"About the village of Born:
Small hamlet with old farms, approx. 100 inhabitants. Born belonged to the old property of the Counts of Schwalenberg, who donated their goods to the monastery in the 13th century. The chapel dedicated to the Mother of God with the motto "Help of Christians" was built in 1884.
Born is the second smallest district of the city of Marienmünster and is located between Kollerbeck and Sommersell near the Lippe border. The place used to be called Elbrachtessen, Elbrachtessen, Elbrosen, Elbrexen, Elbrexter Born and belonged to the old property of the Counts of Schwalenberg and, in a branch line, the Counts of Pyrmont, who donated or sold their local goods to the Marienmünster monastery in the 13th century. In 1309 they donated the remaining possessions to the Marienmünster monastery.
After many disputes between the lords of Oeynhausen as pledgees of the Oldenburg and the Marienmünster monastery, the Schnat border of the field marks of the Oldenburg and Elbrachtessen was fixed in 1515. After another comparison between the same parties in 1554, the farmers had to do their compulsory labor half on the Oldenburg and half on the monastery estate. The place was first mentioned in 1541 as Born. In the Pyrmonter Lehnbriefe for the Oeynhausen in 1565 there is the place name Borun with the field to Elbrechtsen, so that Born could have been created instead of the old village of Elbrechtsen.
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an unrelenting conflict with the Marienmünster monastery over the Schafhude in the Bornsche Feldmark. The dispute, which dragged on for almost 100 years, was finally decided on July 2, 1774 by the royal secular court and provincial court in Paderborn after going through many court instances. This dispute is an example of the existential difficulties farmers faced at the time and how they depended on every piece of arable land for cultivation and after the harvest for grazing the cattle. ..."