Noble churches

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Noble churches
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 410 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 58553
Area code : 02355
Edelkirchen (Halver)
Noble churches

Location of Edelkirchen in Halver

Edelkirchen is a court in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Edelkirchen is located northwest of Halver's main town at 410 above sea ​​level on a ridge between the valleys of the Löhbach and Rehbrauckbach , both tributaries of the Ennepe . The place can be reached via a side road that branches off from Landesstraße 528. Neighboring places are Becke , Neuenvahlefeld , Brenscheid , Lingensiepen , Auf den Kuhlen , Löhbach , Krause Buche and Rothenbruch with the Nordeler Schleifkotten .

history

The Edelkirchen free and knightly estate and the associated Edelkirchen chapel were first mentioned in a document in 1096, the time when the settlement was established by the Sugambrian tribes is probably to be dated to the beginning of the Christian era. Edelkirchen is thus one of the three oldest settlements in Halver. The Edelkirch chapel was probably built in the 7th century.

In the Middle Ages , Edelkirchen was very likely a manor and mansion secured with a moat . However, no particular mansion has survived. In the early Middle Ages, the area around Edelkirchen was a royal special property, a so-called Sondern or Sundern. This fact has still been preserved in the name of the neighboring court of Sundern , which was a split off from Edelkirchen. Like Lausberge, Edelkirchen was given by the King to the Archbishop of Cologne , who in turn transferred it to the Siegburg Abbey in 1096 .

Edelkirchen is the headquarters of the noble family Edelkirchen . The mention of the family around 1370 as Eydelinckhusen proves the -inghausen form of an earlier name of the place. Extensive archaeological finds from the Neolithic and Middle Stone Age ( Rennöfen , settlement remains ), as well as from the 10th to 16th centuries ( ceramics ) also indicate a very early and continuous settlement. Numerous documents from the 11th to the 19th century attest to the rich history of the noble house and court.

As noble churches in the 15./16. Developed into a manor in the 19th century , the farm was around 850 acres in size .

In 1818 15 people lived in the village. In 1838 Edelkirchen belonged to the Kamscheider peasantry within the Halver mayor . According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , the place designated as a country estate had two houses and five agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 14 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 63 inhabitants who lived in eight houses.

Since the Middle Ages (according to other information since prehistoric times) there was an important old road east of Edelkirchen , the trade , pilgrimage and military route between Hagen and Siegen , today's state road L528.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
  3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.