Kierspe
Sign in to savethumb|upright|right|Raukbrunnen thumb|150px|Kierspe - Margarethenkirche (Margarethen church) Kierspe () is a town in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located at the western edge of the Sauerland on Volme River.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Kierspe COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Kernstadt von Kierspe FFSW 3316.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Aerial view
- German location.image_plan
- Kierspe in MK.svg
- German location.state
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- German location.region
- Arnsberg
- German location.district
- Märkischer Kreis
- German location.elevation
- 280 - 552
- German location.area
- 71.91
- German location.postal_code
- 58566
- German location.area_code
- 02359 (Kierspe)02269 (Rönsahl)
- German location.licence
- MK
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 9 62 028
- German location.website
- www.kierspe.de
- German location.mayor
- Olaf Stelse
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–25
- German location.party
- Ind
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thumb|upright|right|Raukbrunnen thumb|150px|Kierspe - Margarethenkirche (Margarethen church) Kierspe () is a town in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located at the western edge of the Sauerland on Volme River.
==History== The first mention of Kierspe was in 1003, when the castle 'Haus Rhade' was first mentioned in a manuscript. On this basis Kierspe celebrated its 1000th anniversary in 2003. Around 1490 Kierspe became the seat of the Heilige Feme, an independent jury of commoners with the right to mete out the death penalty. Such Feme juries were common in Westphalia at the time.