Alsen (Windeck)

Alsen community Windeck Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	approx. 280-325 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	254  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	51570
Area code :	02292
Ring walls near Als

Alsen is a small town in the southwest of the municipality of Windeck in the Rhein-Sieg district , consisting of the districts Niederalsen , Oberalsen and Schneppe . Alsen used to belong to the mayor of Herchen and the Mark Stromberg . It was first mentioned as Allenhusen in 1582 .

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Panorama Alsen

history

Before the Siegburg Treaty of 1604 between the Duke of Berg and the Count of Sayn , the Windeck office consisted of 4 separate parts: "Hof Rosbach" with the parishes of Leuscheid , Dattenfeld and Rosbach ; "Property Morsbach "; " Reichshof " and the "Pfarrei Much ". The administrative seat was initially Windeck Castle and, after its destruction by the Swedes in 1672 , the Castle House in Denklingen . In 1604 the population of the Windeck office was about half Catholic and half Lutheran.

Alsen in 1900

The homage from 1730/31

Elector Karl Philipp von Pfalz-Neuburg , who was also Duke of Jülich-Berg , had no male descendants and therefore wanted to appoint his brother Franz Ludwig as heir. For this purpose, in 1730, he ordered his officials to make the subjects an "eventual oath of homage".

On July 21, 1730, the bailiff of Windeck, Maximilian Heinrich Graf von Velbrück, was instructed to demand the "eventual homage" from local officials and clerks, who in turn drew up lists of people in January 1731 who were obliged to pay homage. These lists were then read publicly from the pulpit by the pastors of the respective churches on Sundays. The tribute lists of the Windeck office include around 3000 people. As a rule, only the first and last names of the heads of family are given, rarely a profession. The Windeck office was considered the poorest country in the otherwise rich Duchy of Jülich-Berg. Its inhabitants were all small farmers or artisans, the few better-off people were referred to as lords in the tribute lists.

The list of the place shows the families Thomas Schmidt, Johann Peter Happenschoss, Johann Peter Driess, Henrich Sommer, Gerhard Lang, Johann Gerhard Schmidt, Johann Peter Duentzer, Gerhard Schmidt, Henrich Ferber from Alsen, Gerhardt Fuchs, Johann Peter Fuchs, Ludwig Fuchs, Johann Gerhardt Engelberts, Johann Reinhards, Johann Thederich Schmidt and Wilhelm Geylhausen.

Population development

In 1821 Aalsen had 129 residents.

In 1885 there were 27 houses with 137 inhabitants in Niederalsen, eleven houses with fifty inhabitants in Oberalsen and seven houses with 42 inhabitants in Schneppe. So a total of 45 houses and 229 inhabitants.

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• MGV Stromberg: 850 years of Stromberg .
• The homage lists from 1731 are now in the main state archive in Düsseldorf as files and, along with the church records, represent the most important source for the Bergisch homeland and family history, as they can be viewed as the first and complete "address book".

Web links

• Website about Als

Individual evidence

1. ^ Windeck - List of localities , accessed on March 30, 2014
2. ^ Dictionary of the Prussian State
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia from 1885