Brenschede (Lennestadt)

Brenschede City of Lennestadt Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	473 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	67  (Jun 30, 2020)
Postal code :	57368
Area code :	02725
Location of Brenschede in Lennestadt
Entrance to Brenschede

Brenschede is a district of Lennestadt in the Olpe district and is located on a narrow road that leads from Oedingen to Bracht (Schmallenberg) .

history

The information about the origins of the place on Heidenstrasse is sparse.

The place Brenscede is mentioned for the first time in a list of goods from 1313. On May 6, 1636, the widow of Colonel Lintloh von Haus Valbert waived half of the claims against the Oedingen court. Dietherich Esleben was appointed as guardian of their underage children, who in this role was enfeoffed by Rump zur Wenne with the Kielkens and Henriches Gut zu Brenschede and Koninges Gut zu Oedingen.

The place name Brenschede (in the 16th century also "Bremscheidt" and "Bremschede") contains the basic word "-schede", which is interpreted as something that is separate from the "surroundings" (e.g. piece of land separated from a larger area) can. Taking into account the local location of Brenschede and the defining word "-bred" (or later "-bren"), Flöer comes to the name meaning "broad valley cut"

The first more precise information about the number of inhabitants or size can be found in the head treasure list from 1685 for the collection of the Turkish tax (war financing). According to this, there were 5 families living in Brenschedt (Brenschede) at that time (presumably equivalent to the number of houses) with a total of 17 people. The Nöker family had 7 members (Josef Nöker, his wife, his father an 80-year-old, his mother 70-year-old, two sons and a cow girl). The head treasure list, which was also made for tax purposes 100 years later in 1785, shows a total of 28 residents for Brenschedt (Brenschede), namely 5 married couples with a total of 4 servants, 2 neighbors (possibly day laborers), 4 children over 12 years and 8 children under 12 years. According to the entries, the married couples / families were small farmers or farmers with the former designation Halbspänner or Kötter . The population structure at that time suggests poor and simple living conditions.

At the end of June 2020, 67 people lived in Brenschede, with the proportion of residents over 65 years of age being comparatively high at 26.9% (urban area = 17.4%).

Chapel of St. Martin

Attractions

Chapel of St. Martin

The chapel on the outskirts, consecrated to St. Martin of Tours , was mentioned as early as 1553 in the register of parishes of the Meschede deanery at that time. In the years 1839 and 1881 it was completely renovated, whereby in 1881 the thatched roof was replaced by a slate roof. A new bell tower has also been erected. The center of the semicircular end of the choir is a three-part early Baroque altarpiece with sculptures of the chapel patron St. Martin and St. Rochus of Montpellier . They are flanked by an oil painting showing the Virgin Mary . In the upper part of the retable, in a central rotunda, is the image of God the Father, which was added later . In 1978 the chapel was renovated again.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place is characterized by a hilly landscape with agricultural properties and houses with gardens. But also trade and commerce as well as service providers (scrap metal trade, container service, electrical engineering and driving schools) are represented in Brenschede. The village community has renovated an old, still functional bakery , where an annual village festival takes place.

Web links

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

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• The aforementioned historical data from the treasury registers were taken from records that Mr. Gerhard Arens, Oedingen, made for the Arge Oedingen on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the town of Oedingen on the basis of the documents from the Arnsberg City Archives.
• Ralf Breer and Otto Höffer: Churches and chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchundem . Edited by Sparkasse Attendorn-Lennestadt-Kirchhundem, Attendorn 1999, p. 76 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brill, Joseph, Geschichte der Pfarrei Elspe, Olpe 1948, page 9
2. ↑ s. in detail: Flöer, Michael: The place names of the district of Olpe, Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte 2014, pp. 60,61
3. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt