Bergstadt (Wermelskirchen)

Bergstadt is a court in Wermelskirchen , district of Dhünn , in North Rhine-Westphalia . Originally the place was called Berensterz and was a noble residence. The actual aristocratic house left early.

history

The nobility

According to a source, in 1534 the owners Engelbert von Berensterz and Grete his wife and their parents were members of the Rosary Brotherhood in Lindlar ( Engelbert van Berrenstches gretge ouxor myt yren alderen) . In 1569, on November 25th, Peter von Landsberg wrote to his sister-in-law Anna von Quadt, widow v. Neuhoff called Ley that he had instructed his son-in-law Johann Stail von Holstein zu Berensterz to raise his marriage penny from her. A year and a half later, in February 1571, there was an acknowledgment of receipt from Peter von Landsberg for 1,050 gold guilders, which he received from Anna v. Quad, widow of the vd Leyen as a partial payment of the purchase price owed to him of 2100 1/2 gold for the goods at Renkusen and Meisterwinkel as marriage property for daughter Johanna his son-in-law Johan Stail v. Holstein zu Berensterz handed over.

According to Burger stock records were 1610 Juncker Vollmar and in 1692 the widow Schmidts to Schmidt Owner field of Hofschaft . In 1667 the catalogus of the noble seats and freyen Höffen in the Bornefeld office names Schierp as the owner of the farms. In 1707 Johann Werner von Gürtzgen is said to be the owner of Berensterz.

Selling to commoners

On August 16, 1723, the noble families v. Gülich, v. Eller and v. Carbiston donated the free noble Gut Bierenstertz to Scheffen Peter Siebel and Christian and Dietrich Tillmanns for 2000 Reichstaler. In 1750, the ducal fishery in little Dhünn was transferred to a Junker Stahlen, withdrawn and leased to the clerk Arnold Brosy. In 1812 a neighbor of Heinrich Tillmann brought a lawsuit against the Siebel heirs because of border disputes. In the original cadastre from 1828 to 1830, Friedrich Wilhelm Siebel owned the property according to cadastral article 196. It was 97 acres with houses within the hall (2 lots 100 and 104). The re-registration of the cadastre in 1866 shows the size of the estate at 103 acres.

The Siebel estate from 1872 before notary Reichmann zu Wermelskirchen shows a mass of 3276 thalers and in 1898 Hermann Siebel sold the property to his son Hermann Siebel for the price of 24,000 marks.

Sources and literature

• G. Verfürth: History of Dhünn, typescript in the Berg.Gladbach city library, Dhünn 1925.
• P. Haendeler: The Fronhof on the Dhünn. SD Bergischer Volksbote (Burscheider Zeitung), undated, (1941?)
• Heuser, K .W .: Berensterz near Dhünn. In: Zeitschr.Berg.Gesch.Ver. 1974-1976, p. 15 ff.
• K. Niederau: The Stael of Holstein. In: Zeitschr.Berg.Gesch.Ver. 1977 and 1980
• K.-D. Buse: Dhünn, sketches from the past. Dhünn n.d., 1988.
• M. Rech: The upper Dhünntal. (= Rhine excavations. Volume 33). Bonn 1991.
• NJ Breidenbach: Families, property and taxes in Wermelskirchen, Dabringhausen and Dhünn, 1666 to 1991. Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2003, ISBN 3-9802801-8-7 .
• NJ Breidenbach: The court in Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen and Remscheid, 1639 to 1812. Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2004, ISBN 3-9802801-5-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hist. Archive of the City of Cologne, inventory 1097, Raitz von Frenz, box 3, supplement no. 9; Appendix No. A 5; Box 4 Fontes Vol. I, p. 40.
2. ^ Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, JB III 722, p. 108; Landstands No. 11, Vol. 3, pp. 6, 32; JB III R Amt Burg 1, Pag 36V; JB HBV 139
3. ^ Community archive Lindlar, Brotherhood book of the Rosary Brotherhood, copies in Breidenbach, NJ, Collection of Sources & Materials, Vol. 100, p. 20.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 7 ° 17 ′  E