Bad Berleburg

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Bad Berleburg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 24'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Circle : Siegen-Wittgenstein
Height : 420 m above sea level NHN
Area : 275.52 km 2
Residents: 18,914 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57319
Primaries : 02751, 02750, 02755, 02758, 02759
License plate : SI, BLB
Community key : 05 9 70 004
LOCODE : DE BBE
City structure: 23 districts

City administration address : 		Poststrasse 42
57319 Bad Berleburg
Website : www.bad-berleburg.de
Mayor : Bernd Fuhrmann ( independent )
Location of the city of Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
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Bad Berleburg , until 1971 Berleburg , is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .

geography

Geographical location

Bad Berleburg is the largest city in terms of area in the northeast of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in the middle of the Rothaargebirge . The mouth of the Odeborn and the Eder is located near the city center . The border in the west is also the border with the Olpe district . The Hochsauerlandkreis (HSK) joins in the north , the eastern border forms the state border with the state of Hesse . The town of Bad Laasphe borders in the south and the municipality of Erndtebrück in the south-west.

The town of Winterberg , known from winter sports , is about 23 kilometers away and is an ideal destination for excursions in both winter and summer. Formerly the height villages were Langewiese , Neuastenberg , Mollseifen and Hoheleye with the Office Berleburg whose places otherwise the Sauerland Paderborn-law largely went in November 1974 to the town of Bad Berleburg. They have been part of Winterberg ever since and are located in the Hochsauerland district .

The lowest point of the urban area is the outflow of the Eder near Beddelhausen at about 353.8  m above sea level. NHN in the southeast, while the highest point with 789  m is on the western slope of Ziegenhelle and Wallershöhe in the extreme northeast. The highest peak is that of the 771.2  m high Albrechtsberg on the Rothaarkamm in the north, which is only half-way into the city and the district.

City structure

City structure

The core town of Bad Berleburg is elongated to the right and left on the slopes of the Odeborn valley, a tributary of the Eder. In the valley are the train station, the Poststrasse shopping street and the market square. The upper town is characterized by mostly well-preserved slate-roofed half-timbered houses and is dominated by the castle with courtyard and orangery. Also in the upper town is the Protestant town church and Goetheplatz, around which a number of gastronomic establishments gather. The core city has about 7000 inhabitants.

The total of 22 nominal suburbs are very different in size and structure. The two least populous parts of the city, the hamlets of Stünzel and Christianseck, each consist of two others in addition to the residential areas that give them their name. Rinthe and Hemschlar also do not have their own church and are part of the Raumland parish. Schüllar does not have its own church either, but there is a common one in Wemlighausen immediately adjacent.

The larger villages of Aue and Wingeshausen in the west share their infrastructure in many ways and also have a common village association. The assignment of some street lines to Wingeshausen ( main street : even house numbers over 50; in the must : house numbers up to 38 (even) and up to 31 (odd), in the field ) does not correspond to that expected by laypeople, but to the historical districts. Elsewhere, the nominal districts do not follow the district; The Garsbach residential area is located in the Elsoffer district, but belongs to Christianseck.

The following 23 districts belong to the city of Bad Berleburg:

District

 Height
above NHN		 River
place no.
 Area
[km²]
 Check-
residents		 EW
/ km²
 Sub-locations

 Location
in the city area
Alertshausen 437 Elsoff 3 4.61 259 56 extreme east
Arfeld 384 Eder 5 (, Leisebach 2 ) 12.57 811 65 Part places in Ahlen and Stedenhof southeast of the core city
Aue 431 Eder 1 (, Kappel 2 ) 10.86 851 78 Sub- location must (partly) west
Bad Berleburg 420 Odeborn 4 43.30 6950 161 Hamlet of Meckhausen Center and north-northwest
Beddelhausen 359 Eder 7 8.38 431 51 Hamlet Vorm Tiefenbach extreme southeast
Berghausen 423 Eder 2 17.81 1356 76 Weiler Trüfte and Sauseifen southwest of the core city
Christianseck 600 Mennerbach 1 6.01 93 15th Residential places Garsbach , Hainhof east
Diedenshausen 503 Elsoff 2 6.16 305 50 Teilort Seibel Bach extreme east-northeast
Dotzlar 437 Eder 4 6.34 773 122 Teilort leaves Roth , Weiler Meckhausen south-southeast of the core city
Elsoff 383 Elsoff 4 (, Mennerbach 2 ) 16.39 606 37 extreme east-southeast
Girkhausen 484 Odeborn 1 24.03 799 33 Hamlet / suburb Repprighausen extreme north-northeast
Hemschlar 470 Rinther Bach 3.78 300 79 Hamlet of Renfte South southwest
Space land 416 Eder 3 (, Odeborn 5 ) 5.56 1316 237 Markhausen suburb south-southwest of the core city
Richstein 438 Leisebach 1 14.61 364 25th various living spaces extreme southeast
Rinthe 484 near Altmühlbach 4.02 127 31 extreme south-southwest
Sassenhausen 550 5.97 232 39 south
Schullar 473 Odeborn 2 11.01 194 18th Höhenweiler Kühhude north-northeast of the core city
Schwarzenau 372 Eder 6 5.45 731 134 Partial town (Upper / Lower) Hüttenthal East-southeast
Stunzel 600 5.26 52 10 Drehbach and Sohl residential areas extreme south
Weidenhausen 523 4.95 421 85 south
Wemlighausen 447 Odeborn 3 (, Schwarzenau) 11.21 718 64 northeast of the core city
Wingeshausen 456 Kappel 1 32.67 1595 49 Partial places Bracht , part place Müsse (partly), hamlet Homberg extreme west northwest
Wunderthausen 532 Elsoff 1 14.37 519 36 Landebach hamlet extreme northeast

history

Quartzite spheres
Bad Berleburg - Excerpt from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian , 1655
Kaiser Wilhelm Monument

Early history and the Middle Ages

Excavation finds confirm the settlement of today's urban area as early as the 7th century BC. On the castle hills near Aue , Dotzlar and Wemlighausen, traces of ramparts from this time can be found. For the period up to the 8th century, however, there are no indications of settlement in the country.

The districts of Arfeld and Raumland are mentioned in a document as early as 800/802 AD. Documents from the year 1059 confirm the settlements of Alertshausen , Beddelhausen, Elsoff and Schwarzenau. The name Widechinstein was first mentioned in 1174 . The town of Berleburg is mentioned for the first time in 1258 in the documents of the Grafschaft monastery as Berneborg. On March 30, 1258, the castle passed to Count Siegfried I and the monastery bailiff Adolf I von Grafschaft . In 1322, the dual rule in Berleburg was ended by Widekind von Grafschaft when he renounced his rights to the city in favor of Siegfried II von Wittgenstein . When he died as the last of the Wittgenstein counts, his son-in-law Salentin von Sayn took over the inheritance and founded the Sayn-Wittgenstein family . Deserted areas are Madeshausen and Hadebirshausen, mentioned in 1395 .

Remains of the building are evidence of a medieval monastery Bubenkirche .

Early modern age

In 1488 and 1522 large fires raged in the city, which largely destroyed it.

In 1506 the county of Wittgenstein was divided and Count Johann moved into the old hunting lodge Berleburg and raised the small town connected to it to his residence. This marked the beginning of the city's special development that would shape it over the next few centuries. Although the new line of the Sayn-Wittgenstein family died out with Count Johann, but his nephew Count Ludwig the Elder. Ä. from the southern county, after taking over the general government and married in 1559, also moved his residence to the Berleburg and expanded the castle.

After the death of Count Ludwig the Elder in 1605, Berleburg developed into the capital and residence of the northern county of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , which was a center of the radical Pietist inspiration movement in Germany in the 18th century . Between 1726 and 1742 the well-known Berleburg Bible (comprising eight folio volumes ) was printed there.

The religious tolerance in the two Wittgenstein counties corresponded to an attitude of tolerance towards several families of Sinti, referred to as "heathens" in contemporary diction. They worked in the military and police service as well as construction workers for the Wittgenstein rulers and were able to settle on the count's estate near Saßmannshausen around the middle of the 18th century. Towards the end of the century some of them moved to the Berleburger suburb. Sinti and Yeniche families settled there in the 19th century, and increasingly since the reform of the Prussian settlement law, in the traditional poor district on Bach Lause as well as on Altengraben and in neighboring Hemschlar. The majority population and the authorities gave them the stigmatizing label "Gypsies" without distinction, and the settlement as a whole was referred to as a "Gypsy colony".

Modern times

In the area around Raumland and Dotzlar, slate was mined as early as the 16th century. In total there were around 40 mines in the area, of which the Hörre, Limburg and Delle mines are probably the best known. Ore mining was only found very rarely around Bad Berleburg compared to other neighboring areas. There were some smaller pits around Wingeshausen, Aue and Diedenshausen. Most speculations were made in the 19th century. However, some mining has already existed since the Middle Ages. Today only a few remaining heaps and tunnel mouth holes indicate the former mining activity .

Wittgenstein was subordinated to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 . As a result of the reorganization of the German Confederation , Wittgenstein fell to Prussia through a treaty between Austria, Prussia and Hesse-Darmstadt dated June 30, 1816 and, as a result of the royal cabinet order of February 23, 1817, was assigned to the administrative district of Arnsberg in the Prussian province of Westphalia and was the district town of Wittgenstein district .

In 1825 there was a devastating fire in the city, which caused a quarter of a million marks in damage. In Berleburg, Heinrich Matthey published the Wittgensteiner Kreisblatt in 1852, the first weekly newspaper produced in the Wittgenstein district .

With the construction of the Erndtebrück – Berleburg to Berleburg railway in 1911, industrialization began, initially limited to the timber industry. Other branches of industry were only added after the Second World War .

National Socialism

Since the Reichstag elections in 1930 , the Wittgenstein voters switched to the National Socialists in large numbers . With 35.1% of the votes for the NSDAP , the district townspeople took the lead in the new trend (Reich: 18.3%). In the 1932 presidential election , Hindenburg received 35.2% (Reich: 53%), Hitler 49.4% (Reich: 36.8%; the rest of Wittgenstein: 65.0%). The three Reichstag and Landtag elections in 1932 resulted in above-average absolute majorities of 53.8, 51.9 and 52.4% for the National Socialists (other Wittgenstein: 69.4, 65.5 and 67.4%).

The seizure of power by the allied legal forces (" Cabinet Hitler ") on January 30, 1933 was celebrated in the region down to the smallest village with a folk festival with torchlight procession, bonfires and festive events.

The Berleburger from the suburbs on the mountain (An der Lause) , who were defamed and discriminated against as "Gypsies", became a primary point of attack for the mayor and city administration . The main aim was to raise funds for an active social policy for the benefit of the majority population through expulsion and neglect of the “inferior”. Shortly after the transfer of power, the mayor sought to deport the minority to a monitored barrack camp “in a remote location on the Lüneburg Heath”. As with numerous subsequent measures, the local authority went far beyond the limits set by the higher authorities and the central government. Numerous municipal, central government, private sector bodies, church congregations and individuals carried out the policy of exclusion in a branched working group. It came u. a. local immigration, shopping and school bans, the temporary enclosure of the mountain (“siege”) and numerous, mostly unapproved, sterilization applications.

On December 16, 1942, the Auschwitz decree ordered "mixed gypsies (also called" Meckese "), Rom gypsies and non -German-blooded members of Gypsy clans of Balkan origin ... to be sent to a concentration camp". The implementing provisions took u. a. "Socially adapted" people who had been in "permanent work" before the start of the war and had a "permanent home", from what fully applied to the Berleburger. The decisive local selection conference ignored this. 134 people from the “Berg” and Altengraben, about half of them children, the youngest three months old, were deported to the “ Auschwitz Gypsy Camp ” on March 9, 1943 . Nine survived.

The abandoned houses were first plundered and devastated by members of the majority population , before the city administration and tax office systematically took the remaining equipment, used it for their own purposes or sold it.

In the course of the anti-Jewish measures since the transfer of power in 1935, a banner across from the train station read: “Jews are not welcome here.” When the Berleburg synagogue was devastated on November 9, 1938 during the pogrom night and the inventory on the market square was burned, they took part Beyond the party cadre, many Berleburgers, either as spectators or actively. Shop windows and apartment building windows were smashed, business and residential furnishings were demolished and looted. In the district there were riots at least in Schwarzenau and presumably also in Beddelhausen. The Jewish men were then deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Increasingly, Jewish Berleburger fled abroad and to the big cities. The property left behind went to the majority population and the state.

Of the 25 Berleburg residents who were deported to the Zamość ghetto (Poland) on April 28, 1942, to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 27, 1942, and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on February 27, 1943 , only one person survived. Ten of them were abducted from their places of escape. In September 1944, a transport of " Jewish people from mixed marriages" as well as of " first degree Jewish mixed bloods " went to various work camps of the Todt Organization ( Sonderkommando J ) for forced labor . In 1942 18 Schwarzenauers, 10 of them moved away in the meantime, 3 Arfelder, 4 Beddelhäuser and 7 Elsoffers who had now moved away, none of which survived. In 1944 a woman from Schwarzenau, who was married to a non-Jew, was deported to Berlin with her daughter for forced labor. They both survived. The deportations resulted in a further surge in redistribution.

Of the 3300 inhabitants at the beginning of the 1930s, around 8% were deported as "Gypsies", Jews, "anti-socials" or communists - the classifications overlapped - in the National Socialist concentration camps, which they predominantly (around 170 or 5% of the population) did not survive. Those who fell victim to the murders of the sick ( euthanasia ) should also be added . This makes Berleburg one of the German cities hardest hit by the Nazi extermination policy.

The only two criminal trials against those responsible for the Porajmos against the European Roma, which ended in convictions, dealt with events in Berleburg and actions by actors from Berleburg (1948/49, 1987–1991, both before the Siegen district court).

After phases of silence and controversy, there are now memorial stones for the two racially persecuted minorities. On June 18, 2007, the city council decided to have the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine ​​laid . The relocation began on September 2, 2008 as part of the celebration of the city's 750th anniversary.

Recent history

The city has been recognized as a climatic health resort since 1935 because of its mild to mild climate . After 1949 the Wittgenstein Clinic was built as a psychosomatic hospital, which is still under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Johanneswerk .

With the state recognition as a Kneipp health resort, the name addition Bad was given on July 1, 1971 and since then the name has been Bad Berleburg . State recognition as a spa took place in 1974.

In November 2013, emergency accommodation for around 300 refugees was set up in the former Rothaarklinik am Spielacker. In August 2014 the capacity was increased to 450 refugees. In May 2015, the emergency accommodation for refugees in the former clinic was converted into an initial reception facility ( central accommodation facility ) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for around 500 refugees. At the beginning of 2019 this was closed due to problems with the security service.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1975, the Sauerland / Paderborn law dissolved the surrounding Berleburg office and mostly came to the city of Bad Berleburg. It was created through the incorporation of the previous communities Alertshausen, Arfeld, Aue, Beddelhausen, Berghausen, Diedenshausen, Dotzlar, Elsoff, Girkhausen (mostly), Hemschlar, Raumland, Richstein, Rinthe, Sassenhausen, Schüllar, Schwarzenau, Stünzel (mostly), Weidenhausen, Wemlighausen, Wingeshausen and Wunderthausen one of the largest cities in North Rhine-Westphalia . The villages of Hoheleye , Langewiese , Mollseifen and Neuastenberg were allocated to the newly founded Hochsauerlandkreis . Since then they have been districts of Winterberg . The localities Balde, Birkelbach (Erndtebrück) , Birkefehl, Leimstruth and Womelsdorf came to the municipality of Erndtebrück . At the same time, the Wittgenstein district was merged with the previous Siegen district to form the new Siegen district. On January 1, 1984, the district of Siegen was renamed the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .

Population development

Population development by area

(Bad) Berleburg according to the territorial status at that time

year Residents source
1961 (June 6) 6351
1970 (May 27) 7118
1974 (June 30) 6969

Bad Berleburg according to today's territorial status

year Residents
1961 (June 6) 19,373
1970 (May 27) 20,874
1974 (June 30) 20,649
1998 (Dec. 31) 21,177
1999 (Dec. 31) 21,190
2000 (Dec. 31) 21,219
2001 (Dec. 31) 21,135
2002 (Dec. 31) 21,022
2003 (Dec. 31) 20,884
2004 (Dec. 31) 20,794
2005 (Dec. 31) 20,986
2006 (Dec. 31) 20,440
year Residents
2009 (Dec. 31) 19,993
2010 (December 31) 19,929
2011 (Dec. 31) 19,606
2012 (Dec. 31) 19,781

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 59.1% (2004: 60.4%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
41.9%
41.6%
5.5%
2.6%
5.4%
3.0%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.2  % p
+ 3.6  % p.p.
-3.4  % p
-4.4  % p
+1.4  % p
+ 3.0  % p

City council

The 32 seats of the city council were distributed in the local elections on May 25, 2014 as follows:

Election year CDU SPD UWG FDP GREEN left total
2014 13 13 2 1 2 1 32
2009 15th 13 3 2 1 - 34
2004 16 17th 3 1 1 - 38
Well figure with coat of arms

coat of arms

Blazon: Divided and split above; in front in red a left-turning, double-tailed, facing, blue armored, golden lion, behind in silver two black stakes; below in silver a black bear with red armor running to the left.

The lion is the heraldic animal of the Sayn family . The bear represents the hunt. The black posts in silver are taken from the Wittgenstein family coat of arms .

Town twinning

Fredensborg on the island of Zealand in Denmark since 1975 (then Fredensborg-Humlebæk ) twin town of Bad Berleburg. In addition, there has been a friendship between the cities of the Danish municipality of Aarup since 1982 .

Culture and sights

Bad Berleburg City Museum

Museums

In Hüttental there is a settlement above the village of Schwarzenau , the Alexander Mack Museum, which documents the history of radical Pietism in the region at the beginning of the 18th century. The house is named after the founder of the Schwarzenau Brethren, Alexander Mack . Other museums include the Arfeld Blacksmith Museum, Heimathaus Diedenshausen, the Drehkoite Girkhausen, the Raumland slate mine and the Hof Espe Museum.

Natural monuments

Berleburg Castle

Buildings

  • Berleburg Castle , a complex with a baroque main house from 1733 with a castle museum on the history of the Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
  • Sassenhausen school chapel: The half-timbered house built in 1703 by Mannus Riedesel was used as a chapel and as a school building.
  • Ludwigsburg : The former residential building, also built by Mannus Riedesel , on a side line of the Wittgenstein Counts, has rich decorations on the cornices and corner beams.
  • The listed Evangelical Church

Bad Berleburg is home to a total of 104 monuments .

Stumbling blocks

Of the more than 46,000 Stolpersteins laid worldwide , 46 are in Bad Berleburg .

Regular events

  • Wool market on the first Sunday in May
  • Stünzelfest , district animal show with a fair on the second Saturday in June
  • Wood market every even year on the second weekend in September
  • Thanksgiving Day on the first Sunday in October
  • Christmas market in Diedenshausen on the first Saturday of Advent
  • Christmas market in Arfeld on the first Saturday in December
  • Christmas market Bad Berleburg on the third weekend in Advent ( Bad Berleburg Christmas Time Travel )
  • Various shooting festivals take place in almost all districts between June and September every year

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Bad Berleburg station, end of line (2016)

The urban area is crossed from north to south by the federal highway 480 , which connects Bad Berleburg with Winterberg in the north and Erndtebrück in the south-west.

From the south, the Erndtebrück – Bad Berleburg railway reaches the city and ends there. Until May 29, 1981 there was a connection from Bad Berleburg to Allendorf and Frankenberg by the Upper Edertal Railway and the Nuttlar – Frankenberg railway . The architect of the station building, which was built in the homeland security style, was government builder Alois Holtmeyer . A rail connection to Winterberg was also planned, but this could not be realized due to the high cost.

In May 2016, the local passenger transport association Westphalia-Süd announced that it would set up three new night bus routes in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district by December 31, 2016 as a trial offer. Two of the lines crossed the city. The busses in the trial offer ran from Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday between Siegen and Bad Berleburg via Netphen and Erndtebrück and between Bad Berleburg and Bad Laasphe . The offer was discontinued due to a lack of demand.

Long-distance cycle routes

The following cycle paths lead along the Eder :

Orange bike route
  • A cycle path on the Orange Route connects the cities of Diez, Nassau, Braunfels, Dillenburg, Siegen and Bad Arolsen, which have been closely linked to the royal family of the Netherlands for many centuries, over around 400 kilometers.

Industry, trade, service

Industrial and commercial areas are available in the intermunicipal industrial park Wittgenstein in Erndtebrück - Schameder .

Significant active companies

  • Wittgensteiner Kuranstalt
In 1951, a Kneipp spa association was founded on a private initiative , which was the forerunner of the Wittgensteiner Kuranstalt (WKA). In the first year of the opening of the Kneipp cure operation by WKA in 1953, 11,000 overnight stays were counted. Gradually, Berleburg became a major Kneipp health resort in Germany. The rehabilitation clinics in the fields of psychosomatics , orthopedics and neurology that exist in Bad Berleburg today belonged to the Helios Kliniken GmbH group and are part of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA . The cardiovascular clinic was closed at the end of 2011. In October 2012, the Rothaarklinik's psychosomatic department moved to its building at Arnikaweg 1. The acute medical former district hospital now operated under the name HELIOS-Klinik. In 2018, all Helios clinics in Bad Berleburg went to the VAMED Group.
  • Berleburger Schaumstoffwerke BSW
An international plastics processing company. The blue sports flooring on which Usain Bolt set the 100 m world record has become famous.
The medium-sized group of companies, an international company in the field of connection technology, has its headquarters in Bad Berleburg.
Internationally known percussion instrument manufacturer
Sparkasse for the cities of Bad Berleburg, Bad Laasphe and Erndtebrück

Construction projects

The Krug fashion store had a new building built by 2005, which in addition to the Intersport Begro sports store, houses a Rossmann branch, KiK and Deichmann . In 2006, the Rothaarbad in Bad Berleburg was reopened after 4 years of extensive modernization and renovation. In the same year the new supermarket HIT opened . McDonald’s has been operating a branch in the city center since July 2008, adjacent to the station area. An investor who has acquired the site of the Schlabach printing and paper shop in the city center, which has already been demolished, is building a new ALDI store. A new residential area is being built on Sengelsberg. The central bus station in Bad Berleburg was modernized in 2008 for around 417,000 euros. In August 2008, the hotel "Alte Schule" opened in the former youth hostel on Goetheplatz, based on its original use. In 2011, the demolition and new construction of the local REWE supermarket began and the premises in a central location were also expanded to include a building for a branch of the drugstore chain dm .

media

The Westfalenpost and the Siegener Zeitung appear in Bad Berleburg with local editions for the Wittgenstein cities of Bad Berleburg and Bad Laasphe as well as the municipality of Erndtebrück. The newspaper with the highest circulation in Wittgenstein is the Westfalenpost. The Westfälische Rundschau also appeared with its own local edition for Wittgenstein by March 14, 2009, which was discontinued with the ongoing restructuring of the WAZ media group in Essen . Since the editorial deadline, subscribers and readers of the Westfälische Rundschau have been supplied with the Wittgenstein local section of the Westfalenpost.

Public facilities

With the district court of Bad Berleburg , the city is the seat of the district court responsible for Bad Laasphe and Erndtebrück .

education

  • Elementary schools
    • Burgfeldschule Bad Berleburg
    • Schüllar-Wemlighausen primary school
    • Berghausen primary school
    • Elementary school Dotzlar
    • Aue-Wingeshausen primary school
    • Elsoff primary school
    • Wunderthausen primary school
  • Secondary schools
    • Ludwig-zu-Sayn-Wittgenstein-School Bad Berleburg
  • Realschulen
    • Municipal secondary school Bad Berleburg
  • High schools
    • Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium Bad Berleburg (founded around 1925)
  • Vocational colleges

Other projects

In March 2010 the nature and species protection project " Wisente im Rothaargebirge " was started. According to this, "for the first time in 850 years, bisons run free through a German forest". The project is trying to reintroduce the animal species, which was almost extinct in 1926, in the wild. The upper limit of 25 animals is set as the target population. In September 2014 there was an incident in which a “bison ranger” was injured by being kicked in the face by a bison.

Telephone prefixes

Mainly the area code 02751 applies in the city. The other area codes in the city area are:

  • 02750 for Alertshausen, Christianseck, Diedenshausen, Garsbach and Wunderthausen
  • 02755 for Arfeld, Beddelhausen, Elsoff, Richstein and Schwarzenau,
  • 02758 for Girkhausen
  • 02759 for Aue and Wingeshausen

Personalities

Until the 18th century

19th century

20th century

Remarks

  1. ↑ 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 )
  2. ↑ a b c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
  3. ↑ The affiliations of individual residential areas and streets with the nominal city districts can be checked using the map service of the geodata center. Entering <Straße>, 57319 Bad Berleburg leads to the identification of the district.
  4. ↑ The districts are numbered downstream
  5. ↑ Extract from the real estate cadastre , as of 2006
  6. ↑ Main residences by district (total 19,703), as of December 31, 2017 (PDF; 16 kB)
  7. ↑ (without street to Ederblick )
  8. ↑ (only street Zum Ederblick )
  9. ^ Günther Wrede: Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein. NG Elwertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1927, p. 131.
  10. ↑ Hans Wied: Berleburg and his citizens in the oldest pension bills from the first half of the 16th century. In: Wittgenstein Vol. 62 (1998), H. 3, P. 91-104.
  11. ↑ Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann , "That they take off the gypsy habit". The history of the "Gypsy colonies" between Wittgenstein and Westerwald, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1997, 2nd, supplemented edition; ders., "Be no goat tuna, but imperial cornet". Sinti in the 17th and 18th centuries. An investigation based on archival sources, Berlin 2007
  12. ↑ Hörre mining area nature reserve
  13. ^ Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann, Siegerland and Wittgenstein under National Socialism. People, data, literature. A handbook on regional contemporary history (Siegener contributions, special volume 2001), Siegen 2001, 2nd edition, p. 173ff.
  14. ↑ See e.g. B. Bernd Geier (Ed.), Sassenhausen, o. O. 2001, pp. 144f .; Heimatverein Puderbach (ed.), Puderbach. Houses, people, fates, Puderbach 2003, p. 60.
  15. ↑ On the following: Michael Zimmermann , Rassenutopie und Genozid. The National Socialist "Solution to the Gypsy Question", Hamburg, 1996, passim; Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann, Gypsy persecution, expropriation, redistribution. The example of the Wittgenstein district town of Berleburg, in: Kenkmann, Alfons / Bernd-A. Rusinek (Ed.), Persecution and Administration. The economic plunder of the Jews and the Westphalian tax authorities, Münster 1999, pp. 67–86; ders., The registration of Gypsies in National Socialism: Responsibility in a German region [Berleburg, Morsbach, Siegen], in: Romani Studies (continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society), 5th Series, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2001), pp. 25-52
  16. ↑ Michael Zimmermann, Racial Utopia and Genocide. The National Socialist "Solution to the Gypsy Question", Hamburg 1996, p. 306
  17. ↑ Ulrich F. Opfermann, "Keystone behind the years of morality and legal confusion". The Berleburger Zigeuner-Prozess, in: Antiziganismuskritik, 2 (2010), no. 2, pp. 16–34, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.antiziganismus.de%2Fresources%2F2010_2_Antiziganismuskritik.pdf~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D
  18. ↑ a b c d Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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. 337 .
  19. ↑ Former clinic at Spielacker shelter for asylum seekers in Bad Berleburg. City of Bad Berleburg, accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  20. ^ Refugee camp Rothaarklinik Bad Berleburg. (No longer available online.) DRK Bad Berleburg, archived from the original on February 11, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  21. ↑ The capacities are increased. Siegener Zeitung, August 28, 2014, accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  22. ^ District: central accommodation. Siegener Zeitung, February 13, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  23. ^ WORLD: Bad Berleburg: Refugee accommodation cleared due to security service . March 9, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed July 8, 2019]).
  24. ↑ 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. 138 .
  25. ↑ http://www.wahlresults.nrw.de/kommunalwahlen/2014/aktuell/c970004kw1400.html The State Returning Officer NRW, municipal elections 2014, final result for Bad Berleburg
  26. ↑ Museums. City of Bad Berleburg, accessed on April 13, 2011 .
  27. ↑ derwesten.de, Constant remembrance through stumbling blocks , as of September 12, 2015
  28. ↑ Bus N7-N9: Night bus trial offer for Wittgenstein and Neunkirchen - Burbach. (No longer available online.) In: zws-online.de. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016 ; Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Test failed: express bus in Wittgenstein is discontinued. In: Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Archived from the original on October 14, 2017 ; Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  30. ^ Report from Westfalenpost, viewed at www.derwesten.de March 25, 2010
  31. ^ Report from Westfalenpost, viewed at www.derwesten.de on September 30, 2014

literature

  • Johann Georg Hinsberg: Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Vols. I, IV and V, Berleburg 1920–1925.
  • Johann Georg Hinsberg: History of the Berleburg parish up to the reign of Count Casimir (18th century) . Introduced, edited and commented on by Johannes Burkardt and Ulf Lückel, Bad Berleburg 1999.
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  • LG Siegen, March 4, 1949 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicides 1945–1966, Vol. IV, edited by Adelheid L Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1970, No. 124, pp. 157–189 Trial of six defendants for crimes against humanity : Deportation of 134 gypsies from the Berleburg gypsy colony to KL Auschwitz, where most of them were killed
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