Ludwigseck (Erndtebrück)
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ' N , 8 ° 15' E
Ludwigseck is a settlement and a street name of the same name in the Benfe district of the Erndtebrück municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
In 1467 Count Georg von Wittgenstein enfeoffed two men with the village and the desert of Hackenbracht .
In the oldest church accounts of Erndtebrück, a Hofmann zu Hackenbracht was named in 1553. Today Hackenbracht is assigned to the Ludwigseck area. In 1607 the "Schneidemüller", a sawmill in the area of today's district of Ludwigseck, was first documented. In the years 1613 to 1621 the Hackenbracht farm was further expanded. Around 1619, the count's leasehold was first named Ludwigseck after the sovereign, Ludwig the Younger .
So-called courtiers managed the lease on behalf of the count's government. In 1682 the Count Ludwigseck was mentioned in a document because of its large livestock farming. Ludwigseck was particularly valued by the Counts of Wittgenstein because of its use as a hunting lodge; The court was also an ideal stopover for traveling gentlemen.
In 1699 the Ludwigseck farm and the cutting mill were leased to the ironworks factor J. Reinhard Rollwagen, the manager of the glassworks in the upper Lahn valley. In 1704 the lease renewal of the large iron hammer for JR trolleys took place. The establishment of the two iron hammers in Ludwigseck probably gave the impetus to colonize the upper Benfetal. Charcoal was needed to power the two hammers. The first charcoal burners settled there; In 1713, Johann Jost Hippenstiel was the first Benfer settler to be mentioned in a document. In the same year the hammer smith Johannes Schürmann was named as the leaseholder of Ludwigseck. The first Schürmannshof was built by him later. In 1739 the small iron hammer in Ludwigseck burned with one, the big hammer with two. From 1744 the Ludwigseck hammers were no longer mentioned because they had become unprofitable. The building stock in Ludwigseck was not insignificant in the 18th century: On September 11, 1745, Count Friedrich leased the Ludwigseck farm to the Swiss Mennonite David Eckhard and his co-tenant Christian Ewigsmann for 8 years. The lease included the living quarters and cattle shed and two barns. Excluded from the lease were the manorial house with its cellar, kitchen and horse stable, the cutting mill, the hunter's house and the hammer house on the Weiherdamm. In 1753 Count Friedrich had a new manorial house built in Ludwigseck. It did not last long there, because in 1787 it was demolished again on the orders of his son Johann Ludwig and then placed in Schwarzenau.
Around 1760 the first Kanongut (Frank) was built in Ludwigseck. The founding of the second canon property, the Wiedschen Hof, is more clearly documented by the existing canon letter of January 26, 1785.
Ludwigseck remained a leasehold farm until 1854. In 1819 Ludwigseck belonged to the Erndtebrück mayor district. There were four houses here, 43 residents lived there (32 ev. Ref., 11 Mennonites). After that, the population in Ludwigseck is essentially declining. Around 1900 only nine residents were mentioned. It should have been only the residents of the two farms and the forester's house Ludwigseck. Ludwigseck belonged to the municipality of Benfe in the Erndtebrück office. Life in Ludwigseck was more tranquil again, the time of great changes in the central Benfetal was over for the time being. It only began again with the new settlement history in the second half of the 20th century.
Occasion of the new settlement
This last notable settlement history of Ludwigseck had its origin in the expulsion and expulsion of people from the German eastern areas .
The initial situation in Benfe and Ludwigseck
The expulsion from the old homeland in the east inevitably led to an enormous population shift to the west. Admission to the densely populated industrial centers was almost impossible because, in addition to the factories, a large part of the apartments had also been destroyed. In 1945/46 the displaced persons were therefore mainly directed to agricultural areas by way of admission; this also included Wittgenstein . There was also still a great housing shortage in the countryside in Wittgenstein, with families evacuated from the Rhine and Ruhr regions due to the air war being housed in many houses.
The large number of newly arriving refugees and displaced persons from the German eastern regions resulted in a further shortage of living space. Wittgenstein's population grew considerably. The newcomers were initially distributed fairly evenly across all Wittgenstein villages. In Benfe and Ludwigseck, too, the population increased considerably as a result of allocations. The construction of small makeshift homes in Benfe and Ludwigseck alleviated the housing shortage only insignificantly. With the increase in population, the available living space became increasingly scarce. In Benfe, as in other places, a “Housing Commission” had to be set up, which was responsible for the proper distribution of the newcomers in the village.
The influx of new residents also meant that between November 10, 1947 and November 30, 1953 a total of 100 people (locals, refugees and displaced persons) left the village.
The residents' registration office in Erndtebrück mentions the following increases in a population comparison for the municipality of Benfe, whereby the names are taken over literally:
| Deadline | local people | refugees | Total number |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 11, 1947 | 220 | 54 refugees (19%) | 274 |
| April 01, 1953 | 239 | 60 East displaced persons (20.06%) | 299 |
| May 31, 1956 | 265 | 157 displaced persons pp. (37.2%) | 422 |
The percentage of displaced people in Benfe continued to grow, almost doubling in nine years.
The proportion of 37.2% displaced persons on May 31, 1956 indicates that new living space had already been created, because these increases would hardly have been manageable in the few Benfer houses.
Settlement engine German farmer settlement
With the "Law on the Implementation of Land Reform and Settlement in North Rhine-Westphalia" of May 16, 1949, the aim was to create new settlement areas through the sale or expropriation of larger land areas. In Wittgenstein, the two princely houses in Berleburg and Laasphe were affected by this law as large landowners.
With the help of German prisoners of war, the British occupying forces at the time cut down large stocks of old spruce in the Benfe area. This favored the decision to give up the land. The princely administration in Laasphe sold part of this fallow land to the sponsor of the state-sponsored settlement project, Deutsche Bauernsiedlung GmbH in Düsseldorf. This non-profit settlement company had received the order to build two settlements in what was then Wittgenstein district. Röspe and Ludwigseck were chosen as locations for the two settlements.
These settlements were deliberately set up for agricultural part-time jobs in order to offer former farmers from eastern Germany a livelihood.
The settlement concept for Ludwigseck
It is no longer possible to determine when the concrete planning for the Ludwigseck estate began. However, it can be assumed that they began in early 1952, similar to that in Röspe.
Ten semi-detached houses were planned for Ludwigseck, so a total of 20 settler positions should be created. The size of the plot of land of the settlers varied, the areas ranged from two acres to 2.5 hectares. All settler positions were designed for an agricultural sideline. The transfer of the settler position was made dependent on the possession of a so-called "settlement certificate". Former farmers from eastern Germany could apply for this. The Ludwigsecker Neusiedler moved to their new farm from the surrounding villages of Wittgenstein such as Raumland , Sassenhausen , Wemlighausen and Richstein , where they had found their first home. Moving into the houses began in September 1953, well before the Rösper settlers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Wrede : Territorial history of the county Wittgenstein Marburg 1927: Page 157: Hackenbracht, Wüstung. Lending cited: BA Certificate No. 981
- ↑ "On April 29, 1563 Hans Rodt von Erndtebrück, the Hofmann von Hackenbracht gives the pastor (Joachim Krugk) an annual interest of 2 1/2 alb for the place on which his house stands, which is a parish."
- ↑ Werner Wied: History of the manorial farms in the uppermost Edertal, No. 2: The Wittgenstein Hofgut Hackenbracht / Ludwigseck . In: Erndtebrück, a home book of the uppermost Edertal . tape 2 . Self-published by the hunting association Erndtebrück, Erndtebrück 1977, p. 83 .
- ↑ Prince Wittgenstein's Archive, WA, pension bill from 1607 on the annual wages at Hof Hackenbracht.
- ↑ WA, e.g. B. Pension bills in 1613, delivery of 3 Mesten peas to Hackenbracht, which were eaten during the "lifting of the new building". Pension invoice 1620: Delivery of 30 loads of lime from Cologne and 1500 bricks from Marburg. Use of the building material at Wittgenstein Castle and at Hackenbracht farm.
- ↑ WA, pension bill 1619: Instead of Hof Hackenbracht now the name "Ludwigseck" appears
- ↑ WA, pension bill 1682: five horses, two oxen, 24 cows, 19 cattle, six pigs (in addition, 28 had been slaughtered at the court, three for their own purposes), six geese, 46 chickens, twelve broilers on Hof Ludwigseck.
- ↑ Werner Wied: The Wittgensteiner Hofgut Hackenbracht / Ludwigseck in the Erndtebrück Heimatbuch, Volume 2, Pages 88, 89
- ↑ Werner Wied: The Wittgensteiner Hofgut Hackenbracht / Ludwigseck in the Erndtebrück Heimatbuch, Volume 2, page 89 ff.
- ↑ WA, pension bill of 1713, page 130: "In the Benfe ohnweit Ludwigseck - Johann Jost Heppenstiel von Haus und Hoff and allowed to keep 12 head of cattle and a horse, 10 rh, had 3 years of freedom, went on 1713 in 7bris, so frey until 7bris 1716. "
- ↑ Werner Wied: The Wittgensteiner Hofgut Hackenbracht / Ludwigseck in the Erndtebrück Heimatbuch, Volume 2, page 97
- ↑ WA B 19
- ^ The Berleburger Chroniken , page 278
- ↑ WA, C 1 II
- ↑ WA, C 3
- ↑ canon letter of 26 January 1785 for the new Kanongutinhaber Simon Wied. The original of the document is still in the possession of the Ludwigseck family today.
- ↑ AR 7
- ^ Günter Wrede: Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein . Marburg 1927, p. 168 .
- ^ Dieter Bald: The Ludwigseck settlement . In: Adolf Laues (Hrsg.): Refugees and displaced persons in Erndtebrück . Self-published by Adolf Laues, Erndtebrück 1996, p. 100 -122 .
- ↑ Against the background of an impending land reform, Prince August zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein in Laasphe, who originally owned 13,000 hectares, bequeathed his large estates to a dozen family members after the end of World War II. The new owners of the forest estates then merged into the Fürst Wittgenstein'sche Waldbesitzergesellschaft GBR, which managed the forest ownership across the board until the end of the 1980s. Source: http://www.rentkammer-wittgenstein.de/html/geschichte.htm Last access: August 17, 2018, 9:30 p.m. ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The copy of the architectural drawing of a Ludwigseck house is dated June 13, 1952. The client is Deutsche Bauernsiedlung GmbH, the signature comes from Dr. Blum, the company's managing director; H. Larssen signed the plan as an architect.
- ↑ “... the creation of this settlement (Röspe), as well as the Ludwigseck settlement , which is nearing completion , is an act that must be recognized. In Röspe and Ludwigseck , more than 50 families will receive a home and a piece of land. The majority are expellees from the East who will now get solid ground under their feet again. " Westfalenpost, Wittgenstein local section from July 17, 1953
- ↑ “Röspe. The German farmers' settlement, which has already created a completely new settlement near Ludwigseck between Erndtebrück and Benfe, which the settlers are already moving into ... ” ; Westfalenpost, Wittgenstein local section from October 8, 1953
- ↑ “Topping-out wreath over the Röspe settlement. ; ... After all, it is quite significant that around 100 new and healthy apartments have been created in the Wittgenstein district in a short time as a result of the German farmers' settlement in Ludwigseck and Röspe and various individual objects, in which people receive a home who have often been in need for years and lived in close quarters ... ” ; Westfalenpost, Wittgenstein local section from October 30, 1953
