Translations:Johannes Eckart (Da VII 10)/14/en

The Estate Grub

On January 29, 1894, Johannes Eckart bought another plot of land: the country estate Grub, near Poing in the vicinity of Munich. It encompassed 250 Tagwerk of land, which corresponds to approx. 85 hectares, and cost 86,000 Mark. The estate included livestock breeding, market gardening and hunting grounds. The main crops were peas, while Johannes Eckart also grew raspberries in Grub. He also had fruit-bearing trees but achieved less success with them. Johannes Eckart also established a poultry farm, which was even equipped with a steam hatchery. Johannes Eckart’s eldest daughter Mathilde, called Tilly, had learned the basics of poultry farming on a poultry farm near Magdeburg. This is also where the hatcheries for Grub were bought. Following her training, Tilly managed the poultry farm in Grub. Catastrophe struck on the estate in April 1896: A large part of the estate burned down. Johannes Eckart believed it to be arson. Even though the estate was quickly rebuilt, and a railway station was opened in Grub, it did not make Johannes Eckart happy, so he sold the unprofitable estate once again in 1899. The neighbor Georg Kessler, one of the biggest estate owners in Bavaria, bought it. However, the crop areas were still leased and used by Johannes Eckart.