Pollertshof

Today's Diakonischeeinrichtung Pollertshof emerged from the Pollert farm , one of the four oldest sites that are the nucleus of the East Westphalian town of Preussisch Oldendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Pollertshof asylum was founded in 1851 as a rescue center.

Greetings from Pollertshof (1906)

Greetings from Prussia. Oldendorf (1906)

development

The rescue house founded in 1851 for neglected or neglected children, girls and boys, is the oldest diaconal institution of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia (memorial plaque), since 1890 an educational institution. From 1930 to 1975 the institution was used as a retirement and nursing home, and has been a youth leisure home and conference center of the Evangelical Church District Lübbecke since 1977 .

Guiding principle

The Pollertshof rescue center owes its existence to the national awareness of social grievances raised by Johann Hinrich Wichern , the effect of the revival preacher Johann Heinrich Volkening on the population of the Ravensberg county and active Christians in Oldendorf and the surrounding area. The revival movement was shaped by the people: "The nobility or high officials were not decisive here, but mostly simple country folk."

Realization

At the request of the Oldendorf pastor Gustav Friedrich Hartmann (1813-1896), Wichern sent the experienced Rauhäusler Ernst Temming (1822-1890), who implemented the suggestion from the Oldendorf parish. Ulrich Rottschäfer, Awakening and Diakonie in Minden-Ravensberg describes the history, efforts of the pastors Rothert (1806–1883) and Hartmann as well as the support from Oldendorf citizens and the career of the Pollertshof since the first pupils were admitted from 1851 to 1930 . The Pollertshof rescue center 1851–1930. Deacon Groeneveld became householder of the retirement and nursing home in 1930 after the institutional school was closed. Pollertshof was operated in an agricultural way. In the twenty-page chapter “In a New World”, Friedrich Wilhelm Buckesfeld impressively describes his three-year assistantship from 1877–1880 at Pollerthof under Ernst Temming. Buckesfeld: On Wichern's paths. 1934, pp. 26-46.

Love to work and don't be lazy. Roast pigeons do not fly in anyone's mouth. Wrapping around the former pigeon house.

The Pollert farm

origin

The old Pollert farm is one of the first in the settlement of Oldendorf in Saxon times, which is mentioned as Aldenthorpe in the period of office (969–996) of Bishop Milo von Minden . In a certificate from Emperor Otto II dated February 12, 974, four closely neighboring villas are named; one is the Pollert site, which is located in Ober Oldendorf at a favorable place for arable farming and at the same time on the "Oldendorfer Bache" . Their high economic power is  rated in the land register of 1686 with the highest contribution rank 1, later Oldendorf, Linkenstrasse (Bergstrasse) No. 1.

The name of the site could be derived from poll , according to Jellinghaus a "rounded, protruding hill" - elsewhere the location name "uf'm Polle" is used. In fact, the Hof zu Ober Oldendorf is located on a noticeable step above the center with the St. Dionysius Church of the later excise town of Preussisch Oldendorf .

The gender name Pollert is first proven in writing in two documents dated December 12, 1492. Gerke Pollard is a co-founder of the establishment of the position of chaplain. The court was a fief of the Gesmold line of the von dem Bussche families; Detert Polhert presumably referred to this site in a partition contract of 1446 between the families .

The site of Pollert zu Ober Oldendorf is after 1501 a house of its own in Groß Engershausen ; because Johan von der Recke zu Drensteinfurt sold Steinmann, Pollert and Hoyer's inheritance to Oldendorf, i.e. three closely neighboring sites, to Reineke von Schloen called Tribbe (zu Fiegenburg ) that year.

To family history

According to a reconstruction from entries in the family register of the parish of Oldendorf, 1630 etc. , parents who were not known by name of baptism were supposed to be married on the Pollert site before 1668 and to have three sons and a daughter. The father dies after 1682 and the mother marries Henrich Cording (Koring) from Schröttinghausen , baptized September 15, 1652 ; he has the place under until the heir comes of age . Her son's first marriage, Frantz Moritz Pollert, baptized on September 29, 1675, becomes heir to the site; his younger brother Johan Balduin, the heir according to the law of the youngest , was compensated by Frantz Moritz according to the visitation protocol from 1721. Frantz Moritz married Cathrin Ilsebein Bruns in 1702.

The great-grandson Friedrich Wilhelm of Franz Moritz, born in 1791, became a colony of the Pollert site in 1819 after inheriting in the male line. In 1816 he married Anne Marie Sophie Charlotte Steffen, born in 1793 in Oldendorf "In the mill after Schelen home", the "middle mill". Friedrich Wilhelm was initially a miller there (1816) and in 1819 took over the Pollert farm from his father Peter Henrich Pollert, who was a personal breeder at the time . Ten children were born to the now owner couple, six of whom were born between 1824 and 1833 and were no longer alive in 1834. (A two-year-old died by drowning.) The oldest child, a daughter, also died at the age of nine in 1826. Only three sons grow up and marry.

The eldest Friedrich Wilhelm Pollert married Dorothee Louise Friederike Blomenkamp vom Hedemer Buschholz, Ksp. Alswede; of theirs, their son Friedrich Wilhelm Pollert, born in 1843, secretly emigrated to North America in 1858, married and had offspring. Friedrich Wilhelm Pollert married Anne Marie Ilsabein Kötter from Obermehnen as a widower.

Friedrich Wilhelm Pollert's younger brothers Caspar Heinrich (1820–1899) and Johann Friedrich Pollert (1822–1901) emigrate to North America and get married there. They settle as farmers in Indiana and have many offspring in their new home. The younger one was the first to emigrate before 1849, namely, he married in June 1849 in Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana. After his mother, born Steffen died five weeks later in Germany, widower Johann Wilhelm Pollert also leaves Germany with his son Caspar Heinrich; both reached New Orleans in June 1850 with the same ship from Bremen. According to the September 1850 census, the father "Frederick W Pollard" lives in the household of his son Johann Friedrich, who is already married, in Brownstown. Caspar Heinrich married in Wegan, Jackson County in 1853. Father Friedrich Wilhelm Pollert seems to have remarried, he will have died before 1880; because according to the census of 1880, an immigrant Sophie, 76 years old, lives as a widow and stepmother in Caspar Heinrich's household.

Change to a rescue facility

The Oldendorf No. 1 farm had been bankrupt since 1835 and was acquired by the merchant Stille zu Renkhausen in 1844 . The economic situation will have been difficult after the replacement of Oberhof Gut Groß Engershausen.

The peasant people had to buy their freedom from serfdom with considerable sums of money , which reduced the peasants' cash so much that “some farms were unable to meet their financial obligations, and partial and total sales took place. Such a fate also struck the yard of the Pollert dynasty in Oldendorf, which came into the possession of the landowner Stille auf Renkhausen as a result of lack of money.

In 1802 Colon Pollert bought farmland and a meadow. The outstanding redemption of the domain taxes was paid in 1846 by the new owner Kaufmann Stille. Pastor Rothert has been negotiating with the owner on his own initiative since 1850 about the lease of the unmanaged homestead. In 1851, the lease agreement was signed with the establishment's board of directors.

As early as 1847, during a visit to Oldendorf Rothert, the Wiechern employee Theodor Rhiem pointed out the need for rescue houses in Westphalia. At the time, however, the latter had a patriotic educational institution in mind. With Pastor Hartmann's introduction to the second pastor's position, the connection to the Rauhen Haus was finally successfully resumed, so that Ernst Temming was sent, with whom the position of head of the house was filled in August 1851. Rottschäfer: Awakening and Diakonie in Minden-Ravensberg. 1987, p. 258 f. The board of directors received the approval for "large-scale house collections in several counties" from the chief president Duesberg. Oldendorf citizens and even foreigners made surprisingly extensive use of this. Rottschäfer, p. 98.

Ernst Heinrich Temming, born on March 1, 1822, was married to Marie Christine Kleffmann by Pastor Rothert on April 7, 1853. She was the daughter of the baker Kleffmann in Oldendorf, born on March 12, 1853, who died in 1849. - Beginning with this entry, a rescue house is added to the church registers for Oldendorf No. 1 . - "Mother Temming" was well prepared by working in pastor households outside of Oldendorf and in the local business; In addition, she got to know her future job in early 1853 through a stay at Ellerhof near Bremen. Rottschäfer, p. 99.

The supra-local rank of the rescue house is exemplified in the report of the Minden school council of 1858: "Among the 28 pupils of the institution there are six from Minden, partly from the city, partly from the association for the rescue of neglected children." According to Rottschäfer, P. 122.

This period of the rescue facility came to an end in 1930. “The new Reich Youth Welfare Act of 1924 made itself felt. Due to the reluctance of the youth welfare offices to transfer children to welfare education, the occupancy figures in Pollertshof, as in other institutions , fell so quickly that the Oldendorfer institution ... Easter 1929 was completely under-occupied with only 58 children. Measures taken by the government at the time, as the former asylum teacher Feld later put it in his history (Feld, p. 17), were more and more deprived of the pupils entrusted to them in order to be housed in state-owned homes. Soon the governor of the province of Westphalia approached the board to develop plans for the reorganization of the institution. Temporary negotiations with the Wittekindshof facility in Volmerdingsen did not lead to an acceptable result, as the Pollertshof could not provide the structural conditions for working with the mentally handicapped. "Rottschäfer, p. 235 - The Pollertshof became a nursing home for the elderly run by the Bethel facility . Looking for a new use (2019).

literature

• Ulrich Rottschäfer: Awakening and Diakonie in Minden-Ravensberg. The Pollertshof rescue center 1851–1930. Mindener Geschichtsverein, Mindener Posts 24. Bruns, Minden 1987.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Buckesfeld: On Wicherns Paths. Otto Lenz, Leipzig 1934.

Remarks

1. ↑ An octagonal pigeon house in the style of a pigeon pole is raised on a post to protect against predators . Location of the former dovecote.
2. ↑ In the surrounding peasant communities of the Preußisch Oldendorf parish, other families have lived on Pollert farms since time immemorial ; documented mentions for this are known for the 15th century, Ludwig Köchling, p. 30. A possible, obvious reference to the Oldendorf site of Pollert, for example as ancestral farm, cannot be investigated due to a lack of information from the oldest times. The fact that the above-mentioned facts are also observed for the Steinmann and Heuer sites mentioned could be taken as evidence. A questionable separation would have to have taken place before 1501, because then not all sites have Haus Groß Engershausen as Oberhof and no descriptions are known.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Stupperich: The Protestant Church since 1803. In: Wilhelm Kohl: Westfälische Geschichte. Vol. 2, Schwann, Düsseldorf 1983, pp. 387-415, here p. 393.
2. ↑ Ulrich Rottschäfer: Ernst Temming (1822–1890). The first rough house in Westphalia. In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History, vol. 77, 1984, pp. 147–172.
3. ↑ Berend Groenefeld: The Pollertshof (1930 until 1975). In: Matthias Benad, Hans-Walter Schmuhl [ed.]: Bethel-Eckardtsheim. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, here p. 382 ff. Partly accessible , accessed on July 15, 2015.
4. ↑ Hermann Jellinghaus : The Westphalian place names according to their basic words. Schöningh, Osnabrück 1923, p. 145.
5. ^ Ludwig Köchling: The documents of the parish archive in Preußisch Oldendorf. Year d. Association f. Westf. Church History, Vol. 38/39, 1937/38, 5-47, here p. 22 ff.
6. ↑ Dieter Besserer: 300 years of city history Preußisch Oldendorf - 1050 years "Aldenthorpe" . Ed .: City of Preußisch Oldendorf. Kölle-Druck, Preußisch Oldendorf 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062439-1 , p. 847 .
7. ^ Münster State Archives: Minden-Ravensberg Government, Section II, No. 232. Vol. 1. Bl. 307. (Besserer, 1985.)
8. ↑ Paderborn's intelligence sheet for the Oberlandes -gericht-District. No. 74, September 16, 1835. 13) Necessary sale. District and City Court Lübbecke. "Realities of Colon Friedrich Wilhelm Pollert zu Oldendorf ... are to be subhasted on December 22nd at 9 a.m.".
9. ↑ Walter Feld: The Pollertshof. Reports and testimonies from the century of Christian education and care work. Preußisch Oldendorf (1951), p. 7.