Donkey ride
Eselsfahrt was a farm in Solingen , Burg an der Wupper district , south of today's Talsperrenstrasse and northeast of Höhrath . There are no visible remains.
The aristocratic estate
The first mention of the estate can be found in 1265 with Eysilswarde . The lords of Bodlenberg ( Budelinberg ) who were wealthy around Burg an der Wupper were not only confidants of the Counts of Berg , but also among the special supporters of the Johanniter .
Countess Margareta von Berg and Adolf, their first-born, certify that Knight Engilbert von Bodlinberg, with the consent of his son, will transfer his estate in Höhrath ( Hurderode ) to Johann there; the Johannis Hospital in Burg, which had to receive 3 solidi from this property, had to rely on the same pension on their goods for the donkey ride, but had exchanged the property in Winkelhausen ( Unterwinkelhausen ) ( Winkelhusin ) from the aforementioned Johan for the Höhrath estate . Witnesses are the knights Adolf von Stammheim, Adolf von Bongarde, Theodoricus von Elnere and Wilhelm von Heldin. This is confirmed in a second document from 1266.
In 1363 the knight Heinrich Schirp owned the Eselsfahrt farm. The farm seems to have been leased for the first time in 1446, at least it says in the files for the replacement of the Natural pensions in 1850 according to the contract of 1446 .
The property is leased
In 1513 the commander gentlemen's rounds of the Johanniter zu Burg an der Wupper appear in the lift register : Nultze hayt dem orden affgewonnen (leased) eynen Hoff and lant called dey donkey ride ... and eyn stuckelgen bysch located on Heydputze .
Thönnes Herkenrath names the lift register from 1685, who has to pay four Taler 60 Albus from a farm to the Johanniter zur Burg. The Kluckhen brothers also leased five acres there and paid four talers for it. Other tenants are Ludwig Limburg and Hans Peter Kremer. The lift registers from 1686 and 1687 show the same tenants but different lease amounts. A description from 1732 comes from the Heitersheim headquarters of the order. The donkey ride in the Freiheit Burg lasts 40 acres 2 quarters 22.5 rods.
The Eselsfahrter grounds were leased to widow Jacob Schreiber, Johann Herkenrath and Godfried Nigelgen in 1748 by the manager Johan Jacob Müller from Herrenstrunden.
A description of the property from 1791 goes on: On the great Steeg an Örtgen Busch, on the one hand to Hasenclever von Ehringhausen, on the other hand Lenart's heirs, primarily the wolf chamber, has Hasenclever on lease. NB. The hammer that stands on the ground of the order shoots at this. Because when the lease expires in 1785, the Hasenclever asks to continue leasing in order to build a new Reckhammer next to the old one, he is allowed to do so. He receives the lease for six talers a year.
On August 12, 1802, the citizen vicar Josef Schwippert leased a meadow near the oil mill on the Kupferhammer for twelve years, from the Order of Malta. Obviously, Maltese grounds were also due to the lower castle, whether they belonged to the donkey ride is questionable.
In 1802 the Eselsfahrter grounds are leased for six years by manager Hofmann zu Herrenstrunden on the orders of Baron von Zürhein, commander of the high Order of Malta, to Jacob Schreiber, Anton John, Wilh. Schwippert.
Tenant after Herrenstrunden
In 1806, Johann Fischer gave nothing of the lands he had previously leased during the donkey trip, which he had previously leased for 15 thalers. They were left to him freely, but he was supposed to take care of the bushes of the coming. Only the contract concluded with him expired on September 11, 1806, and the fisheries of the commander in Sengbach, which the forester enjoys, also expired.
In 1806 the Eselsfahrter grounds are leased to Jacob Schreiber, Peter Schreiber, Friedrich Wilhelm Herkenrath, Anton John, Friedrich Wilh. Schwippert. Together they pay 24 Taler 60 Albus rent. The land in the donkey ride is leased to Heinz Ningelchen, Rüttger Schwippert, Jacob Schneider, Peter Schreiber, Wilhelm Herkenrath, Heinz Josef Schwippert, Peter Hansen, Josef Dessei, forest warden Fischer, Jacob Wirtz and Adolf Müller by Rentei Solingen on August 6, 1808 . In 1813 Jac. Ningelchen, Christ. Langen, Pet. Eichholz, Dan. Jörgens, heirs of Wilh. Jörgens, Jac. Forstmann. Josua Hasenclever, Ehringhausen, offers on June 22, 1818, to pay a multiple annual income as a replacement for the lease.
The donkey ride in the cadastre
In the original cadastral map from 1828 it says northeast of Höhrath "On the Eselsfahrt" and further northwest "Eselsfahrt". Registered as owners are u. a. Bernhard Hasenclever and the owner of Gut Niederwinkelhausen at the time, Engelbert Nickel from Benrath. Heydputz, already mentioned in 1513, is also shown on maps from 1732 onwards. This fountain or pond can also be found in the original cadastral map.
The widow Bernhard Hasenclever, Dorothea Hermes, sold several properties belonging to the castle in 1834, including several parcels that were called "donkey ride".
Daniel Voss, who lives in Angerscheid, owned the cadastral article 310 of Burg's mother role in 1834. The size of the estate was 45 acres, including two "Donkey Ride" plots, eight acres 30 rods 30 feet tall.
On February 12, 1834 Daniel Voss sold two acres of farmland on Westhoferfeld to Josef Weidenfels in front of notary Peter Hamm in Wermelskirchen. They belonged to cadastral article 310 and were in the "Eselsfahrt" corridor section. In the country there was a natural pension of two bushels of oats per year for the benefit of the domain treasury. Weidenfels expressly declared itself ready to accept the rent in kind.
The donkey ride to this day
Daniel Voss, now Josef Weidenfels, as the subsequent owner of the Hasenclever heirs, was asked on June 20, 1839 to have a notarial recognition certificate issued for the pension in kind or to replace the tax by paying 50 Taler 12 Albus 6 Heller.
Daniel Voss zur Burg borrows in 1841 from Amalie Henriette Platte von der Große Ledder in Dabringhausen, widow of Phillip Heinrich Pastor in Aachen, 2200 thalers on house in hallway 1 plot 255, and a. also on farmland in donkey ride corridor 1 plot 246 and 247.
On March 30, 1850, the owner at the time, Franz Arnold Jäger, Gasthaus in der Straßen , replaced the pension in kind by paying 33 Taler 5 Albus 8 Heller to the domain treasury. On April 23, 1853, Domain Councilor Hellinger hands over the transfer certificate to Franz Arnold Jäger, who confirms this with his signature. Parts of the lands of the donkey ride were sold in 1931 by the Jäger family to the then city of Burg. The name Eselsfahrt is still used today as a hiking trail. The entry “An der Eselsfahrt” has also been preserved in the German basic map, as is a small pond as the successor to the former Heydpütz. The actual source is now below the large parking lot on the Oberburger Talsperrenstraße.
source
- Breidenbach, NJ, New "Old Views" of Castle Castle or the Johanniter Hof Eselsfahrt an der Oberburg. In: Romerike Berge, Volume 58, Issue 1, Essen 2008, ISSN 0485-4306
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 58.9 ″ E