Güterdistrikt Itzehoe

Pre-1717 Güter Dauenhof, Rostorf, Stellau, and Wedeldorf

Gut/Kanzleigut Bekdorf

Adlige Güter were under the sovereignty of the Duchy of Holstein, but were not included in the 1544 partition between the core duchy (Holstein-Segeberg) and the spin-offs (Holstein-Gottorp and Holstein-Hadersleben). Nominally, they were “jointly ruled”, but they were virtually independent entities and largely ruled themselves. Nevertheless, to facilitate the exercise of the Duchies’ responsibilities, the Güter were divided into the following four Distrikte in 1717.

 

• Güterdistrikt Itzehoe
• Güterdistrikt Kiel
• Güterdistrikt Preetz
• Güterdistrikt Oldenburg

 

I recognize the Distrikte retroactively to 1544, but add an * to signify that the designation was not always formal. In the results pages, I do not retroactively place any Gut in a Distrikt before 1717 that was not explicitly part of it after 1717. Nevertheless, four Güter (Dauenhof, Rostorf, Stellau, and Wedeldorf) that were absorbed prior to 1717 by other Güter that became part of the Distrikt, are included on this page. One Gut (Bekdorf) that was spun off prior to 1717 by a Gut that became part of the Distrikt is also included.

 

The last three of the above Distrikte occupied much of the northeastern quadrant of Holstein and the Itzehoe Distrikt was scattered among the southern part of the duchy. New Güter were created out of existing ones on occasion and (with one exception) those created from Itzehoe Güter remained in the Itzehoe Distrikt. The exception was Bekdorf, which became a Kanzleigut in 1669.

 

Only single-place Güter are shown below. The multi-place Güter are sufficiently numerous that I have broken them into three groups of village lists so that the pages load faster. The places shown below might appear as a single-place Gut in one time period (in which case, the term “Gut” precedes their name) and on another page as part of a larger Gut in other time periods.

 

The village list pages are as follows:

• East (north and east of Hamburg—specifically Borstel, Jersbek, Stegen, Wulfsfelde, Ahrensburg, Wandsbek, Klinken, Schulenburg, Blumendorf, and Erfrade)
• Southwest (between Hamburg and the mouth of the Elbe—specifically Haselau, Haseldorf, Seestermühe, Collmar, Klein Collmar, Groß Collmar, Neuendorf, Bahrenfleth, Campen, and Caden)
• Northwest (west of Hamburg and north of the mouth of the Elbe—specifically Herrschaft Breitenburg, Rostorf, Stellau, Dauenhof, Drage, Wedeldorf, Bramstedt, Sarlhusen, Heiligenstedten, Krummendiek, Mehlbek, Bekmünde, and Bekdorf)