Village Details and Village History:
Village
Residents before the Year 1585:
For the period around and before the year 1585 within the village we today
call "Sassmannshausen" we can suppose a total of 5 farmyards or
households with a total number of 40 to 50 inhabitants. The people could -
as in other villages within the "Wittgenstein" region - have
some small possession of land of their own. This has not been very usual
in the "good old times" within Europe and thus they have been
somewhat "lucky" to live there. The rest of the land to be engaged
had to be lend from the landlord or the church.
Most
of the properties and the rural farmland was thus owned by the landlord or
by the church and usually was lent to the citizens and farmers for a
period of 8 years. As "payment" the farmers had to deliver
various services or goods, which had to be submitted against the owner of
the land on regular basis.
1572
Within the "Salbuch des Amtes Wittgenstein" which is the
official ancient book documenting the Lordship of the County Wittgenstein
as well as in lists of the so called "Landrettung" ("land
rescue" in direct translation, but means militia
or compulsury military service)
the following village inhabitants are being mentioned, all of whom can
also be traced by means of the christening books of the church:
1)
"Salbuch":
- Arnt nun Hans
Lang
- Gilbert
- Junghans
- Simon,
as well as
- Jost Schneider,
who has been mentioned within the documents of the resettlement and
recompensation of the inhabitants (see below).
Within the recruiting lists of the "Landrettung" (militia or
compulsury military service) within each and every of the farmyards,
households and establishments had been liable to military service, we can
find the following names of village citizens:
-
as "Schutzen" (Marksman or Rifleman) - Hans Lang and
Simon,
- as "Spiesser" (Skewer) - Gilbert and Junghans.
1585/88
As per order of the "Graf (Earl) Ludwig I. von Sayn-Wittgenstein"
(the family and county shire still exists today) the village inhabitants
are to be resettled within other regions of the county. The reason was,
that the village area, which was very close to the manorial was intended
to be used for building of a new manor-house ("Domäne or Seigniory").
-
Simon, publican of the village inn, moves to "Feudingen"
-
Feichen, the widow of Junghans (+1583), takes over "...des
Daniels losgestorbene Behausung" - a household in "Fischelbach".
-
Hans Lang, Gilbert and Jost Schneider become citizens of
Laasphe and have settled within households and farmyards within or around
this little town.
Remark:
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