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Biesterfeld is currently part (''Ort'') of the Rischenau quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the city of
In the first half of the 17th century Count Simon VI of Lippe joined several failing dairy farms into one, and in 1624 passed them to the
Lügde
Lügde is a town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with c. 9,800 inhabitants (2013).
The first written mention of Lügde appears in 784, in the annals of the Frankish Empire, when Charlemagne visited the village during the ...
, Germany. Rischenau
History
In the first half of the 17th century Count Simon VI of Lippe joined several failing dairy farms into one, and in 1624 passed them to the bailiff
A bailiff is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. There are different kinds, and their offices and scope of duties vary.
Another official sometimes referred to as a '' ...
(''Amtmann'') of Schwalenberg. The County of Schwalenberg had partially passed to the House of Lippe
The House of Lippe () is the former reigning house of a number of small Germany, German states, two of which existed until the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Principality of Lippe and the Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe.
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in 1365, and the Biesterfeld estate was part of it.
Later Biesterfeld estate was sold to Maria Magdalena, the widow of Simon VII of Lippe. Her son Jobst Herman, Count of Lippe, built the manor of Biesterfeld around 1660 and is considered the founder of the Lippe-Biesterfeld
The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital and later princely cadet line of the House of Lippe (a German dynasty reigning from 1413 until 1918, of comital and, from 1789, of princely rank).
The comital branch of Lippe-Biesterfeld ascended t ...
line. Frederick Charles Augustus, Count of Lippe, moved the comital brewery from Schwalenberg to Biesterfeld in 1740.
The latter's eldest surviving son Frederick William (1737–1803) married Elisabeth Johanna, Edle von Meinertzhagen (1752–1811), who inherited a small manor house at Oberkassel, Bonn, where the couple moved in 1770, and which became the home to the Lippe-Biesterfeld family for the following 209 years. The manor house and farm at Biesterfeld were demolished around 1820.
See also
*Lippe-Biesterfeld
The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital and later princely cadet line of the House of Lippe (a German dynasty reigning from 1413 until 1918, of comital and, from 1789, of princely rank).
The comital branch of Lippe-Biesterfeld ascended t ...
References
Former populated places in Germany Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia {{Lippe-geo-stub