The owners of Wellingsbüttel Manor from the beginning of the 15th until the early 19th century were consecutively[3] the Archbishops of Bremen, Heinrich Rantzau, Dietrich von Reinking,[4] the Barons von Kurtzrock,[5] Frederick VI of Denmark, Hercules Roß,[6] the Jauch family, Cäcilie Behrens[7] and Otto Jonathan Hübbe.

[5] Theobald Joseph von Kurtzrock erected the present manor house (Herrenhaus) in 1750 next to the Alster River.

[18] In 1806 Wellingsbüttel was occupied by Danish troops and Clemens August von Kurtzrock was forced to sell it to Frederick VI of Denmark, when the king picked a quarrel over his alleged right to levy a toll on everyone crossing over the lands of the estate, which was at that time encircled by Danish territory.

[20] Duke Friedrich Karl Ludwig, by his only son Friedrich Wilhelm, the last Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and the first of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was an ancestor to both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as well as to the royal houses of Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Greece, including Queen Sofía of Spain, thus making Wellingsbüttel Manor in some respects a point of origin of nearly all today's European royal dynasties.

Johann Christian Jauch junior and his son Carl Jauch (1828–1888), who was Lord of Wellingsbüttel conjointly with his father, enlarged the area of the manor's grounds up to 1876 from 115 to 250 hectares by buying in numerous smallholdings of the impoverished rural population, demolishing all buildings and adding the lands to the manor's pleasure-grounds.

[23] The former proprietors were offered places in the almshouse in the nearby village of Wellingsbüttel, which was erected in 1858,[22] and to which the Jauchs contributed fifty percent of the costs.

Today, after an interlude as the hunting-ground of Hamburg's Nazi Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann, the swamps are the town's largest and most beautiful nature reserve.

[29] She had the manor house heightened by one storey by the architect Martin Haller, but died soon after the completion of the works in 1892.

The Hansa Kolleg, co-owned by the states of Bremen, Hamburg, and Schleswig-Holstein, used the manor house as a student hall of residence from 1964 till 1996.

The permanent displays cover Wellingsbüttel, not only the estate and manor house but also the old village, including (with the permission of the Danish Crown) the only copy of the 1810 deed of enfeoffment of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (see image above)[1].