Wermingsen

Wermingsen City of Iserlohn Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 28 ″  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 5 ″  E
Postal code :	58636
Primaries :	02371, 02372
Location of Wermingsen in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Wermingsen is a district of the Sauerland town of Iserlohn in the Märkisches Kreis . The district is east of the city center and borders on Calle . At the end of 2019, Wermingsen and Wiesengrund had 6,896 inhabitants.

Around 1309 the place was called Wermelinchusen . According to Friedrich Leopold Woeste , this name means "to the houses of the wormlings". Here was the ancestral home of the Werminghausen family , a Westphalian noble family .

The Catholic Church of the Most Holy Trinity and the Evangelical Church of the Redeemer are located in Wermingsen .

Web links

Commons : Wermingsen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Wermingsen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Iserlohn: Contributions to urban research and statistics (PDF), accessed on March 15, 2020
2. ^ Friedrich Woeste: Iserlohn and the surrounding area. Interpretation of place names, local history and legends . S. 53. Frank-Daniel Schulten publishing house, Iserlohn 2007. ISBN 978-3-932961-52-6