Bad Wünnenberg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ' N , 8 ° 42' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Paderborn | |
| Height : | 334 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 161.3 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 12,152 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 75 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 33181 | |
| Primaries : | 02953, 02957 | |
| License plate : | PB, BÜR | |
| Community key : | 05 7 74 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WUG | |
| City structure: | 7 districts | |
City administration address : |
Poststrasse 15 33181 Bad Wünnenberg |
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| Mayor : | Christoph Rüther ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Bad Wünnenberg in the Paderborn district | ||
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Bad Wünnenberg is a small town , climatic health resort and Kneipp health resort in North Rhine-Westphalia , which is located in the south of East Westphalia-Lippe (OWL) and belongs to the Paderborn district. Bad Wünnenberg is the only Kneipp spa in OWL. Parts of the urban area already belong to the Sauerland .
geography
Geographical location
The city is located in the south of the Paderborn district and is surrounded by the cities of Büren, Lichtenau, Salzkotten (all in the Paderborn district) and Brilon and Marsberg (both Hochsauerlandkreis). In terms of landscape, most of the urban area belongs to the Paderborn plateau and thus to the Westphalian Bay , while the southern edge belongs to the Alme-Afte-Bergland and thus to the Sauerland. The urban area increases in layers towards the south. The district of lead laundry is 447 m above sea level. NN the highest place in the Paderborn district and the Detmold administrative district . The highest point of the Detmold administrative district is also located in the urban area. It is the northern slope of the Totenkopf, southeast of the Aabach dam with a height of 498 m above sea level. NN On the Sintfeld , in which Bad Wünnenberg has a share in the northern part of the city, Charlemagne fought one of his battles.
geology
In the urban area there are layers of the ancient world , especially from Devonian and Carboniferous , from the Cretaceous and to a lesser extent from the Quaternary on the earth's surface. The oldest rocks, mass limestone from the Devonian, formed around 370 million years ago by reef-building organisms, lie southwest of the lead wash. In the valleys of Afte , Aa and Karpe, the subsoil consists of clay , silt and sandstone from the Upper Carboniferous . In the north of the urban area, the carbon layers are covered by chalk rock . The border between chalk and carbon rock also forms the transition from the Paderborn plateau to the Sauerland, which means that the southern urban area naturally belongs to the Sauerland. Ice Age deposits are rarely found .
While the limestone and marl stones of the Mesozoic era are good aquifers, the underlying carboniferous rocks conduct the groundwater very little. The rainwater sinks quickly into the karstified limestone of the Sintfeld, i.e. the southern part of the Paderborn plateau. As soon as the water reaches the layers of carbon, it backs up and flows to karst springs in Salzkotten- Upsprunge and Borchen .
Where the interface between the carbon and chalk rocks is undercut, a multitude of springs emerge on the slopes that were previously used for drinking water supply. Since the surface water is only slightly filtered by the soil due to karstification, problems have arisen in particular with the nitrate pollution caused by agriculture . In addition, the sources are not always productive. Since 1983, most of the city's drinking water has therefore been taken from the Aabach reservoir . An exception is lead washing, which hydrogeologically belongs to the Brilon mass limestone and is supplied with karst groundwater from the Weisse Frau waterworks in Brilon - Alme .
The raw material deposits in the urban area have almost no economic significance any more. In the past, the lower Cretaceous sandstones and the quarry stones of the Upper Cretaceous were used to build houses and barns. In a large quarry south of lead washing, high-quality bulk lime is extracted from the Devonian for gravel production. Non-ferrous metal ore and barite are also mined in the lead wash room .
According to the fact that the transition between the Paderborn plateau and the Sauerland takes place in the urban area, there are two different soil societies . In the northern part up to a line from Wünnenberg to Marsberg - Essentho , which is mainly used for agriculture, there are essentially medium-sized brown soils . Shallow , stony rendzines occur particularly on steep slopes and at high altitudes , which are even more at risk of drought than the neighboring brown earths. Thick loess layers have formed in protected areas, from which parabrown earths have developed, which can store a great deal of water. In the dry valleys , a large number of colluvia from eroded humus soil material has arisen. The northern part of the urban area is mainly used for agriculture.
In the southern part of the city area, brown soils have also developed, but here they are medium to deep and poor in bases . They tend to become waterlogged and turn into pseudogleye in the depressions and headwaters of streams . The river valleys of Alme and Afte are of gley soils of clay covered. There are local small fens . The southern part is mainly forested.
Bad Wünnenberg is moderately suitable in the central part of the urban area, otherwise good to very good for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating . Isolated locations are not suitable (see the adjacent map).
Expansion and use of the municipal area
The community, classified as a "large rural community", covers an area of 161.04 km². The largest share of the area is forest and agricultural area with a total of approx. 89.9%, settlement and traffic areas cover a further 8.2%. The largest extension in north-south direction is approx. 19 km, in east-west direction approx. 16.6 km. The Bad Wünnenberg / Büren recreational area association is active for the city .
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Agricultural area |
Forest area |
Building, open and operational space |
Traffic area |
Surface of water |
Sports and green space |
other use |
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| Area in km² | 76.69 | 68.14 | 5.32 | 7.94 | 1.78 | 0.80 | 0.45 |
| Share of total area | 47.60% | 42.29% | 3.30% | 4.93% | 1.10% | 0.50% | 0.28% |
Neighboring communities
The city of Bad Wünnenberg is bordered clockwise, starting in the north, by the city of Salzkotten , the municipality of Borchen , the city of Lichtenau (all Paderborn district), the cities of Marsberg and Brilon ( Hochsauerlandkreis ) and the city of Büren (Paderborn district).
City structure
According to Section 3 (1) of its main statutes, the city of Bad Wünnenberg is divided into the following seven localities:
| Locality | Residents * | Area in km² ** |
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| Lead wash | 862 | 9.20 |
| Elisenhof | 109 | 4.25 |
| Furstenberg | 2,677 | 58.90 |
| Hair | 2,525 | 32.96 |
| Helmets | 870 | 12.49 |
| Leiberg | 1,568 | 16.02 |
| Bad Wünnenberg | 3,749 | 27.18 |
| total | 12,360 | 161.00 |
climate
Bad Wünnenberg belongs to the moderate climate zone of Central Europe and lies in the area of the subatlantic maritime climate . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic and the summers are moderately warm. The annual mean temperature is around 7–8 ° C.
Due to the location in the sub-Atlantic maritime climate, a humid climate prevails all year round with relatively evenly distributed rainfall. Overall, the Eilern measuring station has a long-term average of around 795 mm of precipitation per year.
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Bad Wünnenberg climate (334 m); Temperature Brilon (450 m) 1
Source: German Weather Service
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1 Temperature data for Brilon, about 19 km away, are only partially comparable, as Brilon is significantly higher. The information is given due to the lack of own values for Bad Wünnenberg.
For the climate in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region, to which the city belongs, see also the article Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe .
history
| Capitals and cities of the Principality of Paderborn until 1802/03 (as of 1789): |
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| Paderborn , Warburg , Brakel , Borgentreich | Beverungen , Borgholz , Bredenborn , Büren , Driburg , Dringenberg , Gehrden , Calenberg , Kleinenberg , Lichtenau , Lippspringe , Lügde , Nieheim , Peckelsheim , Salzkotten , Steinheim , Vörden , Willebadessen , Wünnenberg |
Since the early Middle Ages there have been numerous settlements in what will later be the city area, some of them in the context of the city's foundation, others not until the 14th and 5th centuries Century.
City foundation and the late Middle Ages
The city of Wünnenberg was founded at the beginning of the 14th century after the noblemen of Büren had built a castle on the Wünnenberg, which probably means Weideberg . This castle was built in the middle of several existing, closely spaced villages called Eddinghausen , Oberbliksen , Niederbliksen , Immighausen and Zinsdorf . Some residents even moved closer to the castle to live under its protection, although the way to their fields was now further. It was the time of feuds , bitter small wars between rival parties, to which many innocent people fell victim. Within a short time an unusually large village emerged, which was elevated to a town in 1306 by the nobleman Walrave von Büren . The new town received the new town charter transferred by Büren and the residents became free citizens. They fortified the city and surrounded it with a wall and a moat. The only city gate was called Pote . Around 1313, the Eddinghausen parish moved to Wünnenberg, making the city a parish. The then sovereign Bishop Bernhard V of Paderborn built Vorstenborg Castle on a nearby mountain in 1325 , around which the later town of Fürstenberg was formed.
In the summer of 1348 Wünnenberg was hit by a previously unknown disease coming from Italy , the plague . A quarter of the population died within a short time and Pope Clement V mourned 42 million victims in Europe. How many dead there were in Wünnenberg is unknown. The disease was transmitted by rat fleas, so that with the hygienic conditions at that time there were repeated plague epidemics, as in the years 1356, 1360–1363, 1371–1374 and 1420. The noblemen of Büren came in around the middle of the 14th century Difficulties and sold the city of Wünnenberg with all rights to Bishop Balduin of Paderborn . He pledged his new property to various noble families until it was finally taken over by the Lords of Westphalia in 1379 . They belonged to the most powerful families in the country and kept the pledge in their possession for 277 years.
Friedrich Deys was born in Wünnenberg in 1365 . After studying law in Prague , he was considered an excellent lawyer, later worked for the Catholic Church in Corvey, Paderborn, Bremen, Pisa and Konstanz and finally became Bishop of Lavant in Austria and Chiemsee. He died in 1429.
Wars and other disasters
In 1391 the Bengler feud began between the Paderborn bishop and the landed gentry, who had formed the Bengler Knight League under the leadership of Friedrich vom Alten Haus Padberg . The lords of Wünnenberg stood on the side of the bishop. Many places and churches were looted and burned down. At the end of the war in 1394, only Wünnenberg was halfway unscathed and was able to take in numerous refugees while the surrounding country was devastated.
In the 15th century, Wünnenberg was repeatedly hit by disasters. In 1430 there was a conflagration, which had a devastating effect due to the dense development and the thatched roofs. Almost half of all houses burned down. In 1453 another war broke out with the monastery feud , in the course of which the city was besieged but not taken. In 1446 the Lords of Westphalen founded the village of Fürstenberg, other places such as Haaren and Helmern were rebuilt, and Wünnenberg had neighbors again.
In the 16th century, too, people suffered from wars, famines, conflagrations and epidemics of the plague. The worst fire occurred in 1564, four days before Christmas, in which 64 houses were destroyed. The problem was still the narrow buildings, the thatched roofs and the lack of water.
Reformation, Thirty Years War and witch hunt
At the beginning of the 17th century, rumors about the new faith, the Reformation, also reached Wünnenberg. The believers were deeply insecure and in neighboring countries often had to accept the confession of their sovereign. In Wünnenberg, however, the population remained Catholic. After the outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) Christian von Braunschweig conquered the Paderborn Monastery in 1621; Wünnenberg was also occupied and looted by his troops. In 1635 another plague epidemic broke out. There were so many deaths that the local cemetery could no longer accommodate them and a special plague cemetery had to be created. Around 400 plague deaths were buried here. During the war, the Paderborn region was probably the most affected area in Westphalia. The city of Paderborn alone has been conquered or besieged sixteen times. The number of inhabitants in the prince-bishopric fell by a third. Superstition and witchcraft reached a new high point.
In the 16th century the witchcraft had spread in Europe . The Hexenhammer , a compendium by the Dominican Heinrich Institoris, served as a guide for the persecution of witches and wizards . Defending oneself against charges of witchcraft was nearly impossible; because under the embarrassing questioning or torture, nearly every defendant confessed. Everyone at this time, but mostly women, was in danger of being persecuted and charged with witchcraft or sorcery. Usually an accusation, the gaping from the neighborhood or from relatives and acquaintances, was enough . Even more serious, however, was the testimony blackmailed under the torture about those who knew about it, the so-called testimony of a convicted witch. The accused witches and wizards usually faced torture and death by burning. There were also a large number of public witch burnings in Wünnenberg and the surrounding area.
Under the rule of the prince-bishop
After two years of sometimes difficult negotiations between the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, Ferdinand von Fürstenberg , and the Lords of Westphalen, the contract was signed in 1656. With that Wünnenberg came under the rule of the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn. On March 16, 1677, Wünnenberg was almost completely destroyed again by fire. Before the reconstruction began, the bishop hired a surveyor to do the planning. The plan of the new city showed straight streets and a more spacious development, which, however, was limited by the city wall. In 1678 and 1679 the town was rebuilt, a new church was consecrated and the bishop donated an organ to the community. The taxes to be paid were called an appraisal , each resident was estimated and entered in a treasury book according to which he had to pay his taxes. Such treasure books have survived to this day.
On December 7, 1725, the city was cremated again. This time only the church and the granary remained intact. After this conflagration, the sovereign decided that only 60 families were allowed to rebuild their houses within the walls in the upper town , while all the others outside had to move to the so-called Bruch in the lower town . Wide streets crossing at right angles were laid out. In order to counter the risk of fire, sufficient distance had to be maintained between the houses. Later, however, new buildings were repeatedly built in the open spaces, so that soon many houses were once again standing wall to wall. In the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) Wünnenberg and the surrounding towns suffered from billeting foreign soldiers. 250 Hessian soldiers and 1,100 men from Saxony-Gotha came to the houses of Wünnenberg alone , who had to be supplied with additional food and aggravated the prevailing plight of the residents. In 1759 the city was occupied by the French. The country was on the side of the French and the Emperor , but was used by the French and their allies as a food and recruitment area, as a winter camp and also as a battlefield, such as in the Battle of Warburg . The war bleeding out the prince-bishopric and brought much misery for the population.
By the Paris Treaty of 1802, the Prince Diocese of Paderborn was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of secularization . The prince-bishop lost his secular office as prince and was accepted into Würzburg . On August 1, 1802, Prussian troops under General von L'Estocq occupied the territory and on February 25, 1803, Wünnenberg became Prussian.
Napoleon and Prussia
In the course of the French expansion policy, the Napoleonic troops took the city of Paderborn without a fight in 1806. From 1807 to 1813 Paderborn belonged to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia under King Jérôme Bonaparte . The new gentlemen named Wünnenberg the canton capital. At Napoleon's Russian campaign 12 Wünnenberger participated, none of whom returned. After Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, Wünnenberg became Prussian again and lost its city rights. The seat of the official administration was moved to Fürstenberg.
The Prussians introduced a number of innovations, for example the land register with the original cadastre , according to which the annual taxes and duties were calculated. The school system was in a bad state. The first step was the construction of a new school house, because the makeshift rooms in the teacher's official apartment or in farmhouses were no longer tolerated. On April 14, 1819, the new school was inaugurated. Road construction was also promoted. From 1831 to 1859 the new district road from Büren to Marsberg was built , followed by the road from Paderborn to Brilon and both led via Wünnenberg. For the first time in history, this new street was to connect the lower and upper town with a single carriageway. In 1889 a water pipe made of iron pipes was laid. At first, the water only flowed into a container called a kump . Two years later there were the first house connections, in 1904 all Wünnenbergers had a connection and the dragging of water on the yoke came to an end.
First World War and Weimar Republic
During the First World War (1914–1918) over a hundred soldiers from Wünnenberg were killed. The news of the death brought horror and sadness to families. Women, children and young people tried to replace the men’s lack of labor. The farmers had to deliver grain, sugar, vegetables and fruit to the metropolitan areas. Bells, organ pipes and other metal objects were melted down for war material.
On August 9, 1919, the first electrical lines were completed and brought electrical light into the living rooms.
Religions
Due to its affiliation to the former Paderborn Monastery, the majority of the population in Bad Wünnenberg is traditionally Catholic . The denominational affiliation of the students in Bad Wünnenberg can be an indication of the distribution of religions. According to this, in the school year 2006/2007 15.7% of the students stated Protestant, 75.6% Catholic and 0.8% Islamic as religious affiliation. 2.2% said they belonged to another religion and 5.7% had no denomination.
In Bad Wünnenberg there are six Catholic parishes that belong to the Wünnenberg Pastoral Association in the Büren-Delbrück Dean's Office. In particular these are St. Anthony of Padua , St. Agatha , St. Marien , St. Vitus , St. Apollonia and St. Agatha . The Fürstenberg Evangelical Church is located in the village of Fürstenberg, and the Evangelical Immanuel Church also belongs to its congregation . Until the Second World War there were also smaller Jewish communities, of which only the cemeteries in Haaren and Wünnenberg remind us today.
Incorporations
When the Sauerland / Paderborn Act came into force on January 1, 1975, the four municipalities of Bleiwash, Fürstenberg, Leiberg and Wünnenberg of the Wünnenberg office were merged with the three municipalities of Elisenhof, Haaren and Helmern of the Atteln office to form the new city of Wünnenberg. Parts of the communities of Meerhof and Dalheim were also assigned to the urban area. The legal successor to the Wünnenberg office and the seven municipalities mentioned is the new town of Wünnenberg, which has been called Bad Wünnenberg since January 1, 2000 . The Büren district , to which all the above-mentioned municipalities belonged up to this point in time, was also dissolved with the same law and assigned to the new Paderborn district. As part of the reorganization, the following priorities for the largest locations in the new urban area were contractually stipulated:
- Fürstenberg: Schools and Administration
- Hair: economy
- Wünnenberg: health resort
Population development
As of 1975, the figures are official updates from the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia, Statistics Division . The figures from 1975 to 1985 are estimated values, the figure for 1987 is a census result and the figures from 1990 onwards are based on the results of this census. The information relates to the resident population up to and including 1984 and from 1985 to the population at the place of the main residence .
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politics
City council
The city council currently has 32 seats. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the local election results since 1975:
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| Political party | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % |
| CDU | 19th | 59.33 | 19th | 58.89 | 22nd | 70.28 | 22nd | 69.79 | 20th | 59.69 | 19th | 56.76 | 25th | 74.30 | 27 | 78.91 | 27 | 78.10 |
| SPD | 11 | 34.30 | 9 | 27.28 | 8th | 23.55 | 9 | 28.45 | 11 | 32.54 | 11 | 31.46 | 6th | 17.44 | 6th | 18.17 | 6th | 16.77 |
| FDP | 2 | 6.36 | 4th | 13.83 | 2 | 6.17 | 1 | 1.76 | 1 | 5.04 | 3 | 11.08 | 2 | 8.26 | 0 | 2.93 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Individual applicants | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2.46 | 0 | 0.69 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2.13 |
| Total 1 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 |
| voter turnout | 54.21% | 56.33% | 60.52% | 63.88% | 84.15% | 72.80% | 71.88% | 74.96% | 91.39% | |||||||||
1 without taking into account rounding differences
mayor
Mayor of the city is Christoph Rüther ( CDU ). He was elected on September 13, 2015 with 76.72% of the valid votes, after his predecessor, Mayor Winfried Menne, retired after 26 years as city director and mayor. The first mayor after the municipal reform in 1975 was the farmer Fritz Dören (deceased) from Leiberg, who was also appointed honorary mayor.
coat of arms
With a certificate from the District President dated January 16, 1976, the city was granted the right to use a coat of arms. It corresponds to the former official coat of arms.
- Blazon
- In red a golden (yellow) continuous cross, in each of the four corners above two upright silver (white) oak leaves, each below with two upright silver (white) ears of wheat. A red diamond chevron in the silver (white) shield base.
The cross on a red background shows that it belongs to the Paderborn Monastery . The diamond rafter comes from the coat of arms of the lords of Büren, who ruled the Bürener Land until the 17th century . The four oak leaves indicate the wealth of forests in the city, the four ears of corn indicate the fertile fields in the Sintfeld. These symbols can also be found in the former local coats of arms of Bleireinigung, Elisenhof, Fürstenberg and Leiberg.
Before the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1965, the city of Wünnenberg had a coat of arms that was awarded to it on September 25, 1908. This resembled the coat of arms of the city of Büren and contained a silver crenellated wall in red with an open round arched gate, above three silver towers with blue hipped roofs, of which the middle one was wider and higher; in the open gate a silver triangular shield hung from a golden shackle, inside a red diamond chevron. This coat of arms was derived from the city's main seal from 1328.
- flag
With a certificate from the District President dated July 28, 1986, the city was granted the right to fly a flag.
- From red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms shifted from the center to the pole.
Town twinning
Bad Wunnenberg maintains since 1994 a partnership to Maizières-lès-Metz in Lorraine Moselle in France . Further contacts are maintained at the level of sports and music clubs: The Bad Wünnenberg sports club has been in contact with the sports club from Koppigen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland for years . The Swiss athletes were invited to some events (for example the “May bug festival”) and there were also return visits. The Bad Wünnenberg music association maintains contacts with a music association from Leopoldsburg in the Belgian province of Limburg . Cultural contacts exist between the Tambourkorps Bad Wünnenberg and the Spielmannszug in Walhorn near Eupen in the German-speaking part of Belgium.
Culture and sights
social commitment
Bad Wünnenberg has its own world shop. The shop in Mittelstrasse 33 is run by many volunteers from the region.
theatre
Bad Wünnenberg does not have its own theater, but the TuS Bad Wünnenberg sports club has a theater department that puts on a play in the winter months. For more extensive offers, the Paderborn Theater or the Kassel State Theater must be visited.
Museums
The Haaren local history and tourist office maintains the Ohrmackers mill . The completely preserved and restored system shows a machine mill driven by a diesel engine. This drives a shotgun , a double roller mill and a timber saw.
music
In Bad Wünnenberg there are a total of six general music associations and four drum corps . In the vocal area there are three mixed choir groups, two men's choirs , a gospel choir and a children's and youth choir.
Buildings
The landmark of the city of Bad Wünnenberg is a defense tower from the 13th century. After the third city fire in 1725, parts of the old fortification, including the tower, were released as a quarry for the reconstruction of the city. The tower was therefore only preserved as a ruin until the 20th century. With the help of the local Heimatverein and the NRW Foundation , the tower was rebuilt and inaugurated in 2001.
The castle complex in the Leiberg Forest , located on a mountain spur 1,900 m south of Leiberg, is said to date from the early Middle Ages .
The plague cemetery was established after the great plague of 1635. The plague cross has been preserved .
In 1719, Prince-Bishop Clemens August I of Bavaria commissioned the building of a tithe house. In 1867 a barn was added, which was later converted into a house.
At the bottom of the Aabachsees is Bumbam mill . It was built in 1746 and remained in the family until 1975. When the reservoir was created, the mill was not removed so it can be seen when the water level is low. A plaque and a millstone on the shore of the lake indicate their existence.
From 1750 to 1758 the tower and nave of the Church of St. Mary's Assumption in Fürstenberg were built by the citizens. The choir was reserved for the von Westphalen family as a separate church. Thus, 300 years after the village was founded, the medieval church of the desert of Vesperthe in the valley and the chapel of the noble family in the castle could be given up. The baroque furnishings with three altars, choir screen, pulpit and organ loft were made by the sculptor Anton Joseph Stratmann on behalf of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen.
The Fürstenberg Castle of the von Westphalen family was built in 1783 by the architect du Ry on the foundations of an extensive castle complex. It served the Prince-Bishop Wilhelm von Westphalen as a hunting lodge. The castle is still the ancestral home and residence of this noble family today. The associated manor was built between 1776 and 1783 as a commercial enterprise for the extensive estates of the noble family.
In the lower town of Bad Wünneberg, the Spanckenhof was built in 1726 as one of the first buildings by the prince-bishop rentmaster Jobst Friedrich in the classic Baroque style. The builder wanted to document his prosperity. Today the headquarters of the Regional Forum Südliches Paderborner Land e. V. as well as a Heimatstube and since 1997 the seat of the Association for Nature Conservation (GfN).
In 1870 the chapel of St. Anthony in Padua was built for devotions. Believers in the lower town used the chapel when they did not want to go to the church in the upper town.
The Catholic parish church of St. Anthony of Padua is also worth seeing .
Parks
The Bad Wünnenberg recreation and leisure area , about 25 hectares in size, is directly adjacent to the closed development of Bad Wünnenberg to the southeast, is owned by the city and has a small spa park immediately south of the Aatalklinik with lawns and shrub beds , as well as an adventure playground and a game reserve . In addition to a few small ponds, there is a landscaped lake that is used for paddling and fishing and several water treading pools . An adventure barefoot path rounds off the offer.
The Fürstenberg Castle Park in the Fürstenberg district, which is not open to the public, is around 6 hectares in size and is privately owned. The complex is a geometric garden that contains two special plants: a spotted maple with yellow-green striped leaves and a sequoia tree .
Nature reserves and natural monuments
There are ten nature reserves in Bad Wünnenberg and Bad Wünnenberg has a share in them. These are the Waldbachtal (approx. 21.3 ha ), the Lühlingsbach-Nettetal area with extension (approx. 40 ha), the Messenberg-Nettetal (approx. 16.8 ha), the Große Aa area (approx ha), the Mittelbruch (approx. 14.2 hectares), the Altehaier Bruch (approx. 2.6 hectares), the Leiberger Wald (approx. 1232.7 hectares), the Afte nature reserve (approx. 126.4 hectares), as well as the largest areas of the Fürstenberg Forest (approx. 1496.4 ha) and the forests near Büren (approx. 1515.8 ha).
The Düstertal quarry, which is still in operation, is located in lead washing . A cave system was discovered here in 1987, which today bears the name Kreiselhalle-Malachitdom and is designated as a protected landscape object by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 2008, 40 of the former 60 natural monuments from the Paderborn district were removed from their protected position.
Sports
In the urban area of Bad Wünnenberg there are nine general sports clubs that offer activities in the field of popular sports. There are also three fishing clubs, three tennis clubs, two gymnastics clubs, an association for rescue sports, a model flying club, a shooting department, a ski club and a folk dance group.
Regular events
The cockchafer festival is the sports festival of TuS Bad Wünnenberg and takes place every year at Whitsun. Once a year, an inline skate race is organized on a nine-kilometer circuit around the Aabach dam.
Culinary specialties
In the Paderborn area mainly rye and less wheat was grown, so that Paderborn bread developed. Three quarters of rye and a quarter of wheat are mixed with a little sourdough in a wooden baking trough. The dough has to steep one night and can be baked the next day.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The B 480 runs through the urban area of Bad Wünnenberg in a north-southwest direction . A western bypass has been under construction since 2013, which leads over the 70 meter high Aftetal bridge and is to be opened to traffic in 2021. In the north of the urban area, the A 44 crosses the urban area from west to east. The Wünnenberg-Haaren motorway junction is also within the city limits. State road 549 also runs in a west-east direction, via which the districts of Leiberg and Fürstenberg can be reached.
Regional buses run to Paderborn, Büren and Brilon at regular intervals. Bad Wünnenberg is located in the area served by the Paderborn-Höxter public transport network .
The next long-distance train station is around 26 km away in Paderborn. The closest airport is Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport , which is 20 km away.
The Teutoburg Forest wellness cycle route , which is around 500 km long and is designed as a circular cycle path, and the Sintfeld Höhenweg as well as other local hiking trails lead through Bad Wünnenberg .
media
The local radio for the Paderborn and Höxter districts, Radio Hochstift , can be received on the frequencies 88.1 MHz or 104.8 MHz. The daily newspapers in Bad Wünnenberg are the Neue Westfälische and the Westfalen-Blatt , each with a local section for the Bürener Land, to which Bad Wünnenberg belongs. Every Saturday, the free weekly newspaper Neue Regionale , based in Geseke, is distributed in all districts. In addition, the journal Die Warte for the districts of Paderborn and Höxter appears quarterly in the Hochstift Paderborn , with articles on regional history, literature and art.
Public facilities
The city operates an outdoor and indoor swimming pool.
Every district has a fire engine or a fire fighting group as part of the Wünnenberg volunteer fire department . These are the Bad Wünnenberg fire brigade with youth fire brigade , the Fürstenberg fire brigade with youth fire brigade, the Haaren fire brigade with youth fire brigade, the Helmern fire brigade with youth fire brigade, the Leiberg fire brigade with youth fire brigade, the Elisenhof fire brigade and the lead wash fire brigade.
Since there is no local library in Bad Wünnenberg, the city participates in the Paderborn district's book bus , which regularly drives to the localities. The residents have access to around 4,500 media.
The District Court of Paderborn is responsible for local jurisdiction, the next higher instance is the District Court of Paderborn . The town hall is located in the Fürstenberg district.
education
The city offers four primary schools ( primary school Bad Wunnenberg , elementary school Furstenberg , elementary school hair / Helmern and primary school Leiberg ) and one each elementary and secondary school. The secondary and secondary schools are housed in the same building complex in Fürstenberg. There are high school offers in the neighboring Büren. In 2007, a total of 1356 pupils were taught at the city's schools with 83 teachers, 49.6% of them in elementary schools, 19.7% in Hauptschule and 30.7% in Realschule.
Nine kindergartens are available in Bad Wünnenberg for early childhood education, which are run by local authorities. The adult education centers in the cities of Büren, Delbrück, Salzkotten and Bad Wünnenberg have offers for adult education.
Established businesses
The Haaren industrial park and the Leiberg industrial park are located in Bad Wünnenberg . The former is located directly at the junction of the A 33 and A 44 . In particular, companies from the plastics, metal and furniture industries are located here. But there are also construction machinery and plumbing shops in the city.
The Aatalklinik Wünnenberg GmbH operates the same clinic, focusing on neurological and neurosurgical specialized rehabilitation. Attached is the St. Antonius nursing home, a nursing home for full inpatient or short-term care.
The Loer & Schäfer GmbH produces since 1983 office supplies of plastic, especially loose-leaf binders and sheet protectors .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1956: Bernhard Jürgens (1881–1969), pastor, clergyman, honorary dean and honorary citizen of the Leiberg community
- 1969: Fritz Meyer (1897–1976), mayor, honorary citizen of the municipality of Helmern
- 1969: Joseph Ricken (1890–1972), pastor, clergyman, honorary dean and honorary citizen of the Haaren parish
- 1978: Friedrich Carl Graf von Westphalen (* 1898), honorary citizen of Bad Wünnenberg
sons and daughters of the town
- Friedrich Deys (~ 1365–1429), Bishop of Lavant and Bishop of Chiemsee
- Walter Trapp (1920–2010), local politician
- Raban Graf von Westphalen (* 1945), German political scientist, lawyer and university professor
- Gerhard Wächter (* 1946), German politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag (2002–2009)
literature
- Ingrid Walder (photographer), Achim Walder (author, editor, photographer): Sights in Paderborn and the surrounding area: With description of the places: Paderborn, Altenbeken, Bad Lippspringe, Borchen, Büren, Delbrück, Hövelhof, Lichtenau, Salzkotten and Wünnenberg . Ed .: Achim Walder. 1st edition. Walder-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936575-21-7 , pp. 121 .
- Christian u. a. Hoebel: The Schürmann machine mill in Wünnenberg-Haaren .
- Wilhelm; Hecker, Wilhelm; Segin, Dr. Wilhelm u. a. (Working group) Jordan: Hair 1000 years. A documentation of the Haaren story . Westphalia printing company, 1975.
- Schaefer, Ulrike: A long story . Bad Wünnenberg 2005.
- Heimatverein Wünnenberg (Ed.): Wünnenberg . Bad Wünnenberg 2002 (city chronicle 1903–1959).
- Horst-Dieter Krus : home book of the city of Wünnenberg . Ed .: Heimatverein Wünnenberg. Wünnenberg 1987.
Web links
- City of Bad Wünnenberg
- Bad Wünnenberg 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 )
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Geoscientific community descriptions NRW. Bad Wünnenberg ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
- ↑ a b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia: Municipal profile Bad Wünnenberg ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Bad Wünnenberg (PDF; 22 kB) from November 26, 1997
- ↑ Population figures .
- ^ Home book of the city of Wünnenberg: Page 13
- ↑ German Weather Service
- ↑ G. Henkel: Settlement development in the urban area of Wünnenberg from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. In: Home book of the city of Wünnenberg. Paderborn 1987, pp. 53-66.
- ↑ a b c Horst-Dieter Krus; Heimatverein Wünnenberg (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg. Wünnenberg 1987, pp. 281ff.
- ↑ a b c Krus: Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg , p. 288f.
- ↑ Roswitha Hillebrand: Magician and Witcher in the Hochstift Paderborn: An investigation of Fürstenberg processes of the 17th century (unprinted work on the 1st state examination for the teaching post secondary school. University of Paderborn, 1995).
- ^ Wilhelm Tack: Bishop of Paderborn . In: Elector Clemens August. Sovereign and patron of the 18th century . Cologne 1961, pp. 27-31.
- ↑ a b Krus: Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg , p. 303 ff.
- ^ Krus: Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg , p. 310.
- ^ Krus: Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg , p. 315.
- ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Students at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation
- ^ 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. 321 .
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000
- ↑ Kristoffer Fillies: Agreement on town hall location in Bad Wünnenberg is drawn out. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia, Statistics division: State database North Rhine-Westphalia
- ^ Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW: Special series on the 1987 population census in North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 1.1: Population, private households and employed persons . Düsseldorf 1989, p. 110.
- ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05774040
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
- ^ Veddeler, coat of arms, seal flags. The municipal emblems of the landscape association, the districts, cities and municipalities in Westphalia-Lippe, Münster 2003, p. 92 f.
- ↑ Ville de Maizières-lès-Metz: Presentation de la commune
- ^ Paderborn district: Presentation of measures and activities as well as associations with commitment to intercultural coexistence
- ↑ http://www.suedliches-paderborner-land.de/
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Recreation and leisure area in LWL GeodataKultur
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Castle Park Fürstenberg in LWL-GeodatenKultur
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Minutes of the meeting of the Committee on Nature and the Environment on August 19, 2008
- ↑ Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg, p. 125.
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