Karthausen

Karthausen City of Radevormwald Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 16 ″  E
Height :	324 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	42477
Area code :	02195
Location of Karthausen in Radevormwald

Karthausen is a place in Radevormwald in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

The half-timbered house in the village of Karthausen

The place is in the southwest of Radevormwald. The neighboring towns are Obernfeld , Niedernfeld , Oberkarthausen and the Radevormwald district of Herbeck . You can reach Karthausen via the federal road 229 and the state road  81 that branches off at Herbeck .

The Karthauser Bach flows into the Wupper on the western edge of the village .

history

In 1514 the place was first called “safe” in the church accounts of the Reformed parish Radevormwald “Karthusen”. Another source mentions the year 1422 in connection with an announcement of a feud. According to Klaus Pampus, however, the town of Karthausen cannot be clearly located in it.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wupperverband; River basin geographic information system
2. ^ ^{A b} Klaus Pampus: First documented names of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special volume 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 , p. 214.