Altenfeld (Winterberg)

Altenfeld City of Winterberg Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 7 ″ N , 8 ° 26 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	535 m
Area :	4.78 km²
Residents :	188 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	59955
Primaries :	02977, 02983
Location of Altenfeld in Winterberg
	Altenfeld Chapel

Altenfeld is a district of the city of Winterberg with almost 200 inhabitants. It is located about eight kilometers northwest of the core city and northeast of neighboring Schmallenberg in the Rothaargebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia . The mayor is currently (2020) Frank Fladung.

The corridor of today's village Altenfeld belonged to a village called Merklinghausen in the late Middle Ages. This had already become a desert before 1446 . The Merklinghauser Flur belonged to the Lords of Meschede. Around 1541, they set up five farms in the area "on the old field". These formed the nucleus for today's village of Altenfeld. Around 1550 there was also a kötterstelle . At first this newly founded settlement was called the "Niege Dorff". The name Altenfeld later caught on. In the appraisal registers of 1543 and 1565 Altenfeld is still referred to as "Mercklinghaußen" or "Mercklinghaussen". There is evidence of a chapel in the village for the year 1716. At that time the village belonged to the parish of Bödefeld.

Before 1975 Altenfeld was part of the municipality of Bödefeld-Land in the Fredeburg district . However, it was an exclave that was separated from the main part of the municipality by the municipality of Bödefeld . Since the place was more economically oriented towards Siedlinghausen , it came with it during the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1975 to the enlarged city of Winterberg.

The place is on the edge of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . Landesstraße 740 connects Altenfeld with Siedlinghausen to the east and Bödefeld-Freiheit to the west. District road 16 leads north towards Elpe . The Elpe flows through the village .

There is a lively club life in Altenfeld: there is the rifle club, the fire brigade, the tourist association and the water association.

In 2014, an archaeological excavation of the LWL branch in Olpe was carried out in Altenfeld , which unearthed late Iron Age finds and findings from a homestead .

Web links

Commons : Altenfeld - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ City of Winterberg: Winterberg in facts and figures , accessed on December 30, 2019
^ Albert Hömberg: Settlement history of the upper Sauerland (= publications of the historical commission for Westphalia . Volume 22 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1938, p. 38-39 .
^ Heinrich Marx: Is my dear home - Chronicle of the parish of Bödefeld . Catholic Writing Service, Schönau 1958, p. 199 ff .
↑ Hartwig Walberg (Ed.): The registers from 1543 and estimates of the nobility from 1543 and 1549 . Place and person index for parts 1 and 2 (= the 16th century appraisal registers for the Duchy of Westphalia . Part 2). Aschendorff, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-402-06820-6 , p. 122 .
↑ Reinhard Oberschelp (Ed.): The registers from 1536 and 1565 (= the treasury registers of the 16th century for the Duchy of Westphalia . Part 1). Aschendorff, Münster 1971, p. 140 .
↑ Reinhard Müller: The visitation of the Duchy of Westphalia by the Cologne Vicar General Johann Arnold de Reux (1716/17). Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2015, p. 463 .
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 332 .
↑ Manuel Zeiler, Eva Cichy, Norbert Reuther: "An Iron Age homestead near Winterberg-Altenfeld." In: "Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe." 2014, 2015, pp. 67–70 ( PDF ).

[1] City of Winterberg: Winterberg in facts and figures , accessed on December 30, 2019

[Hömberg-2] Albert Hömberg: Settlement history of the upper Sauerland (= publications of the historical commission for Westphalia . Volume 22 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1938, p. 38-39 .

[Marx-3] Heinrich Marx: Is my dear home - Chronicle of the parish of Bödefeld . Catholic Writing Service, Schönau 1958, p. 199 ff .

[Walberg-4] Hartwig Walberg (Ed.): The registers from 1543 and estimates of the nobility from 1543 and 1549 . Place and person index for parts 1 and 2 (= the 16th century appraisal registers for the Duchy of Westphalia . Part 2). Aschendorff, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-402-06820-6 , p. 122 .

[Oberschelp-5] Reinhard Oberschelp (Ed.): The registers from 1536 and 1565 (= the treasury registers of the 16th century for the Duchy of Westphalia . Part 1). Aschendorff, Münster 1971, p. 140 .

[Müller-6] Reinhard Müller: The visitation of the Duchy of Westphalia by the Cologne Vicar General Johann Arnold de Reux (1716/17). Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2015, p. 463 .

[7] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 332 .

[8] Manuel Zeiler, Eva Cichy, Norbert Reuther: "An Iron Age homestead near Winterberg-Altenfeld." In: "Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe." 2014, 2015, pp. 67–70 ( PDF ).