Mockery
The Schwiegelshohn estate was a rural property in the Königsforst in the Bockenberg district of the city of Bergisch Gladbach, right on the border with Rösrath . The estate, which has existed since the Middle Ages, was sold to a timber trading company in 1888. In 1889 the company transferred it to the Prussian forest administration in exchange . This dissolved the yard; by planting trees it was made part of the forest.
Early history
Archaeological finds show the existence of the property as early as the 14th century. "Swychmanshaen" is mentioned for the first time in writing, but its assignment is still uncertain, in a document from the noble Nesselrode family from 1477. Three Nesselrode brothers agreed to divide their inheritance, which also included this property.
1586-1890
More detailed and clear information was given in a sales contract dated October 18, 1586. The contract was signed between the married couple Johann Pampus and Margarethe Brambach as the seller and the married couple Melchior von Mülheim (junior) and Margaretha Kannegießer as the buyer. Pampus could have been a distant relative of the Nesselrode family. The buyers were members of well-known Cologne families. The size of the estate was given in 1586 as 255 acres . The von Mülheim family remained the owners of Schwiegelshohn until 1776, almost 200 years. The last heir, Ignatz von Moers, sold the farm to Friedrich Josef Haes in 1776.
Haes died in 1786. His daughters sold the estate in 1788 to Johann Josef Broicher, who was already running the farm as a half-winner .
Johann Josef Broicher died in 1798 and left the property to his two daughters. After an inheritance dispute, the eldest daughter Anna Maria and her husband Johannes Scharrenbroich became the sole owners of Schwiegelshohn. Around 1842/43 the Scharrenbroich family moved to the Münchenberg estate a few kilometers away, which they had bought in 1839. The Schwiegelshohn estate remained in the ownership of the Scharrenbroich family for a century. In 1888 she sold it to the Theodor Berger company, which in 1889 transferred it to the forestry treasury in exchange. He in turn sold the half-timbered house in 1890, which was moved and rebuilt in Forsbach .
A copy of the sales contract from 1586 - the original is likely to be in the possession of the Pampus family - has always been a scorn, passed on with every change of ownership and is in the Scharrenbroich family's private archive.
The legend
The local poet Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio made a connection to the Schwiegelshohn estate in his version of a widespread story about the Elector Jan Wellem .
Jan Wellem, who was alone on the hunt, had lost his way in the royal forest. After several hours he came to a lonely farm in the middle of the forest. The farmer's wife gave the unknown huntsman pea soup with bacon, a typical Bergisch dish, to strengthen it. The sovereign, starved as he was, tasted it excellent. When he was back in his residence in Düsseldorf, he had his cook serve him pea soup with bacon. But it didn't taste so good to him. So he sent for the farmer's wife. However, the prince did not like her soup as it did in the Königsforst. When he asked why he liked the soup better at the farmer's wife, she replied: "Hunger is the best cook."
This story about the Elector was very well known in the Bergisches Land for a long time, as it was printed in school books.
literature
- Georg Sturmberg, Elisabeth Klein: Son-in-law - sunk in the royal forest . On the history of an old Bergisch estate. Ed .: History Association Rösrath (= Rösrath Monuments . Volume 8 ). Rösrath 2010, ISBN 978-3-922413-62-2 .
- Herbert Nicke : Tütberg, an example of the decline of a settlement area. In: Forsbach, about the life of a village between Königsforst and Sülztal. (= Series of publications of the history association Rösrath eV Volume 26). Rösrath 2004, ISBN 3-922413-39-X , p. 207 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Montanus, in a scientific revision of Wilhelm von Waldbrühl : Die Vorzeit. First part: legends of the countries Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Mark. Solingen 1912, p. 297: "Bacon and peas"
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