An excerpt from Fremde in Westfalen. Westfalen in der Fremde.  Zur Geschichte der Ein - und Auswanderung von 1200 bis 1950. (The History of Immigration In and Out of Westphalia 1200-1959) By Gilbert Strotdrees

Five cows, 15 sheep, 1 pig and 1 goat Anton Poggel calls his own. He lives in Kückelheim in 1760 as a small farmer. With those few animals he does not belong to the poorest people in the village, but life is still hard.. Then he and the other poor farmers heard rumors about Queen Maria Theresia in Austria, that she would await them with open arms in her country.

So many families make the long trip to the Banat. They have been promised land for free, help for building their houses and so on.

The Pastor of Eslohe noted on 30 April 1765 that Anton Poggel married Maria Margarete Bloyink. Only three days later he noted that they have gone to Hungary. The sister of Poggel goes with them. Between 1764 and 1772 1800 people from the Sauerland region left for the Banat.

(Now the author explains what the Banat looked like)

Jacob Struck from Mecklinghausen was a soldier in the army of the Austrians, He settled already shortly  after1718 , when Prinz Eugen fought the Turks (Ottoman Empire) in Vienna.

The Austrian government said: Only when there are people, the taxes will come from this land , which was nearly abandoned  after the war between the Turks and the Austrians.

Spanish, Serbian farmers,  Hungarians and people from Romania are also coming to the region to farm and homestead.

Starting in the 1720 s most of the Germans left from southwest Germany. ( So they were called Banater Schwaben)

From 1722 to 1726 twenty families from Drolshagen and Wenden are the first from the Sauerland region to go.

 From 1752 to 1753 around 100 families follow them.

The peak was reached in 1764 to1772. By that time 382 families From the Sauerland went to Hungary. It might have been even 450.  Most of them came from the villages around Olpe and Drolshagen and the region Attendorn, Eslohe, and  Schmallenberg.

Very well paid agents from Austria came through the villages to try to bait and entice people to the Banat in Hungary.

But also the colonists themselves are advertising for Hungary. Some came back to the Sauerland to sell their land and so on.  When they went back to the Banat, they would take relatives, friends and neighbors with them. The local government in the Sauerland calls them seducers, as they do not want people to leave the Sauerland.. In 1766 in the churches the priests read the order from the government, that 25 percent of the capital and equity of those who leave will be confiscated. by the government. The agents of Queen Maria Theresia of Austria are even supposed to be killed.when they come to entice people to the Banat.  The government fears, that there are not enough workers left on the farms anymore.

             But as there is no work, no money, no future, the people do not care. The Kaiserin wakes too many hopes for these poor people of the farmer under class but can not deliver on the promises.

(Now the author gives the example of a poor farmer)

Heinrich Tilmann (called Zenger) left with his family from the village Kückelheim (10 kilometer from Deutmecke.) He was the owner  of 1 goat,  10 sheep and 3 cows. The 20-year-old Anton Wagner, who was the son of a tailor, went with him.

( Now he speaks about the reasons and why people left the Sauerland.)

Those, who did not have any property left, because they wanted to become free. The owners of farms left, because they were indebted. That was not the fault of the farmers, but the Kurkölnische government. The aristocracy does not have to pay any taxes and the citizens in the cities only pay 19 percent tax.  81 percent of all the tax income is from the farmers. So they don’t have any reserves.  Many farms were ruined or deep in debt and that was the main reason for leaving.

(Now the example of Poggel, how they managed to get to Banat.)

On 2 May they leave the village. With 12 families they are making a trek. They are going in the direction of Fulda and from there to Bamberg  then via Nürnberg to Regensburg. A ship then brings them via the Donau (Danube) to Vienna.  This first part of the journey takes them 1 month.

On 29 May they have to register in Vienna. Every family gets 6 gulden. After a short rest, they take the ship again and reach at the end of June Tschanad..

Farm and Tax traditions in the Sauerland

This is from church and town records of Schoenholthausen and Finnentrop.  The first three pages I was able to loosely translate to get the general meaning so that one can see the tax system on the farmers and the role the church played during that era.  The rest of the pages were done with an internet translation program and really will not make much sense to you but it mainly tells about how certain pieces of property and farms in the area were exchanged and inherited.  The Kraushaar name appears toward the end and I have also learned the name Schwarte is associated somehow with the Kraushaar name much like Korte is associated with the Henrichs farm…

Deliveries and taxes from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century is  in the form of money taxes much as we have it today, or as Naturalabgaben (natural things such as livestock or materials, as it was for more than 5,000 years. Sometimes unscrupulous leaders at the expense of the public took deliveries and taxes. It began in the old times with the delivery tax of one tenth but already at present the rural farmer has half of the income devoured by deliveries and taxes. The collection of taxes encountered resistance, above all not rarely if the concerning were simply overtaxed by the height and the multiplicity of the deliveries. The following remarks are to give an overview, with whatever delivering and fiscal charges our ancestors were confronted in preserving history. The basic tax rule delivery was justified in the basic rule. This was a medieval form of tax of the large-land properties, with which only one part of the land was managed by a manager or Gentleman. The other larger part of the Laendereien was assigned to independent farmers for their own use. But the farmers, also mentioned, paid to Kolone (the Kolonatsabgaben), a kind of lease. It was usually paid by converted material assets, later in addition, partly in money. Frequently the Kolonatsabgaben also provided Frondienste, such as driving and cart services, Maehdienste as well as work inputs of the Kolonen and their relatives. The use contracts were usually issued for 7 or 8 years and held in writing in Gewinnotteln. One called the procedure: a yard (farm) in profit gift. With conclusion of a contract, beside the Kolonatsabgaben, a profit of money was agreed upon, which was paid either uniquely for the duration of the production or in annual rates. The Naturalabgaben consisted of what was gained in the agriculture of the yard. That was hard grain (rye, barley and oats). Also a pig was usually added, the one weight of about 100 Pounds. Chickens were nearly always a component of the deliveries. One differentiated between lease chickens, interest chickens and Fastelo wendhuehnern (fast turning chickens). Also one found wax and hemp frequently in the delivery books, in which the basic gentlemen supervised the delivery loyalty and on-time departure performance of their Kolonen. Settlement date was in each case was  yearly. The height of the deliveries depended on for instance  the size of the yard and the productivity of the Laendereien (estate). But conclusions of the height of the deliveries on the size of the yard (farm) are only conditionally permissible. Many Heggener farmers stood in reason relation to noble houses (Noble families)  like the house of Ahausen. Other farms belonged to churches or monasteries. Further details on the Kolonatsabgaben of the Heggener farmers are to be found in the contributions to the individual farms. The profit money amounted to usually 7 Reichsthaler; in addition a right money came at a value of 1 Reichsthaler. The hereditary subservience of the farmers was waived in Prussia on 09.10.1807. The decree over the relieved possession and the free use of the real property meant that there should be only free farmers starting from Martinitag 11.11.1810. The verdict over the adjustment of property- and rural conditions of the 14.September 1811 implementation: All current owners of those hereditary farms and the possessions and private goods, of half farms or whole farms, or farms owned by religious domains, will belong to the property of their farms and transferred under the obligation, the property goods for it, as ordered are, to be compensated. The property goods should be compensated for the property of the farms and the service deliveries, if the subjects the third part of their Gutslaen dereien all transfers and on all extraordinary supports renouncement would be carried out. When the Sauerland had become Prussian in 1816, that applied for 54 deliveries and taxes from the Middle Ages to in 19. In Hessen the Kolonate was abolished by law. The law had become not yet become effective however, as long as the preserving gene was Hessian. That redeemed most Heggener farmers and took place very many years later. A replacement order of 18.06.1840 specified that the Kolonatsabgaben and services of the farmers should be converted into a monetary value. The replacement money, which is to be carried out from the farmer to the Gentleman, should be the 18 1/2 subject amount of the calculated monetary value. As far as the farmers were not able to pay the high replacement funds a credit grundbuchlich, which could be secured was granted to them. A part of the 1855 accomplished separations of the Ahauser Kolonate in preserving gene: Count of Spee archives Ahausen, div. Documents Michael friend: German history, Bd. 7 the Bertelsmannreihe gentleman-weight the free farmer clung as whole for the fulfilment of public services. They were united to enjoy work and selected their setting comrades (union?). These put all downward gradients and services gentleman-weight and the extraordinary Schatzungen proportionately on each requiring free one over. They selected a land farmhand, who, confirmed by the Drosten, had to draw in and exhaust which compute individual downward gradients. Free farmers paid gentleman-weight as obligation opposite the owner and manager of free county or another lay authority. It sat down together from various services and deliveries: - May and Herbstbede, a kind reason and rate - Foderbede (fodder interest) - Foherbede (driving interest) - Meggergeld (Maehdienstzins) - Verthetigungsgeld (defense interest) - purchase oats - Bedehafer - smoke oats to pay (for each fire place) - Gohafer (oats portion to the Gogericht) - in addition: Gentleman smoke chickens - hand and clamping services for the maintenance of attachment plants and land development of national wonderful goods - hunt services there it in preserving gene and Sange starting from the 16^th Century probably gave no free farmers more and in Old Finnentrop, only the lowest property at this time was "freely bilsteinisch" still, is here on does not gentleman-weight not more in greater detail to be received. The word tenth leads itself off from latin word decem = ten. Tenth is a delivery of the gross profit, predominantly in material assets, original the tenth part. One can look back on the Biblical age. All tenth in the country, both of the seed of the country and of the fruits of the trees, are to the gentleman and the gentleman should be holy. Thus it stands in the 3.Book of Mose 27,30. Also the Greeks used one tenth. As an individual aristocrat at different places Tyran nis (despotism), introduced they justified one regularly income taxes: tenth. They built for it temples, water pipelines and roads, spent the money in addition, on mercenaries and attachment plants and financed their celebrations with one tenth tax. In the Jewish temple state the population paid a so-called tenth for her Leviten (temple servant) and further Naturalabgaben for the priests. Among the merowingischen and karolingischen rulers of the Franconia realm there was census regalis, frequently also as tenth designated, a lease-similar delivery, which amounted to approximately 10 per cent of the yield. The policy of the Frankish rulers to integrate Saxonian trunks into the Frankish realm andChristians, found their legal basis in the law work "Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae" (earliest gesetzes-sammlung for the Frankish gaus), developed around the year 782. § the general tenth obligation in Saxonia regulated 17. The Karolingische legislation introduced an obligation of the building of churches and the churches with plentiful reason and soil and a generous tenth right to their maintenance. Each church was associated farm inhabitants and the countryside  to give and have, one hundred twenty people each, an aristocrat, and free and dependent farmers give(assigned) to the church a farmhand and a farm servant. ... likewise it was determined according to God, a requirement that all must deliver one tenth of their property and yield of their work to their churches and priests. The delivery, which the Pfarreien of the Dekanates had to pay RK-TENDORN around 1310 to the archbishop from Cologne to, called itself decimarum - (Zehnt)2. the few examples specified here is to be recognized, how confusing the term tenth was used, particularly since the tenth could be sold, exchanged or pawned like a material commodity. Thus the tenth authorization changed frequently from more in the church into lay hand and in reverse. For the first time we experience over the tenth of preserving gene from a document from 18 November 1355. Therein recorded Randolph of Keygellere that he its tenth (the right to raise tenth - d.Verf.) to Ahausen in the Kirchspiel Dusenschure (Duenschede), which in its tenth to Heyen belongs, at Mr. Hei denrik van Plettenbracht, who lives to Finnentrop (Altfin nentrop), for 14 Marks eynen guden gulden alden scolds, tho rekene for driger Penninge myn dan eyne halue marc sold. The document carries the seal of Hermann van Heyen, Knappe, who agrees as right inheritance tenth mentioned the sales beside the seal of the exhibitor. The tenth of preserving gene was a Lehen the Kolle giatkirche pc. George in Cologne. Leaning carrier was the family of Heygen, which of the count Gottfried IV. of Arnsberg occasionally had farms, fishery -, meal and administrative laws. As long as the main male line of those from Heygen resided in preserving gene (male line), the tenth lay probably completely in the possession of the family. But the tenth from preserving gene was and remained an article of verpfaendungen, erbteilungen and transfers. On 16 February 1445 Wede kint from Heyen and its wife Meene sold to that Gocke len Hegener one annually on Cathedra Petri due pension of a Malter oats from their small tenth to preserving gene. With the extension, expansion and splintering of the family at the beginning of the 15th Century must have gone the tenth into division. The sources report of a three-division tenth. On 17 July Dechant and chapters of pc. George record 1427 in Cologne that them Diderich Rump (Rump was a noble family in the area), the deceased Rutger Rumps son, with that 3. Part tenth to Heyen and its Zubehoerungen, convenient in the Attendorn, for 4 Marks of Cologne currency belehnen. 114 years later in the  5^th edition  Hermann Rump records,. Hermann’s  son received the third part tenth approximately annually to Heyen in the vesten 4 Marks Cologne currency due to Attendorn of the Capitel pc. Georgen in Cologne on Martinitag (November 11^th) to Lehen. How the tenth came into the possession of the Rumps, is not understood from the documents. Relations may have led to it. The other 2/3 tenth from the reversionary heirs of the house Heygen had changed over to Bamenohl to the line from Heygen to eternal. Johann 56 deliveries and taxes from the Middle Ages to in 19th Century from Heygen to preserving gene (male line), * 1510, the Gentleman of the manor eternal and by marriage with Anna von Wrede, Erbin and Inhaberin of the goods to Amecke, gave its portion of tenth to his sister Margarethe as Brautschatz, as these 1544 Christoffel to Ahausen in heirated This transmission after the early death of the Christoffel (?1545) was cancelled probably. Because on 25 September recorded 1550 Johann of Heygen that he received from Dechant and chapter 2/3 of a tenth to George in Cologne to preserving gene equal its Voreltern, for which he must pay annually 8 Marks of Coelnisch payments (Cologne currency). A few years later were this 2/3 portions tenth of preserving gene already again in the hands of the house Ahausen. On 10. April 1570 recorded Hermann von Newenhove to Ahausen that it had been belehnt by the Kollegiatkirche pc. George to Cologne with 2/3 tenth to Heyen, as already deceased Johann Heygen had brother-in-law and ancestors to Lehen. He had to pay for it on Remeisz or Martinitag  8 Marks of Cologne currency or for each Mark of "6 more rader albus". Hermann to Ahausen was endeavored obviously very much to also still acquire the remaining third tenth. Hermann Rump asked in 1571 to the Wenne its leaning Gentlemen to hang their seal to the letter by which it its 3. Part lehnruerigen tenth to Heigen had sold to the Hermann from Newenhove to Ahausen. On 6 May 1572 this confirmed the purchase, by recording that he had bought the third part tenth to Heigen in the Kirchspiel and Gogericht Attendorn, and that he had the other two thirds already of Kolle giatkirche pc. George in Cologne to Lehen. It asked now also with the third third to be belehnt. This Belehnung was confirmed on 09.06.1572. Starting from this time the owners of Ahausen were the tenth gentlemen in the preserving gene (male line). William of Newenhove to Ahausen probably went into financial difficulties, when he  borrowed on  16.11.1600 800 Reichstaler from  Hermann von Grevenstein and he  used it for two tenth to Sange and Heiggen granted. From a document of the Gogerichts of Attendorn from the year 1602 we know that Wilhelm von Newehoven for the tenth of preserving gene paid 500 Reichstaler obtained, experience for from Sange 450 the Reichstaler. 164715 the Dechant of pc. George sold in Cologne a tenth to preserving gene, whom so far W. von Neu-enhof had, to whom inheriting and tenth successor Johann Moritz of unfortunate. To 09.08.166316 - in Ahausen sat since 1642 from unfortunate to Grevenstein - certified Henning the Christian of it harm that the village residents of Heygen and Sange leased there tenth from 1663 on for annually 5 Malter each rye and barley and 14 Malter oats together with 2 Thalern, for which Jacob Gante and George Stenart had committed themselves. Over tenth repeated between the tenth gentleman and the tenth-requiring one argued and one prozessiert. Three years long (1755-1758)17 lasted a process, which baron of harms, Ahausen, against which led tenth-requiring of preserving gene and Sange. Tenth-requiring in this time were: Trained, Gante, Gronert, Schurmann, Pliester, Witte, and weber of preserving gene; in Sange were tenth requiring: Froelling, schwarte, Valckemann (Halleke), Wilmes, Korth and Sangermann. Gerodeten forest and wood soils went around the tenth obligation from fields again put on on. Another time complained of unfortunate against the tenth-requiring Henrich Boehner, Schmidt, Webers, Kraushaar and Singmann, it would have the fruits under leaving 10. partly, but without previous inspection by a representative tenth gentlemen eingefahren.17 against the fact complained the tenth-requiring that the tenth A driver tears the best sheaves from the staircases and even only from fertilized country in the year 1800 leased the tenth erhebe.17 Ferdinand Radema more cher towards. Henze of Ahausen Laendereien on that hair and the Darre, their tenth liberty he expressly certify themselves leaving in the middle 19. Century the tenth right and the tenth obligation were abolished after nearly 500 years duration by the separation law. Sources and literature: 1 A. Hoemberg: The medieval Pfarrsystem koelnischen Westphalia - Westphalia 29, 1951, S.31 2 A. Hoeynck: To the history of the Dekanie Attendorn - Westfaeli sche magazine 44, 1886 3 inventory count of Spee archives Ahausen I, Nr.16, S.14 4 ebd., I Nr.134, S.53 5 ebd., I Nr.397, S.149 6 ebd., I Nr.404, S.151/152 and VI Nr.8 7 ebd., I Nr.425, S.159 8 ebd., I Nr.495, S.185 9 ebd., I Nr.505, S.188 and VI Nr.8, S.378 10 ebd., VI Nr.8, S.379 11 ebd., I Nr.508, S.189 and VI of the Nr.8, S.379 12 ebd., I Nr.174, S.64 13 ebd., VI Nr.8, S.379 14 ebd., I Nr.579, S.222 15 ebd., I No., S. 16 ebd., VI Nr.8, S.380 17 ebd., VI Nr.8, S.380 literature to the topic: Uwe Schulz - publishers -: With tenth it began - a culture history of the tax 57 history the wax interest rent and tenth was not the only loads, which were imposed upon to the farmer. All 30 farmers of the peasantry preserving gene had to give a wax interest to the parish church in Attendorn. The wax delivery amounted to 1 Pound of yellow wax annually, so that each every 30 years 1 Pound wax to produce had. Because of insignificance this delivery came frequently into oblivion and had to be in-complained, how a note reports from 7 November 1855 in the Pfarrarchiv Attendorn. The minister of the parish church was that the wax delivery 1855 with 15 Tha learn, that was therefore glad for each farmer with 15 silver groschens, to be replaced could. The wax interest goes back on one in the Middle Ages mainly into Westphalia spread form from Hoerigkeit. The Wachszinsigen, also Altarhoerige, called their name from which wax interest receive, which they had to put annually on the altar of their schutzheiligen. The Wachszinsigkeit was a personal protection relationship from less-free people to a holy one, the patron of a church or also to an individual altar. The wax-subject to the payment of interest were to a certain extent Schutzhoerige of the church. wax zinsigkeit developed either by release from low conditions or by birth, if parents were wax subject to the payment of interest or by freiwilli-gen transition to this obligation. So much for the explanation of a quite complicated medieval legal relation. The wax interest, that our ancestors still into the center 19. Century carried out, certainly very much of its medieval importance had lost and was probably only a customary law. Source: - Pfarrarchiv Attendorn, A 53, 361 - literature to the topic: Heinrich Beerbaum: The wax interest right in the southern Westphalia up to 14. Century - 1913 measuring oats a further delivery which can be paid to the church was measuring oats. It was set as a function of the size and productivity of a yard differently highly and amounted to between 1 quarter (ca.20 litre) and 2 Mudde (ca.135 litre). In the Pastoratsrentenbuch of 1658 - 1693 of the parish church St.Johannes Baptist Attendorn is specified all delivery-requiring of preserving gene and Sange. At the same time this note for each yard gives additional information about the ownership structure, those situation in the village and the condition: Guth too preserve towards so after Ahausen gehordt, give jahrligh to pasto rath a mudde haberen... the new trained Joannes Plister trained. Before this on it gewohnet, is on it become impoverished. Kraushaar too preserve towards diss Kraushaar’s guth gehordt to the Closter Drolshagen, gives jahrlig to pastorath a mudde haberen. Cutter gutthgen is small a Kotter guetgen, gehordt gantz allodial to pastorath, give jahrlig two quarters more messhaber. Afermans guth is a large guth, gehordt to the house fast mountain gives a mudde more messhaber jahrlig. Heller guth too preserve towards is largely guth, gehordt after Ahausen, gives jahrlig to pastorath zwo the mudde more messhaber. Gante to preserving gene is chorhern guth, gives jahrlig to pastorath to Attendorn the mudde more messhaber. (1658 to 1690 the Colon in place of even guilty measuring oats into the Bauernschaften preserving gene and Ennest with own horse and car in-collected and to the Pastorat to Attendorn drove measuring oats.) Gronert too preserve towards gehordt to the Closter Gallilea, gives a mudde messha more ber. Schurmans guth too preserve towards ligth mittzen in the village straight under the Kirchhoff, gehordt after Ahausen, give jahrlig to pastorath the mudde more messhaber. The Colon auff dissem guth is becomes impoverished (1690). Peter Schurman has more widder gewun to nen 1691. Hentzen guth too preserve towards gives a mudde more messhaber. Current Colonus William Hentze. Plisters guth too preserve towards gehordt to the house boiling castle, gives a mudde more messhaber. Kropmans guth too preserve towards 58 deliveries and taxes from the Middle Ages to in 19. Century is gehordt and first guth in dorff, to pfarr kirch within Attendorn, gives jahrlig to pastorath at more messhaber zwo quarters. Weifers guth too preserve towards is more koetter guth, gehordt to pastorath the too Kirch veischede, gives 2 quarter more messhaber. Witten guth true up itzo Johan Witte live, guth gehordt to the noble house borrowing living, give a mudde measuring more haber. King guth too preserve towards a small Kotterguth, light unden beside dorff at sides auff more uber after Ahausen in addition, gives ees pension to those capell too preserve towards. Sangerman to Sange guth gehordt too beneficio of the S. Francisci et Santa Clarae, gives jahrlig to pastorath the mudde measuring more haber. Deckers guth directly under prescribed Sangermans guth, is small more kotter guth, ligt mitzen in dorff to the roads, gives jahrlig to pastorath the 3 quarter, with my time Deckers guth, because a Stroedecker gewondt on it, was genendt, more messhaber. Froligs guth to Sange is small more kotter guth, ligt that all and first in dorff, gives jahrlig to pastorath the quarter messha more ber. Colonus is Peter Frolig. Willemes guth to Sange is a large guth, gehordt hern the Vicariis S.Nicolai, gives jahrlig half more malter more missehaber... Junkeren guth to Sange so all necht under prescribed guth ligt, gives jahrlig a mutte more messhaber. Diss guth gehordt after Ahausen. It is before my time also alnoch weust purging guth, which more gebraucher however, whose three are in Sange, have all Zeith the jahrelige missaticum paid. Schwarten guth to Sange to house fast mountain is largely guth, gehordt, gives jahrlig to pastorath the mudde more haber. Peter Schwarte colonus. Bichen is more largely hopes, gehordt to the house fast mountain, truely itzo auff lives Stoffel to Bichen; a mud de gives more messhaber. Starting from 1677 Herman to Bichen. Source: Pfarrarchiv Attendorn, Pastoratsrentenbuch 1658-1693 of the parish church pc. Johannes Baptist Attendorn deliveries to the chapel to preserving gene measuring oats was to be exhausted to the parish church in Atten thorn, which was responsible also for the places preserving gene and Sange. For the chapel in preserving gene led a Provisor the invoice book, the so-called chapel book. When with a conflagration in Atten thorn all documents and documents had been destroyed over pending debts opposite the chapel to preserving gene, all debtors were loaded on 11 May 1743 to the Gogreven to Attendorn, in order to log in the presence of the Kapellenprovisors Berndt Witte debts and hypotheken again. Excerpts from minutes: Johan Hentze 33 ss Johan Hentze indicated that he would have to pay annue (annual) three and thirty ss (Schillings) at pensions of the complaining chapel, whether such were to be omitted, or not, does not know, earlier possessor (owners) the Henzen of property it must pay such annue, would be at pensions to nothing backwardly. Christoffel Graunert 13ss Christofferus Graunert daselbsten showed to evenly in the same way that possessor bonorum (landowners) from the Graunerts property had to pay 13 ss annue, plera nesciebat (he did not know more). Johan Peter Kropman 3 realm place Johan Peter Kropman daselbsten say even in the same way, possessor the Kropmans of property annually 3 realm place had to pay. William cutter 27 ss... and would have to pay the owner of the cutter of property from this annually a half Reichsthaler or 27 Petermaen more ger or ss. Peter Froeling 10 Petermaenger Peter Froeling daselbsten indicated evenly selbiges, whom the early owner from the Froelings property annue 10 Petermaenger had to pay. Johannes Schuerman 3 Petermaenger Johannes Schuerman daselbsten said that it had to pay all years 3 Petermaenger from the property, could not not say whether such would be out soluble or not ". Source: City archives Attendorn: Chapel book preserving gene

The Schatzungen also the lay authority needed for the covering of the expenditures for representation and the expenditures for administration and security of the country money. Above all military conflicts devoured as much money that the income from coming ral goods (state goods) was not sufficient and was written out Schatzungen: Kopfschatzungen, Viehschatzun towards, Rauchschatzungen u.v.a.m. The head treasure, with which we want to deal here, was in approximately comparable with a modern tax. The appointment of this tax depended mainly after the financial position to taxing, partly in addition, on the size of its possession. Some the still existing tax lists of the peasantry preserving gene are to be added as examples.

 A mention of the 30 Years War

After the 30 Years War the Shulte farm in Bausenrode is not in good condition, so thr following legendmay only be true in part. It is told: Schulte' in Bausenrode experienced almost  daily the fact that the Swede’s were  close and dreadfully robbed and plundered the countryside. (this must have been in the year 1632, in which besieged Sweden was in Attendorn.) In order to protect the farm before the wild soilders arrived, they took all their table-ware from the cabinets and smashed and trampled it in and in front of the house. When then Swede’s  came Schulte' sat crying and in pain-complaining on the rubble of his glory and sought for the soldiers see that make that other soldiers already had been there, and they would have robbed it of everything to reason. They would like to leave the last remainders nevertheless. The Swedish soldiers had compassion and took off again. The author Willi Voss tells the legend, as if those would have let Sweden the yard unchallenged.

Note: The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved most of the major European powers.^[2] Beginning as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a general war involving much of Europe, for reasons not necessarily related to religion.^[3] The war marked a continuation of the France-Habsburg rivalry for pre-eminence in Europe, which led later to direct war between France and Spain.

The major impact of the Thirty Years' War, in which mercenary armies were extensively used, was the devastation of entire regions scavenged bare by the foraging armies. Episodes of widespread famine and disease devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent, the Low Countries and Italy, while bankrupting many of the powers involved. The war may have lasted for 30 years, but the conflicts that triggered it continued unresolved for a much longer time. The war ended with the Treaty of Münster, a part of the wider Peace of Westphalia.

Over the course of the war, the population of the German states was reduced by about 30%;^[4] in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had amounted to half, while in some areas an estimated two-thirds of the population died. Germany’s male population was reduced by almost half. The population of the Czech lands declined by a third. The Swedish armies alone destroyed 2,000 castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns in Germany, one-third of all German towns.