Location: Dadenberger Hof / Bartz Farm

Lamersdorf: Dadenberger Hof / Bartz Hof

The farm, which was known as „Dadenberger Hof“ until about 1850, was for the first time documented in the 14th century.

The knightly dynasty of Dadenberg has been known since the 13th century. The first documentary is mentioned to 1217; Konrad and Werner von Dadenberg are named as witnesses.

In 1363, Heinrich von Dadenberg was enfeoffed with his castle Dattenberg (about 3 km south of Linz on the Rhine), and in 1368 he married his wife Idburg von Hückelhoven. Heinrich von Dadenberg, his wife or one of their descendants should have inherited the farm at Lamersdorf, which is subsequently called Dadenberger Hof.

Lamersdorf: Dadenberger Hof/Bartz Hof 1763

In the following period, different owners of the farm or shareholders were named. A gravestone of the Kracht family of the Dadenberg farm from 1575 is walled in at the entrance to the organ loft in the church of St. Cornelius. A document dated 23 March 1581 states that Bernhard von Merode zu Rummern inherited 10 malters of rye from the Dadenberger Hof zu Lamersdorf partly from his parents, partly bought years ago from Merode-Houffalize.

In 1849 the farm, now owned by Mrs Johanna Hubertina Fiacrine, Freiin von Overschie-Wisbecq and her husband, Count Theophil Wilhelm Anton von Hompesch, is up for forced sale. Currently, the farmer Wilhelm Bartz is a half-winner tenant on the farm. A half-winner was a tenant with a special lease who had to deliver a certain share, usually half of his yield, to the landlord.

Sometime in the period 1850 – 1853 Wilhelm Bartz became the owner of the farm, which from then on was called „Bartz Hof“. The initials „W.B.“ of Wilhelm Bartz can subsequently be seen in the side gable of the manor house.

The son of Wilhelm Bartz, Franz Josef Hubert Bartz (1854/1945), is the next owner of the Bartz farm. He manages the farm together with his unmarried brother Eduard.  From 1875 to 1925 the farm is known far and wide as a stallion station (keeping breeding stallions).

The last owner of the farm is Josef Bartz, the son of Franz Josef Hubert Bartz. After the death of Josef Bartz, the farm is razed to the ground in 1967 after more than 600 years of existence.

Next to the old Bartz farm, the building for the primary school (now a kindergarten) is erected in the 1960s. The school break hall used at that time was converted into a meeting place after the closure of the last inn in the village and has been used as a meeting place by the local associations since 2013.

The meeting place is named „Bartze-Hof“ in memory of the old farmstead.

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