Schmidtsiepen

Schmidtsiepen City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 32 ′ 7 ″ E
Height :	385 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Schmidtsiepen in Halver

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

Location and description

Schmidtsiepen is located east of the main town in Halver at 385 meters above sea level on the L892 state road . Neighboring towns are Mittelherweg , Berge , Lingen , Grund , Siepen , Schröders Herweg and the Herweger Schleifkotten . North of Schmidtsiepen, the Brehenberg rises 401.6 meters above sea level , and the Hundsberg is 395.3 meters to the southwest .

While the residential development is north of the state road, large areas of business have settled on the road. The section of the Wuppertal Railway operated by Schleifkottenbahn GmbH runs south of the village .

history

Schmidtsiepen was first mentioned in a document in 1818, the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 1775 and 1800. Schmidtsiepen was a split from Mittelherweg .

In 1818 six people lived in the village. According to the table of localities and distances from the government district of Arnsberg , Schmidtsiepen was categorized as Kotten and in 1838 had a population of 17, all of whom were Protestant. The place belonged to the Ehringhauser peasantry within the mayor's office of Halver and owned two houses and a factory or mill.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 18 inhabitants who lived in two houses.

Since the early Middle Ages (according to other sources, since prehistoric times) an important old road led past Schmidtsiepen from Cologne via Wipperfürth , Halver, Lüdenscheid , Werdohl and Arnsberg to Soest , a trade , pilgrimage and military route . For this reason, from Grünewald in the forest north sunken paths and a wegsperrende Landwehr received.

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.