Spenge
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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ N , 8 ° 29 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Herford | |
| Height : | 129 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 40.35 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 14,482 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 359 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 32139 | |
| Primaries : | 05225, 05223, 05428, 05206 | |
| License plate : | HF | |
| Community key : | 05 7 58 032 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SPG | |
| City structure: | 5 districts | |
City administration address : |
Lange Str. 52–56 32139 Spenge |
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| Mayor : | Bernd Dumcke ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Spenge in the Herford district | ||
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Spenge [ ˈʃpɛŋə ] is a small town in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the East Westphalian district of Herford in the administrative district of Detmold and is located in the Ravensberger Land north of the Teutoburg Forest . The current city of Spenge was created in 1969 with the involvement of five independent municipalities of the Spenge Office. The oldest documented mention of a district goes back to the year 1060.
geography
Geographical location
Spenge is located in the Ravensberg hill country between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehen Mountains . In the south, where the terrain rises towards the Teutoburg Forest, the municipality reaches a maximum height of 155 m above sea level. NN . The center of the Spenge district is 90 m above sea level. NN . In the north, the area slopes down towards the Else and reaches its minimum at 64 m above sea level. NN in the area of the Hücker Moor . Several rivers flow into the Else from south to north. These include the Warmenau , which forms the border with Melle in Lower Saxony in the west and northwest , and the Spenger Mühlenbach, which flows into the Warmenau . The Jöllenbecker and Beckendorfer Mühlenbach rivers also arise in Lenzinghausen . The area is poorly forested and most of the open spaces are used intensively for agriculture.
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| Area in square kilometers | 7.28 | 28.8 | 3.1 | 1 |
| Share of total area | 18.2% | 72% | 7.7% | 0.3% |
geology
The area naturally belongs to the Ravensberger Mulde , a gently undulating, between 50 and 140 m above sea level. NN lying hill country . Numerous small valleys (so-called sieves ) often cut suddenly and deeply into the otherwise poorly coupled land. Geologically, there are essentially lias plates with loess overlay , which were transformed into hilly areas by the Pleistocene demolition . Under the loess cover there are sometimes bed debris . Other legacies of the Ice Ages are the boulders that are often found . In the north, the urban area extends as far as the Elsetal, where there is less loess, but gravel terraces. In the north around the Hücker Moor there are remains of peat .
Spenge is moderately to well suited, in a few locations southwest of the Hücker Moors very well and to the northeast of the Hücker Moors partly not for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see the adjacent map).
Expansion and use of the urban area
Spenge has an area of 40.2 km². The north-south extension is about ten kilometers, the maximum east-west extension seven kilometers. It is around 14 km to the city center of the closest major city, Bielefeld, and around 40 km to Osnabrück .
Neighboring communities
In the west, Spenge borders the Lower Saxony town of Melle . Other neighboring communities are Bünde in the northeast, Enger in the east (both Herford district ), Bielefeld in the southeast and Werther ( Gütersloh district ) in the southwest.
City structure
The city of Spenge is divided according to § 3 of its main statute into the following five districts, which were independent municipalities in the Spenge office before 1969 . The following table lists the five districts with population figures as of December 31, 2017:
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| Bardüttingdorf | 1,091 | |
| Hücker ashes | 1,488 | |
| Lenzinghausen | 2,495 | |
| Spenge | 8,519 | |
| Wallenbrück | 1,121 |
Districts and districts
The urban area is historically divided into these districts and districts :
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climate
The predominant climate is the Atlantic maritime climate . The table shows climate data on a long-term mean (1971–2000) for Herford , about 14 km from the air .
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Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Spenge (actually Herford)
Source: DWD
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On a long-term average (1961–1990) the region had an average of 1473 hours of sunshine per year (observation station: Herford). Due to their proximity, the weather data for Spenge should not deviate significantly from the given data from Herford on a long-term basis, since both cities are about the same height and their natural spatial location is very similar.
history
Until the Reformation
Finds from the Stone Age, Bronze Age burial mounds and a settlement site from the Pre-Roman Iron Age in Lenzinghausen show the first traces of settlement from pre-Roman times. The area was initially the area of the Saxon Engern , after the subjugation of the Saxon Duke Widukind by Charlemagne around 1000 Franconian . The oldest documented mention relates to a relief in the Marienkirche in Wallenbrück in 1096. The stone slab with a relief figure of a young saint who is holding a model of the church can still be found there today. The saint depicted could be the church donor Gerhard, who died at the age of twelve. The predecessor of today's Spenger ev.-luth. St. Martin's Church probably goes back to the 9th century. The current building, however, is a new building by the nobles von Spenge mentioned up to 1220 . The Martin altar in the church was created around 1470. The other districts were first mentioned in the 12th and 13th centuries. Since the Reformation , around the 16th century, Spenge, like the entire Ravensberger Land, became Lutheran , which still shapes the differences between the neighboring Catholic areas in Lower Saxony .
The people in Spenge and Ravensberger Land initially lived in drubbing amidst undivided brands. The violence was exercised on the secular side by Frankish counts, whereas on the church side the Herford Abbey played an important role. The people had to pay taxes to these institutions . The land was fertile due to the loess soils and thus belonged to the old settlements . The population increased rapidly and through the inheritance law and the heuerling system , several layers of the population emerged one after the other. The heirs managed the parental farm. The hereditary gods, d. H. the heirs who were not entitled to inheritance founded their own farms near the Drubbel from around 1000. The Markkötter, who received only a very modest share of the inheritance, set up farms in the wooded Mark from around 1450 and cultivated and cleared parts of them, although the Markkötter should actually be managed jointly and the Markkötter were only tolerated.
Until 1945
Since the 16th century, another group, the heuerlings, formed the lower class of society without real estate. They were nothing more than economically and legally dependent assistants to the hereditary farmers, within whose reach they lived in a small Kotten . In the 15th century, the poorer social groups described opened up a new way of earning a living with flax cultivation and processing into linen . This early form of industrialization in the Ravensberger Land is characterized as proto-industry . The linen weavers processed the flax into the famous Ravensberger linen in winter. In Prussian times (from 1614) the linen trade was encouraged to increase tax revenue ( mercantilism ), and the number of hired people grew rapidly as a result. In 1770, under Prussian pressure, the mark was completely privatized and largely turned into arable land for small farms. These smallholder ownership structures lasted into the 1950s. The sieves were widened during this time in order to create pasture for the cattle that until now only grazed in the marrow.
Until the French era (1807-1813), when Spenge was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia (from 1811 even part of the French Empire ), Spenge and its districts were part of the Limberg office , which belonged to the county of Ravensberg , which in turn belonged to Brandenburg or from 1614 . Prussia belonged. After the end of the Napoleonic period, the county of Ravensberg was restored and was again Prussian, but from 1819 it was administered in a Prussian administrative unit Minden-Ravensberg together with the principality of Minden to the north .
When linen processing became more and more unprofitable due to the advent of mechanical looms in the middle of the 19th century and the rural population could hardly feed themselves as a result, the tobacco industry , which emerged around 1860 mainly in nearby frets , offered a new livelihood. The Spenger rolled and pressed the cigars at home or in cigar factories. The timber industry was also important; today there is hardly any forest left.
Since 1843, the independent communities of Wallenbrück, Hücker-Aschen, Spenge, Bardüttingdorf and Lenzinghausen have been administered in a joint Spenge office.
On August 9, 1891, the so-called Spenger Battle broke out in Spenge , a tangible dispute between around 500 Social Democrats and members of conservative circles, primarily 1,500 farmers and farmhands under the leadership of Gohfeld's pastor Karl Iskraut .
On September 20, 1900, the Herford small railway with a gauge of 1000 mm went into operation, and from the early 1930s it was electric. The route was: Spenge, Siedlung - Enger - Oetinghausen - Sundern - Herford , Kleinbahnhof.
On November 4, 1944, the Jewish woman Franziska Spiegel was kidnapped by two SS men from a Kotten in Bünde-Werfen and later shot in Hückerholz . In memory of this act, a memorial stone was installed on November 4, 1991, which was the target of an attack at the end of January 2006.
From 1945
The small railway line between the Wallenbrück and Spenge, settlement stops was closed on November 2, 1963.
The Spenge Office, which has existed since 1843, with the independent municipalities of Wallenbrück, Hücker-Aschen, Spenge, Bardüttingdorf and Lenzinghausen, was transferred to a new municipality on January 1, 1969, and then to the city of Spenge . The former communities were referred to as districts from 1969 .
In 1978 plans for a regional airport in Nagelsholz lead to several demonstrations . The planning for the airport began with a conference of the former districts of Bielefeld and Detmold , the Bielefeld Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Detmold Chamber of Commerce in March 1960, which were published in 1963.
There it was about planning a regional airport for East Westphalia-Lippe . In 1970, the approval for the construction and operation of the airport was granted by the responsible state minister. The city of Spenge sued against this. In 1971 the area in the former was official Jöllenbeck (county Bielefeld) umgemeindet, but after the final failure of the plans during the year 1980 by the increased in the meantime independent city Bielefeld again returned on 1 July 1982 the city Spenge.
To mark the occasion, a tree was planted on the northern town hall forecourt.
Since 1993, the altar of the Martinskirche , made around 1470 in medieval Westphalian wood carving, has been installed again in the church.
population
Religions
Overview
The vast majority (62.7 percent) of the population is Evangelical Lutheran . 10.31 percent of the people profess to the Roman Catholic Church . 27 percent state that they do not have a denomination or that they belong to a different faith or denomination, including, for example, Protestant Reformed Christians, Orthodox Christians and Muslims .
Evangelical congregations
The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Spenge has around 10,000 members and is divided into the parishes of Spenge-Mitte with St. Martin's Church , Hücker-Aschen with the church in Klein-Aschen, Wallenbrück with the Marienkirche and Lenzinghausen with the Paulus Church. In Groß-Aschen, in a district of the town of Melle in Lower Saxony, there is a small chapel that still belongs to the parish of Hücker-Aschen.
Catholic community
The number of community members rose sharply after the Second World War due to the influx of displaced persons (e.g. from predominantly Catholic Silesia ) and now stands at around 1527 members. The Catholic Church of St. Josef on Bussche-Münch- Strasse was built as a new building in the 1950s. Spenge belongs to the deanery of Herford-Minden, which in turn is part of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . In addition, the Catholic parish of St. Josef is a member of the Widukindsland pastoral network.
Other Christian communities and special communities that emerged from Christianity
There is also a New Apostolic Church in Spenge .
Muslim community
A mosque is located on Ravensberger Strasse in a building that was previously used for other purposes .
Development of the population
The following table shows the development of the population in the area of the city or that of the area-identical Spenge office since 1968.
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1 Spenge Office
2 State Office for Data Processing and Statistics
3 Census results
politics
mayor
Mayor of the city was Christian Manz ( CDU ) from 1995 to 2009 . He took office on November 1, 1995 and was elected by the city council. He was confirmed in office in 1999 and 2004 in a direct election by the city's electorate. In 2004 he received 70.39 percent of the vote in the first ballot. Manz was the first full-time mayor and at the same time replaced the last city director, whose administrative tasks are now carried out by the mayor.
Manz did not run for the mayoral election in 2009 because he was running for the office of district administrator of the Herford district. Bernd Dumcke (SPD) was elected as his successor, who with 44.89 percent of the vote narrowly prevailed against Jan Christian Janßen (43.23 percent), who was a candidate for CDU and FDP.
The mayors of the city and the mayors of the Spenge office are listed below. The mayors until 1969 did not head a city comparable to today, but were representatives of the Spenge office, in which five politically independent municipalities had come together for joint administration.
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City of Spenge
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City Directors
The city director of the city of Spenge from 1969 and the administrative directors of the Spenge office until 1968 managed the city and the office. In 1995 the post of city director was abolished and his duties were transferred to the full-time mayor. The city and office had the following heads of administration:
- 1954–1966: Josef Roberz (Office Director)
- 1966–1995: Günter Hemminghaus (since 1966 official director, after the elevation of the office of Spenge to the city of January 1, 1969 city director)
City council
The Spenge City Council currently has 32 members. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the composition of the council and local election results since 1975:
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| Political party | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % |
| SPD | 12 | 38.39 | 11 | 36.16 | 10 | 31.99 | 12 | 38.30 | 17th | 41.54 | 16 | 44.91 | 15th | 42.35 | 14th | 41.71 | 16 | 48.46 |
| CDU | 11 | 33.21 | 11 | 33.55 | 12 | 37.29 | 12 | 36.29 | 11 | 26.97 | 7th | 21.18 | 6th | 19.22 | 8th | 23.55 | 7th | 22.88 |
| UWG 1 | 5 | 15.33 | 5 | 14.83 | 5 | 14.25 | 4th | 12.50 | 5 | 13.10 | 7th | 21.67 | 9 | 25.93 | 9 | 27.51 | 10 | 28.66 |
| Green | 3 | 9.75 | 3 | 9.78 | 3 | 8.00 | 1 | 4.99 | 3 | 7.90 | 3 | 8.19 | 3 | 9.09 | - | - | - | - |
| FDP | 1 | 3.32 | 2 | 5.67 | 1 | 3.72 | 1 | 2.88 | 0 | 3.52 | 0 | 4.05 | 0 | 3.41 | 2 | 7.23 | - | - |
| THE 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4.75 | 2 | 5.04 | 3 | 6.98 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total 3 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 39 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 |
| voter turnout | 60.86 | 61.56 | 62.38 | 66.27 | 85.40 | 70.82 | 74.72 | 81.55 | 90.50 | |||||||||
1 Independent community of voters
2 Democratic alternative Spenge
3 Without taking into account rounding differences
Coat of arms and motto
Blazon of the city coat of arms: "In silver three red rafters , covered with a golden round clasp with a downward-pointing thorn."
The rafters testify to the former belonging to the County of Ravensberg . The side view of two rafters leaning against each other led to the designation of this coat of arms in coat of arms descriptions. The Ravensberg coat of arms contained three red rafters on a silver background and was part of the large Prussian coat of arms after Prussia took over the county . Today it can also be found in several regional and city coats of arms in the region, such as those of Bielefeld , Vlotho , and the Minden-Lübbecke district . The clasp is probably a reference to the city name Spenge.
The city motto for external presentation was "Spenge, the emerging city in the country" until 2010 . This motto replaced the saying “Spenge, the friendly shopping city in the country” . Since 2010, the city of Spenge's slogan has been “Spenge offers diversity” .
Town twinning
Spenge only has some partnerships with other cities indirectly through the Herford district .
Finances
The debts of the city of Spenge (including the debts of the municipal companies) amounted to 54.04 million euros as of December 31, 2012. This corresponds to a per capita debt of 3,668 euros per inhabitant. As one of the first cities in Germany, the city of Spenge voluntarily introduced a so-called sustainability statute for the area of urban finances, through which the city aims to curb debt growth and reduce debt.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Road traffic
The A 30 motorway passes just a few kilometers north of the city. It is only a few kilometers from the city center to the Bruchmühlen or Bünde junctions.
Junction No. 27 (Bünde) can be reached via the L 783 and L 546, the No. 26 ( Bruchmühlen ) via the L 859, K 19, the Lower Saxony K 208 and L 546.
Connection to major cities via A 2, A 30 and A 33
The A 30 connects the city of Osnabrück to the small town of Spenge. The distance from AS Bruchmühlen is approx. 30 kilometers. Hanover can be reached via the other direction of travel. From AS Bünde the distance is currently approx. 100 kilometers. Soon you can bypass Bad Oeynhausen to the north, but the route becomes longer. From the Bad Oeynhausen junction , change to the A2. An alternative to this would be to use the A2 alone from AS Herford / Bad Salzuflen.
From AS Bielefeld-Zentrum via the A 33 you can reach Paderborn in 35 kilometers ; Via the A 44 one arrives at Kassel . Via the A 33 you can also get to the A 2 via the Bielefeld motorway junction . It takes about 85 kilometers to get to Dortmund. From there you can easily get to the Ruhr area .
The L 783 leads to Bielefeld and the L 782 to Werther. In the opposite direction, this leads to Enger and then via the L 712 to Herford.
Transportation
Rail transport
Until 1966 Spenge was connected to the rail network with a station on the now closed Herford small railway.
Bus transport
The following bus connections exist in the regional cycle:
- Line 56 to Bielefeld -Babenhausen Süd (connection in Bielefeld to the Stadtbahn (line 3) )
- Line 156 to Bielefeld -Schildesche (connection in Bielefeld to the Stadtbahn (line 1) )
- Line 572 to Bünde (mostly TaxiBus / dial-a-bus )
- Line 465/466 to Enger and Herford
- Line 66 to Werther , (mostly TaxiBus)
A citizens' bus serves the districts of Wallenbrück (line 666) and Bardüttingdorf (line 667).
media
The daily newspapers are the Neue Westfälische and the Westfalen-Blatt , each with a local section for Spenge . The local radio station, Radio Herford, can be received in the city on 94.9 MHz.
Established businesses
The larger employers in Spenge mainly include medium-sized companies:
- Frommholz : Manufacturer of upholstered furniture, mainly armchairs and sofas
- Vollmer : manufacturer of dog food
- Papierververarbeitung Gesellschaft mbH (PVG): A company belonging to the Melitta Group for the manufacture of vacuum cleaner bags made of paper
- Heinze : A company that is part of the Hettich Group and manufactures fittings for furniture
- Delius : a mechanical weaving mill for silk fabrics established in 1924. In 2006 the production was stopped; the buildings are used as a warehouse for silk fabrics.
Public facilities
police
The Herford police district service is represented in Spenge at Schulstrasse 1. The guard in the school building, which is not always manned, is housed separately.
Health facilities
Spenge does not have a hospital. The closest hospitals are in Bielefeld, Herford or Bünde.
Employment agency
The Federal Employment Agency is not represented in Spenge.
Swimming pools
The heated Werburger Waldbad was built in the 1950s. It was originally heated purely electrically and equipped with a solar system to support it in the early 1980s.
The Werburger Waldbad was completely renovated in 2014 by Stadtwerke Herford GmbH and reopened in summer 2015. It is equipped with two separate swimming pools for non-swimmers and swimmers, a diving platform and a slide. The children's paddling pool is embedded in the sunbathing lawn.
The Lenzinghausen outdoor pool (geographical location: 52 ° 7 ′ 16.3 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 45.7 ″ E ) is unheated and offers visitors a comfortable lawn for sunbathing. Today it is operated as a public pool by the Lenzinghausen outdoor pool initiative.
fire Department
- The volunteer fire brigade of the city of Spenge has five locations:
- Spenge middle
- Lenzinghausen
- Hücker ashes
- Wallenbrück
- Bardüttingdorf
Other public institutions
- City library in the Spenge community center, around 30,000 media. Until the 1980s, the city library was housed in the former cantor's house to the south-east near the Martinskirche.
- Youth and cultural center Charlottenburg
- Music school Enger-Spenge (together with the neighboring municipality of Enger )
education
Elementary schools
- Primary school Spenge / Hücker-Aschen : Since the small village school in Hücker-Aschen no longer exists, the children from Hücker-Aschen also attend the largest primary school in Spenge. Until 1980, the present building of the primary school was a secondary school housed in front of an elementary school . Open all-day school since 2006.
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Primary School Association Spenge-Land :
- Main location in Lenzinghausen : Foundation stone laid in 1963. Open all-day school ("OGS") since 2006. Until 2011: Lenzinghausen primary school .
- Sub-location Wallenbrück-Bardüttingdorf : Very small village school in Bardüttingdorf. Open all-day school since 2006. Until 2011: Wallenbrück-Bardüttingdorf primary school .
comprehensive school
- Rainbow comprehensive school : Largest school in Spenge, located next to the secondary school. It is the only school in Spenge where the general university entrance qualification (Abitur) can be obtained.
secondary school
- Municipal secondary school : Oldest secondary school in Spenge, established in the 1950s. Open all-day school since 2006.
Special school
- Heideschule: Special school in Westerenger (city of Enger), was maintained together with the city of Enger. The Heideschule was closed at the end of the 2015/2016 school year.
Culture and leisure
theatre
The city of Spenge has no permanent theater and no permanent theater stage.
movie theater
The city of Spenge has a cinema which is located at Poststrasse 29 and is called "Zentral-Theater".
Museums
In 2016, a children's and family museum was opened in the mansion of the Werburg. The exhibition focuses on life on a Westphalian manor during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
music
Spenge is home to several choral societies that perform publicly on special occasions.
Buildings
The churches, Mühlenburg Castle and the preserved parts of the Werburg manor are among the most important buildings .
Churches
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin in Spenge with the resulting 1470 Martin altar . Previous building probably from the 9th century. Gothic nave with neo-Gothic extensions in the east from 1877, in which the old choir area was changed into a transept and this was provided with a new choir.
- Evangelical Lutheran Marienkirche in Wallenbrück . First construction around 1096. Organ built before 1650.
- Evangelical Lutheran Pauluskirche (Lenzinghausen)
- Evangelical Luth. Klein-Aschen church
- Catholic Church of St. Josef (built 1951/52)
Castles and manors
- Mühlenburg Castle from 1468. The nearby Mühlenbach stream drove a water wheel in the adjacent mill that was dismantled in the 1960s . The associated buildings outside the castle are currently used as a warehouse for seeds .
- House Werburg from 1596 consists of the manor house, the gatehouse and two farm buildings. The archway was built in the Weser Renaissance style at Mühlenbach . In the 1990s, the registry office's wedding room was housed here.
Others
- Windmill Hücker-Aschen: the Wall-Holländer windmill built in 1831 was equipped with new blades in 2005.
- numerous farmhouses of the 18th and 19th centuries, u. a. the Meyer zu Düttingdorf and Mönck farms in Bardüttingdorf from 1800 and 1824. In Wallenbrück, the rectory from 1782 and a half-timbered house from 1717 opposite the church have been preserved.
Wall Holländer windmill at Gehlenbrink
in Hücker-Aschen
St. Marien
in Wallenbrück
St. Martin's Church in Spenge, 13th century;
in March 2006
Gate to Mühlenburg Castle ;
in July 2004
Werburg manor
in Spenge
Gatehouse of the Werburg,
today the registry office, west side
Commercial
building of the Werburg house
Gatehouse of the Werburg house
from 1596, east side
Cat wood
The so-called cat timber is located in a Siek south of the castle Mühlenburg . In the 1960s and 1970s, this area of forest was designed like a park and was mainly guarded by Hermann Schaub. The structures have been recaptured by nature since the 1990s. At the now silted up duck pond (geographical location: 52 ° 8 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 39.8 ″ E ) there is a carved log with the inscription August Griese 1895–1962, Friend of the Forest . August Griese was the district administrator of the then Herford district in the period after 1945. The district path leads through the forest with the ends at Bielefelder Strasse at number 72 and at the corner of Tannenweg and old Mühlenburger Strasse .
Recreation
Hücker Moor
The Hücker Moor recreation area is a moor lake located in the Hücker-Aschen district in the north of the city. The body of water was created in the course of the 18th and 19th centuries by peat bog and flooding. With an area of around 12 hectares, it is the largest inland body of water in the entire Herford district.
Nature reserves
In the urban area of Spenge there are two nature reserves in three sub-areas with a total size of around 56.2 hectares. This corresponds to around 1.4% of the city area and is the lowest value in the Herford district, both in absolute terms and in percentage terms. The designated areas are
- Warmenau nature reserve: Parts of the Warmenau to the right in Nordspenge between Martmühle and Strangfeld are designated as a nature reserve. The two sub-areas are approximately 27.1 hectares in total.
- Turenbusch nature reserve: The Turenbusch on the border to Suttorf has a size of 29.1 hectares and consists largely of near-natural forest communities, some smaller spruce forests and grassland.
Landscape protection area
Spenger Mühlenbachsiek
The extensive Spenger Mühlenbachsiek covers around 180 hectares in total. The properties are located west of the city of Spenge.
Natural monuments
Spenge has no natural monuments
Sports
The T URN u nd S port club (TUS) Spengemann played to 2008 in the second handball league . In the new season 18/19 the first team of TuS Spenge will play in the 3rd League West.
At the beginning of the 1970s, a fitness trail with some exercise equipment was laid out in the Werburg Forest , which was also used by students from the then secondary school during their physical education classes. With the beginning of jogging , aerobics and tennis as a popular sport, this facility lost its importance, today it is almost completely in ruins.
Regular events
- Spenger Poll : Originally a fair , today merged with the Schützenfest in early June
- Village community festival in Wallenbrück, riding hall; in early summer
- Holiday games : Leisure activities for children during the school summer holidays. Carried out by the city of Spenge until 2004, since 2005 by the Protestant parish of the city of Spenge. Monday to Friday in the mornings and afternoons in the second, third and fourth weeks of the school summer vacation.
- Spenger City Festival : organized by the local retail trade association on the second weekend in September
- Spengerwirt Film Forum : screening of "special film" at the local cinema Central theater, every first Wednesday of the month. The organizers are the Spenge Cultural Office and the Central Theater; discounted entry.
- Outdoor pool parties : annual event organized by the Stadtjugendring e. V. in the Werburger Waldbad.
Culinary specialties
Spenge has no nationally known specialty. Traditionally, the Spenger cooks hearty Westphalian .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Baron von dem Bussche-Münch
Personalities born in Spenge
- Caspar Heinrich Oldemeier (1841–1926), entrepreneur.
- Hermann Jellinghaus (1847–1929), linguist and folklorist
- Christoph Siebe (1849–1912), academic sculptor and painter from the Wiedenbrück School , born in Wallenbrück
- Heinrich Specht (1885–1952), rector, local historian, writer and member of the state parliament, born in Diemke-Wallenbrück
- Hermann Meyer-Nieberg (1902–1982), lawyer born in Wallenbrück, politician (NSDAP) and district administrator in the Tecklenburg district
- Eberhard Werdin (1911–1991), composer and music teacher
- Horst Dietrich Schlemm (1919–2011), Lutheran clergyman and trombonist
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (* 1942), politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), member of the European Parliament from 1984–1987 and 1989–2009
Associated with Spenge
- Hans Thimme , (* 1909; † 2006), 1934 to 1939 pastor in Spenge
- Peter Ostermeyer (* 1943), chess master, played in Spenge
- Burkhard Budde (* 1953), pastor of the Evangelical Church Congregation Spenge, winner of the city prize 2005
- Christian Manz (* 1954), Mayor of Spenger from 1995 to 2009, District Administrator of the Herford district from 2009 to 2015
- Florian Anders (* 1980), director, 1990 to 2004 in Spenge, winner of the Spenger Culture Promotion Prize 2005
literature
- Mathias Austermann: The excavation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martinus in Spenge, Herford district. In: Westphalia. 70: 124-131 (1992).
- Reinhard Oldemeier (Ed.): Compiled, selected and edited: documents from five generations from the family tree to individual annual rings. Self-published, Lügde 2005.
- Eberhard Groeger: One night in the tower. Stories from Spenge and the surrounding area and from elsewhere. Verlag Ernst Knoth, Melle 1999, ISBN 3-88368-308-6 .
- Dieter Meyer (Ed.): Franziska Spiegel - The city of Spenge commemorates a Jewish fate - A documentation with contributions to remembrance work. 2nd Edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-145-2 .
- Christine Hartmann, Gerhard Heining, Ilse Kirchhof: Traces of history in Wallenbrück and Bardüttingdorf. A history trail. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-927085-55-3 .
- Eberhard Groeger: I want to tell you about my childhood in Spenge. Knoth, Melle 1991, ISBN 3-88368-216-0 .
- Werner Freitag : Spenge 1900–1950: Living worlds in a rural-industrial village society. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-927085-10-3 .
- Wolfgang Mager (ed.): History of the city of Spenge. Verlag C. Ramm, Neu Wulmstorf 1984, ISBN 3-921917-99-9 .
- Norbert Sahrhage: "... because they can be more secretive here." Jewish traces in the Spenge office. In: Historical yearbook for the Herford district 2005. ISBN 3-89534-592-X , pp. 196–204.
- Norbert Sahrhage: From handball village to handball city. The history of the handball strongholds of Spenge and Lenzinghausen. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-682-8 .
- August Wehrenbrecht: Pictures and Stories from Six Centuries. Gieselmann, Bielefeld 1987, ISBN 3-923830-08-4 .
- August Wehrenbrecht: Spenge - back then. Self-published, Spenge 1981.
Web links
- Website of the city of Spenge
- Spenge in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Birgit Meineke : The place names of the Herford district. Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB). Publishing house for regional history, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-89534-924-9 , p. 252. ( PDF )
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Spenge , (PDF 104kb), version of September 9, 2014.
- ↑ Website of the city of Spenge , HTML, accessed January 2018.
- ↑ Meteorological information ( Memento from June 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), html, State Office for Data Processing and Statistics, access date: July 2, 2007.
- ↑ Wolfgang Böhm: 100 Years of the SPD Mennighüffen Section: Reports of the Officials (PDF 525kb)
- ↑ G. Ellenberg: The Jewess Franziska Spiegel
- ↑ Strangers desecrate Franziska-Spiegel-Stein / bronze plaque stolen and swastika left behind.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 75 .
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Herford district and the independent city of Herford, Section 5
- ↑ February 27, 1963: Nagelsholz is proposed to the public as a possible local airport for OWL
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 323 .
- ↑ a b it.nrw.de: Religious affiliation of the population in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 9, 2011 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook North Rhine-Westphalia 2014
- ↑ City of Spenge ( Memento of October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), HTML, retrieval date: September 2007.
- ↑ Municipal profile Spenge , PDF, State Office for Data Processing and Statistics. Access date: October 2007.
- ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05758032
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
- ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW Election of the Council 1999, allocation of seats
- ^ Website of the city of Spenge, Politik, Rat / Gemeindevertretung ( Memento of October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), HTML, accessed on May 15, 2009.
- ^ Result of the local elections in Spenge. Retrieved October 13, 2014 .
- ↑ political groups
- ↑ Federal and State Statistical Offices: Integrated Debt of the Municipalities and Municipal Associations - Proportional model calculation for the inter-municipal comparison - as of December 31, 2012 - joint publication
- ↑ Sustainability statutes of the city of Spenge from May 21, 2015
- ↑ https://www.polizei.nrw.de/herford/artikel__1907.html
- ↑ Werburger forest pool. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Homepage of the Central Theater Spenge
- ↑ a b Care areas of the Ravensberg biological station February 2008.
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