Gellentrop

Gellentrop is a desolate place in the Schmallenberg area in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The place was about 1.8 km above Oberfleckenberg , where the Gellmecke flows into the Latropbach . In 1335, the nobleman Johann von Bilstein donated an annual memorial for his late father to the Grafschaft monastery from his estates in Gelintrop and Westwich . According to the measuring port registers of 1495 and 1515, it consisted of at least seven courtyards, the exact location of which is not known. At least three of them were Bilsteiner's free goods . According to information in the trial files, only a few remains of the wall were preserved in 1576. Most of the Gellentrop lands were cultivated in 1490 by Schmallenberg citizens who were called Gellentrop Höfelinge , other parts were combined with farms in Fleckenberg. At that time the place was already deserted.

Like many other places, the place fell victim to the great desolation process in the late Middle Ages . It must have been a creeping, slow process. The downfall of this urban settlement is probably connected with the development of the urban center of Schmallenberg. Another reason was plague epidemics and the need of the residents to seek refuge in the city.

literature

• Günther Becker: Settlement history of the city of Schmallenberg 1244–1969. Edited by the city of Schmallenberg. Schmallenberg 1969.

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 6 ″  E