Schwardt

The Schwardt is a name for a corridor in Velbert ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) that is on the Vossnacken , a ridge-like mountain hill, in the Richrath farming community . In the 13th and 14th centuries, later sons from one of the surrounding hereditary farms built a kothen there, although the current building is much younger. This Kothen was inhabited and worked by so-called Köttern , whereby a Kothen always had stony fields than one of the hereditary farms, and it was not allowed to keep more than one head of cattle. The Kothen "An der Schwardt" was taxable to the rule Hardenberg .

In 1602, when the Turkish tax existed, the Kothen had to pay three and a half Reichstaler to the lordship of Hardenberg .

Since 1707 lessons have been held at the Schwardt for the children of the surrounding farmers. Later, among other things, the Vossnacker School , founded in 1789, emerged from this.

Individual evidence

↑ Dr. Günter Aders, sources on the history of the cities of Langenberg and Neviges and the old rule of Hardenberg from the 9th to the beginning of the 17th century, Ph.CW Schmidt publishing house, 1967
↑ Dr. Helmut Grau, Josef Johannes Niedworok, Sven Polkläser: Vossnacker school chronicle - two silver groschen for a pupil - 150 local history and a view of the world in the mirror of the Vossnack elementary school chronicle . Scala Verlag, Velbert 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816362-3-9

51.354363 7.089894Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ' N , 7 ° 5' E

[1] Dr. Günter Aders, sources on the history of the cities of Langenberg and Neviges and the old rule of Hardenberg from the 9th to the beginning of the 17th century, Ph.CW Schmidt publishing house, 1967

[2] Dr. Helmut Grau, Josef Johannes Niedworok, Sven Polkläser: Vossnacker school chronicle - two silver groschen for a pupil - 150 local history and a view of the world in the mirror of the Vossnack elementary school chronicle . Scala Verlag, Velbert 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816362-3-9