Bio-Hofladen Gut Wulfsdorf

The Wulfsdorf estate has only existed in its current form for around 100 years and does not belong to the group of those important, formerly noble estates that are so formative for the history and cultural landscape development, especially in the eastern part of Schleswig-Holstein. Wulfsdorf was originally a village, the manor was only created in the 19th century through land accumulation. The village of Wulfsdorf was first mentioned in a document as Wulvoldestorp ( Wulfoldsdorf ) in 1238 (document, see illustration), on the occasion of its sale to the Hamburg Cathedral Chapter. With the sale, Wulfsdorf becomes a vicariate village. It remained in Hamburg's possession for over three centuries. In 1578 , Peter Rantzau, the owner of the neighboring Woldenhorn, seized the village and managed to get his underage son to become a canon of Hamburg and thus to dispose of his son over Wulfsdorf himself. He tries to make the Wulfsdorf farmers his serfs. In 1595 Rantzau began building the Ahrensburg Castle. In 1635 , Wulfsdorf is finally sold by the cathedral chapter to the Rantzau family. In the "Great Northern War" from 1700 to 1718 Wulfsdorf was plundered several times. In addition, the residents suffer from the tough regime of the Rantzau family, from whom they are subject to excessive taxes. The farmers keep resisting this treatment. After the residents have complained to the king about their bad treatment, Detlev Rantzau has the village "laid down" and the residents are forcibly relocated to Bünningstedt. This is the end of the medieval village. From 1718 to 1784 Wulfsdorf was managed as a meier farm by a tenant. In 1759 Heinrich Carl Schimmelmann bought the Ahrensburg Castle and thus also became the owner of Wulfsdorf. His son Friedrich Joseph had Wulfsdorf leased 11 plots to free farmers in 1784 . The farmer Hinzpeter acquired two parcels as well as the house of the Meierhof and several farm buildings. This is how today's good develops. There were frequent changes of ownership. After 1800 , this farm was enlarged and was first referred to as Gut Wulfsdorf . In 1873 , the Wulfsdorf estate has been the property of the Koopmann family since 1867, who run a large slaughterhouse in Hamburg, Wulfsdorf finally becomes independent from the Woldenhorn estate (Ahrensburg) by releasing the real loads. In 1904 there was a foreclosure auction of the Wulfsdorfer Hof and the new owner was the civil engineer Hermann Vering . He had achieved fame through the construction of parts of the Kiel Canal and important changes to the Wilhelmsburg Elbe island. Vering increases the estate area in a few years from 241 to 455 hectares. Vering has the areas managed by a manager, tears down the old estate buildings, builds a new, befitting manor house (today's "House of Nature") and a spacious park, as well as residential houses for the workers and the steward. He had new stables built, a machine house with electricity generation, a water tower, a forge and a wheelwright shop. This is how Wulfsdorf becomes a model property. The estate remained in private ownership for only 20 years: In 1922 the engineer Vering died and his heirs sold Gut Wulfsdorf in 1926 to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The city of Hamburg is acquiring the property with the aim of accommodating all of its youth homes there and running them with modern educational concepts. A "town of education Wulfsdorf" was planned. However, there are insufficient funds for this plan, so that ultimately only the educational institutions of the youth welfare office are relocated here. Within the farm, it is hoped to be able to employ the pupils in agriculture "profitably and in an educationally beneficial way". From 1926 to the 1960s, up to 70 young people worked on the estate. They had been classified as difficult to bring up and should be prepared for a normal working life with the home placement. The home in Wulfsdorf was notorious for its strict upbringing style and harsh working conditions; some of the young people lived in closed accommodation. The living conditions in the youth home in Wulfsdorf are described in the few sources at that time as barren and barrack-like and were certainly not conducive to the normal development of young people according to today's understanding. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the estate, along with other Hamburg goods, had to contribute to the supply of Hamburg's hospitals, homes and prisons. For this reason, in addition to the cultivation of grain, potatoes and fodder, the cultivation of vegetables and fruits is also started. In addition to the testing ground of the Botanical Institute Hamburg, which was founded in 1929, is from 1948 , the Research Center v. Sengbusch of the Max Planck Society was set up on the grounds of the state estate. In addition to the world-famous strawberry variety Senga Sengana, numerous other agricultural crops are also bred in the institute and grown on the estate's trial areas. In the 1960s , the need for labor in agriculture decreased due to increasing mechanization. The youth welfare office changes its concept and trains the pupils in the newly established Wulfsdorf training center (today's Allmende-Wulfsdorf residential project) to become electricians, bricklayers, carpenters, etc. From 1974 onwards, no fosterlings are employed on the estate. Potato cultivation and dairy cow husbandry are stopped in the 1970s. The estate continues as a mixed farm with a focus on arable farming, beef cattle and pig fattening. The estate is managed jointly with Gut Wulksfelde. In 1989 the Hamburg Senate decided to lease the property to an ecological farmer on a long-term basis. Since then, the estate has been managed by Georg Lutz and managed according to Demeter guidelines .