Haberger Hof
The Haberger Hof is located together with the neighboring Gut Haberg northwest of Lövenich in the area of the city of Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Both farms are located west of the Erkelenz-Lövenich road, isolated in the field, they are on a spur that rises above the lower Nysterbach valley. The farms are located at the transition from the Erkelenz Börde in the east to the Baaler Riedelland in the west.
archeology
North of the courtyards is one of the most important finds of Stone Age flint blades in the Rhineland. The farmer Hubert Jansen von Gut Haberg visited the 40 hectare site for decades and amassed a large collection of around 5500 artefacts . Paleolithic finds come from the Middle Paleolithic (96 artifacts) and the Upper Paleolithic (around 550 artifacts). 59 finds can be clearly assigned to the Mesolithic . The Neolithic Michelsberg culture left numerous pottery and stone tools.
Court history
The Haberger Hof was first mentioned in a document in 1302 in a list of the agricultural possessions of the Cistercian nuns of Dalheim Abbey. Accordingly, the previous owner was a certain Wilhelm Cram. It is unclear whether the farm came into the possession of the monastery through purchase or donation. The next few years of management are unclear and will certainly remain so. It was not until 1605 that a Hermann Neelis was named as Halfmann des Habergs in a survey of Tenholter farmers by the Vogt von Erkelenz . In 1650 Conigundis Moll, daughter of the late tenant of Gut Kippingen , married Arnold Porten , the rent master of the Dalheim monastery, and the couple became tenants of the Haberger Hof. In 1686 the couple Paul Arnold and Barbara (née Myrbach) Schiffer took over the farm. After his marriage to Christina Müller in 1721, the son Johann Adam becomes the new tenant.
The entry from the Dalheim lease book shows the following services and goods as lease payments: 20 Malter rye, 28 Malter barley, six Malter wheat, two Malter peas, two Malter rapeseed, six Stein flax , three old piglets, a fat calf, a lamb, a mutton, six chickens, 100 eggs, 21 Reichstaler and a business trip for the abbess with all the horses. Furthermore, three pounds of wax, two Sümmer rye, two Sümmer oats and a lamb were to be given to the church in Lövenich. The sexton got a sum of rye. Likewise, ten acres had to be paid profit and trade tax and, in the event of war, the elector had to be provided with a horse and an army car.
Due to considerable lease arrears, the couple was given notice on August 13, 1740 to February 22, 1741 ( Kathedra Petri ). On February 22, 1741 Wilhelm and Gertrud Jansen moved into the farm as new tenants. On January 8, 1789, son Johann Peter, who married Clara Maria Holtz from Müntz on September 7, 1775, took over the lease.
During the French Revolution , following the conquest of the Rhineland by consular resolution, the monasteries were abolished and dissolved in the course of general secularization . The Haberger Hof became national property on August 13, 1802. In 1806, Count Ludwig von Hompesch, who lived at Rurich Castle , bought the farm from the domain administration .
The Jansen couple continued to run the farm all the time and signed the lease agreement with the Count of Hompesch on November 21, 1806. On March 18, 1817, Johann Peter bought the farm from the Count for 42,000 francs. The Jansen couple gave birth to four sons. Clara Maria died shortly after the birth of the last son at the age of 38. The third son Gottfried married Anna Maria Maassen from Katzem on June 18, 1812 and helped her to manage the land, which has now been acquired and inherited, over 300 acres (this is very likely the Cologne morning with 31.75 ares) grown yard. Gottfried did not survive his father and died on August 14, 1827. Johann Peter died five years later at the age of 81 on May 19, 1832.
His daughter-in-law Anna Maria took over the Haberger Hof with her four (of eight) still living children. After marrying Anna Sofia Hilgers, Peter Heinrich took over the Lützerather Hof in Lützerath . Augustin, Wilhelm and Maria Teresia stayed at the Haberger Hof. Maria Theresia died unmarried in 1856 at the age of 29. In 1841 Anna Maria decided to build a second farm and signed a contract with the brick master Andreas Dörbaum from Kleinbouslar for the burning of around 180,000 stones. Construction of the farm began in 1844 and lasted until 1851. By drawing lots it was decided that Augustin would stay at the Haberger Hof and that Peter Heinrich would move to the new one, Gut Haberg. Anna Maria also moved to the new farm. The land was divided evenly according to quality and size.
Augustin married Anna Maria Schlick from Holzweiler in November 1854 . Of the nine children born, Joseph took over the Haberger Hof in 1892 after his marriage to Agnes Froitzheim from Erkelenz. For a while, Joseph lived in the tenant's apartment at Gut Nierhoven in order to manage the Haberger Hof, Gut Nierhoven and the Scherreshof from there. This marriage resulted in three children, Philip died one day after the birth and Augustin died as a reserve lieutenant in Russia at the age of 28. In 1913 Maria married Peter Schliebeck, a lawyer from Erkelenz.
Today the family of four of Schliebeck's granddaughter lives in the Haberger Hof.
The farm is now a listed building .
literature
- Paul Bläsen, On the prehistory and Roman times of the city of Erkelenz, in: From the history of the Erkelenzer Land, writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV, Erkelenz 2006
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ N , 6 ° 18 ′ E