Gut Behr in Stellichte close to Visselhövede

Visselhövede is a small town in lower saxony, the heath is starting here (Lüneburger Heide).

Not much industry, very idyllic.
Surrounded by small farms and "Gutshöfe".
Gutshöfe were the farms and administration centers for the rich.
Stellichte is one of the oldest.
I was told, that in the middle ages, they owned a third of the agricultural area of lower saxony.
The church is the second oldest Renaissance-church in lower saxony.

You can arrive using the Heath-train from Bremen or Uelzen (Hannover).

Stellichte is a few kilometers in the south, close to Wehnsen and Kettenburg.

There are many very small lakes here.

The old church from 1608.
You will see more details later.

We enter the forrest to visit the mausoleum.

We walk around 700 meter.

Hidden in the forrest...

There it is.
Because of vandalism in the 70ies of 1900, the building is closed now.
It is totally destroyed inside.
The rest of the plundered bones were buried on the cemetery beside the church then.