Letmathe Manor

Haus Letmathe was the manorial seat of the Lords of Letmathe in the former town of the same name, which has been a district of the city of Iserlohn since 1975. A first mention can be found around the year 1036. The current state of construction dates from about 1605.

The Lords of Letmathe and the Lords of Letmathe were obliged to the Counts of Limburg (Lenne) and the Counts of Altena-Mark as vassals. The last 'von Letmathe' resided in the late 14th century, after which various Lords of Letmathe followed, from 1576 (until 1812) the Lords von Brabeck from Kirchhellen (near Bottrop), who also owned the manorial seat Haus Hemer. These included Prince-Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck and the art connoisseur and founder of the Chalkographische Gesellschaft zu Dessau Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck.

Since 1812, the entrepreneur Wilhelm Ebbinghaus was the lord of the house.

Another important family at Haus Letmathe was the family of Carl Overweg with his son August Overweg, who acquired the house in 1852 and kept it until 1918.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Agricultural and Forestry School of Letmathe was housed there.

In the 1970s, the complex fell into disrepair. All outbuildings were demolished. Only the threshing floor was rebuilt in the Westphalian Open-Air Museum Hagen.

Today, Haus Letmathe houses a branch of the Iserlohn City Library and the local history museum of the Letmathe district of the city of Iserlohn.