Carthausen

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Carthausen
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 310 m above sea level NN
Postcodes : 58553, old 5884
Primaries : 02353 and, 02355
Carthausen (Halver)
Carthausen

Location of Carthausen in Halver

Carthausen is a village near Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Carthausen is 310 meters above sea ​​level northeast of the main town in Halver at the confluence of the Schlechtenbach and the Bräumke . The place can be reached via the state road L868; there branches off a driveway that connects the other places in the Schlechtenbachtal such as Ober- and Mittelcarthausen , Solberg , Clev and Schlechtenbach . Another road branching off there leads to Wiene and Othmaringhausen . Other neighboring borders are Bruch , Lömmelscheid , Steinbach and the Heesfelder Hammer . The Susannenhöhe rises 350 meters above sea level to the southeast .

It was not until the middle of the 20th century that the spelling changed from Niederkarthausen to Niedercarthausen. Towards the end of the 20th century the prefix Niederweg was dropped and the place was only called Carthausen.

history

Carthausen was first mentioned in a document as Niederkarthausen in 1220, but the origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 600 and 700 during the time of the second Saxon conquest. Thus Carthausen is one of the earlier settlements in Halver.

In the Middle Ages , (Nieder-) Carthausen was a manor and manor house inhabited by aristocrats and secured by a moat . However, no particular mansion has survived. As (Nieder-) Carthausen in the 15./16. Developed into a manor in the 19th century , the farm was around 700 acres in size .

In 1818 15 people lived in the village. In 1838 Carthausen belonged to the Gloerfeld farmers under the name of Niedern-Karthausen within the Halver mayor . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had four residential buildings, two factories or mills and four agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 38 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of ten residents who lived in two houses.

Carthausen had a stop on the Hälvertalbahn .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
  3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.