Bergkirchen (Bad Salzuflen)

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Bergkirchen Church

Bergkirchen is a part of the Retzen district in the Lippe town of Bad Salzuflen in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Bergkirchen is located in the far north of the Retzen district, on the border with deserts between the Hollenstein district (to the Wüsten district) and Lemgo-Brüntorf .

Protected areas

The nature reserve " Bachtal bei Grünau " has been designated west / south-west of Bergkirchen since 2002 .

history

Bergkirchen has its origins in the Minden-Ravensberg revival movement . After the church was founded in 1850, the church was built in a forest clearing "on the mountain" (Eikberg) in the same year. The church thus gave its name to the community and locality "Bergkirchen", which was officially recognized by the sovereign under this name in 1874 .

Population development

year 1880 1895 1911
Residential houses 1 1 1
Households 1 1 1
Residents 4th 7th Venus symbol (female) 2 Mars symbol (male) 2

traffic

The next train stations are in Schötmar , Bad Salzuflen and Lemgo , the next long-distance train stations are Bielefeld Hbf and Herford .

Hiking trails

The of Herford over the Hollenstein backward extending Hansaweg extends over mountain churches until after Hameln .

Web links

Commons : Bergkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 50 years of the large community. stadt-bad-salzuflen.de, accessed on July 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ulrich Althöfer: The architect Karl Siebold (1854–1937). On the history of Protestant church building in Westphalia. Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-7858-0394-X
  3. "Ortschaftsverzeichnis des Fürstentums Lippe", Detmold, 1882.
  4. "Ortschaftsverzeichnis des Fürstentums Lippe", Detmold, 1898.
  5. "Ortschaftsverzeichnis des Fürstentums Lippe", Detmold, 1911.

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '  N , 8 ° 49'  E