Germete House

Haus Germete refers to a former estate in the Warburg district of Germete, Quellenstraße 8, which was managed by the Berndes family from the 17th to the 19th century and has served as the motherhouse of the community Serviam – Herz-Jesu-Institut – Schwestern von Germete since 1926.

The history of the court begins with Matthias Berndes, who was referred to as "diutissime consul hujus pagi". By inheritance, the farm passed to his descendant, the landowner Johann Franz Philipp Berndes. In 1819 he married Jeanette Antoinette Hennemann, a daughter of the Canstein head forester Emmerich Hennemann and his wife Adolphine von Schledorn. Her son Peter Berndes inherited the farm, while her daughter Sophia Maria Berndes married into the Spiegelhof of the Germeter farmer Anton Nolte in 1847. In 1857, the Berndes estate burned down together with half the village of Germete and was immediately rebuilt by Peter Berndes on the northern outskirts of the village as a modern estate with a detached house, park and separate stables and barns.

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