Wennemar von Hasenkamp
Wennemar von Hasenkamp ( Wennemar Brüggeney , called van Hasenkamp ; born June 8, 1444 in Stiepel , † 1496 in Weitmar ) was a German nobleman in the county of Mark , founder of the knightly seat of the Weitmar family.
Life
In May 1464, the Drost of the Brandenburg office of Bochum Wennemar von Hasenkamp, Herr zu Stockum, received permission to build a new house on the Schultenhof in Weitmar, "the Hofe to Weytmar". His family home on the Hasenkamp corridor in Stiepel had become dilapidated.
Weitmar house has been a Schultenhof since the turn of the millennium (1st to 2nd) . The court was mentioned as a feudal estate as early as the 11th century. During archaeological excavations in 2014, fragments of earthenware burnt in an oxidizing manner Bardorfer and Hunneschans were found. Thus the existence of the knight seat Hasenkamp is already proven in Carolingian times. Wennemar von Hasenkamp turned this Schultenhof into the knight's seat of the Weitmar House in the second half of the 15th century.
Wennemar von Hasenkamp was the first wood judge mentioned in a document on the Ruhr in the county of Mark. In the late Middle Ages, a wooden court was a court about wood or forest matters and the rights of use of the march comrades in a marrow forest. His area of responsibility essentially related to "forest, water, pasture, path and footbridge". Sometimes it had the character of a Germanic community assembly ("Hengerath") to settle disputes on site. Wennemar von Hasenkamp provided the region on the Ruhr with a reliable organizational structure, which at the time was considered particularly unlawful because the population mainly consisted of immigrant Chattuaries . He was also a founding member of the Calendar Brotherhood. He had his grandson Hermann von Brüggenei, known as Hasenkamp , raised in Livonia . This was from 1535 to 1549 Landmeister in Livonia of the Teutonic Order .
progeny
In 1592 Johann von Hasenkamp built a new permanent house made of Ruhr sandstone on the old courtyard . He also appeared with others in disputes within the lower nobility in Westphalia as an arbitrator and witness.
As a result of the Reformation, the family split in 1599. Johann Gert von Hasenkamp, who had become Protestant, renounced all claims and titles and left the knight's seat to settle in Lengerich near Tecklenburg as a major farmer. His great-great-great-great-grandson Johann Gerhard Hasenkamp was a pietistic preacher, a contentious scholar who argued with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about basic questions of the Christian religion, and a close friend and advisor of Johann Caspar Lavater , the founder of physiognomy .
One of the last of the line was Freifäulein Sophia Maria Hasenkamp, who died in 1723 at the age of 44.
In 1764 the last Catholic Hasenkamp died childless at the family castle in Weitmar. His Protestant relatives in Lengerich turned down the inheritance.
On May 13, 1943, the castle was completely destroyed by fire bombs during one of the first major air raids by the British. The ruins are still in the castle park today.
A large-format oil painting of the old headquarters of the Hasenkamp family hangs in the entrance area of the Borbachschlösschen , the current seat of the family in neighboring Witten .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of Archeology in Germany, February to March 2015 edition
- ^ Church district Bochum, Evangelical Church Bochum, Frankfurt 1962/1972, p. 6, 36
- ^ Franz Darpe , Geschichte der Stadt Bochum, Bochum 1894, pp. 17, 52, 86, 96, 162, 165, 208, 334, 340, 448, 455, 460, 461, 521, 560, document 97.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasenkamp, Wennemar von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brüggeney, Wennemar; Brüggeney called van Hasenkamp, Wennemar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1444 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stiepel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1496 |
| Place of death | Weitmar |