Wolmerkusen

51.141 8.64Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '28 " N , 8 ° 38' 24" O Wolmerkusen is a deserted village southeast of Hesborn , a district of Hallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia . When the place fell into desolation is not certain, and its location is only roughly known.

The small settlement was probably near the “Dormecke” brook, shortly before its confluence with the Olfe : at the end of the 19th century, a field called “Wolmerkusen” and the “Wolmerkuser Weg” were found there.

On the Stolzenberg (623 m), which is about 1 km north of the center of Hesborn, there are remains of ramparts from a castle that was designated as destroyed in 1694 and protected by the Wolmerkusen and Hesborn settlements. From the early 14th century until at least 1415, the castle was the seat of the Lords of Wolmerkusen that the Electoral Cologne Burgmannen included in Hallenberg. A "garden of the von Wolmerkusen in front of the Oberporten" in Hallenberg is mentioned in 1370. They entered the service of the Counts of Waldeck around 1420 , migrated to the Waldecksche, were subsequently referred to as those of Wolmeringhausen and died out in the male line in 1635.

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literature

Rudolf Bergmann: The desolation of the high and east Sauerland. Edited by Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-8053-4934-5

[1] August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Volume 46, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here 105)

[2] ttps://www.hesborn.net/geschichte1

[3] August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Volume 46, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here 104)

[4] August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Volume 46, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here 105)