Hemmelmark Manor

Gut Hemmelmark is a locality with an old manor house in Barkelsby near Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein. The previously independent municipality of Gutsbezirk Hemmelmark, along with its associated localities (such as Louisenberg), became part of Barkelsby in 1928.

In the Middle Ages, Hemmelmark was an estate of the ancient noble Schleswig-Holstein family Sehestedt. Schack Sehested, as a supporter of King Christian II of Denmark, got caught between the fronts and was imprisoned by King Frederick II. Hemmelmark was confiscated in favor of the crown in 1527. However, one of his successors later returned Hemmelmark to his nephew Otto Sehestedt. In 1728, after several changes of ownership, the estate came into the possession of the von Heespen family and the related von Hedemann family. From 1817 onwards, there were several changes of ownership. Albert Wilhelm Heinrich von Preußen (Prince Heinrich) bought the estate in 1894 as a country seat near his residence in the naval city of Kiel.