Culture point
At cultural points there are houses through which a section of the history of the city of Flensburg can be experienced. Viewpoints over the Flensburg city area are also among the cultural points. Information boards at the cultural points describe the special features of the place.
Margarethenhof, Johannisstraße 78
It is not known exactly how long the Margarethenhof has existed. In a view of the town that was created between 1572 and 1618, however, a remote farm near Jürgensby on the banks of the Flensburg Fjord can already be seen, which is suspected to be the forerunner of today’s farm. The farm has been attested since 1609, when the farm was owned by the Lange family. In the following period, the farm changed hands frequently.
In the 18th century, the farm was transformed into a company location when Peter Holst acquired the farm in 1759 and began to operate a soap factory there. From 1762, the farm was home to a sugar factory, which is why the farm was called Zuckerhof. Raw sugar was imported from the Danish West Indies and processed into sugar, rock candy and syrup. In 1844, the merchant Nikolaus Jepsen acquired the farm and named it after his mother-in-law Margarethe Rottmann (* 1780; † 1846), as the deposit for the purchase of the farm had been provided by her husband, the merchant, shipowner and Russian vice-consul Friedrich Wilhelm Funke. At the farm, now called Margarethenhof, an iron foundry was set up under Nikolaus Jepsen.
Silted up land in front of the farm also served as the building site for the foundry. In 1882, the farm was converted into a factory owner’s villa by the Prussian architect Richard Plüddemann, who also designed Flensburg’s court. In 1896, the iron foundry mentioned above manufactured, among other things, the lighthouses Rinkenis, Laagmai and Schottsbüll, which were erected on the north side of the Flensburg Fjord.
During the Second World War, the northern warehouse, which dates back to 1761, was hit and destroyed during a bombing raid on Flensburg.
At the turn of the millennium, a comprehensive renovation of the Margarethenhof began after it had been sold to a bidding consortium with the condition for renovation.
Between 1995 and 2003, the newly designed forecourt in front of the Margarethenhof was built with its buildings.
