Biekhofen

Biekhofen City of Attendorn Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 45 ″  E
Residents :	733  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code :	57439
Area code :	02722
Location of Biekhofen in North Rhine-Westphalia
View from Biggedamm to Biekhofen (2014)

View from Noacken to Biekhofen (2015)

Biekhofen is a district of the town of Attendorn in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and has 733 inhabitants.

geography

Biekhofen is located west of the core town of Attendorn and south-east at the foot of the Ebbe Mountains . Biekhofen's local mountain is the 416 m high Himberg, on which a former Landwehr can be seen to the right and left of the Biekhofer shooting range. Also above this location at an intersection of farm roads further remains of ravines or Landwehr remains can be seen.

history

The oldest documented mention of " Bechoven " was on March 30, 1341, when two Attendorn citizens exchanged their three farms in Sange and Heggen with the squire Hunold von Ewig for his goods in Biekhofen. A Diderich van Beckhoven and 1483 the brothers Hinrich and Diderich van Beckhoven are mentioned in purchase deeds with the Ewig monastery in 1430 . The place name could be interpreted as "near the farms on the brook" by the Biekhofer Bachschwinde or the brooks flowing on the eastern and western edge of the village .

Politically, Biekhofen formerly belonged to the Waldenburg office and in the Gogericht and parish Attendorn to the Windhausen peasantry , which also included surrounding towns such as Rautersbeul , Dahlhausen , Keseberg and others. In the treasury register of 1543, a Cordt zu Bickhouen and a Heineman zu Biekhoff with a fee of two gold guilders each are named in the Winterhuißer Burschracht with 21 taxpayers . In the 1565 register, Cornelius zu Berckhoeffen and Jacob zu Berchoffen each had to pay one gold guilder in taxes. 1555 is said to have been a free chair in the village . In 1658 there were three large " Guth zu Beckhoven " and one small " Kötter Guth ". These four oldest documented farms were: Dores Gut, Königs Gut, Stumpes Gut and the Relekes Hof.

Dores Gut: The first sure owner was Rötger Cramer, born in 1640. The farm was named "Dores Gut" after his son and successor Theodorus. By marriage, Franz Keseberg took over the farm in 1715. In 1829 it was a first class estate and belonged to the mayor Cornelius Gertmann in Attendorn. The next owner was Gottfried Joseph Lütteke by marriage in 1830. After the farm burned down in 1917, it was rebuilt by farmer Josef Lütteke in 1921 at another location between Dorfstraße and Mühlenweg.

Königs Gut: It was one of the oldest farms in Biekhofen and was designated as a lease or Köttergut in 1648 (lessee Degenhard König?). The first safe owner was Johann König in 1690. When the court heiress married in 1795, the court passed to Kaspar Lüttecke. It was a second class good in 1829. In 1904 the farm was given up and owner Josef Lüttecke sold the remaining property to Johann Klein. His son Josef took over the farm with a small farm in 1917.

Stumpes Gut: The largest and probably oldest farm in Biekhofen. It belonged to the hospital in Attendorn and was designated as a first class property in 1829. The first safe owner was Jost Stump, who died around 1667. The court heir Johann Stump, married to Barbara von Dahlhausen, paid taxes until 1700. The marriage had six children. Up until the 20th century, Stumpf owned farms for 10 generations in a row.

Relekes Hof (Rautersbeul): One of the oldest farms in the Attendorn area, formerly known as Kleines Köttergut, belonged to the heirs of Mayor Gertmann (Attendorn) around 1658. Georg Relek is named as the tenant until 1666, then Degenhardt Michels zu Hülschotten until 1681 . After Rötger zu Beckhoven, the Cramer family took over the farm. In 1819 Anton Cramer became the owner of Rautersbeul. In 1935 Josef Cramer rebuilt the house, later also the stable buildings and, after a fire, the large barn. Due to the marriage of the heiress Irmgard Cramer in 1950 to the farmer Paul Otto from Dahm , the property is still owned by the family's descendants.

Brauneisenstein has been mined in the Noacken, Wippeskuhlen, Stesse area and between Biekhofen and Eckenbachtal since the 12th to 15th centuries . Mining also took place in a second period from 1850 to 1870. In the Thecla mine east of Biekhofen, a total of 1,468 tons of raw ore were mined between 1860 and 1869.

On the outskirts of Biekhofen, the Noacken Cave was discovered in 1949 during construction work on the residential building Hettmecker Teich 10a. For security reasons, this cave remained closed for a long time. It is one of the caves of the Attendorn-Elsper Doppelmulde , to which the Atta cave belongs. On July 26, 1986, the Noacken cave was systematically explored by cave explorers. Beyond the narrow entrance tube, there was a very winding and branched, but remarkably large cave for the researchers to explore. The measurements showed a vertical extension of 8.5 m and an extension of 43 m with a total length of all passable corridors of 118 m for the Noacken cave, which is not open to the public.

Politics, School and Religion

Like the Hanseatic city of Attendorn, Biekhofen belonged to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia until 1803 , from 1816 to Prussia , Province of Westphalia , and from 1819 in the Attendorn district to the municipality of Attendorn-Land . Their first deputy Biekhofen in the municipal council was from 1964 until the municipal reorganization in 1969, when the municipality was incorporated into the city of Attendorn, Hubert Luke (1924-1997).

The address book from 1929 in Biekhofen lists the names "Bieker, Bock, Cramer, Hütte (4), Kampschulte (7), Keseberg, Klein (2), Luke (2), Lütteke (2), Remmert, Sangermann (2), Springob (2), Stuff, Stumpf (14) and Wiesemeyer (teacher) ”.

The village children went to school in Windhausen from 1849. From 1923 to 1931 there was a one-class village school in Biekhofen in the Emil Kampschulte house with the teacher Hermann Wiesemeyer, after which the children went to nearby Attendorn as guest students. Due to the proximity of the city, the Biekhofer residents also go there to worship . In the village itself, their piety becomes visible through wayside shrines and the wayside cross on the Himberg.

Club house in Biekhofen

societies

From 1921 to 1993, the meeting point for the Biekhofer residents was the Luke restaurant, where the Biekhofer Schützenverein St. Hubertus was founded in 1938 with 68 members. The following year the first shooting festival took place. In 1955 a shooting range was bought and in 1979 a shooting range was built on it. In 1987 the association had 358 members. The marching band of the Biekhofer Schützenverein St. Hubertus was founded in 1954 and has 58 members (2014). A young rifle division with 30 members was founded in 1990. The Biekhofer Schützenfest is always celebrated on the fourth weekend in July. Since 1966, all shooting members aged 65 and over have been invited to Hubertus Day every year , after a mass in the Attendorn parish church, originally in the club bar Luke, and from 1993 in the club house on Schützenplatz.

District

Biekhofen, which is characterized by agriculture and livestock farming, developed only slowly; in 1839 the village had only 9 houses with 68 people. In 1936 there were 15 houses with 21 households and 116 inhabitants. In the middle of the 20th century there were six full-time farms, 14 part-time farmers and two carters in the village. Biekhofen only got an electricity connection in 1923 and a public water supply in 1961/62. By 1988 the number of inhabitants rose to 470. From the 1980s onwards, Biekhofen developed more and more into a purely residential area, and from the end of the century it grew into a popular residential area in Attendorn due to the newly built Wippeskuhlen residential area. A third access road (Modschlade) improved the transport connection of Biekhofen to the city of Attendorn. A second large residential development in Biekhofen-Mitte, approved in 2016, was built between Hubertusstrasse, Daseberg and Mühlenweg.

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  Wayside shrine at the shooting range

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  Wayside shrine on Biekhofer Strasse

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  Wayside shrine on Hubertusstrasse

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  Wayside cross on Himberg

Web links

Commons : Biekhofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics of the city of Attendorn (as of June 30, 2019) , accessed on August 18, 2019.
2. ^ Hermann Hundt in: Attendorn - yesterday and today, Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Attendorn eV, No. 16 (1992), pp. 38–41
3. ↑ History of the noble family von Ewig , in: Pickertsche Sammlung von Willi Voss and Robert J. Sasse, 2005–2012, page 72 [1]
4. ↑ Norbert Scheele (Ed.): Regesten of the former Ewig Monastery , Olpe 1963, Urk 2 page 1, Urk 54 page 15, Urk 193 page 53
5. ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe , in: Westfälisches Ortsnamenbuch, Volume 8, Bielefeld 2014, page 41/42
6. ↑ Estimation register from 1543, page 69 [2]
7. ↑ The 16th century appraisal registers for the Duchy of Westphalia, Part 1 (1536 and 1565), Münster 1971, page 219
8. ↑ Julius Pickert: The farms of the Attendorn parish in the 17th century , in: Heimatblätter des Kreis Olpe, 4th century. 1926/27, page 41
9. ^ Rainer Ahrweiler & Joachim Hoberg: The Noackenhöhle in Attendorn , in: Verein für Orts- und Heimatkunde eV, Bulletin No. 12 (1988), pages 35 to 41
10. ↑ Markus de Vries: A journey into the underworld, Noackenhöhle in Attendorn-Biekhofen , YouTube from September 29, 2013 [3]
11. ↑ Hubert Luke: The history of our home village Biekhofen , self-distribution 1992/93, page 97
12. ↑ Official address book of the Olpe district 1928/29, section Attendorn-Land municipality, page 75/76
13. ↑ Klaus Bärwinkel: Family Chronicle Bärwinkel / Kampschulte / van de Bürie, court and clan history from 1220 to 2014 , self-distribution 2014, pages 9 and 59
14. ^ Biekhofen shooting club - history of the shooting club
15. ↑ Spielmannszug Biekhofen - Chronicle of the Spielmannszug
16. ↑ Our village of Biekhofen - Festschrift of the St. Hubertus shooting club 1938–1988
17. ↑ Official residents' register of the district of Olpe 1938, Attendorn Office, page XIV