Gelstern

Gelstern Schalksmühle municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	408 m
Postal code :	58579
Area code :	02351
Location of Gelstern in Schalksmühle

Gelstern is a district of the community of Schalksmühle in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

The living space is located southeast of the Heedfeld district, directly on the city limits of Lüdenscheid . The place can be reached via a driveway from the state road 692.

Other neighboring towns in the Schalksmühler municipality are Heedfeld , Eichholz , Kuhlenkeppig , Worth , Schnarüm , Amphop , Altenhorst and Häuschen , as well as Eggenscheid , Römerweg , Hülscheiderbaum and Dönne in the Lüdenscheider urban area.

Gelstern is the seat of the Gelstern Golf Club, which operates an 18-hole golf course on site .

history

Gelstern belonged to the Midder peasantry of the parish of Hülscheid until the 19th century . From 1816 the place was part of the municipality of Hülscheid in the mayor's office Halver in the Altena district , in 1818 six people lived in the place. The place categorized as Kotten according to the place and distance table of the government district Arnsberg had a house in 1839. At that time, ten residents lived in the place, all of whom were evangelicals.

In 1844 the municipality of Hülscheid with Gelstern was split off from the Halver office and assigned to the newly established Lüdenscheid office .

The place is not labeled on the Prussian first recording from 1840. From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is recorded on the TK25 measuring table as Gelstern .

The municipality and estate district statistics of the province of Westphalia in 1871 listed the place as Kotten under the name Gelstern with one house and ten residents. The municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia in 1885 gives a number of five residents for Gelstern who lived in a residential building. In 1895 the place had a house with seven inhabitants, in 1905 one house and nine inhabitants are given.

In 1969, the municipalities of Hülscheid and Schalksmühle were merged to form the large municipality ( unified municipality ) of Schalksmühle in the Altena district and Gelstern has since been politically part of Schalksmühle, which in 1975 became part of the newly created Märkische Kreis due to the Sauerland / Paderborn law .

From 1985 the golf course was laid out in the vicinity of the village, which was gradually expanded to an 18-hole course until 1997.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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.
2. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Province of Westphalia, No. IX . Berlin 1874.
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.
4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1897.
5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1909.