Gudow

Gudow is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig- Holstein.

Geography

Gudow is situated in the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park right on the lake and Gudower on the Mecklenburg border. The municipality consists of the main town Gudow well as the places Kehrsen, Segrahn, Sophienthal and Aussiedlerhof Bannau.

History

The village is mentioned in records in Isfriedschen sharing agreement in 1194 for the first time. It was Kirchdorf and belonged to the diocese of Ratzeburg whole church, but was divided between the secular Count of Ratzeburg and the Bishopric of the same name, the secular dominion of the prince-bishops. Vassal of the Prince-Bishop Gottschalk was in Gudow evidenced by the data in Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230 Theodoricus lupus, so a knight of the family of Wulf in Schwarzenbek. Gudow was then owned by the revelers who called themselves by Gudow, and belonged to the family of the Züle. On May 25, 1334 finally sold Duke Eric I Gudow to Marquard of revelers.

Since the 14th century was in Gudow a chivalrous Good. The possession of this manor until 1882 was connected with the dignity of Erblandmarschalls the duchy of Saxe -Lauenburg, that is, the chairman of the Knights and landscape. Through this connection Gudow was a political center Lauenburg. The last change in ownership of such property was held in 1470. Detlev, Johann, Heine and Johann von Züle sold the property to Werner and Friedrich von Bülow. The connection of Country Estate and Country Marshal dignity was confirmed. The responsibilities of the Marshal land also included the storage of all important records and documents which concerned the rights of the estates and their contracts with each other and with the sovereign. You are now in the District Archives in Ratzeburg. The old knight was transformed in the 15th and 16th centuries into a modern landlord farming.

In 1889 with the abolition of manorial police authorities the establishment of the consular district Gudow. After the Second World War, the congregation from 1948 to 2006 the seat of the Office Gudow that was summarized in 1971 by the Office for Official Sterley Gudow - Sterley. After the dissolution of the congregation joined in 2007 at the Office Büchenberg.

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in Gudow are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.

The village church of St. Mary, one dating from the 13th century stone church, holds a " Madonna on the full moon ", which was created in 1430 in Lübeck, and among other interesting features pieces a Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece, which was created in 1400 for the Lüne and 1655 the church was founded. It was the altar, originally a winged altar, cut up and received in 1680 a framework in cartilage style. 2011, the altar was restored.

The neoclassical mansion was built in 1826 by Danish architect Joseph Christian Lillie for the family von Bülow.

Pictures

Facade designed by architect Lillie for the mansion Gudow (1824 )

Painting the seaward side of the mansion with St. Mary's ( 1830 )

Commemorative plaques for church patronage