Biesterfeld is currently part (''Ort'') of the Rischenau quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the city of

Lügde Lügde is a town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with c. 9,800 inhabitants (2013). The first written issue of Lügde appears in 784, in the annals of the Frankish Empire, when Charlemagne visited the village during the S ...

, Germany. Rischenau

History

In the first half of the 17th century Count Simon VI of Lippe joined several failing dairy farms into one, and in 1624 passed them to the

bailiff A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French ''baillis'', ''bail'' "custody") is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offi ...

(''Amtmann'') of Schwalenberg. The County of Schwalenberg had partially passed to the

House of Lippe The House of Lippe (german: Haus Lippe) is the former reigning house of a number of small Germany, German states, two of which existed until the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Principality of Lippe and the Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality of S ...

in 1365, and the Biesterfeld estate was part of it. Later Biesterfeld estate was sold to Maria Magdalena, the widow of Simon VII of Lippe. Her son

Jobst Herman, Count of Lippe Jobst Herman of Lippe-Biesterfeld (9 February 1625 in Detmold – 6 July 1678 in Biesterfeld) was a titular Count of Lippe, Sternberg and Schwalenberg. Early life He was the son of Count Simon VII from 1587 to 1627) from his marriage to Co ...

, built the manor of Biesterfeld around 1660 and is considered the founder of the

Lippe-Biesterfeld The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital cadet line of the House of Lippe (a German dynasty reigning from 1413 until 1918, of comital and, from 1789, of princely rank). The comital branch of Lippe-Biesterfeld ascended the throne of the Princ ...

line.

Frederick Charles Augustus, Count of Lippe Count Frederick Charles Augustus of Lippe-Biesterfeld (20 January 1706 in Biesterfeld – 31 July 1781 in Friedrichsruh) was a Count of Lippe and Lord of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Sternberg and Schwalenberg and a Knight of the Order of the Red Ea ...

, moved the comital brewery from Schwalenberg to Biesterfeld in 1740. The latter's eldest surviving son Frederick William (1737–1803) married Elisabeth Johanna, Edle von Meinertzhagen (1752–1811), who inherited a small manor house at

Oberkassel, Bonn Oberkassel is a suburb in the Bonn municipal district of Beuel and lies on the right bank of the Rhine on the edge of the Siebengebirge mountains. Oberkassel has about 7,200 inhabitants. History In 1914, workers in a quarry detected a grave w ...

, where the couple moved in 1770, and which became the home to the Lippe-Biesterfeld family for the following 209 years. The manor house and farm at Biesterfeld were demolished around 1820.

References

Former populated places in Germany Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia {{Lippe-geo-stub

History

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