1150 Jahre Schmerlecke 883-1983 Book

1150 Jahre Schmerlecke is a German-language book published in 1983 by the Schmerlecke local historical society to celebrate the 1150th anniversary of the village. This book is out of print.

The Erwitte local historical society has a hard cover version which can be viewed during hours of operation, but it cannot leave the premises. I was able to flip through Andreas’ paperback version at the Bals-Lusebrink during my visit in May 2025.

Thanks to the Archivist for the City of Erwitte, I do possess a searchable PDF version, which I managed to translate into english. While I’m happy to share information with fellow researchers, I was asked by the Erwitte Archivist not to publish/post the entire book online.



For those interested in the technical aspects regarding the conversion and translation:
Scanned to PDF by the Archivist for the City of Erwitte [May 2025]
Adobe Acrobat optical character recognition was used to convert it to a searchable/editable PDF. [June 2025]
Google Translate was used for the for the language translation from German to English – one paragraph at a time to reduce errors. [June 2025]

Production: Schmerlecke Local History Society
Printing and processing: Rocholdruck Soest
© June 1983, Printed in Germany
Reproduction only with the permission of the Schmerlecke Local History Society