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Grafschaft (Schmallenberg)

Coordinates: 51°8′45″N 8°19′31″E / 51.14583°N 8.32528°E / 51.14583; 8.32528
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Grafschaft
Coat of arms of Grafschaft
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Grafschaft is located in Germany
Grafschaft
Grafschaft
Grafschaft is located in North Rhine-Westphalia
Grafschaft
Grafschaft
Coordinates: 51°8′45″N 8°19′31″E / 51.14583°N 8.32528°E / 51.14583; 8.32528
CountryGermany
StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. regionArnsberg
DistrictHochsauerlandkreis
TownSchmallenberg
Population
 (2019-12-31)
 • Total1,096
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)

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

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.

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