Arnsberg

Arnsberg is a huge district town in Sauerland inside the country of North Rhine Westphalia and the seat of the executive district Arnsberg. Until the municipal reorganization of 1975 Arnsberg changed into the seat of the district Arnsberg and belongs in view that then to the Hochsauerlandkreis. The structure of brand new town also is going again to the municipal reorganization. At that time, Neheim Husten, Arnsberg and a number of other groups have been merged into a brand new town. For the primary time Arnsberg is mentioned in documents in the Carolingian land of the Abbey of Werden an der Ruhr in 789.

In the 11th century Count Bernhard II of Werl built the Alte Burg at the Rudenberg. A 2nd castle changed into Count Friedrich the Streitbare build in the direction of the quit of the century on the alternative Eagle Mountain Aarberg. The constructing became first referred to in 1102. In that yr it become first destroyed with the aid of Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne, as Count Friedrich had located in the course of the investiture dispute on the facet of Emperor Henry IV.