House Bruch (Kirchhundem)

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Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg administrative district
County : District of Olpe
Municipality : Kirchhundem
Height : 350 m above sea level NN
Residents : 4 (December 31, 2013)

Haus Bruch is a single farm in the north of the municipality of Kirchhundem and the former seat of the noble lords of Bruch. As of December 31, 2013, the place had four residents.

geography

House break

Geographical location

Haus Bruch is located on the northern edge of the Hundemtal floodplain just below the mouth of the Selbecke. The floodplain and the valley slope to the north are cultivated as meadows and pastures, while in the other areas predominantly high spruce forest grows. The route of the Kriegerweg - a medieval long-distance path - passes around 500 m to the northwest .

Neighboring places

The closest places are Selbecke 0.5 km east, Würdinghausen 1.5 km west and Marmecke 2 km south.

history

Haus Bruch in 2006
Detail from a hunting map of the Bruch house (17th century)

Haus Bruch was probably built in the middle of the 14th century from a property owned by the von Hundem bailiffs , who from then on call themselves von Bruch . A document from 1356 reports that the nobleman Johann v. Bilstein takes her and her house under his protection. In the following years the family v. Bruch Burgmänner and from 1421 until the end of the Brandenburg period in 1445 also the bailiff at Bilstein Castle.

In 1628 Haus Bruch was called Castrum Broch (Burg Bruch) and in 1680 it was described as our Freyadelich house with moats and ramparts . The decline of the Bruch house began as early as the Thirty Years' War. The lavish lifestyle leads to increasing debt and, as a result, land sales. The original supremacy in the upper Hundem valley is increasingly taken over by Messrs. Fürstenberg and its Adolfsburg Castle a few kilometers upstream.

In 1761, with the death of Johann Nikolaus v. Break the male line of Messrs. V. Fracture. The remaining property goes first to von Schade and later to v. Fürstenberg who incorporated him into their own possessions. The property itself continues to be leased and is finally sold to the lessee after the Second World War.

Today there are no visible traces of the former noble house. The entry in the Oberhundemer Jagdkarte from 1743 shows two buildings and a larger baroque garden, but without moats. The current buildings were built in 1881 (residential building) and 1938/39 (barn).


Culture and sights

Stone cross

Buildings

About 2 km north of Haus Bruch is the stone cross in the forest , a wayside shrine dedicated to St. Nicholas from 1713. The legend tells that two travelers wanted to cross the flood leading Lenne on the warrior path near Totenohl near Gleierbrück . The first knelt, said a prayer to St. Nicholas, the patron saint of travelers, and crossed the raging river unscathed. The second laughed at the piety of the first, fell and perished in the floods. As a thank you for crossing the river intact, the first traveler had the wayside shrine built on the hill high above the ford.

traffic

A short spur road leads to the L553 road, which is also used by the R36 bus from Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen Süd .

literature

  • Günther Becker and Matin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community . Ed .: the community director of the Kirchhundem community, Kirchhundem 1994, ISBN 3-923483-15-5 .
  • Aloys Klein (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history - parish and community Oberhundem . Ed .: Pastor Aloys Klein, Oberhundem 1972.
  • Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland - a village tells - Würdinghausen in the Hundemtal . Verlag Heike Schriever, Plettenberg 1998, ISBN 3-9806543-0-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E