Brandstub og slægten Glassau

Brandstub, Gramrode, Rårup sogn, Bjerre herred, Vejle amt
Matr.nr 2a m.fl. af Gramrode.

Gården Brandstub ligger i Rårup sogn mellem Gramrode og Kleis. Den har matr.nr. 2a m.fl. af Gramrode.
Gården nævnes i 1578 under navnet ”Brendstub”, men allerede i Ældste danske Arkivregistratur finder vi i 1408 ”Brendtorp udi Raffnholt”.
I sidste halvdel af 1500-tallet ejedes Brandstub af Michel, hvis efternavn ikke kendes. Efter hans død arvede hans børn gården, således at døtrene hver fik en søsterlod og sønnen Rasmus Michelsen resten.
Rasmus Michelsen må være død mellem 1578 og 1582. Et gammelt dokument fra 1582 fortæller, at hans enke Ingierd Andersdatter i Brandstub købte sin svigerinde Marie Michelsdatters arvepart i Brandstub. Dokumentet befinder sig på Horsens Museum sammen med to andre salgsdokumenter fra 1597 og 1611, og de vedrører alle tre køb af arveparter i Brundstub og Thulisgård, som Ingierd Andersdatter har foretaget.
Gennem diverse familiehandeler blev gårdens jorder samlet igen i 1597 af Ingierd Andersdatter og hendes børn, og dokumenter fra 1627 og 1636 fortæller os, at Ingierds søn Peder Rasmussen har overtaget gården efter sin mor.
Ud fra skødet fra 1636 får man et indtryk af, hvordan gårdens jord har været delt i mange vidt adskilte parceller. Det var ikke enestående for Brandstub, for det så man overalt. Udover marken ved gården var der et skovskifte "Abildholt", et stykke jord i "Løvballe Løkke" på Breth Mark, en del med 4 agre på Gramrode Mark ud mod Nebsager Bøgeskov, 2 agre ved Kleis Å, 2 agre på Gram Mark grænsende op til Bjerre Mark, 4 agre på "Raarup Tofte", der mod nord ender på Skævlund Dal, og endelig var der 3 agre på Åstrup Mark, der ender ved Stourup Å.
I den ældste matrikel fra 1660 findes Brandstub under navnet ”Brandstob”, og ejer af gaardens herligheder var stiftamtmand, geheimeråd Hendrich Rantzou til Schønweide, Rosenvold, Jensgaard og Møgelkær, mens brugeren var Maren Peder Rasmussens, selvejer. Hartkornet er kun 1 skp, 1½ fdk., 1 alb. og gården omtales som et bol, vel fordi jorden er blevet delt ud til børnene efter Peder Rasmussens død. I den næste matrikel fra 1688 er det Peder Rasmussens datter Birgitte Pedersdatter, der har gården, og hun og hendes afdøde mand har fået samlet jorden igen, så hartkornet nu angives til 5 td., 0 skp., 2 fdk., 1 alb.
Hvad hendes mand hed, fremgår ikke nogen steder, kun at brugeren af de marker, som hørte under Brandstub hed Jacob Glaso. En familietradition i Glassau-slægten siger, at stamfaderen var en indvandret tysk gartner, der blev gift med datteren af Brandstubs ejer, og derfor antages det, at Birgitte Pedersdatter er slægtens stammoder. Tidsmæssigt og navnemæssigt passer det dog med, at Jacob Glaso blev gift med Birgitte Pedersdatter.
Sikkert er det i alt fald, at ejeren af Brandstub i første halvdel af 1700-tallet hed Friedrich Jacobsen Glaso. Han må antages at være død i 1740, som er det år, der blev foretaget skifte efter ham, og han efterlod sig enken Sophie Jensdatter (1690-1771).
Deres søn Jens Friderichsen Glaso overtog selvejergården. Overtagelsesdokumentet er underskrevet på Boller den 2. juli 1740.
Jens Friderichsen Glaso (f. ca. 1715) døde i marts 1770, og tre månder efter giftede hans yngre enke Maren Pedersdatter (f. ca. 1740) sig med sin fætter Hans Jacobsen. Det var deres ældste søn Jens Hansen, der blev Brandstubs næste ejer, og Brandstub gled ud af familien Glaso’s eje … og dog.
Jens Hansen blev gift med et oldebarn af Friedrich Jacobsen Glaso og Sophie Jensdatter, Elisabeth Margrete Friderichsdatter Glaso. Hun var egentlig forlovet med en anden, men faderen ønskede det anderledes, og til sidst gik hun ind på at gifte sig med Jens Hansen i Brandstub på den betingelse, at der blev bygget et nyt stuehus. Familietraditionen siger, at hun græd hele sin bryllupsdag.
Jens Hansen og Elisabeth Margrethes søn Frederik Jensen Glassau overtog Brandstub efter forældrene og efterfulgtes af sønnen Elisius Martin Glassau, hvis søn Frederik Jensen Glassau overtog gården. Han døde ugift i 1898, og gården blev solgt til R. Rasmussen, Odder, efter at have været slægtsgård i mere end 250 år.

Litteratur

Danske Gaarde. Illustreret statistisk og historisk Haandbog for det danske Landbrug. Udarb. af J.C.B. la Cour. Aarhus, "Danske Gaarde"s Forlag, 1906-1918. 4 bd. [1. saml., bd. 1, s. 538-539].
Gjesager, C. E.: Mads Gjesager. [Eget forlag], 1985. [S. 203-225].
Jehrbo, N.C.: En gammel Slægt fra Bjerge Herred. Selvejer­gaardmand Mads Laursen af Nøttrup og Hustru Ulricha Sophie. Jensdatter Glaso af Brandstub. Oplysninger om deres Forfædre og Efterkommere. Kolding, 1922. [S. 13-16].
Knudsen, Søren: Rasmus Thomesøns Gaard i Glud. Horsens, 1916. [s. 12 om Brandstubs marker].
De ældste danske Archivregistraturer bd. 3 s. 365, T. 22

Lokalhistorikeren og museumsmanden Søren Knudsen fra Glud (1878-1955) tegnede i 1921 Brandstub og nogle møbler derfra. Billedet kan ses på horsensbilleder.dk.

English

The farm named Brandstub is situated between the villages of Gramrode and Kleis in the parish of Raarup. Its number in the land register is no 2a from Gramrode.
It is mentioned in 1578 under the name of “Brendstub” but a couple of centuries before that we find ”Brendtorp udi Raffnholt” in the oldest Danish Register of Archives.
In the last half of the sixteenth century Michel, whose surname we do not know, owned Brandstub. After his death, his children inherited Brandstub, and the farm was divided, so that his daughters each inherited a part and his son Rasmus Michelsen the rest. During some bargains in the family, Rasmus Michelsen's widow Ingierd Andersdatter and her children assembled the plots of the farm again in 1597. From documents dated 1627 and 1636 we know that Peder Rasmussen (son of Rasmus Michelsen) had taken over the farm from his mother.
In the oldest land register from 1660 we find Brandstub under the name of ”Brandstob”, and Maren Peder Rasmussen’s [that is Maren who had been married to Peder Rasmussen] was a freeholder. The “hartkorn” was only 1 skp, 1½ fdk., 1 alb , and the farm was called a small-holding, probably because the land was split up again between the children of Peder Rasmussen.
In the next land register from 1688 the owner was Birgitte Pedersdatter. She was the daughter of Peder Rasmussen, and she and her husband assembled the land again, so that the hartkorn was now 5 td., 0 skp., 2 fdk., 1 alb.
The documents do not tell the name of her husband, only that the user of the land who belonged to Brandstub was named Jacob Glaso. A tradition in the Glassau family says that the founder of the family was an immigrated German gardener who married the daughter of the owner of Brandstub, and therefore Birgitte Pedersdatter is supposed to be the ancestress of the family. Maybe the name Glassau or Glaso indicate that Jacob Glaso came from the area around the manor of Glasau in Schleswig-Holstein.
However, it is a fact that the owner of Brandstub in the first half of the eighteenth century was Friedrich Jacobsen Glaso. He probably died in 1740. That is the year of the administration of his estate, and he was survived by his wife Sophie Jensdatter (1690-1771).
Friedrich Jacobsen Glaso was followed by his son Jens Friderichsen Glaso. The purchase document is signed on the manor of Boller on July 2, 1740. Jens Friderichsen Glaso (born about 1715) died in March 1770. His widow Maren Pedersdatter (born about 1740) was much younger than himself, and three months later she married her cousin Hans Jacobsen. Their son Jens Hansen became the next owner of Brandstub who now slipped the Glaso family … or did it?
Jens Hansen married a great-grand child of Friedrich Jacobsen Glaso and Sophie Jensdatter whose name was Elisabeth Margrete Friderichsdatter Glaso. She was actually engaged to another man, but her father did not want that engagement, and finally she agreed to fulfil her father’s will and married Jens Hansen under the condition that he would build a new farmhouse on Brandstub. The family history says that she cried the whole time on her wedding day. Jens Hansen and Elisabeth Margrethe were followed by their son, Frederik Jensen Glassau, and he was followed by his son, Elisius Martin Glassau. His son Frederik Jensen Glassau was the last Glassau on Brandstub. When he died in 1898 the farm was sold to an outsider, and at that time it had been a family farm for more than 250 years.

Søren Knudsen from Glud (1878-1955) was founder of the Glud Museum and a skilfull artist, too. His drawings from Brandstub can be seen on horsensbilleder.dk.