Dörenthe

Dörenthe City of Ibbenbueren Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 21 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 49 ″ E
Residents :	1390 (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	49479
Area code :	05455

St. Modestus Church in Dörenthe

Dörenthe is a district of the city of Ibbenbueren in the Tecklenburger Land region ( Steinfurt district ) in the northern part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The village with 1390 inhabitants is around six kilometers from the center of Ibbenbüren.

Name meaning

Dörenthe forms the southern part of the city of Ibbenbüren. It lies at the end of the Teutoburg Forest and is known for the symbols of the crouching woman and the stone crosses. The meaning of the word Dörenthe is interpreted in different ways. Dörenthe, formerly Dorenthopa, comes from dor ( dör 'big gate', 'big door'). Dor was used in the Teutoburg Forest to denote a cut or a gorge. Torpa means settlement, settlement or peasantry. Dörenthe means farmers behind the gorge. According to the linguistic research of Pastor Cremann from Ibbenbüren, the name Dörenthe comes from Thor enthe , the lowland of the god Thor . According to this, a sanctuary of the god Thor should have stood in the lowlands on the southern slope of the Teutoburg Forest in ancient Germanic times. A field near the port still bears the name Düwelskerke today . This name could possibly have been given by the residents who have become Christian as a designation of the sacrificial site.

geography

Dörenthe waterworks

Dörenthe lies at the southern foot of the Teutoburg Forest. To the north is the city center of Ibbenbüren. To the west, Dörenthe borders on the district of Riesenbeck-Birgte belonging to the town of Hörstel , and to the east on the district of Brochterbeck of the town of Tecklenburg . In the south is the municipality of Saerbeck .

Residents

The population of Dörenthe recorded by the city of Ibbenbüren.

date	Residents
December 31, 2006	1429
December 31, 2015	1390
September 30, 2017	1425

traffic

The federal road 219 runs right through the center of the village, coming from Ibbenbüren in the direction of Münster via Saerbeck and Greven . The 40 km long federal road is an important connection from the Tecklenburger Land to the city of Münster.

South of the village is the Dortmund-Ems Canal with the Dörenthe port , which is sometimes referred to as the Saerbeck port. The port has a siding to the branch line of the Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line , which joins the actual line in Brochterbeck . Until the sale of the northern section of the railway line with the branch line to Dörenthe on December 1, 2015, it belonged to the Teutoburg Forest Railway . This line, which opened on July 19, 1901 and has only been reserved for freight traffic since 1914, was in acute danger of being closed before it was taken over by the Lappwaldbahn Group . After the takeover, the route was restored in 2016 and 2017 and new tracks and ballast were laid. The service base of the Lappwaldbahn was set up in a former goods shed of the Raiffeisen goods cooperative on the B 219.

On August 26, 2018, the renewed route between Brochterbeck and Dörenthe was symbolically opened with a Teuto-Express steam train . At the same time, the 20th anniversary of the Kulturspeicher was celebrated.

economy

View of the port of Dörenthe. In the left half of the picture the Dörenthe culture storage facility.

There used to be numerous limestone quarries and kilns in the Teutoburg Forest . However, these are shut down and nature has recaptured them. The economic focus is therefore on the port on the Dortmund-Ems Canal and agriculture.

nature

The sparsely populated area around Dörenthe offers nature plenty of space to develop. In the Teutoburg Forest you can find the Dörenther cliffs with the rock massif of the crouching woman . The numerous limestone quarries invite fossil collectors. When the Dortmund-Ems Canal was excavated between 1894 and 1895, the Loismann Botanical Garden was created , in the vicinity of which a landscaping and shipping company opened a nature and underwater park.

Culture

The Kulturspeicher Dörenthe, an old granary at the harbor, has many cultural events to offer with a changing program.

literature

Christoph Goldt : "Where does this rare relationship come from?" St. Modestus in Dörenthe - roots, tradition and development of the Catholic community since the Reformation . Ibbenbürener Vereinsdruckerei, Ibbenbüren 1999, 195 pages, ISBN 3-932959-05-1 .
Änne Sackarndt: Church history St. Modestus Dörenthe. Complete production: Lammert-Druck, Dörenthe 1990.