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The Degenershausen Estate (german: Gutsbezirk Degenershausen) was established in 1872 in accordance with the Prussian County Act of 1872 as an independent municipal estate together with a manor house. In 1928 the municipal estate was disbanded by an act of 27 December 1927. The estate then belonged to the municipality of Wieserode, now a village in the borough of
Landschaftspark Degenershausen
{{coord, 51.6869, N, 11.3031, E, source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_region:DE, display=title Falkenstein, Saxony-Anhalt Harz (district) Parks in Germany
The Degenershausen Estate (german: Gutsbezirk Degenershausen) was established in 1872 in accordance with the Prussian County Act of 1872 as an independent municipal estate together with a manor house. In 1928 the municipal estate was disbanded by an act of 27 December 1927. The estate then belonged to the municipality of Wieserode, now a village in the borough of Falkenstein
Falkenstein or Falckenstein ("falcons' stone" in German) may refer to:
Places
Austria
* Falkenstein, Lower Austria, a market town in the district of Mistelbach
Germany
* Falkenstein, Bavaria, a market town in the district of Cham
* Falkenst ...
, Harz county in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...
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The owner of the estate during this period were ''Fideikommissherren'' Hans-Heinrich Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener (1839–1912), Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener (1868–1918) and Hans Wilke Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener (1901–1937).
The estate figured in the Allied discovery of the Marburg Files
The Marburg Files, also known as the Windsor Files or Duke of Windsor Files, are a series of top-secret documents discovered in Germany during May 1945 near the Harz Mountains and compiled at Marburg Castle, Hesse.
Discovery
As American troops we ...
as World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
was ending. The estate is now a landscape park (''Landschaftspark Degenershausen'') which is also checkpoint no. 202 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network.
Literature
* Maria von Katte: ''Der Park von Degenershausen und seine Menschen - Eine Chronik der Jahre 1806-2012.'' 2nd revised and expanded edition. Privat press, Wolfenbüttel, 2012. *Georg Langlotz: ''Zwischen Selke und Wipper - Dörfer und Städte des Unterharzes, bekanntes und unbekanntes zu ihrer Geschichte.'' Selke Wipper GbR,External links
Landschaftspark Degenershausen
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