Grünewald (Halver)

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Grünewald
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 58"  E
Height : 404 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 58553
Area code : 02355
Grünewald (Halver)
Grünewald

Location of Grünewald in Halver

Grünewald is a court of Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Grünewald is located at 404 meters above sea ​​level near the summit of the 409 meter high Rafflenberg in eastern Halver north of Ehringhausen . Other neighboring towns are Berge , Neuenhaus , Vömmelbach and Pottheinrich .

The place can be reached via a connecting road between the federal road 229 and the state road L892, which leads from Heesfeld to Schmidtsiepen and also connects Neuenhaus and Berge. The Kottensiepen , a tributary of the Hälver , rises to the north of the town , to the west of the Löhsiepen and south of the Holensiepen , both tributaries of the Vömmelbach .

history

The settlement of the area around Grünewald can be dated back to the Mesolithic based on finds south of the place . Berge was first mentioned in a document in 1818, the time of the current settlement was probably not too much earlier.

In 1818 six people lived in the village. In 1838 Grünewald belonged to the Ehringhauser farming community within the Halver mayor . The place categorized as Kotten according to the place and distance table of the government district Arnsberg had a house and an agricultural building at that time. At that time, 13 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of two inhabitants who lived in 17 houses.

Since the early Middle Ages (according to other sources, since prehistoric times) an important old road led past Grünewald from Cologne via Wipperfürth , Halver, Lüdenscheid , Werdohl and Arnsberg to Soest , a trade , pilgrimage and military route . For this reason, from Grünewald in the forest north sunken paths and a wegsperrende Landwehr received.

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.