Lehsen

Lehsen is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Wittenburg based in the city of Wittenburg.

Geography and Transport

The community is located about 30 kilometers southwest of Schwerin and four miles from Wittenburg. The Federal Highway 24 runs two kilometers north of the community and is accessible via the junction Wittenburg. The nearest train station is in Hagenow.

History

Lehsen was first mentioned in 1233 in Ratzeburg tithe register in the parish Wittenburg. Only in Bede register of 1496 again 16 families have been called in to Lessen ( Lehsen ).

In the Middle Ages Lehsen to 1690 was a fief of the family von Blücher. 1635 Heinrich von Blücher asked the Duke for permission to be allowed to make 100 oak trees in Eickmanßhorst. 1638 came with the permission of the note so that the imaginary ruined fief Good Lehsen am helped up again. The former manor was located near the present mausoleum.

From 1690 acquired from Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel originating from Laffert land in western Mecklenburg.

1701 received the court and secret comber Wigand Laffert of the Lehn - letter for the Good Lehsen. After the establishment of Fideikommiss 1723 family of Laffert possessed the estate another six generations. Under Councillor Friedrich Ludolph of Laffert, who is also the feud Dammereez bought in 1769, it came in Lehsen to far-reaching changes. His son Chamberlain Ernst August of Laffert on Lehsen, Garlitz, Wittorf and Dannenbüttel left in 1822, the new mansion built by the established in Lübeck Danish builder and architect Joseph Christian Lillie. The park originated six lodging houses together with outbuildings and stables. The new restaurant building had a billiard room, a toilet room and a Lesekabinet except a dining salon. Nearby there was the gym with a bowling alley, a wave pool and the ice house. By means of the existing cold water source could offer in 1847, the Director JH Rausse in the hydropathic water cures.

After that were recorded in the Mecklenburg knighthood of Laffert 1801, they had from 1803 to 1889 eight of their daughters for inclusion in the noble ladies of the monastery Dobbertin to register in the local Einschreibebuch.

1899 bought by the farmer William Hunter from the Dusseldorf Good for 735,000 marks. Several changes of ownership followed, until the merchant Dr. Otto Sprenger from Vaduz, the Good in 1928 leased to society for state administration German soil. 1937 took over the settler society the entire manor.

At the end of the Second World War the manor house for refugees, displaced persons and later as county children's home was used. From 1970 it was the seat of the municipal administration, the agricultural cooperative ( LPG) and the Cooperative Department of Plant Production ( KAP ) Wittenburg.

In Lehsen until 1955 a LPG Free Youth Type III was formed in 1958 and had been managed only 20 percent of the agricultural area of the municipality by the LPG. 1957 and 1962 the municipality had 349 339 inhabitants. After the union with the LPG Schildetal Camin it came 1976 on the formation of the KAP Wittenburg Camin.

On the second day of the festival on Park cooperative farmers summed up the local council in June 1977 the decision to reconstruct the entire park - palace complex. For the post-1950 due to disrepair broken orangery had created a bandstand with free dance floor and out of the park pond 52 hangers were full of mud taken to get back to get clear water. The internal and external reconstruction of the former manor house was from 1977 after proposals of the then Institute of Cultural Heritage in the GDR. Even the clock on the pediment was repaired.

Due to lack of use of the building stood empty until 1999, after the fall, was then extensively refurbished and is now inhabited since 2004.

Attractions

• The distinguished -looking mansion stands as a two-story stucco building Lehsen of nine axes at a low basement with polished granite blocks. The upstream Altan has a two-step staircase. The courtyard façade is articulated with a tri-part central, the portico with four colossal columns of Tuscan order concludes with a relatively shallow triangular pediment. The dial with the clock was added after 1880. About a retracted four-step staircase leads to the entrance hall with a sophisticated façade design ( style as in the mansion Schönfeld ). The mansion was built in Lehsen 1822 on behalf of the family of Laffert by Joseph Christian Lillie. The two side pavilion-like extensions were made 1880/90.

The monuments of the community are included in the list of monuments in Lehsen.