Herrntrop

Herrntrop Kirchhundem parish Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 11 ″  E
Height :	312 m
Residents :	122  (December 31, 2014)
Postal code :	57399
Area code :	02723
View of Herrntrop

Herrntrop is a village in the north of the municipality of Kirchhundem .

geography

Geographical location

Herrntrop is located in the southern mountains of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. It belongs to the so-called Bilsteiner Bergland in the Olper Land area. The location belongs to the western foothills of the Rothaargebirge in the valley of the Hundem , which runs from east to west , a river that flows into the Lenne in Altenhundem . In the north of Herrntrop lies the 463 m high Gelsterhagen , in the northeast the 452 m high Kuhhagen. The landscape is open to the south and rises relatively gently to the “Old Field” in the south. The Galgenberg in the southwest is 380 m high.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Herrntrop are Würdinghausen in the east, Flape in the southwest, Kirchhundem in the west, Altenhundem in the northwest, Kickenbach in the north and Langenei in the northeast.

history

The first written mention of Herrntrop has not yet been clarified beyond doubt. Michael Flöer cites a document from the Grafschaft monastery from 1228, in which a Theodericus villicus de Hernincthorp is named as a witness, both as evidence for Herrntrop in the municipality of Kirchhundem and for the submerged town of Herentorp near Grafschaft (city of Schmallenberg) and ultimately leaves open which place the document means. Manfred Wolf had already decided in favor of Herrntrop near Kirchhundem when the documents and files of the Grafschaft monastery were published, but wrote in the register of his document edition “near Attendorn”. Günther Becker, on the other hand, does not mention Herrntrop as one of the places that were mentioned in a document before 1300 in what is today the municipality of Kirchhundem.

Early clues about the size of the place can be found in an appraisal register (used to collect taxes) for the year 1543. According to this, there were six taxpayers in “Herentrop” (the highest taxes were due to Peterß Hanß, Henßken his cousin, Cord Schmidt and Christian Schmidt); this number could have coincided with the farms or houses existing at the time.

Religions

As a village in the former Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia , the population structure of Herrntrop is still predominantly Catholic today. 104 of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic and 6 Protestant Christians. Information on religious affiliation is not available for a further 12 residents.

Herrntrop has belonged to the Catholic parish of Kirchhundem since the Middle Ages, which is now part of the pastoral area of ​​Kirchhundem in the Olpe dean's office.

Incorporations

From 1843/44 until the municipal reorganization on July 1, 1969, Herrntrop was a village in the political municipality of Kirchhundem in the Kirchhundem district . Since then, the village has belonged to today's Kirchhundem community.

Population development

On July 1, 1969, Herrntrop had 197 inhabitants. Up until 1974 there was initially a slight increase in the number of inhabitants to 199, but it decreased in the next decade: 1978 = 151, 1985 = 144. Up to 1990 an increase to 153 was recorded, only to then decrease again. Today 122 people live here.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Detail of the listed wayside cross

In the center of the village there are three half-timbered houses from the 18th century, which - in two cases partially - are registered as monuments in the monuments list of the municipality of Kirchhundem . In one of the buildings, the former Gasthof Kaufmann gt. Elsken, a wedding room is dedicated to the Kirchhundem registry office. A wooden cross with the tools of Christ's torture in the eastern part of the village is also registered as a monument.

A single arch bridge made of porphyry stone, which is not a listed building, is a relic of the former railway line between Altenhundem and Birkelbach .

Culinary specialties

The rusk from the Droste bakery in Herrntrop, which is made according to an old family recipe, is known beyond the town's borders.

Economy and Infrastructure

A hammer mill on the eastern edge of the village can be traced back to the first half of the 18th century. A graphic representation of the work can be found in the so-called Heidschotter hunting map from 1743 in the archive of Baron von Fürstenberg, Herdringen. Crude steel production at the plant began to decline in the 1820s, and in 1850 it was finally shut down and later converted into a sawmill. In the 20th century, this was where the farmers' purchasing and sales cooperative was temporarily housed, which later moved to Würdinghausen. There is now a supermarket on part of the former hammer site.

traffic

The L 553 runs through Herrntrop between Kirchhundem and Hatzfeld (Eder).

education

Herrntrop's children attend the catholic kindergarten and the catholic elementary school St. Christophorus in Kirchhundem. There are secondary schools in Kirchhundem and Lennestadt. There is a nearby university in Siegen .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Helmut Kumpf (1928–1973), politician (CDU), district administrator

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1. ↑ Otto Lucas: The Olper Land. Work of the Geographical Commission in the Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional Studies and Folklore. Vol. 4. Münster 1941, p. 22.
2. ^ State survey office NRW: hiking map 1: 25000. Lennestadt-Kirchhundem in the Rothaargebirge, Ebbegebirge and Homert nature parks. Based on the topographic map 1: 25000. 2nd edition 1998.
3. ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe. Bielefeld 2014, p. 127 f .; Ders .: The place names of the Hochsauerlandkreis. Bielefeld 2013, pp. 238-240.
4. ↑ Manfred Wolf (arrangement): The archive of the former Grafschaft monastery. Documents and files. Regional studies series for the Cologne Sauerland 4. Arnsberg 1972, p. 4 and 313.
5. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem. History of the office and the municipality of Kirchhundem. 1994, p. 23.
6. ↑ Estimation register 1543 for the Sauerland region of Cologne , PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , P. 29. 
7. ↑ Population statistics of the Kirchhundem community.
8. ↑ List of monuments of the Kirchhundem community.
9. ↑ Wilfried Reininghaus and Reinhard Köhne: Mining, smelting and hammer works in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Münster 2008, p. 274.
10. ^ Martin Vormberg: The hunting districts of Schloss Adolfsburg. Historical views of the town and landscape elements in the South Sauerland around 1743/44. Kirchhundem 2013, p. 18.