Grafschaft (Schmallenberg)

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

Grafschaft
Stadtteil of Schmallenberg
Coat of arms
Location of Grafschaft
Grafschaft
Grafschaft
Coordinates: 51°8′45″N 8°19′31″E
CountryGermany
StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. regionArnsberg
DistrictHochsauerlandkreis
TownSchmallenberg
Population
 (2019-12-31)
 • Total1,096
Time zoneCET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

The village has 1096 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.

  • „Gravelcop“ 1645 - Westphalia Ducatus (Duchy of Westphalia)
  • Vogtei Grafschaft, 1697
  • Grafschaft, 1903
  • St. Georg Church, 1963
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References
  1. Schmallenberg.de: Inhabitants (in German)
  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
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