Saßmannshausen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Saßmannshausen (disambiguation) .

Saßmannshausen City of Bad Laasphe Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	376 m
Area :	6.52 km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	57334
Area code :	02754
City structure of the individual districts of Bad Laasphe

Saßmannshausen [ ˈzas.mansˌhaʊ̯.zn̩ ] is a district of Bad Laasphe in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Sassmannshausen panorama

history

The place on the left in the valley of the upper Lahn was first mentioned in 1344 in the "Bicken'schen Mannbuch" , a fief register of the noble von Bicken family .

In the district of Sassmannshausen was the Dornhof, a knight's seat on which a branch of the von Achenbach family lived in the 14th century. The farm later came to the noble family Rump von der Wenne , from whom shortly after 1537 a branch moved into, expanded and managed the seat itself. Due to the over-indebtedness of the family, the last owner, the widow Anna Rump nee. Wrede left the farm with their children in 1581 and it ended up with the Counts of Wittgenstein. The buildings were sold and the independent farm was closed.

Until the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, which came into force on January 1, 1975, Saßmannshausen was an independent municipality in the Wittgenstein district . Their small size is also related to the ownership structure in the former counties of Sayn-Wittgenstein . The peasants / countrymen and craftsmen usually had inherited property as well as ecclesiastical and manorial fiefs , which had to be renewed every eight to ten years. There was little inherited land, but often this property was insufficient to meet basic needs. So the "housemen" were forced to enter into tax-paying fiefdoms. In addition, they were obliged to do manual and tension services for the feudal lords, which together with other taxes at times amounted to around 90 percent of the income. The comparatively extreme climatic conditions (frosts in June and September still exist today) in the two counties (Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg) also contributed to a systematic and regular distress of the population. Not least for this reason, the Wittgensteiner Land is a “typical” emigration area. We can still find many descendants of emigrants from Wittgenstein not only in the neighboring areas of the then prosperous Siegerland and Sauerland , but especially overseas (USA, Brazil). According to estimates by the well-known regional researcher Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hartnack lost around a third of its population to Wittgenstein through "emigration" between 1750 and 1850 - between 12,000 and 15,000 people who turned their backs on their homeland (this corresponds almost to the current population of the city of Bad Laasphe).

Different spellings can be found in old documents: Saßmanshusin, Sahsmanshusen, Sachsmannshausen and others. Around 1580, five families with a total of around fifty people lived there. In 1584/85 the old village was converted into a Hofgut ( Kammergut / Domain ) at the disposal of the Count's House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein , which served to supply the nearby Wittgenstein Castle . Around 1600 the tithe barns , brewery, distillery and other trades were housed there. The Hofgut was exemplary for the establishment of further stately manors in the counties Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein (Hohenstein) and Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. A center of the feudal power of the counts (later princes) Sayn-Wittgenstein, where the hereditary peasants had to do the "measured and unmeasured services".

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The place has gained national fame through the so-called “Buttlarsche Rotte”, a group around Eva von Buttlar at the time of radical Pietism in Germany and the so-called “ Gypsy Colony ” , which was inhabited by Sinti families between around 1740 and around 1910 has been.

Well-known namesake

The place name was formative for the family name, which is increasingly found in the South Westphalian region. The starting point for genealogical research should therefore be the church registers of the evangelical reformed parishes Feudingen , Erndtebrück and Birkelbach , where the family name can be found many times since 1560/1600.

The bearers of the name in the so-called "North County" Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg have, as far as we know, their origin in the "South County" Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein (Hohenstein).

Personalities

• Eva von Buttlar (1670–1721), sectarian

literature

• Village chronicle "Saßmannshausen" - series of articles in " Wittgenstein - Blätter der Wittgensteiner Heimatverein ", 1973/74 as well as bound special edition, 1975
• Werner Wied: The Dornhof. History of the last noble mansion in Wittgenstein . 2 parts. In: Wittgenstein - Blätter der Wittgensteiner Heimatverein (1975), Vol. 39, Issue 1, pp. 29-56; Issue 2, pp. 59-79.

Web links

• Extensive information on family and homeland research in Sayn-Wittgenstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Wied : The Dornhof. History of the last noble mansion in Wittgenstein. 2 parts. In: Wittgenstein - Blätter der Wittgensteiner Heimatverein (1975), Vol. 39, Issue 1, pp. 29-56; Issue 2, pp. 59-79.
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 337 f .
3. ↑ on the so-called "traveling people" in southern Westphalia: Ulrich-Friedrich Opfermann : "That they shed their gypsy habit ..." , 2nd edition, Frankfurt (Main) et al. 1997