Boxing (Brilon)
Boxing , also called Boxzen, is a desolate place near Brilon . It was destroyed as a settlement before 1300.
It was in the Glennetal , northwest of Scharfenberg . The place was mentioned as an important farm with forest and field in a sales deed from 1306: 198 acres of farm, 32 acres of camp and 15 real works were sold by Cord van Boxzen and his wife Margarethe to Volkert Baeke from Brilon. In 1380 Sander Bäcke, a citizen of Brilon, sold his goods in boxes to Henken Hudekellen in Brilon.
Like many other places, the place fell victim to the great desolation process in the late Middle Ages . It must have been a creeping, slow process. This began around 1300. There are different theories about the reasons for leaving the place. For example, the city of Brilon is believed to be attractive. Another reason was plague epidemics and residents' need to seek shelter in fortified cities .
literature
- Local history of the Brilon district, by Josef Rüther, 1957, Regensberg publishing house in Münster