Krummbek Manor is a manor house

Manor house

A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

 in the municipality of Lasbek

Lasbek

Lasbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....

. It is a listed historical monument.

History

In the late Middle Ages Krummbek, for the first time documented in 1327, was a farming village belonging to the abbey of Reinfeld. Later it was affiliated as a Meierhof

Meierhof

A Meierhof or Meyerhof was a farm or building which was occupied or had been occupied by the administrator of a noble or spiritual estate....

 to Schulenburg Manor (Gut Schulenburg). As such it was owned by the famous Marshal of France

Marshal of France

The Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...

 Count Nicolas Luckner

Nicolas Luckner

Nikolaus, Count Luckner was a German in French service who rose to become a Marshal of France. ....

 (1722–1794), the great-grandfather of the not less famous navy officer and war hero Count Felix Luckner

Felix von Luckner

Felix Graf von Luckner was a German nobleman, navy officer, author and noted sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel -- and his crew that of Die Piraten des Kaisers -- for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider SMS Seeadler in...

. When Count Nicolas Luckner was beheaded at the age of 72 during the Reign of Terror

Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror , also known simply as The Terror , was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of...

 under the guillotine

Guillotine

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 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, Schulenburg manor including Krummbek passed to his son. Krummbek as an autonomous manor was created when count Luckner split it in 1803 from Schulenburg Manor. Its first owner was Baron Ludwig Carl Christoph von Liliencron (1777–1846), married to Countess Juliane von Luckner (1788–1863), who was an officer in the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

. He had the manor house in 1803 erected by Christian Frederik Hansen

Christian Frederik Hansen

Christian Frederik Hansen , known as C.F. Hansen, was the leading Danish architect between the late 18th century and the mid 19th century, and on account of his position at the Royal Danish Academy of Art the most powerful person in artistic circles for many years...

 in the neoclassical

Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...

 style. Later Krummbek came into the ownership of Hamburg merchants, thereunder Robert Jauch (1856–1909) of the Jauch family

Jauch family

The Jauch family of Germany is a Hanseatic family, originating from Bergsulza in Thuringia and for the first time documented in the 15th century...

. 1885 when he was Lord of Krummbek

Lord of the Manor

The Lordship of a Manor is recognised today in England and Wales as a form of property and one of three elements of a manor that may exist separately or be combined and may be held in moieties...

 it had 67 inhabitants. Both, his son the Freikorps

Freikorps

Freikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...

 leader whilst the German revolution Colonel Hans Jauch (1883–1965) and his daughter Luise Jauch (1885–1933) have grown up at Krummbek. Luise Jauch was head nurse at The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of 20th century German literature....

 at Davos, the second famous novel of Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

, when his wife Katia Mann stood there 1912. Luise Jauch's traits have been utilized by Mann for the novel's head nurse Adritacia von Mylendonk. 1909 Krummbek was bought by the Lampe family,

1928 Krummbek was incorporated into the village of Barkhorst and 1974 it became a district of the municipality of Lasbek.

Sources

• Hubertus Neuschäffer, Schlösser und Herrenhäuser in Südholstein: ein Handbuch, 1984

External links

• The Manors in the district of Stormarn
• Schulenburg Manor bei www.gemeinde-poelitz.de
• Boundary stone between Krummbek and Schulenburg