Engstfeld (Halver)

Narrow field City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 29 ″ E
Height :	350 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Engstfeld in Halver

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

Location and description

Engstfeld lies at an altitude of 350 meters above sea level in southern Halver, directly on the city limits of Wipperfürth . The Hönnige , a tributary of the Wupper, flows through the village .

Neighboring places are Auf dem Heede , Brocksiepen and Wöste , as well as the Wipperfürth localities Engsfeld and Niederengsfeld . The place can be reached via a side road that branches off the state road L284 near Engsfeld and leads to Rönsahl .

The Hofschaft consists of two separate settlement areas, which are called Oberengstfeld and Mittelengstfeld to distinguish them. The cut- off in Niederengsfeld is already in the Wipperfürth urban area.

history

Engstfeld was first mentioned in a document in 1163, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 693 and 750 during the Saxon - Franconian border disputes.

Engstfeld was an upper court of the Herdecke monastery . The Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr ran south-west of the village from the Middle Ages until the early modern times .

In the Middle Ages , Engstfeld was very likely a manor and manor house, inhabited by aristocrats and secured by a moat . Members of the von Plettenberg zu Engstfeld family (von Plettenberg = Westphalian nobility) for the period from 1567 to 1649 are known in various publications. In 1707 the estate with at least 600 acres (approx. 1.54 km²) was sold for financial reasons and passed into civil ownership. Between 1720/30 and 1790 it belonged to the von Holtzbrinck family from Altena and from 1790 to a related family from Hesse. The latter sold the property to a farmer around 1822. Today none of the original courtyard buildings exist.

Around 1500 it is documented by documents that the Engstfeld farm was subject to tax in the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg . The jurisdiction of the court was subordinate to a Bergisch judge specially appointed for the Bergische Höfe in the otherwise Brandenburg- dominated parish of Halver, which often led to a dispute with the Brandenburg count actually responsible for the parish .

In 1818 28 people lived in the village. In 1838 Engstfeld belonged as Obern-Engstfeld to the Bommerter peasantry within the Halver mayor . The place, which was categorized as a farm and a former manor according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had two residential buildings and five agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 20 people living in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 31 residents who lived in five houses.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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 ).
^ District archive of the Märkisches Kreis: House Carlowitz-Holtzbrinck. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
^ Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 , p. 236
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

[jung-1] 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] District archive of the Märkisches Kreis: House Carlowitz-Holtzbrinck. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .

[3] Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 , p. 236

[4] 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1887-5] 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.