Rotthausen (Schalksmühle)

Rotthausen Schalksmühle municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 40 ″  E
Height :	384 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58579
Location of Rotthausen in Schalksmühle
Aerial view of Rotthausen (settlement at the top of the picture)

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

Location and description

The hostel is located southwest of the Schalksmühler core town near the city limits to Halver on a plateau that lies between the Glörtal , the Volmetal and the Hälvertal . Neighboring places are upper. Mittel- and Niederreeswinkel, Asenberg, Mollsiepen, Mathagen , Herbecke , Buchholz and Herberge, as well as Glörfeld , Othmaringhausen , Magdheide and Heerenfelde in the Halveran urban area.

history

Rotthausen, which initially belonged to the parish of Halver , was first mentioned in a document in 900, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 630 and 700 during the time of the second Saxon conquest. Thus Rotthausen is one of the earlier settlements in Schalksmühle.

In 1818 there were 68 residents in the village. In 1838 Rotthausen belonged to the Glörfeld peasantry within the Halver mayor . The place, which was categorized as a village according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had 18 residential buildings, three manufacturing plants or mills and eight agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 119 inhabitants lived in the place, all of them Protestant faith.

The place is recorded on the Prussian first recording from 1840 as Rothausen . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is recorded on the TK25 measuring table as Rotthausen .

The municipality and district statistics of the province of Westphalia in 1871 list the place as a village with 20 houses and 166 inhabitants. The municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia in 1885 gives a number of 137 residents for Rotthausen who lived in 19 houses. In 1895 the place had 16 houses with 122 inhabitants and belonged to the evangelical parish Schalksmühle, in 1905 the place had 15 houses and 117 inhabitants.

On October 1, 1912, the area around the place was spun off from the municipality of Halver and assigned to the newly founded municipality of Schalksmühle.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ 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.