Polsbroek
Polsbroek describes a formerly independent municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht and the former hoge of vrije Heerlijkheid Zuid- Polsbroek. Polsbroek located 10 kilometers south of Gouda and belongs since 1989 to the greater community Lopik.
- 2.1 House Van Arkel
- 2.2 House Borsselen
- 2.3 House Woerdern van Vliet
- 2.4 House Van Montfoort
- 2.5 House glymes
- 2.6 House Ligne
- 2.7 House De Graeff
- 2.8 De Jongh family
Chronicle
Polsbroek consists of Zuid- and Noord- Polsbroek. The former church and current locality ( South ) Polsbroek is from the glory of the same name originated ( during Zuid- Polsbroek a High and Vrije Heerlijkheid had belonged Noord- Polsbroek as Schoutambacht the Barony of IJsselstein ).
The glory ( South ) Polsbroek bordered on the southeast by the glory Lopik, in the north of the castle Montfoort County, on the east by the barony IJsselstein and to the west by the county of Holland. The first lords of Polsbroek had already received in 1155 by the bishop of Utrecht Hermann von Horn Polsbroek the High jurisdiction. Prior to that time was the spelling Pulzabruch which changed into pulses Broch in this document. The owners of the hogen of Vrijen Heerlijkheid van Zuid- Polsbroek bore the title of a Vrijheeren or armies. The area was a so-called allodiale and high power. This means that the glory was free inheritable, the rule owner law speaking power, the High court held, that glory was free of feudal obligations and that called compared to the Low glories ( Low and Medium jurisdiction), also Ambachtsherrlichkeit or basic glory, no real legislative upper ownership could exist about it.
In the 10th and 11th centuries, Mr van Arkel took the land to Polsbroek in their possession. During the 12th and 13th centuries Mr van reached the Leede from the Second house of Mr van Arkel in the possession of the glory Polsbroek. The spellings Polsbroek changed during this century of pulses in Pusbruch Broch (1228-1229) and Polsbroic, 1296-1317, to finally move on to today's spelling Polsbroek. The first lords of Polsbroek In 1299 the Dutch Count Johan I. enfeoffed his regent Wolfhart I of Borsselen with the glory of Polsbroek. In 1391, the tithe of glory was 1,000 guilders per annum on. About Mr van Woerden van Vliet Polsbroek came in 1423 further to the viscount of Montfoort of the family of De Rover. First, Jan van Woerden van Vliet Polsbroek had pledged with the high and low jurisdiction as well as the ferry from IJselver to Johan II van Montfoort, the pledge but not honored, so that the seized items fell to Montfoort. The Dutch government recognized the sale, but the feud was still formally in 1439 under the name of Jan's son Gerrit ten Vliet. Enfeoffments the viscount of Montfoort with Polsbroek did not take place, so that the possession apparently again became the allods. The over decade-long attempt by the Viscount of Montfoort to raise the area of the rule (Zuid- ) Polsbroek and various surrounding grounds to a sovereign part of the country, failed ultimately to the resistance of the Duke Phillipps of good. Nevertheless, equipped with many privileges domination reached a semi-sovereign status, which gave her a certain independence from the States of Holland and Utrecht. In 1481 lost the pro- Hoekse viscount of Montfoort Zuid- Polsbroek ( and many other low and medium glories ) to the Lords of mountains from the house glymes.
Their successors as lords of Zuid- Polsbroek was from 1566 the house Ligne, as well as bequeathed by Maria glymes by mountains their property to glories of ( South ) Polsbroek, to her son Louis of Ligne. In 1555 South Polsbroek had then owner Jean de Ligne provided an annual yield of 954 guilders, which consists of revenue from leasing ( 63%), taxes ( 17%) and manorial rights, such as hunting and fishing rights (20 % ) resulted in. and to the Lignesische Haus Arenberg ( 1568 ). This family, notably Charles of Aremberg - Ligne, the glory had sold to Jacob de Graeff Dircksz in 1610. The Amsterdam Regent Tight Poor De Graeff called himself, subsequently, De Graeff van Polsbroek. In 1623 the glory encompassed 692 acres and 56 homes. The property tax levies were not released to the Republic of the Seven United Provinces but to the province of Holland, such as at the neighboring barony IJsselstein.
With the proclamation of the Batavian Republic in 1795, the Vrijheeren van Polsbroek of the family of De Graeff had largely lost their high privileges. In 1798 came ( South ) Polsbroek in the department van de Rijn, in 1802 at the department of Utrecht. Noord- Polsbroek was between the years 1817 and 1857 an independent municipality of the province of Utrecht. In 1840 they counted 49 houses and 586 inhabitants. After the founding of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Magnificent rights have been partially restored. In 1819 ( South ) Polsbroek has come to the province of Utrecht, in which they remained until the end of the glories in 1923 and beyond. In 1857 the two places Zuid- Polsbroek and North Polsbroek were merged to the municipality Polsbroek; at that time included Polsbroek about 84 houses with 875 inhabitants. In 1870, South Polsbroek was sold to Dirk de Jongh. This had significantly narrowed sovereign rights to the year 1914 (?) Holds. In the municipality census in 1989, the municipality had a size of 11 km ² area in which 382 houses and 1180 inhabitants were. In 2006, the municipality had distributed 1218 inhabitants in 500 houses.
Reformed Church Polsbroek
The site Polsbroeks shows on both sides of the creek along Benschopsen drawn town with a small town center in the western part. The center of Polsbroek consists of the former town hall, the village house and a church of the Dutch Reformed Church, its beginnings traced back to the 14th century. In 1672 Rampjaar just this church was destroyed by French troops for the most part. The new building took place in the year of 1676. On this occasion, gave Pieter de Graeff as Vrijheer of Zuid- Polsbroek, his brother Jacob de Graeff, the Dutch East India Company, the municipality of Amsterdam and governor William III. of Orange- Nassau to the church house new glass window. In 1830, the entire nave was rebuilt. The groundbreaking ceremony led by the then Vrijheer, Gerrit de Graeff IV, who also donated the new church pulpit. For the former construction 2000 florins from the fund were collected for needy churches. The entrance portal kept in the list of Rijksmonumenten feeder.