Location: Parsonage and pastor’s kamp

In the Middle Ages, the parish priest received the income for his ecclesiastical duties from the faithful in the parish.
In the village, the church, the local parish, usually had ecclesiastical fiefs, i.e. plots of land, the income from which was primarily used to support the parish priest or other clergy in the parish. The parish priest is the beneficiary of the church fief.
In the village, the church, the local parish, usually had ecclesiastical fiefs, i.e. plots of land, the income from which was primarily used to support the parish priest or other clergy in the parish. The parish priest is the beneficiary of the church fief. He may live in the parsonage and use the parish garden or he may live in a parsonage, manage it himself in whole or in part and draw his income from it. The parsonage household also includes the farmhands and maidservants needed to run it.
In Lamersdorf there has been a larger parsonage farm managed by the parish priest since at least the 15th century (in the register „Alde Erfgulde of 1395“ this farm is not yet mentioned). It is described in detail in the register of church pensions kept by the priest of the time, Simon van Borsselen. In addition to the farm buildings, 2 barns and stables for sheep, pigs, cattle and chickens belong to the parish farm.
In 1533 the parish of Lamersdorf owned 20 acres of land. The vicarage was located on today’s Corneliusstraße. Parts of the buildings lasted until the beginning of the 20th century.
In the Tranchot map of 1803, on the adjacent section of the map of 1811 and the section of the tracing of the parcel maps of 1879 made by Aloys Jansen, the parsonage with its buildings can be seen. The parcel names „Pastors Kamp“ and „Hinter Pastors Kamp“ still bear witness to its existence today. Next to the vicarage, „Pastors Gasse“ and „Pastorkampgässchen“ still run at the end of the 19th century.
„Kamp“ is a term used as early as the Middle Ages for an enclosed piece of land. In this case, therefore, a piece of arable land, orchard or pasture land belonging to the church and used by the pastor.
Until which time the local pastor occupied and managed the vicarage himself is not known in detail. In 1766, the records of the church archives mention that the vicarage was leased out.
By 1888 at the latest, the pastor was living in the new vicarage built on the neighbouring property. Although this building can already be seen in the adjacent tracing of the 1879 cadastral map, it was only added to this cadastral map at a later date.
According to the records in the building book of the land registry office, the old courtyard buildings of the vicarage were demolished in 1922.
On the aerial photograph of 1953, only the outlines and individual wall remains of the former vicarage can be seen.