Winterberg

Winterberg is a town within the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a chief wintry weather sport motel of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland. Winterberg turned into d a city by means of Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden approximately 1270. The foundation of the city of Winterberg was probably performed together with the cloister in Küstelberg. Here shows a report of 1276 in which the rights are regulated within the city between archbishop and cloister. In this record a church is referred to in Winterberg whose precursor probably goes back until the time approximately 1225.

The city fortification appears to have granted in the 14th century first only very a lot constrained safety. The remember von Waldeck conquered the metropolis 1321. About 1357 Winterberg became destroyed with the aid of Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg at some stage in his war with the Cologne archbishop Wilhelm von Gennep . For the reconstruction the archbishop granted an in the beginning ten-yr-vintage tax freedom. This become prolonged in 1370 and 1374 in each case by means of other 5 years.