Sunrike (desert)

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Sunrike (also Sünricke or Sunnerke) is a deserted place in today's municipality of Borgentreich, Höxter district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The place is between Eissen and Borgentreich . The field corridor lies west of Borgentreich.

The name of the settlement Sunricke means sunat rike Sonderreich (an imperial property that was tax-free). The first mention of Sunrike goes back to the will of the Bishop of Würzburg Bruno von Würzburg (1005-1045) in 1036, who gave God the Lord and his martyr, St. Kilian the Elder. H. the Würzburg diocese the former imperial estate Sunrike (Borgentreich) with 308 hooves and numerous accessories and 10,000 acresFarmland transferred. Bishop Bruno inherited the property from his great-grandmother Luitgard, the daughter of Emperor Otto I. According to the will, the Paderborn Church should look after and supervise the estate and it should receive 2 silver [coins] and a horse of the same value. The estate later came into the possession of the Paderborn diocese, the exact time is not known. In 1251 the Paderborn bishop sold the estate and what was left of it to the Paderborn cathedral chapter. In 1444, a noble family Sunrike is listed in the manuscript of the Paderborn cathedral scholaster Dietrich von Engelsheim. In 1447 the village of Sunrike is said to have been destroyed by Bohemian mercenaries, Hussites , on their retreat from their siege of Soest . It is also possible that the settlement was abandoned.

Today Eissen and Borgentreich hold a common prayer procession every Tuesday evening before Ascension Day to Sunrike, where a mass is celebrated and afterwards there is a cozy get-together. As far as Eissen is concerned, this tradition was abandoned in 1969 and revived in 1997. In 2006 numerous metal finds were discovered on the Sunriker field, including a Roman disc brooch and a stone ax.

literature

  • Hermann Multhaupt: When God inherited an estate. 975 years ago, Bishop Bruno von Würzburg bequeathed Sunrike near Borgentreich to heaven. Die Warte, No. 150, 2011, pp. 35–36
  • Kristina Bietenbeck: A village "shines": the metal probe finds from the medieval desert Sunrike; Licentiate thesis, University of Basel, 2007
  • Paul-Werner Scheele : Bruno von Würzburg - friend of God and the world; Echter-Verlag, Würzburg, 1985