Thief rock

Thief rock City of Herford Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	75 m above sea level NN
Area :	7.04 km²
Residents :	2024  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	288 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32051
Area code :	05221
Location of Diebrock in Herford

Diebrock is a district of the district town of Herford in the East Westphalian district of Herford in the administrative district of Detmold in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located west of the Herford city center. Diebrock has 2024 inhabitants. (As of December 31, 2015)

Neighboring communities

Diebrock borders in the north on the Herford district Herringhausen -West and in the east on the Radewiger Feldmark of the core city of Herford. In the southeast, the Aa forms the border with the Elverdissen district . Herford- Stedefreund is in the south and Herford- Eickum in the west .

Districts

Within Diebrock there are the districts of Hausheide and Hollinde.

history

Diebrock was first mentioned in writing in 1191 as Thibroke .

Until the local reform on December 31, 1968 Diebrock belonged to the office of Herford-Hiddenhausen in the Herford district . On January 1, 1969, it was incorporated into the then independent city of Herford, which in turn was incorporated into the Herford district.

landscape

Diebrock is not very heavily populated and is therefore rural. Several streams flow through it, so that there are no large elevations there.

Not far from Laarer Straße are the Bexterhöfe, which are the venue for the German Friendships international children's equestrian tournament .

graveyard

At the corner of Hausheider Strasse and Junkerweg is the Diebrock cemetery with an old and a new part. Both areas are divided into different departments with elective graves, row graves, lawn row graves with grave slabs, nursing row graves and anonymous row graves.

school

In August 2009, the private elementary school “Das Researcherhaus” was opened in a former municipal primary school on Hausheider Strasse. It pursues a special educational concept. 21 children were registered for the joint first and second school class.

There is a municipal sports field next to the school.

Since September 2013, the sponsors of the research house have also run a day-care center in the city center.

Volunteer firefighter

Since 2015, the fire station of the Diebrock fire brigade of the volunteer fire department of the city of Herford has been on Zeppelinstrasse. The Diebrock fire fighting group and the Elverdissen fire fighting group belong to the Herford Süd fire fighting train.

traffic

In the south-west, federal road 61 and the Hamm – Minden railway line run parallel to the Aa through the district.

Business

After the incorporation, the city of Herford created the Diebrock industrial park with Zeppelinstrasse on both sides of Laarer Strasse. The following companies have now settled there:

• ALSCO work clothing service GmbH
• Brillux (paints and varnishes)
• Eickmeyer & Gehring GmbH & Co. KG (chocolate on a stick)
• Han Bürogeräte GmbH & Co. KG

Herford letter center

• Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (largest commercial employer in Herford: fastening and fitting technology)
• Stockmeier Food GmbH & Co.KG (flavors & food additives)
• Trans-o-flex Express (logistics company, transport of packages and pallets)
• Corrugated format (corrugated cardboard factory)
• Xylem Water Solutions Deutschland GmbH (environmental technology under the name Wedeco)

The Herford letter center on Bielefelder Strasse was opened in 1996 and is responsible for postal routing regions 32 and 33. The Bielefeld parcel center has also been managed from there since 2007 .

The Ahlers company operates a goods and distribution center at the confluence of Laarer Strasse and Bielefelder Strasse .

supporting documents

1. ^ City of Herford: Numbers, data, facts
2. ↑ Birgit Meineke : The place names of the Herford district. Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB). Publishing house for regional history, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-89534-924-9 , p. 75. ( PDF )
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 74 .