Hopperghausen

Hopperghausen is a submerged village in what is now Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Hopperghausen initially belonged to the parish Elsoff , later to the church in Girkhausen .

location

The place was in the middle of Christianseck and the single settlement Latzbruch in a side valley at an altitude of 550 m above sea level. NN , five kilometers east of Bad Berleburg .

history

In 1395 Gerlach von Diedenshausen sold his entire share in the village to Brosken von Viermünden . The Berleburger Chronik speaks of the desert of Hoppertshausen at the end of the 16th century.

Earlier names

1395 - Hopperchusenn
1570 - Hopperkhausen
1590 - Hoppertshausen

literature

Günther Wrede , Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein , 1927.
Lars Womelsdorf, contributions to the history of Alertshausen