Corner field

Eckenfeld (also Ockenfeld ) is a submerged village in what is now Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Eckenfeld belonged to the parish of Diedenshausen .

location

The desert is halfway between the Garsbach and the Rübengrund .

history

The village is mentioned for the first time in 1324 with Wigand von Ekevelde as aldermen of Battenberg . His son Gerlach von Eckenfeld appeared as a lay judge in Battenberg from 1345. The village had its own chapel - capella Ockenfelden . As with the towns of Borhausen , Bubenhausen and Hopperghausen , the knights of Diedenshausen appear again in connection with Eckenfeld. In 1395 Gerlach von Diedenshausen sold his entire share in the village to Brosken von Viermünden .

Earlier names

1324 - Ekevelde
1345 - Ekenfeld
1356 - Eckenfelt
1384 - Eckinfelden
1395 - Eckefeldenn
1583 - Eckenveldt
1591 - Eckenfeldt

literature

Albrecht Eckhardt : Upper Hessian monasteries, registers and documents. Volume 2 (Monasteries of the City of Marburg and Wetter Abbey) , Marburg 1967.
Eckhart G. Franz : Haina Monastery. Regesta and certificates. Second volume, first half. Marburg, 1970.
Günther Wrede : Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein , 1927.
Lars Womelsdorf: Contributions to the history of the village Alertshausen