Worth (Schalksmühle)

This article deals with the desert of Worth near Schalksmühler Kernort. For the still existing Schalksmühl district of Worth near Heedfeld, see Worth (Hülscheid)

Worth Schalksmühle municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	325 m above sea level NN
Location of Worth in Schalksmühle

Worth is a deserted area in Schalksmühle in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Worth was southeast of the town center on the northern flank of the Worthberg above the Volmetal . A high-voltage line was laid across the site .

history

Worth was first mentioned in a document in 1581, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to have been between 1200 and 1300 at the end of the medieval clearing period. The place was a split off from Niedercarthausen .

In 1818 there were 15 residents in Worth. According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , the place was categorized as a farm and in 1838 had a population of 15, all of whom were Protestant. At that time the place belonged to the Oeckingfeld peasantry within the mayor's office of Halver and owned three residential buildings and three agricultural buildings.

The place is recorded on the Prussian first recording from 1840 as Worth . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is recorded on the TK25 measuring table as Worth .

The municipality and estate district statistics of the province of Westphalia in 1871 listed the place as a colony with five houses and 20 inhabitants. The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 19 residents who lived in three houses. In 1895 the place had four houses with 40 inhabitants and belonged to the evangelical parish Schalksmühle, in 1905 four houses and 40 inhabitants are also given.

On October 1, 1912, the area around the place was spun off from the municipality of Halver and assigned to the newly founded municipality of Schalksmühle. In 1995 the buildings were demolished and the place fell into desolation. The Haferkasten the farm became a farmhouse rocker cooling translocated .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Province of Westphalia, No. IX . Berlin 1874.
4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.
5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1897.
6. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1909.