Estate Kanneberg

Up to the year 1803 both the estates of Kanneberg and Brunstorf were the properties of the owners of the Wöpkendorf estate.

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E.G. Kiesewetter who had resided in Wöpkendorf since 1797 as lord of the manor sold these two villages in 1803. Ten years later in 1813 Kanneberg was again in possession of the gentry of Wöpkendorf, from 1813 to 1932 the Melms family.

Structure of ownership prior to 1945:

(1781)-1792

Caspar Hinrich Lorenz (Wöpkendorf and Brunstorf)

1792-1797

Cavalry captain Joachim Heinrich Christian von Müller (Wöpkendorf and Brunstorf)

1797-1803

Privy counsellor and equerry Ernst Gottfried von Kiesewetter

1803-1805

District administrator Lady von Qualen nee von Freiburg

1805-1810

Alderman Matthias (Brunstorf)

1810-1813

Dr. Frehse solicitor for the creditors of the Mathias family (Brunstorf)

1813-1820

Mrs. Melms nee Schäfer (widow)

1820-1822

The brothers Christian Ludwig, Carl August and Carl Friedrich Melms (Wöpkendorf)

1822-1848

Carl Friedrich Melms (Wöpkendorf)

1848-1858

Brüder Emil and Carl Melms (Wöpkendorf)

1858-1932

Karl Melms (two generations)

1937

The farmland of the estates Kanneberg and Wöpkendorf was opened to settlements divided out into 54 land parcels for new farmsteads.

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