Sieveringen

Sieveringen Ense municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '53 "  N , 8 ° 0' 37"  E
Height :	144 m
Residents :	367  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	59469
Area code :	02928
Location of Sieveringen in Ense
Gut Radberg

Sieveringen is a district of the municipality of Ense with 367 inhabitants. It is located in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Soest district .

geography

The village is about 2 km south of the village of Ostönnen on the northern slope of the Haar between Soest and Werl .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document on October 7, 1234. Under this date, the chapter of the Church of St. Patroclus in Soest releases “people with waxy interest” to “Sewardinchusen” in exchange for fruit interest . Further early mentions have been made from the years 1241 "Siwardinchusen", 1242 "Siwordinchusen" and 1257 "Zewardinchusen".

The name of the village was formed from the words "Siegward", "ing" and "hausen". The “ing” was added to the personal name Siegward (first name from “sigu” = victory and “wart” = guardian) and indicates a staff or bondage association. The clan of Charlemagne, for example, was called the "Karl-inge", i.e. the descendants / descendants of Emperor Karl. The ending "hausen" refers to a settlement or dwelling. Accordingly, Sieveringen is the settlement of the descendants / relatives of Siegward. At the time this settlement was built, people who were connected to a Siegward had built a house, or rather a farm, on this site and thus laid the foundation stone for the village of Sieveringen. Through the division of the original courtyard under inheritance law and the settlement of new courtyards, the village, which can still be recognized today as a cluster village, was created over the centuries. We owe these new settlements to the advance of the Germanic tribe of the Saxons, who penetrated our area over the Lippe in the 7th century. According to this type, numerous settlements emerged in Westphalia in the following 8th century, including the neighboring villages of Gerlingen (Gerlinghausen), Röllingsen (Röllinghausen) or Volringen (Volbringhausen).

There is no proof of where that “Siegward” lived. However, purely speculatively, it could come from Ostönnen , only two kilometers away , where the house name Sievert can still be found today, a polished form of the first name Siegward.

Otto Friedrich Timmerman, Professor of Geography in Cologne, had already suggested in the thirties in a study of the change in the landscape in the Soest Börde, using the example of his home village Ostönnen, that the village of Sieveringen could have been founded from Ostönnen. There seem to be various indications for this, such as the common “Wollmeine”, ie a common pasture or hud area of ​​the Sieveringen and Ostönner farmers. Documents based on feudal and titular law also support this thesis.

Sieveringen belonged in the Middle Ages to the oldest Cologne property and to the Free County of Rüdenberg , a fiefdom of the Counts of Werl, located between Soest and Werl. Such free counties had their special position in the complicated legal system of the Middle Ages as originally royal or other sovereign courts for "free". One of the courts belonging to the free county, in front of which legal acts of various kinds were carried out by the free count or his representative in the presence of “old free” (scabini) and “jury members”, was the free chair in Ostönnen. He seems to have been the most important of the Rüdenberger free chairs. In 1328 nobleman Gottfried von Rüdenberg sold his free county to the city of Soest with the consent of the sovereign, Archbishop Heinrich II of Cologne.

Due to the Soest feud of 1444–1449, Soest and the Börde were then eliminated from the association of the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and had submitted to the Dukes of Kleve-Mark. Sieveringen had become a border village due to the new territorial and parish border, later also due to the religious border. For several decades, Kurköln tried to get back into the old possessions by means of feuds and raids on Soest. In 1481 the dispute was settled for the first time and the current acquis was assured. The old friction flared up again quickly. For example, the Archbishop of Cologne claimed the valuation (taxes) of the parish Ostönnen, to which Röllingsen and Sieveringen still belonged at that time. A turnpike set by the Soestern was torn down by people from the Electorate of Cologne, residents of Ostönnen were repeatedly challenged by the Werlische in front of their court, even according to the legal understanding of the time, and charged or seized with high bribes (fines). Of course, the “Soest opponents” did not think otherwise. If the loyalists of the respective party encountered resistance, it sometimes happened that the “resistanceists” had to take pathetic blows in their own homes. The documentation on this can be found in the so-called "Rademacher Annalen", which can be viewed in the Soest city archive.

In order to settle the differences, representatives of the parties met repeatedly in Ostönnen. The most spectacular “day trip” was probably 1504. The Soester feared a military conflict and moved with 9,000 men, including 300 riders including army cars, field guns, armor and other armor, drawn from several cities and offices of the county of Mark, to the Electoral Cologne border. They camped between Ostönnen and Welver. The feared disputes did not occur. In the Rademacher Annalen you will find reports about claims and attacks again and again. Tensions increased with the introduction of the Reformation in Soest and the Börde. After the Protestant village of Sieveringen and Radberg, on the Soest side, was commanded by the Werler official to the Catholic mother church in Westönnen in 1613, it belonged ecclesiastically, but not legally secured, to the property of the Archbishop of Cologne. There were always various legal disputes about this, but in 1618 the Thirty Years War began and the disputes of bygone days faded into the background.

Because of the Hudererechte and individual attacks by the Soester on the Electoral Cologne area near Sieveringen, however, a dispute arose in 1719, which lasted for over a decade. Especially the largest Sieveringen farmers Schulte zum Radberg and Schäferhoff felt called on behalf of the village population to bring this dispute to the king. In the matter itself, it was primarily the Colonen Schäferhoff's case of the stealing of a wagon from the farm's "Marlkuhle" by Ostönner farmers. In the further dispute between Ostönnen and Sieveringen, however, it quickly becomes clear that it was actually a matter of defining the boundaries of the parties. The Sieveringer did not recognize the “Kreesweg” specified by the Soestern as the border, even gave as witnesses on record that they did not even know this path as a border path and pretended to be the “Frankweg” to the north. This resulted in an interesting definition of the boundary. In a related questioning of witnesses in the first quarter of the 18th century, one witness said the following: “He saw with his own eyes when the Lutheran colonus at Frieling's court, Heinrich Leiffert, so often lay in childbed with his wife, the Sieveringhauser Village women accompanied the child to Frankweg, where even the women from Ostönnen came to meet them and brought the child to the Lutheran baptism via Frankweg, the Notweg to Ostönnen, but the Sieveringer women returned home from Frankweg. "The files, Witness statements and legal disputes can be read in the official archive of the city of Werl, today stored in the city archive, and in the Soest city archive. The final southern border of the Ostönner district was then only determined in 1819 before the division of the Markenland.

On July 1, 1969, communal responsibility also ended for Sieveringen. As part of the reorganization of the old district of Soest, the village was incorporated into the municipality of Ense.

The “Urhöfe” of Sieveringen can be reliably determined using the tax register. A total of ten farms are named for the year 1536. Apart from Schäferhoff and Blome, the largest farms in the village next to the Radberg farm, all of them on the western edge of the village, the names of Frieling, Wilms, Stolle, Brinkmann, Carnot, Kenter and Tigges can be found in 1652 in the register of the Duchy of Westphalia. In 1707 the village only consisted of ten households with a total of 102 inhabitants. In later times, craftsmen and leaflets can be found in the tax registers. In 1875 there were 18 residential buildings with a total of 121 inhabitants. Today the place has grown to about 350 inhabitants through the designation of new building areas.

Web links

Commons : Sieveringen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipality of Ense: Figures, data, facts , accessed on March 2, 2020
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 91 .