Hiddentrup's three Halbmeier farms (Hittingtorp) are located within shouting distance of each other in a loose group. The largest farmstead in the settlement, the large Halbmeier Brinkmann, is the best situated in relation to the complex of fields. South of the Hörster Bach stream is the farm of the small Halbmeier Beining.

The Brinkmann farm was first mentioned in 1259 because it had to pay taxes to Marienfeld Monastery as part of a foundation. It became the property of the monastery 75 years later as payment for the burial and lasting memory of the nobleman Simon I zur Lippe. In the Middle Ages, the Brinkmann farm served as a staging post for carts on the Hellweg and the Frankfurter Weg through the Dörenschlucht gorge. As such, it was both an outpost ("Iutspann") and a local inn with the right to brew its own beer and sell it to other inns. However, there were fierce battles over brewing rights between the Hörster Krug and the Quartiergasthof "lutspann" in the Middle Ages.

The farm numbers in Lippe were assigned according to rank, size and importance in accordance with a decree issued by the Counts of Lippe in 1766. In this context, the Brinkmann farm was given house number 3, number 1 was assigned to the Meier zu Stapelage and house number 2 to the Krawinkel farm.