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  2: 1 Brennhausen
  3: Brennhausen (Ger. Burg Brennhausen) is a castle and hamlet in the
  4: municipality of Sulzdorf a.d.Lederhecke in the county of Rhön-Grabfeld in
  5: Bavaria in Germany.
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  7: 1.1 Origin of Name - Distinct Views
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  9: 1.1.1 Houses of Springs
 10: Josef Braun explains the name Brennhausen in his place-names book as the
 11: houses by a water source, meaning, in this case, a spring. Braun bases his
 12: statement on the fact that immediately next to the settlement a stream
 13: springs forth which flows into the river Saale. Braun discovered that the
 14: form Brenn- is a written form, changed from the spoken dialect, which is
 15: based on the old form Brünn.
 16: 
 17: 1.1.1 Houses of Brunicho
 18: Dr. Heinrich Wagner presents a very different view in his Historischen
 19: Atlas von Neustadt/Saale (Historical Atlas of Neustadt/Saale). Wagner
 20: believes that the origination of the name had nothing to do with the
 21: houses by a water source, but rather that the name of the estate is
 22: derived from the old German given name, Brunicho. Under this scenario, the
 23: founder of Brennhausen used his own name, as was the custom of that time,
 24: for the naming of Brunechenhusen.
 25: 
 26: 1.1 1182 Officially documented
 27: The first known mention of Brennhausen in an official document was the
 28: year 1182. In this document, Graf Poppo von Henneberg leased to his
 29: faithful Wolfram, among others, a tenth of Brunechenhusen.
 30: On August 29, 1237, Graf Poppo von Henneberg, VII declared that his
 31: vassals "Deynodapifer and Theodericus, so-called von Blanckenberg," must
 32: repair the damage done to the Brunechenhusen property when it was unjustly
 33: withheld from the abbot and the Bildhausen convent.
 34: 
 35: 1.1 Truchseß von Brennhausen
 36: The Truchseß von Brennhausen is a genealogical branch of the Truchessen
 37: von Wetzhausen which descends from a Hans Truchseß (1260-1330). He had
 38: holdings in Wetzhausen, Brennhausen, Sternberg and Essfeld. In the
 39: official property record book of the Bishop of Würzburg, Gottfried III von
 40: Hohenlohe, with records from 1317 to 1322, it was written that one
 41: Truchseß von Blankenberg, and possibly the so-called Hans Truchseß, had
 42: holdings in Brennhausen.
 43: 
 44: In another record book of the Prince-Bishop Albrecht von Hohenlohe, used
 45: from 1345-1372, it was written in 1345: "Johannes Truchseß von Alsleben
 46: owns also a tenth of Gabolshausen, a tenth of Poppenhausen, a half-tenth
 47: of Ermershausen, a tenth of Brennhausen, and a half-tenth of
 48: Maroldsweisach."
 49: 
 50: In 1343, Hans Truchseß was mentioned in a directory of Wetzhausen. It was
 51: written: "Notation regarding Mr. Hansen Truchseß, soul of a knight of
 52: Brünnhausen and his wedded wife. Owned Wetzhausen, Brünnhausen, Eßfeld and
 53: part of zu Sternberg." His four Sons inherited these four places after his
 54: death and started four independent lines which later branched out even
 55: more. Diez, the actual founder of the Wetzhausen line, was given by his
 56: father, Hans, all of Wetzhausen and one third of Brennhausen. Hans
 57: Truchseß the Younger (1309-1370) received two thirds of the Brennhausen
 58: holdings and part of Sternberg. Hanns had his residence in Brennhausen.
 59: Brennhausen remained in the Truchseß family until 1542 when Georg Truchseß
 60: died with a brief intermission around 1500. Anna, daughter of Philipp
 61: Truchseß took Brennhausen into a marriage with Hans von Berlichingen, a
 62: vassal of Wilhelm Count von Henneberg. After Hans von Berlichingen death,
 63: Anna sold Brennhausen to pay her husband's debts and Brennhausen ended up
 64: with Dietz Truchseß.
 65: 
 66: 1.1 Bauernkrieg and the Burning of Brennhausen
 67: Both documentation and physical evidence strongly suggest that Brennhausen
 68: burned in 1525 during the Bauernkrieg or Peasants (or Farmers) Revolt. The
 69: beams of the roof and the entrance to one of the cellars date from right
 70: after 1525. Stone work also suggests that the floor levels changed at some
 71: point. Also G.P. Höhn in his 1747 Lexicon Topographicum states that the
 72: peasants set fire to it in 1525.
 73: 
 74: 
 75: 1.1 1542-1681
 76: In 1587 Brennhausen was occupied by Georg Wilhelm von Kotzau. By 1593, the
 77: Truchseß family were back at Brennhausen. In 1619, the brothers Otto,
 78: Heinrich and Adam von und zu Bastheim along with Georg Wilhelm and Veit
 79: Ulrich Truchseß von Wetzhausen purchased Brennhausen for 24,597 gulden.
 80: 
 81: 1.1.1 Franz and Hans von Brennhausen
 82: In 1642, a Franz Günther, a simple farmer's son from Kützberg by
 83: Schweinfurt, was ennobled "von Brennhausen" and given the fief of
 84: Brennhausen from the Bishopric of Würzburg. From 1635 to 1647, Franz was
 85: the Commandant of the fortress at Königshofen. Franz' son Hans received
 86: Brennhausen and died without issue. Franz and his wife Felicitas Agnes
 87: Leschin von Mülheim coat of arms are in the court yard.
 88: 
 89: 1.1 Brennhausen Goes to Bibra Family
 90: In 1681, the von Bibra family received Brennhausen instead of Burgwallbach
 91: as part of an out of court settlement of a lawsuit dating from 1602 when
 92: the Prince Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn refused to transfer family
 93: fiefs between cousins. This type of transfer was routine but during the
 94: Counter Reformation, the bishop refused a transfer to the Protestant
 95: cousins. Brennhausen has remained with the Bibra family ever since.
 96: 
 97: 1.1 Traditions
 98: There is a tradition which states that Brennhausen, in older times, was a
 99: monastery, which is where the naming of the surrounding fields,
100: Nonnenäcker (nun's fields) and Pfaffenpfad (pastor's path) must have come.
101: 
102: 1.1 Brennhausen the Village
103: In past centuries there were more houses at Brennhausen. In 1832 fifty-one
104: inhabitants in twelve families lived at Brennhausen. Ten of them were
105: Catholic, thirty-six Lutheran, and five Jewish. The Catholics went to
106: church in Untereßfeld and the Lutherans in Sulzdorf. Until 1848,
107: Brennhausen had original jurisdiction over its own affairs. In 1915 (WWI),
108: Brennhausen had six residences besides the castle but only two were
109: inhabited. The other four were dilapidated.
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