Mesekendahl

Mesekendahl Schalksmühle municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	378 m
Postal code :	58579
Area code :	02351
Location of Mesekendahl in Schalksmühle
Entrance to Mesekendahl

Mesekendahl is a district of the community of Schalksmühle in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

The living space is located in the Mesekendahler Bachtal east of the federal motorway 45 northeast of the Lüdenscheid- Nord junction .

Neighboring places in the municipality are Winkeln , Winklerheide , Vormwald , Brake , Sonnenscheid and Wersbecke . The nationally known Mesekendahl game reserve is located near Vormwald.

history

Mesekendahl belonged to the peasantry corners of the parish of Hülscheid until the 19th century . From 1816 the place was part of the municipality of Hülscheid in the mayor's office of Halver in the Altena district , in 1818 nine residents lived in the place. The place categorized as Kotten according to the place and distance table of the government district Arnsberg had a residential house, a factory or mill and an agricultural building in 1839. At that time, 26 residents lived in the village, all of whom were evangelicals.

In 1844 the municipality of Hülscheid with Mesekendahl was split off from the Halver office and assigned to the newly established Lüdenscheid office .

The place is recorded on the Prussian first recording from 1840 under the name Mesekendahl . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is recorded on the TK25 measuring table until the middle of the 20th century as Meseckendahl , from the 1955 edition as Mesekendahl .

The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the province of Westphalia leads Mesekendahl 1871 with two houses and nine residents. The municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia in 1885 gives a number of 16 inhabitants for Mesekendahl who lived in two houses. In 1895 the place had two houses with 15 inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and 14 inhabitants are given.

In 1969, the municipalities of Hülscheid and Schalksmühle were merged to form an unofficial municipality ( unitary municipality ) of Schalksmühle in the Altena district, and Mesekendahl has since been politically part of Schalksmühle, which became part of the newly created Märkische Kreis in 1975 due to the Sauerland / Paderborn law .

Mesekendahl game reserve

The Mesekendahl game reserve was opened on May 6, 1965 by Fritz Trimpop with a population of three red deer . The game reserve quickly developed into a popular regional excursion destination. Today 15 species can be seen in about 120 copies, including the game reserve wild boar , red deer, fallow deer , goats , ferrets , pheasants , guinea pigs , rabbits , donkeys , ponies , Puma , red fox , raccoon , Steppe cattle and bison .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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.
2. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Province of Westphalia, No. IX . Berlin 1874.
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.
4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1897.
5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1909.
6. ↑ Mesekendahl game reserve Retrieved on March 13, 2020.