Heringhausen in the area of Waldeck, Upland and Sauerland, is a village in the municipality Diemelsee in northern Hesse, Germany.

Heringhausen is located between Dortmund and Kassel south of Paderborn, approximately in the middle of a triangle with the verticepoints of Korbach, Brilon and Marsberg in the nature park Diemelsee.

On January 14, 1023, the place is mentioned as Hardinghuson in the goods directories of the monastery Kaufungen documentary as a gift from the Emperor Henry II.

[12] The next documentary mention was made in 1043, when the abbot of the monastery Corvey the church of St. Magnus in Horhusen (Niedermarsberg) gave the tithing of the place.

The patronage in Heringhausen remained until the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Waldeck in 1526 at the monastery Kaufungen.

Several property and feudal changes (also for parts) are documented for Heringhausen, which ended in 1565 with the transfer of ownership claims to the county Waldeck.

In 1822, Johann Gunther Friedrich Cannabich mentions that there are 206 inhabitants in Heringhausen, a powder mill and an "arms hammer".

Based on the census as of December 1, 1885, the following figures were recorded for the place: 32 residential buildings with 33 households, 113 male and 99 female residents, 211 Protestant and 1 person with a Catholic denomination.