Knesebeck

Knesebeck is a district of Wittingen in the district of Gifhorn. Knesebeck is with the Knesebeck Castle the ancestral home of the black tribe of the noble own family of the Knesebeck. The tribe is first mentioned in files in the year 1248 with Wasmodos of the Knesebeck. The Dukes of Brunswick Luneburg provided the moated fortress during the 14th century as a fief to numerous lords. Since the middle of the 14th century, the function of the castle become basically administrative and court seat. From the 16th to the 17th century, the fortress was a princely office building, wherein officers say.

They administered about 20 villages of the bailiwicks Knesebeck and Wittingen as well as the courts Brome and Fahrenhorst. The administrative and judicial feature of the Office Knesebeck led to 1859. From the fort become right now essentially simplest the Amtshaus available, which became the State Forestry Office from 1880. When the forestry branch left the indexed constructing in 2005, it threatened to decay. In 2006, the proprietor of Knesebeck based Butting Group acquired it. After huge healing work, the previous office constructing opened in 2009 as a conference middle of the Butting Academy.