House Beckedorf (Werne-Horst)

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House Beckedorf was a moated castle in the Horst farming community , which today belongs to Werne , very close to today's Möllenhof farm. She was right of the highway today, of Bockum after about Ascheberg belonging Herbern leads (Herberner road). The knight's seat was built around 1500 and demolished in 1855.

House Beckedorf was in the back of this field on Herberner Strasse. Due to the land consolidation measures of around 1965, the moats and masonry of the former castle complex have now disappeared.

Beckedorf

The name Beckedorf is mentioned in its original form "Bickenthorpe" or "Bickedorpe" in documents dating from 1193, 1267, 1337 and 1342. It means "farmers by the stream".

In 1193, Bishop Hermann II von Katzenelnbogen gave the Cappenberg monastery a large tithe (12 denarii) and a large tithe (2 denarii) from Heinrich's estate and eight denarii from another court, both in Beckedorf. There was a free bank property in Beckedorf, which is why the documents of the 13th and 14th centuries mention several free men who appeared as lay judges at the free chair in Nordick. So there was a hearing at Fehmstuhl zu Nordick (Berle) in 1267, at which Herman appeared as a free man among the lay judges in Beckedorf. In 1337 and 1342 Joh. De Bickedrope appeared next to Eberhardus.

state of construction

The castle complex has not been preserved. Burgplatz was still clearly visible until around 1965. It was bordered by the moats, old brickwork and a group of ancient chestnuts. After that, the space was leveled as part of the land consolidation. Today it is used for agriculture.

history

House Beckedorf is said to have been built around 1500 by Gert von Hövel . This was the son of another Gert von Hövel, who had his residence at House Stockum . The latter was lost to the family when Gert von Hövel the Younger and his brother Gödeke (also: Gödecke or Godert) were declared forfeited by Hövel because of Felonie (breach of loyalty to the feudal lord) of their fiefdom at Stockum Castle. Gert von Hövel then built Beckedorf as his new residence and from then on called himself “Gert de Hüvele at Beckedorf Castle”. In contrast to Haus Stockum, Beckedorf was not a feudal property awarded by the Herford Monastery , but an allodial property .

At the insistent request, Gert de Hüvele was enfeoffed again with Stockum in 1505, while Gödeke de Hüvele was permanently excluded. This started a feud over centuries of ownership of the Stockum and Beckedorf estates. Its course is described in detail in the article on House Stockum .

In 1568 Berndt von Hövel took out a loan for which he owed a pension of six Malter rye. Hermann von Merveldt zu Westerwinkel vouched for this claim, and in return the goods from the Schulze Wessel inheritance were offered as security. In 1728, Count von Merveldt finally had to act as guarantor for the debts, and he also had other major demands. Therefore the goods Schulze Wessel, Schütte and Siepenkort belonging to Beckedorf went to him.

The last owner of Beckedorf from the von Hövel family was called Bitter. When he died around 1640, his sister's guardians failed to get her into the property. Thereupon Johann von Hassenkamp was immitted. After a ruling by the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar to the detriment of Hassenkamp, ​​the property went to Freiherr von Böhmer (Boymer / Bäumer), who meanwhile owned all of the von Hövel's goods on a long lease.

The last heir to this family was Anna Sophia Elisabeth, owner of Beckedorf from 1701 to 1726 and married to Count Albert Franz von Thienne. When she died in 1726, Beckedorf came to the Count of Lignéville by will from the year she died in 1752 when the property was divided among the various heirs . This in turn died around 1800 in the war against France, after which Joseph Graf von Gourci became heir and fiefdom of the Beckedorf family.

In 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte declared all fiefs to be free goods. The Count of Gourci then sold the estate to Johannes David von Schlebrügge in the same year . Von Schlebrügge, born on October 8th, was Maire (Mayor) of Werne between 1807 and 1814 . On August 9, 1816 he was then appointed "District Commissioner" of the newly formed Lüdinghausen district . In this position he received permission to do his business at Haus Beckedorf. In 1818 Schlebrügge was promoted to district administrator. The district administration remained on his Beckedorf estate. Only in 1828 did he move the district administration to Lüdinghausen . His son Franz von Schlebrügge moved to France as a volunteer hunter in 1813.

In 1855 Karl Graf von Merveldt zu Westerwinkel bought the Beckedorf house. He had the old building demolished in the same year. The Merveldts still own the property.

The gentlemen von Beckedorf as trademark judges

The Lords of Beckedorf were trademark judges in Hanloh, a mark of the parish of Bockum.

Patronage right to the Stephanuskirche Bockum

The ownership of Beckedorf Castle was also linked to the right of patronage over the Bockum parish, represented by the Stephanus Church . The patron saint and patron saints used to have the right to propose the holder of a pastor's position, who was then officially appointed by the bishop. The patronage family was also responsible for furnishing the church. She also had the right to be buried in this church.

The owners of the patronage rights were therefore first the Lords of Hövel, then the von Boymer, then the Counts of Lignéville, then the Counts of Gourci, then the Lords of Schlebrügge zu Beckedorf and finally the Counts of Merveldt von Westerwinkel. It still lies with them and is still practiced by them to this day. Even after the seizures in 1568, the right of patronage remained with the owners of the Beckedorf family; for the year 1571 Bernard von Hövel is named in the episcopal visitation protocols as patron of the patronage of Bockum.

In the Stephanuskirche in Bockum there is a coat of arms of a holder of the patronage right. The coat of arms "Zurmühlen" shows a crowned lion, turned to the right, holding a lily in its paws, while the lower half of a gray, natural-colored millstone is shown below. There is an inscription on the coat of arms: obiit - 1804 - April 25th - aetatis 29 (she died - 1804, April 25th - at the age of 29). In the church book of the then parish church St. Stephanus in the episcopal archive in Münster it says about the woman who died in 1804: Clara Bernardine von Schlebrügge, b. Zurmühlen, wife of Mr. von Schlebrügge, owner of the Beckedorf estate, 29 years old, died on April 25 in the morning at 1/2 11 in childbed, the undersigned (Pastor Joseph Kumann ) knew the deceased personally, buried on April 27, Hereditary funeral, leaves behind a husband and five miner children .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Information from residents.

literature

  • Franz Bäumer, Johannes Werges, Günther Bachtrop, Heinz-Josef Dörholt, Annelies Langenstroth, Andreas Weber, St. Stephanus Bockum 1907–2007 , Catholic parish HeiligGeist Bockum-Hövel, St. Stephanus Bockum parish, Löcke Druck GmbH Hamm, 2006.
  • Schroeder, Willi E .: A home book. Two districts introduce themselves. Bockum and Hövel. , 1980.
  • Fritz Schumacher, Hartmut Greilich: Bockum-Hövel. From history and local history , Hamm 1956, new edition 2002.
  • Julius Schwieters, Geschichtliche Nachrichten about the eastern part of the district Lüdinghausen . 1886.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 28 "  N , 7 ° 41 ′ 20"  E