Ruthen

Ruthen is a town inside the district of Soest in North Rhine Westphalia. The city of Ruthen obtained metropolis rights in 1200. In the Middle Ages Ruthen had at times enormous significance because the workplace of the Duchy of Westphalia and as hanseatic town. Since the overdue middle Ages, it has increasingly developed into a farming town. Today's town emerged from the merger of the middle town with 14 previously unbiased municipalities. S

tatistically Ruthen these days is considered a massive rural network. The namesake of modern metropolis becomes about two kilometers west village Altenruthen, which was referred to as till 1200 Ruothino. The nearby parish of St. Gervasius and Protasius is the oldest in the vicinity and became installed inside the first half of the 9th century as a regular parish of the authentic parish Erwitte. In 1072, Archbishop Anno II transferred her income to the newly based Monastery County. In Altenruthen changed into an archiepiscopal cologne most important courtyard. These had the Lords of Rudenberg to fief.