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Changes to the Hollenberg Name

The period between 1200 A.D. and 1400 A.D. was very sparsely recorded, and even then, most trports are based upon ecclesiastical documents written in Latin.

This, however, was a period of noticeable growth in the general population, causing changes of names, double na-mes or combinations. Particularly, rural areas increased the cultivated acreage by turning the forest and wasteland into arable lands. This led in a number of cases to split-up family farms among family members.

Historians, like F.E. Hunsche, are of the opinion that this name-splitting for the initial “Holenberg” or “Hollen-berg” place began to develop during the 13th – 14th century, when the family clan decided to break up the estate between father and son.

Initialyy and for an interim period, simple name distinctions were accepted, like:

---- Johan tom Hollenberch de Olde

---- Johan tom Hollenberg de Junge

Throughout times, some other name variations were used – mostly by misspellings or rewriting from one docu-ment to another: like, e.g. “Holanberg” or “Halenberg”.

The new units were of about the same size, totally separate and independent. The only visible signs from those former days, when one place was broken up in two, are two old garden gates and a hardened stone passage bet-ween the two main buildings of the farm houses, as could still be seen after WWII in the Hollenberg case.

Although there is no actual date for establishing the final name of the two family farms, a tax register in 1494 A.D. mentioned 42 farm places in the parish of Cappeln. Those names are:

de Provest (Probst), Hermann to Segeste (Seeste), Determann, Boye to Segeste, Plaggevoet, de Konynk (König), de Bunemeyger, de Lange ton Osterbecke, Puls, de Sentmeyger, Twyghus (Twiehaus), Dickmann, Sabbensel, Konradinckman (Konermann), Eysmann, de Burrichter, Johan tom Hollenberch de Olde, Johan tom Hollenberg de Junge, Tenge to Gelentorpe, Berchman, Harte to Hambüren, Symon to Leda (Lada), Bernt Wilsinck, de Mey-ger to Leda, Sprede, Knüppe, de Meyger van Düte, Hynna (a), Hynna (b), Yborg, Rotman, Sparenberg, de Vos to Handarpe, Johan Wesselinck (Wesselmann), de Wylde, de Buddemeyger, Schürmann, Wortmann, Lynneman, Ludeke to Handarpe, Vortman (Fartmann), de Bremer.

From here on, the historical pattern of those farm places had been established and recorded fairly well: Proof can be found in the “Registers”of the compulsory tax for the year 1543 A.D. with details about the tax contributions of the two Hollenberg families as shown below: