Alt-Wallmoden Manor

Alt Wallmoden was first mentioned in 1016 in a deed of gift, in which Emperor Heinrich II transferred a manor in Wallmoden (Curtis Walmonthem) to the episcopal church in Paderborn. Since this time, the Diocese of Paderborn, alongside the Diocese of Hildesheim, has been among the feudal lords in Alt Wallmoden. The name of the place later changed from Walmonthem to Walmuthe, Walmede to today's Wallmoden. In 1154, Tidelinus (Thedel) von Wallmoden, a ministerialis (court servant in the administrative service of the Duke) of Henry the Lion, was the first member of the noble family, which named itself after the place, to be mentioned. The family has owned property in Wallmoden since this time and still operates a farm in Alt Wallmoden today. In 1599, the property of the von Wallmoden family was divided when the brothers Ludolf and Jasper von Wallmoden founded the Oberhaus and Unterhaus lines.