Sommersell (Nieheim)
Sommersell
City of Nieheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 27 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 28" E
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Height : | 189 m |
Area : | 7.13 km² |
Residents : | 637 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 89 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
Postal code : | 33039 |
Primaries : | 05276, 05284 |
Location of Sommersell in Nieheim
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Sommersell is a district of Nieheim in the district of Höxter , North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
Sommersell is located in the northeast of the city of Nieheim. To Sommersell also includes two kilometers northerly peasantry Kariensiek, as well as about one kilometer east of preferred Sommersell Good Grevenburg .
history
Sommersell was first mentioned in a document in 1059 under the name "Summerseli". The parish church of St. Peter and Paul , built in the 12th century, was looked after by monks from Marienmünster Abbey for centuries.
Until the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1970, Sommersell was an independent municipality in the Nieheim district .
In June 2007 a hobby palaeontologist discovered the fossil remains of the previously unknown plesiosaur species Westphaliasaurus simonsensii in a clay pit near Sommersell . The approximately 185 million year old fossil is currently on display in the LWL Museum für Naturkunde .
Buildings
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style.
Web links
- private website about Sommersell
- Sommersell (Nieheim) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .
- ^ Swimming dinosaur fossil from the Höxter district Website of the LWL Museum for Natural History . Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ From the happiness of fossil collectors In: welt.de . Retrieved December 19, 2017.