Rotten butter

Panoramic view January 2011

Rotten butter Finnentrop municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 48 ″  E
Height :	525 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	11  (Dec 31, 2016)
Postal code :	57413
Area code :	02724
Location of rotten butter in the district of Olpe
Rotten butter

Faulebutter is a hamlet in the municipality of Finnentrop with eleven inhabitants.

Rotten butter is located in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge Nature Park . The hamlet was and is not an independent village, but belongs to Weuspert . The courtyards are at an altitude of 525 m, but parts of the fields are also significantly higher.

The settlement today essentially consists of two historical courtyards. This includes the house of a Rademacher since the 19th century, which is now a well-known inn in the region. There used to be more buildings, as the old foundation walls show.

The unusual name was interpreted, among others, by Werner F. Cordes. It means something like "the rotten harvest". This refers to poor agricultural conditions due to the altitude. Gertrud Junker traces the name back to "feel botte", a permanently muddy trough. This means different streams that come together in rotten butter.

Faulebutter is touched by the Lenneroute bicycle path and the Sauerland-Höhenflug hiking route , among others .

Web links

• How did the name Faulebutter come about? (Excerpt from local history contributions from the community of Finnentrop )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics of the municipality of Finnentrop (as of December 31, 2016). (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on May 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Werner F. Cordes: Weuspert and Faulebutter - two place names that were closely related in terms of their origins. In: Sauerland. No. 4/2006, pp. 204–205 ( pdf ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove them Note. , Html ) 
3. ↑ A. Müllmann and Gertrud Junker: Once again “Faulebutter”. In: Sauerland. No. 4/2003, p. 178 ( pdf ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ), named there as a source: Issue 12 of the magazine An Bigge, Lenne and Fretter.