Burbecke (Lennestadt)

Burbecke City of Lennestadt Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 43 ″  E
Height :	355-380 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	89  (Jun 30, 2020)
Postal code :	57368
Area code :	02725
Location of Burbecke in Lennestadt
Aerial photo of Burbecke 2012 from approximately northeastern direction

Burbecke is a district of Lennestadt in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The village is still rural today. The special charm of the village and the landscape is what makes many visitors relax.

Geographical location

Burbecke is located northwest of the Saalhauser Berge in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . The village is located about 2 km southeast of the Lennestädter district Oberelspe in the forest-lined valley of the Burbecke , a south-eastern tributary of the Elspebach . It is separated from the former Kriegerweg by the Limberg ( 495.4  m above sea level ) to the north-west and from the old Heidenstrasse by the Jürgensberg ( 619.2  m above sea level ) to the south-east and lies at around 355 to 380  m above sea level. NN .

history

Burbecke Oberdorf

Boundary stone of the courts of Bilstein and Fredeburg

Burbecke is mentioned for the first time in a 1279 Elsper tithes list. Another early evidence of the existence of the place comes from the year 1398, according to which Henneke Schade vam Grevensteyne bought from Arnd van Osterendorp self-owned in Salwei, Sieperting, Eslohe, Isingheim , Burbecke and Fretter, which had come to him from the inheritance of his Ohms Walraf Rump. (Note: the self-owned small farmers are likely to have been dependent on a landlord). Presumably, however, the settlement of the place took place much earlier around the turn of the millennium as part of large clearings in the Carolingian - Ottonian times, which were apparently directed by the Elspe royal court.

The place name contains the elements "-beke" (reference to a body of water) and "-bur" (residence, house). From this the interpretation for Burbecke can be derived “brook at a house, settlement”. The name Burbecke appears as early as the 13th century.

The place belonged to the parish of Elspe until 1894 , where all files on the school, chapel, Stations of the Cross, mass foundation, accounts etc. are still available in the parish archive.

The Burbecke peasantry was one of the 6 (7) peasants in the parish of Elspe with pegs and cams. In 1565 the chairman of the Burbecke peasantry was one of the guardians (supported the pastor in administrative matters) of the St. Crucies vicarage in Elspe.

The border between the Gogerichten Bilstein and Fredeburg ran above the village of Burbecke . Old military forces, which can still be seen in the forest today, testify to the turbulent times around the claims of power by the Counts of the Mark around the aforementioned court borders. At times Burbecke belonged to the judicial district of the Oedingen dynasty .

Approximate population figures for Burbecke can be calculated for the first time around 1535. A treasury register created in 1536 (used to collect taxes) for the Duchy of Westphalia names 10 persons liable for the treasury in Burbecke. If one equates the number of those liable to treasure with the number of existing houses and calculates about 6 inhabitants per house, then about 60 people must have lived in Burbecke at that time. The first Prussian census of buildings and inhabitants from 1817 gives Burbecke 13 houses and 126 inhabitants.

The place, still dominated by agriculture, with businesses in particular in the forest and dairy industries and two restaurants serving tourism, had 89 inhabitants at the end of June 2020.

Incorporation

Until June 30, 1969 Burbecke belonged to the municipality of Elspe, then on July 1, 1969 it was incorporated into the new town of Lennestadt.

chapel

A special gem is the Burbeck Chapel , which is dedicated to St. Hubertus and St. Antonius (hermit) . The patronage was mentioned as early as 1794. The chapel is a Romanesque, single-nave hall building with a Gothic extension from the 13th century. The front part dates from the 18th century. During the renovation work in 1968, Gothic paintings were discovered in the apse, which were restored in 1979.

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  Burbecke Chapel

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  Altar and apse

The building is on the list of monuments of the city of Lennestadt.

Web links

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

Sources and literature

• Parish archive Elspe
• Archive Bamenohl
• Josef Brill: History of the Parish of Elspe. Olpe 1948.
• Oberelspe, Altenvalbert, Burbecke, Elsperhusen in texts and pictures. (Ed. for the 50th anniversary of the St. Quirinus shooting club and the SGV - Oberelspe department) Olpe 1985.
• Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of the district of Olpe. Munster 1902.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ Oberelspe, Altenvalbert, Burbecke, Elsperhusen p. 7
3. ↑ Pickertsche Sammlung, PDF p. 67 Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Oberelspe, Altenvalbert, Burbecke, Elsperhusen p. 7
5. ↑ cf. Michael Flöer, The place names in the Olpe district, Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), publishing house for regional history. Bielefeld 2014, pp. 68,69
6. ↑ Brill, page 75 ff
7. ↑ Oberelspe, Altenvalbert, Burbecke, Elsperhusen p. 13
8. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt
9. ^ Local law of the city of Lennestadt: List of localities