Schmidthausen

Schmidthausen City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 36 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 57 ″ E
Height :	380 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Schmidthausen in Halver

Schmidthausen is a hamlet in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Schmidthausen is located at 380 meters above sea level in the southeast of Halver on the L528 state road on the watershed of the river systems of the Wupper and the Volme, directly on the city limits of Kierspe . Neighboring places are Wegerhof , Hohl , Schneehohl , Wilhelmshöh , Hagebücherhöh , Brüninghausen , Schulten Hedfeld and Hinterhedfeld , as well as the Kiersper districts Kiersper Löh , Mühlen-Schmidthausen , Neuenhaus , Lohfeld and Romberg .

history

Schmidthausen was first mentioned in a document in 1277, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 630 and 700 in the time of the second Saxon conquest. Thus Schmidthausen is one of the early settlements in Halver.

In 1818 36 people lived in the village. According to the table of localities and distances from the government district of Arnsberg , Schmidthausen was referred to as Oberschmidthausen , categorized as a farm and in 1838 had a population of 45, all of whom were Protestant. The place belonged to the Bergfeld farmers within the mayor's office of Halver and owned six residential buildings and three agricultural buildings.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 54 inhabitants who lived in eight houses.

An old road from Halver via Wipperfürth , Halver, Kierspe to Meinerzhagen ran past Schmidthausen on the route of today's state road L528 , the Hileweg , an important early medieval (according to other views already early historical ) trade , pilgrimage and military route . For this reason, have located northwest of Schmidthausen ravines get in the forest.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b 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 ).
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

[jung-1] A ^b 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1887-3] 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.