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Drolshagen
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region	Arnsberg
District	Olpe
Population	12,559 (December 31st, 2005)
Area	67,12 km²
Elevation	353 m
Coordinates	51°02′ N 7°46′ E
Postal code	57489
Area code	02761; 02763
Licence plate code	OE
Mayor	Theo Hilchenbach (CDU)
Website	www.drolshagen.de

Drolshagen is a town and a municipality in the district of Olpe, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 5 km west of Olpe. Image File history File links Stadtwappendrolshagen. ... Image File history File links Lage_der_Stadt_Drolshagen_in_Deutschland. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to: NRW) is - in terms of population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Arnsberg is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the south_east of the country. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... Olpe is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Olpe is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to: NRW) is - in terms of population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. ... Olpe is a town and a municipality in the district of Olpe, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...

Geography

Geographical location

Drolshagen is located within the boundaries of natural preserve Ebbegebirge which is part of Sauerland. The area of the municipality of Drolshagen is characterized by heavily wooded low mountain ranges with altitudes close to 500 metres, flat tops and broad valleys in between. About 40% of the town's area is covered by forests. To the west where the territory of Drolshagen ends there is a steep drop of altitude and the view is open toward the plains of the river Rhine in the distance. The Sauerland is a rural hilly area spreading across most of the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, heavily forested and sparsely inhabited. ...

Streams and Hills

The highest hills are:

• Mark (512 m)
• Löh (482 m)
• Steupingen (481 m)

Several named and a number of unnamed streams and brooks flow through the valleys of the municipality of Drolshagen:

• Brachtpe
  • Rose
  • Steupinger Bach
• Herpel

Brachte empties into Biggesee and Herpel into Listertalsperre.

Geology

Like other areas of Sauerland Drolshagen is part of Rheinisches Schiefergebirge. The Sauerland is a rural hilly area spreading across most of the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, heavily forested and sparsely inhabited. ...

Neighbouring towns and municipalities

• Olpe
• Wenden
• Meinerzhagen
• Gummersbach
• Reichshof

The municipality of Drolshagen includes Drolshagen proper and 57 villages of different sizes. Olpe is a town and a municipality in the district of Olpe, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Wenden is a village and a municipality in the district of Olpe, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Meinerzhagen is a town in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... ---Sidenote START--- Gummersbach is a city in the district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the county seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. ... ---Sidenote START--- Reichshof is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, about 40 km east of Cologne. ...

• More than 1,000 inhabitants:
  • town of Drolshagen (4,807 inhabitants) - Hützemert (1,092)
• from 500 to 1,000 inhabitants:
  • Iseringhausen, Schreibershof
• from 250 to 500 inhabitants:
  • Benolpe, Berlinghausen, Bleche, Dumicke, Frenkhausen, Germinghausen, Herpel, Wegeringhausen
• less than 250 inhabitants:
  • Alperscheid, Beul, Brachtpe, Buchhagen, Bühren, Dirkingen, Eichen, Eltge, Essinghausen, Fahrenschotten, Gelslingen, Grünenthal, Halbhusten, Heiderhof, Heimicke, Hespecke, Husten, Kalberschnacke, Kram, Lüdespert, Neuenhaus, Scheda, Schlade, Schürholz, Sendschotten, Siebringhausen, Wenkhausen, Wintersohl

History

Sauerland then known as Süderland had been part of the Duchy of Saxony when it was given to the Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp, in 1180. For the year 1470 the Knights of Drolshagen are documented. In 1477, March 2nd, Drolshagen was given its town chater by Ruprecht, Archbishop of Cologne, and thus entitled to market and walls. Archbishop Hermann IV confirmed these privileges and added the right to hold a fair. From that time on Drolshagen was called a town. The Sauerland is a rural hilly area spreading across most of the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, heavily forested and sparsely inhabited. ...

A long time before Droshagen received its town charter it had already been a Freiheit which was with regard to the privileges granted already close to a town charter. As such Freiheit Drolshagen had a mayor, a council and a seal of its own.

The Chronika Drolshagensis documents that Drolshagen was a member of the Hanse as of 1604 and traded with other Hanseatic cities especially in the east of Europe. Carta marina of the Baltic Sea region (1539). ...

In 1801 Drolshagen as part of the Duchy of Westphalia was given to the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt who declared it to be in his possession "for all times" and formed it into a Province of Westphalia. Arms of Westphalia. ... The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt came into existence in 1568, as the portion of George, youngest of the four sons of Landgrave Philipp of Hesse. ... Westphalia and the other Provinces of Prussia in the German Empire. ...

Most of Drolshagen burned to the ground in a big fire in May 1838 and was rebuild by "American example" with a grid of streets and avenues. During World War 2 the town was spared from bombing and thus still has lots of its old buildings. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

Whitnesses to Drolshagen's past are St. Clement Church the middle section of which dates back to a Cistercian monastery established by the Counts of Sayn. Today only parts of buildings of the former monastery remain.^[1]

Coat of arms

The four squares of the coat of arms bear whitness to the history of Drolshagen and show the former coats aof arms of the municipality of Drolshagen Amt and Drolshagen 'Stadt. The individual squares are separated by the "Cross of Cologne" which represents the long centuries when Drolshagen was subject to Archbishopric of Cologne and ended in 1803. The blue rhombs on golden ground origin in the coat of arms of the Counts of Drolshagen and the upside down black anchor on silver ground is the symbol of St. Clement who died a martyr's death in 97 AD. The arrow in the middle of the anchor refers to the death as a martyr. St. Clement is also patron saint of Drolshagen. The Archbishopric of Cologne was one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. ... Saint Clement I, the bishop of Rome also called Clement of Rome and Clemens Romanus, was either the third or fourth pope, before or after Anacletus. ...

Demographics

Religion

• Roman Catholic - 74,26%
• Protestant - 13,16%
• Others - 12,57%

The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...

Historical populations

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References

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