Grafschaft (Schmallenberg) Explained

Grafschaft
Type:Stadtteil
Town:Schmallenberg
Image Coa:DEU Grafschaft COA.svg
Coordinates:51.1458°N 8.3253°W
State:NRW
Region:Arnsberg
District:Hochsauerlandkreis
Population:1097
Stand:2021-12-31

Grafschaft is a locality in the municipality Schmallenberg in the High Sauerland District in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The village has 1097 inhabitants[1] and lies in the east of the municipality of Schmallenberg at a height of around 410 m. The river Grafschaft flows through the village. Grafschaft borders on the villages of Schmallenberg, Gleidorf, Winkhausen, Almert, Störmecke and Latrop.

In 1072 a Benedictine monastery of Grafschaft was founded in Grafschaft on a site at the foot of the Wilzenberg mountain, by St. Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne.[2] The village used to belong to the municipality of Grafschaft in Amt Schmallenberg until the end of 1974.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.schmallenberg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Stadtinfo/2021_12_31_Einwohnerzahlen.pdf Schmallenberg.de: Inhabitants
  2. Karl Hopf: Grafschaft (Dynasten und Kloster), S. 213 ff. (Google-Books) in J. S. Ersch, J. G. Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Erste Section, A–G, Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1864