Bad Laasphe

Bad Laasphe is a small city inside the district of Siegen Wittgenstein in North Rhine Westphalia. The name of the city is derived from Lassaffa, which means something like salmon or salmon waters and in all likelihood comes from the Celtic. The first stated in 780 locations turned into elevated in the early 13th century as a house of the county Wittgenstein and acquired earlier than 1277 town rights. Over the town become Wittgenstein Castle as the residence of the eponymous Count circle of relatives.

As a end result, the city acquired a city wall with two gates and 6 towers, which changed into demolished inside the early nineteenth century down to small remnants. In the 1605 division of the county Wittgenstein inside the lines Sayn Wittgenstein Berleburg and Sayn Wittgenstein Laasphe changed into the house of the southern county. Therefore, in addition to craftsmen and farmers, officials of the court of the court lived within the city. You can assume approximately 100 families. With the cease of the holy Roman realm German nation 1806 the repute extinguished as house city.