Windhäuser (Meschede)

Wind houses Meschede municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 42 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	320 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	3  (Jan. 1, 2017)
Incorporation :	1975
Postal code :	59872
Area code :	0291
Location of Windhäuser in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Windhäuser is a district of Meschede in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis .

Geographical location

The place is located on Landstrasse 840 and on the Ruhrtal nature reserve near Laer around 500 meters west of Laer Castle and 300 meters south of the Laer tower ruins . The neighboring villages are Berghausen , Calle and Meschede.

history

Workers' apartments for Count von Westphalen were built in Windhäuser . The exact time when they were built is not known. There is evidence that people lived in Windhäuser as early as 1888. In 1912, according to Meyer's Orts- und Verkehrslexikon, a total of six people lived in the village.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Derwesten.de: Post from Carinthia clarifies Windhauser story by Ute Tolksdorf from February 22, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2018
2. ^ Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs, Volume 2 (LZ), edited by Erich Uetrecht, Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut Meyer, 1912/13, page 174