Altlünen

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Altlünen
City of Lünen
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : approx. 55 m
Area : 18.24 km²
Residents : 20,958  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density : 1,149 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 44534
Area code : 02306

Altlünen (consisting of the localities Alstedde, Nordlünen and Wethmar) is the entire northern part of the city of Lünen , this is located in what is now the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Unna .

geography

location

Altlünen is located on the southern edge of the Münsterland , north of the Lippe , which flows through it to the southwest of the Alstedde district.

Districts

Altlünen consists of the three grown districts (formerly: farmers) Alstedde, Nordlünen and Wethmar. After the amalgamation of Altlünen with Lünen or the incorporation into the city of Lünen (January 1, 1975), they are districts and at the same time so-called statistical districts through artificial demarcation, whereby the former boundaries within the municipality of Altlünen have been shifted very clearly, which is therefore also in the different population development. The statistical district of Alstedde now has a size of only 5.22 km 2 , the statistical district of Nordlünen (not to be confused with the south-bordering district of Lünen-Nord, although recently the boundaries and names have become somewhat blurred) 10.58 km 2 and the statistical district of Wethmar a size of only 2.52 km 2 , a total of 18.32 km 2 for Altlünen .

The statistical district Alstedde is now completely south of the railway line Dortmund – Lünen – Enschede (Westmünsterland-Bahn) , the statistical district Wethmar is now completely south of the railway line Dortmund – Lünen – Münster (Der Lüner) , while the statistical district Nordlünen, the large part by Alstedde and Wethmar, is now completely north of these two railway lines. This division is such. B. Gut Alstedde, which has always been located in Alstedde, now in the statistical district of Nordlünen. The soccer club TuS Westfalia Wethmar eV is no longer playing in Wethmar, but rather in the statistical district of Nordlünen due to the reallocation. This also applies to the allotment garden association Wethmar.

All three districts belong to the 1867 Altlünen district . The nature reserve Alstedder Mark connects to the north of Alstedde, and the nature reserve Nordlüner Mark connects to the north of Nordlünen.

history

Numerous archaeological finds prove that the Altlünen area was a settlement site as early as the Stone Age . In 1869/70 Franz Hülsenbeck from Paderborn found an urn grave field during excavations in Alstedde. In 1909 a large stone grave ( megalith ) was discovered. From 1989 to 1993 a larger burial ground was uncovered and archaeologically examined in Wethmar. Cremation and body graves, jewelry and weapons were found, some of which date back to Roman times. (see literature)

The later parish Altlünen was created as a merger of the three farmers Alstedde, Nordlünen and Wethmar. It is documented that the nearby Cappenberg monastery became the landlord when it was founded in 1122. The Schulze-Wethmar farm (organic farm) was first mentioned in a document in 880/890.

In 1803, after the dissolution of the Prince Diocese of Münster , to which it had previously belonged, Altlünen became part of Prussia and the district of Lüdinghausen as its southernmost municipality.

After discovering abundant deposits of lawn iron ore in the Lippetal, Kaspar Diederich Wehrenbold founded the Eisenhütte Westfalia trade union in Wethmar in 1826 , which over the course of history has developed into a globally significant mining supplier. In 1899, larger coal deposits were discovered in Altlünen during test drilling.

In 1946 the first municipal council elections took place after the end of the war. The Altlünen community never had its own administration. Since 1815 the administration in Bork was responsible for the community. It was not until July 1, 1974 that an administrative branch was set up in Altlünen.

That of Wilhelm Löbbe , employed as a design engineer on the metallurgical Westfalia in Wethmar, further developed in the late 1940s coal plow revolutionized the coal mining. In 1950 Altlünen had 6252 inhabitants. Efforts by the city of Lünen to incorporate the municipality of Altlünen and the Bork district of Cappenberg could not prevail at the time. The riding and driving association Altlünen e. V. was founded in 1937, the Altlünen e. V. was founded in 1956. In 1957, the newly built, spacious outdoor pool at Cappenberger See was opened and the topping-out ceremony for the “Freiherr vom Stein Youth Hostel” was celebrated. In 1966, the surface operations on Shaft V were stopped. In 1967 teaching began at the Altlünen grammar school. The - now closed - ara shoe factory started work. In the area of ​​the later residential area Brusenkamp I and II, the construction of a town hall and a town center for Altlünen were planned.

In 1971 Alfred Meermann (1928–2015) ( CDU ) was elected the last Altlün mayor. In 2014 he resigned from the Lünen City Council after many years of membership. In recognition of his services as a local politician, he was posthumously awarded a special honor in 2016: A new street on Laakstrasse in Nordlünen on the site of the former indoor swimming pool was named after him.

In 1972 the groundbreaking ceremony took place for the now closed Altlün indoor swimming pool.

Until municipal administrative reform in North Rhine-Westphalia the community Altlünen was independent and was next Selm and Bork (with Cappenberg ) for Office Bork in the district Lüdinghausen . On January 1, 1975, Altlünen merged with Lünen and was incorporated into Lünen as part of this reform . Since then, the independent municipality of Altlünen no longer exists; but their name was retained by Section 6 of the contract for the change of territory dated May 25, 1973 between the city of Lünen, the municipality of Altlünen and the Bork office: “The municipality of Altlünen to be incorporated forms part of the city of Lünen. It was given the name Altlünen district. As part of the road traffic regulations, the city of Lünen will ensure that the appropriate place name is used. ”Today, reports and publications mainly use the names of the individual districts of Alstedde, Nordlünen and Wethmar. a. the Altlünen grammar school, the Altlünen secondary school, the Altlünen equestrian club, the Altlünen tennis club, the Volksbank Altlünen and the SPD and CDU continue to use the established, historical name "Altlünen", which shows the close proximity to the neighboring Münsterland.

The renaming of the district or statistical district Nordlünen to Altlünen, which was erroneously practiced by the city of Lünen a few years later (which led to further geographical misunderstandings), was corrected or reversed after the intervention of an Altlün citizen by resolution of the committee for urban development on February 6, 2018 made.

Altlünen (as a whole) has developed into a preferred and prosperous residential area in the city of Lünen after the incorporation. a. through the residential area Lüner Heide and other construction areas, some of which are already in the process of being completed and are still being planned (Zur Alten Gärtnerei Bergkampstrasse, development land at the Cappenberger See parking lot, conversion of former allotment gardens / Grabeland into building land on Grenzstrasse, Am Diek West and Wethmar- East) is expressed. However, the rapidly growing population also leads to increasing traffic and parking problems.

Population development

Altlünen had the following population numbers after 1668 with 198 inhabitants and 1750 with 421 inhabitants:

year Residents source
1800 0000.391
1845 0000.915
1900 approx. 2,500
1961 0011,778
1970 0014,890
1974 0015,496
1987 0017.059
2012 0020,874
2015 0021,122
2017 0020,977

Population numbers of Altlünens according to districts

year Alstedde Nordlünen Wethmar
1987 5870 7814 3375
2012 6687 9294 4893
2015 6510 9674 4938
2017 6542 9728 4707

Since it was incorporated into Lünen (1975–2017), the increase has been almost 6,000 inhabitants or around 35%. This makes Altlünen a preferred residential area. Compared to 1950, the population of Altlünen has almost quadrupled by 2017.

The adjacent map shows an example of the continuous development (landscape damage) up to today (1970 to 2019) of the district of Nordlünen: existing development until 1970/75 (year of incorporation into Lünen) in YELLOW / PINK (approx. Eight percent). Further development from 1970/75 to 2019 in BLUE (approx. 87 percent). Remaining possible development (mostly only vacant lots) in RED (max. Approx. Five percent).

Honorary citizen

In 1969, the former deputy mayor Paul Böke (SPD) was made the only honorary citizen of Altlünen. Paul-Böke-Strasse was later named after him near the former Ara shoe factory.

religion

The majority of the population of Altlünens is Catholic. Historically, Altlünen belongs to the Catholic prince diocese of Münster. After the Second World War, many mostly Protestant refugees and expellees came from the former eastern German regions, so that there have been larger Protestant communities in Altlünen since then.

literature

  • Aloys Siegeroth: The history of the Altlünen community . Altlünen municipal administration, Altlünen 1964 (224 pages).
  • Franz Hülsenbeck: The Roman fort Aliso an der Lippe , Paderborn 1873.
  • Esther Maria Lehnemann: The grave field of Lünen-Wethmar , VHL-Verlag, Rahden 2008, ISBN 978-3-89646-380-7 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c d Heinrich A. Mertens, Josef Limbach: From the history of the Lüdinghausen district 1803–1974. Verlag Lonnemann, Selm 1974, without ISBN.
  2. a b c 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. 330 .
  3. Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 151 .
  4. ^ A b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics (Ed.): Population and private households as well as buildings and apartments. Selected results for parts of the community. Arnsberg administrative district . Düsseldorf 1990, p. 34 .