Manor Nordgoltern, Manor estate in Nordgoltern, Barsinghausen, Germany

Manor Nordgoltern is an estate in Barsinghausen with a four-sided building complex surrounded by a water-filled moat. The property includes several agricultural structures from the 19th and early 20th centuries that are now protected monuments.

Around 1300 the von Goltern family sold their old estate at Nordgoltern to the von Heimburg family, who kept the neighbouring Großgoltern about 600 m south. Another account has the von Heimburgs receiving the farm as a pledge from the von Ilten in 1366 and buying it in 1372. In 1573 the former fief of the counts of Schaumburg became a service-free Sattelhof, its owners bound to knight service for Duke Erich II. The estate stayed with the von Heimburgs for almost 500 years until a forced sale in 1870.

The chapel's keystone and a coat of arms with an inscription date it to 1713, though its rubble-stone core with corner quoins is probably older. As early as 1594 the estate owner asked the consistory for permission to have sermons preached in his chapel now and then. After a fire in the late 19th century some windows were bricked up and the building served as a granary into the 1980s.

The estate can be accessed from the B65 highway through an entrance gate that marks the enclosed property. Views of the complex are best obtained from the surrounding country lanes that border the fields and park areas around the site.

The moat is a rectangular channel about 320 metres long and 10 to 12 metres wide, crossed by three bridges. The arched bridge of cut stone before the gatehouse bears the inscription "Anno 1752" on its west side. The chapel adjoining the gatehouse is said to have been built to avert a curse; after a fire in the late 19th century it served as a grain store into the 1980s.