Gut Wedigenstein, Manor house in Porta Westfalica, Germany.
Gut Wedigenstein is a former manor house in the Barkhausen district of Porta Westfalica, on the southern slope of the Wiehengebirge and the left bank of the Weser near the Porta Westfalica gap. Around it lie roughly 14 hectares of pasture on a steep south-facing slope rising from the valley road to 120 metres above sea level.
A charter of 1282 names Franco von Dehem as castellan of Wedigenstein castle, of which the lords of Dehme held part in fief. In 1401 Alhard von dem Bussche, drost at Limberg, held the estate in pledge, and until 1818 it belonged to the Minden cathedral chapter. On 1 July 1817 Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher took it in hereditary lease from the Prussian treasury; his son Carl Wittekind Schumacher bought it free of debt in 1852 for 60,000 Reichstaler.
The name Wedigenstein is tied to the medieval castle mentioned in a 1282 charter, where Franco von Dehem appears as castellan; the estate below the Wiehengebirge ridge took that name. The Westphalian painter and writer Ida C. Ströver was born here on 16 September 1872 as the daughter of the then owner, spent her childhood and youth at the estate, and was buried in its family grave.
Gut Wedigenstein is private and not open to the public, so visits are limited to viewing the estate from the surrounding roads and paths. The roughly 14 hectares of steep pasture rise from the valley road near the Weser to 120 metres above sea level. The site lies on the southern slope of the Wiehengebirge in the Barkhausen district of Porta Westfalica.
The painter and writer Ida C. Ströver was born at Gut Wedigenstein on 16 September 1872, daughter of the then owner; she spent her childhood here and is buried in the estate's family grave. The estate has long belonged to the Middelschulte family and is closed to the public.
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