1883–1965) and his daughter Luise Jauch (1885–1933) grew up at Krummbek. Luise Jauch was head nurse at

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at Davos, the second famous novel of

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, when his wife

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stayed there in 1912. Luise Jauch's traits were utilized by Mann for the novel's head nurse Adritacia von Mylendonk. In 1909, Krummbek was bought by the Lampe family.Hermann Lampe, ''Die Entwicklung der braunschweigischen Domäne Süpplingenburg: ein Beitrag zur Betriebslehre und zur Geschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft'', 1910, S. 175 In 1928, Krummbek was incorporated into the village of Barkhorst and in 1974 it became a district of the municipality of Lasbek.

Sources

* Hubertus Neuschäffer, ''Schlösser und Herrenhäuser in Südholstein: ein Handbuch'', 1984

External links

The Manors in the district of Stormarn

Schulenburg Manor
bei www.gemeinde-poelitz.de
Boundary stone between Krummbek and Schulenburg

References

{{Christian Frederik Hansen Neoclassical architecture in Germany Castles in Schleswig-Holstein Jauch family Houses completed in 1803 Buildings and structures in Stormarn (district) Manor houses in Germany Christian Frederik Hansen buildings Stormarn (district)

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