House Letmathe
House Letmathe was the mansion of the Letmathe family in the former town of the same name, which has been part of the town of Iserlohn since 1975 . It is first mentioned around the year 1036. The current state of construction dates back to around 1605.
history
The lords of Letmathe and the lords of Letmathe were the counts of Limburg (Lenne) and the counts of Altena-Mark as a fief . The last "von Letmathe" stayed in the late 14th century, then various gentlemen followed Letmathe, from 1576 (until 1812) the gentlemen von Brabeck from Kirchhellen (near Bottrop ), who also owned the Hemer manor . These included the Prince-Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck and the art connoisseur and founder of the Chalkographische Gesellschaft zu Dessau, Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck .
The entrepreneur Friedrich Wilhelm Ebbinghaus had been the landlord since 1812 . Another important family at Haus Letmathe was the family of Carl Overweg with his son August Overweg , who bought the house in 1852 and kept it until 1918.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the agriculture and forestry school at Letmathe was housed there.
In the 1970s, the facility fell into disrepair. All outbuildings were demolished. Only the threshing floor was rebuilt in the Westphalian Open Air Museum in Hagen .
In the period 2008/2009, the Letmathe house was completely renovated and made disabled-friendly. Today there is a branch of the Iserlohn city library and the local history museum of the Letmathe district of the city of Iserlohn in the Letmathe building.
museum
The local museum includes
- agricultural equipment and rural cultural property
- Career history and products of the Letmath industry
- Letmather traffic history
Name stories
The Lords of Letmathe left their mark far beyond their homeland, for example in Gouda in the Netherlands or as a knight of the order in East Prussia .
People with the name "Letmathe", "Lethmathe", "Letmate" or "Lethmate" can still be found all over Europe today. For the city's jubilee in 1961, the mayor had these people searched and found more than 60 different people with the name "Letmathe". Among others in Münster (12), Bielefeld (11), Rheine (4), Dortmund (3), Bremen (3), Leopoldshöhe (2) and Duisburg (2).
The best-known person who bears the name "Letmathe" today is probably Peter Brabeck-Letmathe , who was, among other things, CEO of the Nestlé Group. Its name can be traced back to the Brabeck family , who owned the Letmathe house from 1573 to 1812 and called themselves "von Brabeck zu Letmathe".
literature
- Stephanie Marra: Letmathe House . In: Ministry for Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia / Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, pp. 269–271.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Documents from the Letmathe archive / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Municipal Museum Haus Letmathe on the website of the city of Iserlohn
- Friends of Haus Letmathe e. V.
- Genealogy of the German noble family von Lethmate and their descendants in Germany and the Netherlands
Altena: German Wire Museum | County Mark Museum | World Youth Hostel Museum | Balve: Luisenhütte Wocklum | Museum of Prehistory and Early History | Halver: Local history museum Halver | Hemer: Felsenmeer Museum | Iserlohn: Hemberg Museum | German Cave Museum | Historic Maste-Barendorf factory complex | Historic grain distillery Bimberg | Iserlohn Museum for Crafts and Postal History | East German Heimatstuben and local history museum Ohlau | Collection from urban cleaning and waste disposal | Iserlohn City Museum | Villa Wessel | House Letmathe | Kierspe: Bakelite Museum Kierspe | Schleiper Hammer | Lüdenscheid: Bremecker Hammer | History Museum of the City of Lüdenscheid | Phenomenta Lüdenscheid | Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid | Menden: Museum Menden | Industrial Museum Menden | Westphalian Carnival Museum | Plettenberg: Heimathaus Plettenberg | Schalksmühle: Schalksmühle Hunting Museum | Werdohl: Werdohl City Museum
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 58 " N , 7 ° 36 ′ 30" E