Eisbergen Castle

The Eisbergen Manor is an East Westphalian manor house located south of the Wesergebirge on the right bank of the Weser in the village of Eisbergen, part of the city of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district.

The manor was first mentioned in 1396. At that time, the owner was Florecke von Zerssen. One of the numerous owners from the House of Zerssen was Heinrich Julius von Zerssen. At the beginning of the 18th century, the manor was the subject of inheritance disputes between the families von Zerssen and von Leuchtmar. This legal dispute dragged on for over twenty years and occupied courts up to the Imperial Chamber Court.

The Provost of Quedlinburg, Privy Councillor Paulus Andreas Freiherr von Schellersheim, bought the estate in 1747. It served as a retirement home for him and his wife Benedikte Luise von Hammerstein. As Provost, at the request of other doctors, he forbade the citizens of Quedlinburg from being treated by Dorothea Christiane Erxleben. He demanded that Erxleben take her examination within a period of three months. Erxleben took her doctoral examination on May 6, 1754, and was the first and, for a century and a half, the only female doctor in Germany allowed to obtain a doctorate and officially practice her profession.

A descendant of Schellersheim married Marie Elisabeth, daughter of Eduard Kuno von der Goltz, in 1881, who then also moved to Eisbergen.