Stockyard (Eitorf)

Jordan van der Wayhe: The Stockyard at the top left of a map from 1607

The cattle yard was an old saddlery in Eitorf . It was demolished in 1909. In 1814 it was renamed Wilhelmsruh by its owner.

jurisdiction

The cattle yard had been the seat of the Eitorfer Friedensgericht and the local courtroom of the Blankenberg office since 1812 . He belonged to the Irlenbach family .

Cattle trade

After a long break, permission was again given in 1852 to hold a cattle market. On May 26th, 1852 the cattle market took place in the Siegauen for the first time . 220 oxen , 195 cows and 59 cattle were offered. The market was supposed to take place every first Wednesday from April to October, but then took place every first and third Wednesday from March to June and every third Wednesday from July to November. After 1870 the market fell asleep.

Residents

The name Viehof also became a family name in Eitorf. Residents or relatives were:

Johann Reinerus Renscheid, married to Cäcilia vom Viehof (1710)
Johann Henricus Meisenbach (Mybach) and Anna Margarethe, Halfe on the Viehof
Mattheis and Anna Maria (1725)
Matthias Hunscheid, married to Agnes (1722)
Johann Heinrich Weyer, married to Catharina in 1710
Premier Lieutenant Carl Friedrich von Schade, married to Wilhelmine Jacobine Schlitt in 1819

Railway construction

Parts of the Viehhof site were bought by the Cologne-Minden Railway in 1858 and used as the administrative headquarters. Later the building fell victim to the extension of the track system.

literature

Gabriel Busch: Victory in the mirror. Publishing house Michaelsberg Abbey, Siegburg 1979.
Karl Schröder : Eitorf under the Prussians . Ed .: Heimatverein Eitorf e. V. Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2002, ISBN 3-87710-321-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Actual description of part of Bergschen Ambts Windeck sampt abutting borders. , reduced reprint of the 1607 edition by Jordan van der Wayhe, published by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein / Oberbergische Department. Hans Weirich: Historical maps from the Oberbergischen , Wiehl 2004.

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[1] Actual description of part of Bergschen Ambts Windeck sampt abutting borders. , reduced reprint of the 1607 edition by Jordan van der Wayhe, published by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein / Oberbergische Department. Hans Weirich: Historical maps from the Oberbergischen , Wiehl 2004.