Teufelshof (Wittgensteiner Land)

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Teufelshof is a submerged settlement in what is now Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The desert is three kilometers north of Wunderthausen in the Ziegenhelle area .

history

The settlement was first mentioned in 1484. Teufelshof was last mentioned in 1721 in a boundary description of the pastures of the Wunderthäuser farmers .

Earlier names

  • 1484: Dufelßhof

literature

  • Günther Wrede : Territorialgeschichte der Grafschaft Wittgenstein (= Marburg studies on older German history. Series 1: Work on the historical atlas of Hesse and Nassau. H. 3, ZDB -ID 506846-0 ). Elwert, Marburg 1927 (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1927).
  • Lars Womelsdorf: Contributions to the history of the village Alertshausen