Niehausen

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Coat of arms of those of Niehausen

Niehausen (formerly also Nyhusen and Nyhausen ) is the name of a Westphalian noble family ( knighthood ). His headquarters are in the village of Niesen , now part of Willebadessen .

history

In 1262 a Johann von Niehausen was first mentioned as a witness in Gehrden . Another mention was made around 1300. At the time, Niehausen was a moated castle with a defense tower .

  • Luzi von Niehausen was mentioned in 1325 together with Kurt Spiegel vom Desenberg , Gottschalk Gockeln and Konrad Rachmann.
  • Hermann van Nyhusen administered the office of Niesen in 1330 as the feudal lord of the Neuenheerse monastery . He had three sons: Engelerus, Thidericus and Hermann (II) .
  • Ludolf van Nyhusen , a squire , gave the widow of his cousin Johann van Nyhusen an annuity in 1374 with the consent of Abbess Sophia of the Heerse Monastery.
  • Engelbert van Nyhusen , was named in a list of witnesses from Paderborn Bishop Heinrich von Spiegel zum Desenberg in 1377 . He died before 1402.
  • Ludolff van Nyhusen , a squire, sold Escherde in 1404, which is now a desert near Brakel .
  • In 1422, Diederich van Nyhausen , a squire, donated a fief to the monastery of Gehrden for the salvation of his parents' soul with the approval of the Cologne bishop Dietrich II von Moers .

In 1438 Dietrich and his sons Engelhard, Bernd and Johann exchanged their possessions in Helmern , 4 farms with 18 Hufen land, 9 kötterstellen, wood, water and fishing, with Gerd von Spiegel for the village of Fölsen , rectory and 7 Hufen Land, wood in Fölsen , 19 acres of meadow, 16 muck spots with 8 hooves. In 1456 the family bought the Mengersen , Frohnhausen and Rothersen estates from Heerse Abbey . In 1464 Dietrich von Niehausen bought another area from the Heerse Abbey. He was followed by:

  • Engelhard von Niehausen , mentioned in 1470,
  • Dietrich von Niehausen , mentioned in 1496,
  • Frederik von Niehausen , mentioned in 1510,
  • Konrad von Niehausen , mentioned in 1525,
  • Engelhard and Dietrich von Niehausen , mentioned in 1539.

The old moated castle was rebuilt in 1555–1558 after the villages of Luthadessen, Mengersen, Rottersen, Swerdessen and Wippelfört, which belonged to the office of Niesen, had been destroyed by warlike events since 1515. The village of Niesen formed around the moated castle.

  • In 1580 Anna von Niehausen was married to Heinrich von Spiegel . They lived in half of the castle. This led to inheritance disputes between the families, which was only settled in 1611 by paying 13,100 Reichsthaler to the von Spiegel family.
Niesen Castle (lithograph by Peter Herle, around 1837–1840)
Site plan of the castle around 1896
  • Johann von Niehausen was named as a witness in 1582 and 1583.
  • Henrich Dietherich von Niehausen was mentioned in 1588. In 1609 he worked as a witness in a shop run by Arnoldt Spiegel von Peckelsheim , Canon of Halberstadt . In 1628 the family owned the Stern house in Warburg .
  • Gottschalk, Friedrich and Engelhard von Niehausen were mentioned in 1643. In the same year Haus Vörden was pledged to the family. In 1664 Friedrich and Engelhard had the palace chapel renewed. It was consecrated to St. Godehard in 1674 .
  • Agatha von Niehausen (1616–1701) was sexton from 1661 to 1668 and dean of the Neuenheerse women's monastery from 1668 until her death.
  • Gottschalk von Niehausen was a councilor in 1670 and Drost zu Dringenberg in 1683 the Vörden house was again pledged to the family.
  • In 1704 Johann Gottfried von Niehausen had the Niesen manor house rebuilt as a representative baroque complex. He had two sons and three daughters. One son was killed in Ingolstadt in 1702, the second son was stabbed to death by Count Nostitz in a duel in Venice in 1706 . In 1708 the Warburg house Stern was sold to the middle class Böttrich family.
  • Georg von Niehausen , Johann's brother, was canon of Paderborn, his sister Agathe was abbess of the free worldly nunnery Neuenheerse from 1690–1713 .

After Johann's death, Freiherr Spiegel zu Peckelsheim reported as heir. This, however, took over the brother Georg and married Maria Theresa Freiin von Plettenberg with papal dispensation . However, the marriage remained without children. On April 4, 1719, Georg bequeathed a memorial of 400 Reichsthaler in his will in favor of the cathedral chapter of Paderborn and 100 Reichsthaler in favor of the Capuchin Monastery of Brakel , the Dominican Monastery of Warburg and the Minorite Monastery of Herstelle . He appoints Engelhardt von Bocholtz from Störmede , son of his sister Margarete, as a universal heir . His wife Maria should enjoy the annuity on all property left by him as long as she remains widowed. Should she marry again, and in particular his universal heir Engelhardt von Bucholtz, both should jointly own the Niesen house and all its goods. Georg von Niehausen died on April 8, 1719.

With Georg's death, the von Niehausen family died out in the male line. Baron von Spiegel again filed claims for the knight seat Niesen. There was another long inheritance dispute between the von Bocholtz and von Spiegel families, which the von Spiegel families lost. The remains of the medieval castle were demolished in the 19th century. The baroque mansion burned down in 1951 and was rebuilt downsized.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a black anvil in silver . On the helmet with black and silver covers and bulge, the anvil between two black and silver horns divided over a corner.

literature

  • Johannes Vogt: Ortschronik up to 1953 (manuscript in the possession of Ludwig and Thea Hagemann, granddaughter of Johannes Vogt), Willebadessen-Niesen 1953 willebadessen-niesen.de

swell

  • The family archive is kept on the Hinnenburg near Brakel. The K Niehausen inventory comprises 304 documents (1345–1820) and 57 files.

Web links

Commons : Niehausen family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Johannes Vogt: Ortschronik up to 1953.
  2. ↑ Document December 13, 1330, archive of the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Department Paderborn e. V.
  3. ^ Document October 15, 1374, archive of the Association for History and Antiquity of Westphalia
  4. ^ Document February 10, 1377, Erpernburg archive, Sign. 127
  5. ↑ Document September 28, 1402 Gehrden Monastery No. 17
  6. ^ Certificate April 25, 1404, Abbenburg Archives
  7. ↑ Document July 24, 1422, Gehrden Monastery
  8. ↑ Document March 23, 1438, quoted from the local chronicle of Johannes Vogt from Niesen (* February 1, 1869, † February 25, 1956)
  9. ↑ Documents May 29, 1582, July 13, 1583 and August 13, 1583, Grevenburg Archives
  10. ↑ Certificate September 29, 1609, Archive Spiegelsberge
  11. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Schlosspark Niesen in LWL GeodatenKultur
  12. ^ Anton Gemmeke: History of the aristocratic women's monastery at Neuenheerse. P. 327
  13. ↑ Document July 17, 1670, Archive Devivere zu Bockum Sig. 356, Cod. 338, No. 224
  14. ^ Document 1716, Reichshofrat, No. 4, Landesarchiv NRW, Westphalia department
  15. ↑ Documents January 12, 1693, October 18, 1694, April 9, 1710, Archive Devivere zu Bockum, Sign. 369 and 370
  16. ↑ Document April 9, 1710, Brakel City Archives, Sign. Document 472
  17. ^ Regest April 4, 1719, Paderborn Archives
  18. ↑ Testament, drawn up by Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Voss from April 5, 1719, Paderborn
  19. ^ Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility