Eternal (Attendorn)

Forever City of Attendorn Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	263 m
Residents :	68  (Jan. 2, 2020)
Postal code :	57439
Area code :	02722
Location of Ewig in North Rhine-Westphalia
Hotel-Restaurant Forsthaus Ewig

Ewig is a district of the city of Attendorn in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and has 68 inhabitants.

location

The district Ewig is located southwest of the core town of Attendorn, east of Neu-Listernohl and north of the Biggesee dam . The Kölner Straße (L 539), the Finnentrop-Olpe railway line , runs through the village and the Ihne flows through it , which flows into the Bigge at the Bigge power station .

history

Ewig is first mentioned in 1166 as " mansum in Awich ". The place name can be interpreted as " settlement on the water ". A noble family is first mentioned in 1258 with the knight Ecchehart von Ewich . The last owner from this family, Godefridus de Ewich , sold his estate in Ewig and other goods on August 19, 1420 to a foundation, whose ownership later enabled the establishment of the Ewig monastery . The Lords of Ewich had a crossbeam in the escutcheon and, above it, two mill irons standing side by side.

Another noble house and estate above the monastery and a farm, the Jakobshof, located between Gut Hespecke and the monastery, was owned by the Lords of Heygen zu Ewich from 1446 . In documents 1446 Wedekind von Heygen zu Ewich or later from 1541 Johann von Heygen zu Ewich are named as the owner. The aristocratic estate came to the von Droste zu Erwitte family in the 17th century , who sold it to the monastery on September 10, 1676. The Jakobshof (so-called after the former leaseholder Jakob Hellner) came into the possession of the imperial field sergeant Lothar Dietrich von Bönninghausen in 1618 , who gave it to the monastery on March 26, 1636. But shortly afterwards the Jakobshof was devastated in the Thirty Years War and not rebuilt.

Politically, Ewig belonged to the Waldenburg office and in the Gogericht and parish Attendorn to the Albringhausen peasantry , to which neighboring towns such as Fernholte , Weschede , Beukenbeul and others also belonged. In the appraisal register of 1565, a Jacob zu Ewigh (Jakobshof) with a tax of 1½ gold gulden is mentioned in the peasantry .

The address book from 1899 lists the names "Franz (royal chief forester), Adam Halbfas (administrator) and Metzler (royal forester)" in Ewig. In 1936 there were 3 houses with 3 households and 26 residents in the village. In 1988 Ewig had 49 inhabitants.

1819 Eternal belonged in office Attendorn to the municipality Attendorn-Land , was incorporated into the city Attendorn to the community 1969th Today the Attendorn correctional facility , the acs-Automotive Center South Westphalia, companies and workshops, several residential buildings and the “Forsthaus Ewig” hotel-restaurant characterize the district.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics of the Hanseatic city of Attendorn , accessed on May 24, 2020
2. ↑ Document book of Siegburg Abbey, Document No. 50 of August 15, 1166
3. ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe , in: Westfälisches Ortsnamenbuch, Volume 8, Bielefeld 2014, page 94/95
4. ^ History of the noble families von Ewig and von Heggen zu Ewig in: Pickertsche Sammlung von Willi Voss and Robert J. Sasse, 2005–2012, pages 32–40 and 72–74
5. ↑ Julius Pickert: The farms of the Attendorn parish in the 17th century , in: Heimatblätter des Kreis Olpe, 4th century. 1926/27, page 41
6. ↑ Brunabend, Josef: Attendorn Schnellenberg, Waldenburg and Ewich - a contribution to the history of the Duchy of Westphalia , publishing Coppenrath 1878, page 248
7. ↑ The 16th century appraisal registers for the Duchy of Westphalia , Part 1 (1536 and 1565), Münster 1971, page 218
8. ^ Address book for the city and the district of Olpe, Altena 1899, section Attendorn Office, page 18
9. ^ Official residents' register of the district of Olpe 1938, section Attendorn Office, page XV
10. ^ Association for local and local history Attendorn e. V., Bulletin No. 14 (1990), page 15