Erlhof (Kirchhundem)

Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Arnsberg administrative district
County :	District of Olpe
Municipality :	Kirchhundem
Height :	385 m above sea level NN
Residents :	51 (December 31, 2013)

Erlhof is a hamlet in the northeast of the municipality of Kirchhundem . As of December 31, 2013, the town had 51 residents.

geography

Geographical location

Erlhof is about 380 m above sea level at the foot of the Bone , the western foothills of the 622 m high Heisterberg . In the bottom of the valley flows the Selbecke, the largest right-hand tributary of the Hundem .

Neighboring places

The closest places are Selbecke in the west immediately adjacent, Stelborn about 1 km northeast, Schwartmecke 1 km east and Oberhundem 2 km southeast.

history

Erlhof was originally a single estate . Albert Kleffmann suspects it to be part of the Rüdenberg chair man's curia, which Goswin von Rüdenberg sold to the brothers Hermann and Wilhelm von Oele in 1350.

In the first documentary mention in 1393, Count Dietrich von der Mark issued the Erlehoff as a man fief to Hermann von Ole.

In the middle of the second half of the 15th century, on the occasion of the division of the estate between the two sons Johann and Eberhard, his grandson Hermann von Ole der Erlhof then apparently divided into two semi-estates.

Eberhard's inheritance is shared on January 4, 1526 between his 3 sons Hermann, Kaspar and Christian, who then each hold 1/6 good or 1/3 semi-good.

When in 1571 Goswin von Ole, a son of Kaspar von Oeles and grandson of Eberhard, sold his share in the Erlhof to the tenant Vinzenz Kuckuck, Eberhard, another grandson, complained the following year that it could be redeemed. Eberhard wins in several instances, but Vinzenz Kuckuck repeatedly appeals. Finally, the process even ends up at the Reich Chamber of Commerce. The proceedings were not set until 1614, when all those involved and witnesses had died.

In 1577 Anna von Oel and her husband, Hermann von Zertzen, sold all of their goods, which Anna had inherited from her father Christian in the offices of Bilstein and Fredeburg, to Caspar von Fürstenberg, who in turn sold the sixth part of the Erlhof to Eberhard von Bruch .

On January 14, 1617, Kaspar Berndt Gogreve and his wife Elisabeth von Ole sell their justice at both Erlhof farms to Eberhard von Bruch, who now owns the entire Erlhof. How Eberhard von Ole came into possession of half the estate of his great-uncle Johann has not yet been proven.

For the time of the Thirty Years' War only incomplete evidence is available. Apparently, large parts of the courtyard were at times desolate. From around 1660, there were three tenants on the Erlhof. The reasons for this changed division are still unclear, but these three farms have survived into modern times.

As a replacement for the Walthaus Gut in Oberhundem, a table good owned by the Archbishops of Cologne, on whose sole Johan Adolf von Fürstenberg had the Adolfsburg Castle built, Wilhelm Henrich von Bruch offered the Archbishop the Erlhof's goods association as a fief in 1674.

Around 1800 a kötter settled on the Erlhof, and in 1935 a carpenter.

From the 1960s onwards, there was a lot of building activity on the part of the residents, which allowed the place to grow to its present size.

Culture and sights

Culinary specialties

Bauerngeizkuchen ( potato pickert , also called Riewekooche in Siegerland ) is a light yeast bread in which part of the flour is replaced with grated potatoes. Salted butter, homemade jam or apple jelly and malt coffee are served with it.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Erlhof is located on the county road K21, which from the highway starting L553 on Selbecke, Erlhof, Stel Born and Schwartmecke in Oberhundem leads back to L553.

literature

• Aloys Klein (editor): Contributions to the history - parish and community Oberhundem , Oberhundem 1972.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on January 13, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 8 ° 9 ′  E