Overview
In Boerderij- en Veldnamen in Aalten, this farm is called ‘Hutteman’. The gravestone of the Hengeveld family, who lived here, bears the name ‘De Hutte’.
The first building at this location appears on cadastral maps in 1859, described as a ‘hut’. Before that, the land was still recorded as ‘heath’. Old documents also mention ‘Haksteger Hutte’ and ‘Steger Hutte’. These may refer to the same farm, which perhaps was not shown on earlier cadastral maps because of its modest size.
Second World War
Tijdens de Second World War boden Jan en Riek Hengeveld op boerderij ‘De Hutte’ onderdak aan onderduikers. Een van hen was Cornelis (Kees) van Elk uit Voorburg, die zich schuilhield om aan de Arbeitseinsatz te ontkomen. Er zijn aanwijzingen dat ook zijn broer Jacob Hendrik (Jaap) enige tijd op de boerderij verbleef, hoewel dit niet met volledige zekerheid is vastgesteld. Wel staat vast dat Jaap van Elk elders in de omgeving van Aalten ondergedoken zat.
Jaap’s fate was tragic. In September 1944 he was arrested and taken to the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where he died on 28 February 1945.
A horse as a guard
Kees van Elk hid in the hayloft directly above the stable. An illegal radio used to listen to Radio Oranje was kept in the same loft. One unusual detail was an aggressive horse in the stable that only Grandma Riek could handle. The animal proved to be an effective guard: even when the Germans used the front part of the farm as a headquarters towards the end of the war, the soldiers did not dare approach the horse. Kees’s hiding place in the loft therefore remained undiscovered.
Flight from the west
In the winter of 1944, conditions in the west of the Netherlands became untenable during the Hunger Winter. Wilhelmina Maria (Mien) van Elk-Timmers, the wife of the imprisoned Jaap, decided to travel to the Achterhoek with her five-year-old daughter Engelina (Lien). With no trains running, Mien walked from Leidschendam to Aalten in six days, carrying a suitcase and her daughter in a pram.
Along the way they depended on the help of strangers. After a lorry came under fire, soldiers helped them take shelter in the woods, and a police chief they met on the journey gave them food and a place to sleep. Eventually they reached the Hengeveld family’s farm safely.
Liberation and a new beginning
On 30 March 1945, Aalten was liberated by the British Army. Kees, Mien and Lien survived the war and remained friends with the Hengeveld family after the liberation.
During their time at the farm, Kees and Mien fell in love. They married in 1947 and had two more daughters together. Kees died in 1998 at the age of 75, and Mien died in 2010 at the age of 93.
Archives
Liberale Gifte 1748
Residents
Earliest known residents:
Wessel Clompers / Klumpers alias Hakstege alias Hutten (Woold)
married (1) on 21-11-1706 in Aalten met
Aeltje(n) Hackstege (Aalten, 01-05-1671 – Barlo < 1727)
Aeltje(n) was a daughter of Hendrick Hackstege (Barlo < 1711) and his wife Hendersken, who may themselves already have lived at Haksteger Hutte.
Next residents, widower and second wife:
Wessel Clompers / Klumpers alias Hakstege alias Hutten (Woold)
married (2) on 08-06-1727 in Aalten met
Jenneken Sonderlo(o) (Aalten, 30-12-1683 – Barlo, 1727-1728)
Next residents, widower and third wife:
Wessel Clompers / Klumpers alias Hakstege alias Hutten (Woold)
married (3) on 25-11-1728 in Aalten met
Grietje Doinck (Bocholt – Barlo, 15-05-1765)
Next residents, son of Wessel and Aeltjen and daughter-in-law:
Hendrick Haksteege alias Klumpers alias aen de Steger Hutte (Aalten, 20-01-1709 – Barlo < 1754)
married on 19-04-1738 in Aalten met
Henderske Smees (Aalten, 29-05-1718 – Barlo, 11-02-1791)
Henderske Smees remarried in 1754 and moved to Te Sligte (Slichtman). It is not known who lived at Hutteman after this.
Population register 1850-1860
Berend Willem Wijnveen (Aalten, 22-07-1810), farmer
Berendina Blits (Aalten, 22-08-1807)
Population register 1860-1870
Berend Willem Wijnveen (Aalten, 22-07-1810), farmer
Berendina Blits (Aalten, 22-08-1807)
Next residents:
Jan Hendrik Obelink (Aalten, 30-06-1824), farmer
Janna Geertruid Nijman (Aalten, 25-03-1828)
Population register 1870-1880
Jan Hendrik Obelink (Aalten, 30-06-1824), farmer
Janna Geertruid Nijman (Aalten, 25-03-1828)
Population register 1880-1890
Jan Hendrik Obelink (Aalten, 30-06-1824), farmer
Janna Geertruid Nijman (Aalten, 25-03-1828)
Next residents:
Hendrikus Adolf Hengeveld (Lintelo, 23-07-1837), farmer / carpenter
Harmina Johanna Hoopman (Lintelo, 09-08-1848)
Population register 1890-1900
Hendrikus Adolf Hengeveld (Lintelo, 23-07-1837), carpenter
Harmina Johanna Hoopman (Lintelo, 09-08-1848)
Population register 1900-1910
Hendrikus Adolf Hengeveld (Lintelo, 23-07-1837), carpenter
Harmina Johanna Hoopman (Lintelo, 09-08-1848)
Next residents, son and daughter-in-law:
Arent Jan Hengeveld (Dale, 20-09-1873), farmer
Wilhelmina Reehorst (De Heurne, 21-12-1873)
Population register 1910-1920
Arent Jan Hengeveld (Dale, 20-09-1873)
Wilhelmina Reehorst (De Heurne, 21-12-1873)
Address directory 1934
Barlo 11 > 40
Address directory 1967
Barlo 40 > Barloseweg 13
Owners
This overview is incomplete.
| Year | Plot | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | A-714 | Municipality of Aalten | 70,060 m² heath |
| 1859 | A-1520 | Jan Hendrik Hoens e.c., farmer | 30 m² hut |
| 1869 | A-1725 A-1728 | the Aalten common lands Jan Hendrik Hoens e.c., farmer | 48 m² house & yard 24 m² house |
| 1870 | A-1816 A-1813 | the Aalten common lands Jan Hendrik Hoens e.c., farmer | 49 m² house & yard 68 m² house & yard |
| 1881 | A-2267 | Jan Hendrik Hoens e.c., farmer | 117 m² house & yard |
| 1902 | A-2872 | Hendrikus Adolf Hengeveld, carpenter | 8,210 m² house & yard |
| 1974 | A-3604 | Arend Jan Hengeveld, farmer | 3,025 m² house, barn, yard, garden |
| 1981 | A-3832 A-3833 | Arend Jan Hengeveld, farmer | 1,470 m² house, garden 1,115 m² house, garden |