Alfen (Borchen)
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Alfen
Borchen municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 7 ″ N , 8 ° 42 ′ 6 ″ E
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| Height : | 142 m |
| Area : | 8.21 km² |
| Residents : | 1939 (Jan. 1, 2005) |
| Population density : | 236 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 33178 |
| Area code : | 05251 |
 Location of the Alfen district in the Borchen municipality
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Alfen is the westernmost of the five districts of the Borchen municipality in the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The current postcode is 33178, the old postcode of Alfen is 4799 (previously 4791).
geography
Alfen lies on the border of the Hellweg area and the Paderborn plateau and is traversed by the Alme .
In the southwest and west, Alfen borders on the Salzkotten district of Niederntudorf , in the north on the Paderborn district of Wewer , in the east and south on the Borchen districts of Nordborchen , Kirchborchen and Etteln .
history
In 1031 Emperor Konrad II donated his goods to "Alflaan" to the church in Paderborn. This is the first written mention of the place, although it is probably older.
Alfen has belonged to the secular rule of the German diocese Paderborn , originally in the duchy of Saxony , since its foundation . From the 14th century the territory of the prince-bishopric of Paderborn ( Hochstift ) was formed in the Holy Roman Empire , and from the 16th century it was part of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire .
In 1802/03 the bishopric was occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1807 Prussia had to surrender all territories on the left Elbe, the area fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia for a short time . However, this kingdom collapsed again in 1813 and the area fell back to Prussia in 1815, which created new administrative structures here, which are still in effect today in a modified form. So the area comes to the administrative district of Minden, formed in 1815, in the newly created province of Westphalia . In 1816, when the new rural districts were formed , Alfen joined the Paderborn district - here it was part of the Kirchborchen district .
On July 1, 1969, Alfen merged with Nordborchen and Kirchborchen to form the newly formed Borchen municipality . On January 1, 1975 Etteln and Dörenhagen were also named.
politics
Mayor
- 1975 to 1989 Bernhard Hüster
- 1989 to 2008 Josef Lüke
- since 2008 Konrad Hansmeier
Konrad Hansmeier ( CDU ) is the mayor of Alfen . In the last local elections in 2004, the citizens of Alfen cast their votes in the election for the Borchen municipal council as follows:
- CDU 57.19%
- SPD 32.14%
- Free Voting Community Borchen (FWB) 8.34%
- Borchener Bürger Union ( BBU ) 2.33%
coat of arms
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A continuous gold cross in the red head of the shield. In the golden shield the old parish church of St. Walburga, between two trees that grow from the green base of the shield with a blue wavy bar.
Town twinning
Alfen is twinned with the French community of Noyen-sur-Sarthe in the Sarthe department . It is essentially supported by the Franco-German Friendship Circle and the sports club. In June 2000, Borchen mayor Heinrich Schwarzenberg and Alfen mayor Josef Lüke signed the partnership documents of the town twinning for the German side in Noyen-sur-Sarthe.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Paderborn / Lippstadt airport with connections to Munich, in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands is less than 10 km from alfs removed. The approach baseline for runway 24 leads directly over Alfen, which led to the establishment of a citizens' initiative against night flights.
About six kilometers away is the Paderborn-Haxterberg airfield , where general aviation and glider flights are operated.
The Borchen motorway junction - located between Alfen, Nord- and Kirchborchen - on the A 33 ( Bad Wünnenberg - Paderborn - Bielefeld ) is only 9 km north of the Wünnenberg-Haaren motorway junction with the A 44 Dortmund - Kassel . The southern extension of the A 33 beyond the motorway junction is the B 480 in the direction of Brilon - Winterberg .
A bus line operated by BahnBus Hochstift GmbH (BBH), which runs every half hour on weekdays, connects Alfen with the district town of Paderborn via the municipality's headquarters in Kirchborchen . The former connection with buses to the neighboring Wewer is now very limited to only a few connections per day. The former bus line via the airport in the direction of Büren no longer exists.
A point worth mentioning in the area of transport is that there are no traffic lights in Alfen.
The now closed line of the Almetalbahn Paderborn-Büren was reactivated in 1999 by a private association for tourist trips on weekends in the summer months. 1 July 2006 was followed by the re-closure and shortly afterwards the dismantling and sale of the tracks, the route has not been deconsecrated .
Agriculture
Alfener farmhouses and their residents are compiled in Heinrich Bielemeyer, Chronik Alfener Familien, old houses and their residents.
After the noble Klinkenhof on the Alme was given up, Gut Wilhelmsburg was built from a former brickworks on Kleiner Hellweg around 1812, from where the land of the last Baron von Imbsen from Wewer, located in the Alfener Flur, was cultivated. In 1817 the Klinke Resthof in Alfen was sold to a Mr. Kruse. Sources: Isa Freifrau von Elverfeldt, Wewer Volume V The Barons from Imbsen and Wewer Volume VI Wewerscher Wald and Gut Wilhelmsburg.
Established businesses
The BBL-Software GmbH and the Sifrin-Bau-GmbH are located in the center of the village.
The largest commercial area in Borchen is located within the Alfen district on the southern outskirts, directly at the Borchen motorway exit mentioned above. Examples include OTNI GmbH (sheet metal / metal technology) and BioTec-Klute GmbH (pest control).
The Sparkasse Paderborn and Volksbank Elsen-Wewer-Borchen are located in the village, each with a branch.
Public facilities
The Schützenhalle, the community center and the sports center of SV Rot-Weiß Alfen, which was inaugurated in 1978, are available for public events. In the village there is a fire station and a fire brigade of volunteer firefighters Borchen.
education
In Alfen there is a primary school and a Catholic public library.
religion
Of the approximately 1,900 inhabitants of Alfens, 70% are Catholic and 22% Protestant ; the remaining 8% belong to another or no religious community. For the Catholics mentioned, there is the parish of St. Walburga within the Borchen pastoral network of the Paderborn deanery of the Archdiocese of Paderborn ; the mentioned Protestants belong to the Evangelical Lutheran. Stephanus parish Borchen in the Paderborn parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
Culture and sights
Buildings
The town's landmark is the small old parish church of St. Walburga from the 13th century , which is also shown in the town's coat of arms , maybe it is older. It is a Romanesque fortified church with important Staufer frescoes. The entrance was redesigned in the baroque period . Today the church is used as a meeting place and youth meeting place.
Right next door is the new Gothic parish church of St. Walburga , which was built after the old one had become too small at the end of the 19th century. The foundation stone was laid on July 22nd, 1906, and inaugurated on October 13th, 1907. This church contains a valuable Gothic sandstone Madonna from around 1420 in the right aisle and a late Gothic painted wooden figure of St. Meinolf on the west wall of the choir room. A goblet-shaped baptismal font in the Renaissance style stands today in the front left aisle; it used to be in the old parish church.
Half-timbered and rubble stone gables still characterize the town center today.
Sports
Sport in the village is mainly carried out by SV Rot-Weiß Alfen, the most important sports facility is the Eschenkampfbahn, where the club's sports center is located. There is also the primary school's sports hall. The SV was initially founded as a football club, nowadays the departments gymnastics and popular sports, volleyball and table tennis are added.
Archery
The St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft Alfen consists of the four companies West, East and South and the young shooters. The rifle club also has a flag-waving department, the shooting sports department and the Alfen marching band.
Web links
- alfen.de
- Alfen (Borchen) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ^ Geographical Commission for Westphalia (ed.): Geographisch-Landeskundlicher Atlas von Westfalen, Topic X Administration and Management, double sheet state and municipal administrative structure , Münster 1990.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 77 .
- ^ 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. 327 .
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