Maximinenkreuz and Maximinenhof in Ahrem
The under monument protection standing Maximinenstraße Cross at the cemetery in Ahrem originally stood at the courtyard entrance of Maximinenstraße court on the northern edge of the village near the after Lechenich leading Ahremer Lichwegs.
When the courtyard buildings were demolished in 1918, the cross erected by the former tenants of Maximinenhof was moved and erected again in the cemetery.
history
origin of the name
The Maximinenhof in Ahrem is named after the Augustinian convent of St. Maximin in Cologne, who bought the courtyard and oil mill surrounded by moats in 1641 from Degenhard von Eyll, a descendant of the Haes von Konradsheim, for a sum of 5506 Reichstalers .
The courtyard of St. Maximin Monastery included 1 acre of garden, 14 acres of Benden and pastures, 114 acres of arable land, an oil mill with a garden and 1 quarter of Benden, 5 acres of arable land, building site at the mill, ½ acre of Benden and 2 acres of arable land, like the one in September 1661 carried out measurements of the clerical, aristocratic and farm estates in the city of Lechenich. It was part of a survey of the aforementioned goods in the city and office of Lechenich , ordered by Elector Maximilian Heinrich , which was supposed to serve as a tax assessment.
First known tenant of the Maximinenhof
Lease agreements between the monastery and the tenants in Ahrem have been preserved in the files of the St. Maximin Monastery in Cologne since 1710. The first surviving lease of the monastery was concluded in 1710 with Johann Sürth, who paid 40 Malter rye, 13 Malter barley, 3 Malter wheat and 6 Malter oats as an annual lease for the Maximinenhof in Ahrem . He also delivered a fat pig for 150 pounds, three hammers, a lamb, a calf and 12 thalers in cash. For the associated oil mill he paid an ohm of oil and 100 turnip cakes a year.
When the monastery leased the Hof zu Ahrem with the oil mill to the married couple Johann Sürth and Maria Batzen for twelve years in 1717, the annual rent was increased. The couple also delivered a calf and a cart of apples to the monastery in Cologne and the vineyard manager of the Poll 100 Bausch Stroh. 5½ Reichstaler had to be paid in cash, the rent for the oil mill was two Malter rye, two gold guilders and one ohm of rapeseed oil . In 1729 the St. Maximin Monastery leased the farm in Ahrem again for 12 years to the previous tenant Johann Sürth and his second wife Gertraud Brauer under the same lease conditions as in 1717.
The tenants took over the burdensome obligations on the farm during the lease: The Konradsheim house received a Malter rye, the Cologne cathedral chapter two barrels of wheat because of the garden in front of the courtyard and the monastery. St. Mariengraden in Cologne 10 barrels of wheat because of the bushes in the Eilau.
The lease contract concluded in 1741 between the St. Maximin Monastery and Johannes Wimmers and his wife Sibilla Zündorfs did not last long. Because of the uncertain times ( War of the Austrian Succession ), the Halfe Johannes Wimmers paid 62 Reichstaler and 28 Albus instead of in kind . After that, the lease contract seems to have expired for unknown reasons, because the Maximinenhof was re-leased the next year.
Tenant family Schick
The married couple Johann Schick and Gertrud Stemmler had been tenants of the Maximinenhof since 1742, after the monastery had leased its farm in Ahrem for 12 years to the married couple on February 22, 1742, who managed it as tenants for decades.
The last lease of the St. Maximin Monastery with the couple Johann Schick and Gertrud Stemmler was issued in 1778 by the master, prioress and all conventual women of the St. Maximin Monastery and was valid for 12 years. The payment of the natural produce to be delivered to the monastery granary, as well as the delivering animals and the cart of apples, remained unchanged. The straw was given to the Keldenich wine grower . The tenant paid the monastery 50 Reichstaler as a fee for taking over the farm and buying dry wine . The Benden rent was 12 Reichstaler, for the oil mill the tenants paid 2 Malter rye, one ohm of rapeseed oil, 100 beet cakes and two gold guilders Benden rent. The obligations on the farm were taken over as usual.
The tenants, the Lechenich magistrate Johannes Schick and his wife Gertrud Stemmler had, as was customary at many farms, erected a cross at the farm entrance with the inscription:
"Johannes Schick et ipsius uxor Gertrudis Stemmler ponebant lives on the Maximinenhof in Ahrem, court shepherd to Lechnich"
The chronogram gives the year 1780.
Ownership after secularization
As a result of secularization , the monastery courtyard with the oil mill was expropriated in 1802 and acquired by Jakob Cahen, a Lechenich real estate dealer, at auction in Aachen in 1807. The Schick family remained tenants, initially Peter Schick, the son of the married couple Johann Schick and Gertrud Stemmler, who had leased the farm since 1790, then his son Johann Schick, the lay judge's grandson. After Jakob Cahen's death, the Cahen family sold the farm to the previous tenant Johann Schick in 1827. After the sudden death of Johann Schick, who died of a heart attack in the field in 1860, the farm came to the Kiel family.
Use until after the First World War
In the mill buildings belonging to the Maximinenhof, a rope mill was set up in which ropes were woven from straw. In 1896, Franz Mühlhaus acquired the building and expanded it into a woolen blanket factory with looms , fulling mill , dyeing and laundry, in which woolen blankets for soldiers and horses at the front were made during the First World War . After the war ended, production ceased and the building served as a storage room.
Demolition of the courtyard buildings, reconstruction of the mill buildings
Most of the courtyard buildings were demolished in 1918 due to their poor structural condition. The preserved mill building was converted into a residential building around 1990.
The street name "Am Maximinenkreuz" still reminds of the former Maximinenhof and the Hofkreuz.
literature
- Hans Welters, The Maximinenhof in Ahrem in: Heimatkalender Euskirchen 1960.
- Cornelius Bormann , Ahrem. In: Erftstadt City Yearbook 1991. pp. 98–100.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive Zwolle (NL), Kasteel Rechteren inv. No. 1466, published in Karl and Hanna Stommel, Sources for the History of the City of Erftstadt, Vol. Addendum No. 2452a pp. 6-7
- ↑ Historical Archive of the City of Cologne , inventory Domstift A 452 B 18 Bl. 1-45, published in Karl and Hanna Stommel, Sources for the History of the City of Erftstadt, Vol. IV No. 2566 pp. 394-398
- ↑ Hans Welters, The Maximinenhof in Ahrem in: Heimatkalender Euskirchen 1960. P. 46–47
- ↑ Hans Welters, The Maximinenhof in Ahrem in: Heimatkalender Euskirchen 1960. P. 47–49
- ↑ W. Schieder (Ed.): Secularization and Mediatization in the four Rhenish departments, Canton Lechenich, page 461
- ↑ Cornelius Bormann, Ahrem. In: Erftstadt City Yearbook 1991 pp. 98-100