Sommersell (Nieheim)

Sommersell City of Nieheim Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 27 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 28"  E
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

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

1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .
2. ^ Swimming dinosaur fossil from the Höxter district Website of the LWL Museum for Natural History . Retrieved December 19, 2017.
3. ↑ From the happiness of fossil collectors In: welt.de . Retrieved December 19, 2017.