geschichte.pfad
Historischer Wanderweg Sand
von Manfred Dasbach und Udo Harler
Kapitel 8
Der Wiederhof (Pfarrhof)
Seiten 28 - 29
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 8: The Wiedenhof (parsonage)One of the earliest documents still preserved mentions the Wiedenhof in 1349. Knight Konrad von Sand and his wife Kunigunde donated a plot of land to their priest so that he could build the Wiedenhof on it. Until the late Middle Ages a vicarage would be called Wiedenhof. The word is derived from ‘Widembhof’ meaning a farmstead dedicated to the church. In an age in which there were no church taxes to pay the clergy or in which priests were directly paid by the parishioners, such a Wiedenhof served as a residence as well as a means of livelihood. The farmstead offered living quarters, farming, the keeping of animals and often fishing opportunities.In a lot of places in Germany the term “Wiedenhof” lives on as street name or farmland denominations. In 1824 the Wiedenhof at Sand seems to have been badly run down because on June 18th the Royal Administrator of the District of Mülheim on the Rhine says in a letter sent to the mayor of Bergisch Gladbach: “As is well known the vicarage at Sand is in such a desolate state that important repair work will have to be carried out, though a complete overhaul would be preferable”. |
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In 1826 priest Ommerborn decided against living there and preferred to take quarters in Lerbach Manor though the building must have been moist and cold. It isn’t known what subsequently happened to the Wiedenhof. When the lease contract expired it was sold to Richard Zanders who pulled it down in 1880.
Until 1880 the Wiedenhof stood at the top of this knoll.
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