Middle sorpe

Middle sorpe City of Schmallenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 40"  E
Height :	500 m above sea level NN
Residents :	33  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	57392
Location of Mittelorpe in Schmallenberg
Middle sorpe

Mittelorpe, looking towards Hunau

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

geography

location

Mittelorpe is located around 5 km east of Bad Fredeburg and 1 km south of the Hunau at 500 m above sea level. The Sorpe flows through the village , which gave the place and other places in the Sorpe Valley its name.

Neighboring places

Adjacent places are Obersorpe and Rellmecke .

history

In 1072 Sorpe (then Suropo) was first mentioned in a deed of the monastery Grafschaft . It is not clear whether this meant Middle Sorpe, the entire Sorpe Valley or only Lower Sorpe. The oldest building in the village is a farm that was built in 1563 as a hammer mill. In 1895, according to the entry in the trade and business address book of the Province of Westphalia, 40 inhabitants lived in the village of Mittelorpe. Mittelorpe belonged to the municipality of Oberkirchen until the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Since January 1, 1975, Mittelorpe has been part of the extended town of Schmallenberg.

religion

The village chapel was built in 1703.

economy

The place is characterized by tourism and agriculture.

Web links

Commons : Middle Sorpe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Middle sorpe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on July 2, 2020
2. ^ Alfred Bruns: Court and Parish Oberkirchen , p. 460 and p. 654, Stadt Schmallenberg (ed.), 1981
3. ^ 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 .