Menkhausen (Schmallenberg)

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Menkhausen
City of Schmallenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 52"  E
Height : 330 m above sea level NN
Residents : 96  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code : 57392
Menkhausen (Schmallenberg)
Menkhausen

Location of Menkhausen in Schmallenberg
Aerial view of Menkhausen
Aerial view of Menkhausen
Menkhausen
Chapel in Menkhausen

Menkhausen is a district of the city of Schmallenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The village is located around 8 km northwest of Schmallenberg at the foot of the 425 m high Drasenberg at an altitude of around 330 m above sea level. The Wenne flows through the village . The village borders the Wenneaue nature reserve from Niederberndorf to north of Grimminghausen and the Offenland nature reserve around Menkhausen .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places are Niederberndorf , Landenbeckerbruch , Netherlandsbeck , Dorlar and Grimminghausen .

history

In 1202 Count Gottfried II. Von Arnsberg transfers the court to Herdringen and other goods to the Wedinghausen Monastery . Witness to this transfer was an Alexander von Menkhausen and his brother Albertus.

The Dorls Hof zu Menkhausen was the seat of the Free Counts of the State of Fredeburg in the 14th and 15th centuries . In 1536 the taxable population of Menkhausen was recorded by name in the treasury register.

Until the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, Menkhausen belonged to the municipality of Berghausen . Menkhausen has been part of the town of Schmallenberg since January 1, 1975.

religion

In Menkhausen there is the catholic listed St. Agatha chapel from the year 1667. On October 1st, 1921 Menkhausen was church affiliated to the parish of Dorlar.

literature

Josef Lauber: Stammreihen Sauerland families, Volume IV, parish Berghausen - Fleckenberg - Lenne , Menkhausen, p. 120, Richard Schwarzbild dissertation print Witterschlick near Bonn, 1977

Web links

Commons : Menkhausen (Schmallenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on July 2, 2020
  2. ^ Josef Lauber: Stammreihen Sauerländischer Familien, Volume V, Kirchspiel Berghausen-Fleckenberg - Lenne , p. 125 and Johann Suibert Seibertz , Document Book, Volume 1, No. 117, p. 159
  3. ^ Josef Lauber: Stammreihen Sauerland Families, Volume V, Parish Berghausen-Fleckenberg - Lenne , p. 120
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 335 f .