Güterdistrikt Preetz

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.

 

The last three of the above Distrikte occupied much of the northeastern quadrant of Holstein and the Preetz Distrikt was in between the other two. New Güter were created out of existing ones on occasion and most of those created from Preetz Güter remained in the Preetz Distrikt. Gut Blumendorf, however, split off from Gut Fresenberg before 1717 and ended up in the Itzehoe Distrikt. Similarly, Gut Rethwisch split off from Gut Lehmkuhlen before 1717 and ended up in the Kiel Distrikt.

 

Only single-place Güter are shown below. The multi-place Güter are sufficiently numerous that I have broken them into two 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:

• North (part of present-day Kreis Plön—specifically Perdöl, Schönböken, Depenau, Nehmten, Ascheberg, Bothkamp, Ranzau, Schönweide, Rixdorf, and Lehmkuhlen)
• South (not part of present-day Kreis Plön—specifically Fresenburg, Tralau, Nütschau, Prohnstorf, Rohlstorf, Wensin, Müssen, Travenort, Muggesfelde, Seedorf, Hornstorf, and Glasau)