Brabecke (Schmallenberg)

Brabecke City of Schmallenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	414 m
Residents :	204  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	57392
Area code :	02977
Location of Brabecke in Schmallenberg
House Brabecke, built around 1937/38

Brabecke is a district of the city of Schmallenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The village is about 2.5 km north of Bödefeld . The state road 776 runs through the village and the Brabecke stream flows .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places are Ramsbeck , Untervalme, Obervalme (both Bestwig ), Bödefeld and Westernbödefeld .

history

Brabecke was first mentioned in a document in 1203. The knights Albert and Leonius von Brabecke and Herbold von Meschede were staying in the village at that time. The whereabouts of the Knights of Brabecke is not historically clear from 1326. Knight Godard von Meschede built a permanent house or a small castle in Brabecke in 1328, which was subordinate to the feudal lord Count Wilhelm von Arnsberg of the County of Arnsberg . The building existed until 1740. In 1427 other buildings are mentioned in a document. After Dietrich von Meschede had relocated his seat to Alme in 1471 , Vögte Brabeckes took over administration. In 1645 Branck was mapped on the Westphalia Ducatus map.

In 1459, Godert von Meschede received the enfeoffment with the Fronhofe or main courtyard Köttinghausen and the associated rights from the Mescheder Stift. He had to take care of the collection of the taxes to be handed over to the Mescheder Stift by summoning all hoof owners to a place for a certain day to collect the lease. The owner of the Fronhof Köttinghausen must have made a good deal, while the women's monastery Meschede didn't get too much, otherwise in 1666 no fewer than eight members of families of the lower or service nobility would have shared the rights of this one main farm. They must also have understood how to make the hoof owners more dependent than they were before on the Meschede monastery: because the women's monastery knew no serfdom for these hoof owners, just like the Benedictine abbey Grafschaft in the neighboring office of Fredeburg, since both monasteries with the specified duties were satisfied. But as soon as the noble families, namely those of Meschede, von Westphalen zu Hoppecke, zu Holdinghausen, von Schorlemer zu Heringhausen, von Twiste (von Wulmeringhausen) and von Hanxlede (von Wolmeringhauen) held the justice of the Köttinghausen court, they regarded the dependent farmers as Serfs and treated them accordingly. It is expressly stated in the old files of the Meschede Monastery that the nobles had their own people, who were called serfs in the vernacular and were obliged to perform services. In spite of all the complaints and complaints, the Mescheder Damenstift received less and less taxes to be paid by the noble hereditary tenants of the Köttinghausen court, until the Fronhof was completely lost.

Brabecke had a primacy. By relocating the headquarters to Alme, the Lords of Meschede had their representative for the colonial villages Brabecke, Altenfeld, Osterwald and Westernbödefeld (so-called Almischen villages) in Brabecke. These were the Vogt and the Schulze. A manuscript from 1670 in which every single serf had to put his traditional obligations under oath on record is extremely informative about the duties of the serf farmers in the towns of Brabecke, Altenfeld, Osterwald and Westernbödefeld. The swearing-in was carried out on December 11, 1670 by the public notary and citizen of Meschede, Johannes Friederici, on behalf of Messrs. Emmerich Leo von Holdinghausen and Ferdinand Melchior von Meschede zu Brabecke, in the presence of the pastor Math. Schmülling and the treasurer Franz Becker, both from Bödefeld . The property of each individual serf and his obligations were, since "all previously quoted also appeared obediently", precisely written down, "accordingly, a high need to be found". Fortunately, this important document, comprising 128 small quarters of pages, has survived. This document is known as the Almisches Lagerbuch, in which the inmates stated on record which properties they cultivate and which taxes they pay. Serfdom was also recorded. However, a negative had no effect. In particular in Westernbödefeld, where some inmates were able to show clearances, they ultimately became serfs. As a rule, the farms were burdened by the levy to Arnsberg via the Vogt (state tax), the monastery in Meschede, to the Lords of Alme and church taxes. The stresses were overwhelming. In 1670, Hermann Stofers, Tonis Adam, Hans Dohle, Röttger Cordes, Johann Martins, Tonis Kremers, Hermann Bremerich (Vogt), Johann Bremerich (Schulte) and Hans Henrich Tüteler are named for Brabecke. These names or house places are known today under the term Stöbers, Thünes, Dohle, Chors, Mehrs (Vogers Stallplatz), Krämers, Vogers, Schulte, and Tütelers. In addition to these nine colonies, there was also a hunter (Haus Geck) and a number of supplements (shepherds, craftsmen) since the 17th century.

Former school

Wilhelm Röttger von Meschede took possession of Brabecke Castle on August 25, 1684. On February 17, 1745, Dietrich Adam von Meschede bought the Hanxled part of the Brabecke estate for 3800 Reichstaler in front of the court in Bödefeld .

The village was dominated by agriculture until the 19th century. Changes only came about when ore mining boomed in the neighboring village of Ramsbeck around 1850 . Some scythe dealers in Brabecke profited from mining until the 1930s. Until the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, Brabecke belonged to the municipality of Bödefeld-Land . Brabecke has been part of the town of Schmallenberg since January 1, 1975.

religion

St. Pankratius in Brabecke

The church in Brabecke is one of the oldest churches in the Sauerland. It is a Romanesque building. Church patrons were Saint Martin and Vincentius in ancient times. Before 1618, St. Pancras was elected patron. It was first mentioned in a document in 1230. For the time it is said to have been a rather large church with 7.8 × 16 meters. In 1230 the originally flat roofed church got a vaulted ceiling. The paintings probably also date from this period. They show a relationship with the painting in the church of St. Maria zur Höhe (Hohnekirche) in Soest, which is assigned to the year 1220. During the renovation in 1749, the door was moved from the south side to the west side. The tower was built between 1754 and 1757 and a new altar was procured. From 1956 to 1958 the sacristy was added by the village community. In 1958 there was a new war memorial. In 1986 planning began for the renovation, which was completed in 1992. The costs for this amounted to DM 650,000.

Web links

Commons : Brabecke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brabecke website
• Brabecke (Schmallenberg) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on June 30, 2020
2. ^ History of Brabecke accessed on March 6, 2010
3. ↑ Anton Fahne : The dynasts, barons and current counts of Bocholtz , Volume 1, p. 109, JM Heberle, 1863, Cöln, (Google, online version )
4. ↑ Anton Fahne: Chronicles and document books of outstanding families: Donors and monasteries, Volume 1, document book of the family Meschede , p. 337, JM Heberle, 1862, Cöln, ( Google, online version )
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 335 f .