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Schwanen is a street named after the former Schwanen district of Wermelskirchen . Wermelskirchen is located in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

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The street Schwanen runs in a north-east-south-west direction from the so-called Eich , corner of Burgerstrasse (today Obere Waldstrasse) to Grünestrasse, corner of Karolinenstrasse. The district, symbolically represented by a swan in the city coat of arms , originally consisted of only a few houses, the Zum Schwanen inn and the Schwaner Gehüchter , the poor house of the Reformed community.

history

Example of a still existing gallows near Beerfelden in the Odenwald
Court of Justice in Wermelskirchen 1780

It was first mentioned in the documents of a Reich Chamber Court trial of 1617 for the Kenkhausen Schynk estate against Stephan. The latter is interrogated in the house of the host on the Schwanen up in the hall. The innkeeper in the Schwanen was Hermann Kremer in 1622, he is mentioned as one of the leaders of the Reformation in Wermelskirchen. The hall will have been the meeting place of the Bornefeld court in Wermelskirchen.

The building where the Hotel Zum Schwanen stands today was named on a map from 1780 as "Arnold Schopphofs Scheuer". Eleven years later, in 1791, it says on another, “Barn and stable”. In 1802 a Joh. Arn. Frowein named as the owner without indicating the function of the building.

The swan became famous because of the former court of the Bornefeld district , where the verdict, the “sentence”, was announced. Until around 1800 it was located on the western side of the Schwanenplatz, which is still present today, south of the federal highway 51 . Opposite on the north side of the B 51 on Kurzestrasse stood the gallows and the scaffold of the court.

The last rascal buried under the Wermelskirchen gallows around 1730 was "Henke Joks". He was as religious as an Italian bandit, or like a Spanish mugger - because he prayed when he was out for the theft. When this hero of darkness was to be caught and his house in Balkhausen was surrounded by riflemen, he shot himself to prevent the honorable acquaintance of the executioner. As the popular saying goes, his body was previously hung on the gallows as a deterrent.

When the court office in Düsseldorf sold the court area to the resident Johann Wilhelm Niepot between 1784 and 1799, the latter reported that a woman had been executed with a sword on the court area in Wermelskirchen earlier years ago .

Schwanen House No. 28

The driver's cabins at Schwanen 28

The very beautiful old house used to be called "Führershäusgen", formerly also called "Hibbelershäusgen". The Landschützen-Führer Hibbeler lived here in the 18th century. The Landschützen were a militia-like formation that were used for security tasks in emergencies and wars. The leaders also had official duties such as delivering official letters. The first mention can be found in 1769 in the court files of Wermelskirchen. In 1791 Anna Pleuser, Wittib Arnold Pfeffer, borrows 100 thalers and pledges the Führer's house. In the same year Wittib Pfeffer complained to the court about Arnold Fischer for felling an oak tree on the property of the Führerhäusgen. In 1802 the Wermelskirchen court clerk Schmits was commissioned to sell the so-called Fuehrershäusgen of Wittib Pleuser to the public. Before 1827 Wilhelm Schmidt bequeathed the house to his daughter Wilhelmine before the notary Hamm in Wermelskirchen. In 1828 she is married to Peter Franz Hasenclever. The Hasenclever family owned the property until 1990.

Sources and literature

  • Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, holdings Jülich-Berg, Hofrat BV No. 141, pp. 49–50, with plan
  • C. Lohmann: Application of the Untersassen ... , in: Zeitsch.BGV Vol. 69, pp. 25-104
  • PJ Heinrich: Wermelskirchen, Wermelskirchen 1892. Reprint: Breidenbach, NJ, (Ed.): Alt-Wermelskirchen . Wermelskirchen 1991, ISBN 3-9802801-0-1
  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach : (Ed.): Families, property and taxes in Wermelskirchen, Dabringhausen and Dhünn from 1666-1991 . Wermelskirchen 2004, ISBN 3-9802801-8-7
  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach: The court in Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen and Remscheid from 1639-1812 . Wermelskirchen 2005, ISBN 3-9802801-5-2
  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach: Old farms and houses in the Wupperviereck in Wermelskirchen, Burg Castle, Remscheid, Hückeswagen, Wipperfürth, Kürten, Lindlar, Odenthal, Burscheid . Wermelskirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9802801-2-9 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 25.8 ″  E