Bad Driburg

Capitals and cities of the Principality of Paderborn until 1802/03 (as of 1789):
	Paderborn , Warburg , Brakel , Borgentreich \| Beverungen , Borgholz , Bredenborn , Büren , Driburg , Dringenberg , Gehrden , Calenberg , Kleinenberg , Lichtenau , Lippspringe , Lügde , Nieheim , Peckelsheim , Salzkotten , Steinheim , Vörden , Willebadessen , Wünnenberg

Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	Höxter
Height :	220 m above sea level NHN
Area :	115.3 km 2
Residents:	18,959 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	33014
Primaries :	05253, 05259, 05238, 05274
License plate :	HX, WAR
Community key :	05 7 62 004
LOCODE :	DE BDR
City structure:	10 localities
; City administration address :	Am Rathausplatz 2 ; 33014 Bad Driburg
Website :	www.bad-driburg.de
Mayor :	Burkhard Deppe ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Driburg in the Höxter district

Bad Driburg (until 1919 Driburg ) is a town in the Höxter district in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Federal Republic of Germany . The city with 18,959 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) is located on the eastern steep drop of the Eggegebirge in the Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge Nature Park . Bad Driburg is known for its spa, the Count's Park , glass production and wholesaling, as well as the carbon dioxide industry.

geography

Geographical location

The source of the emmer

Bad Driburg is located on the western border of the Höxter district with the Paderborn district on the federal road 64 Münster – Paderborn – Höxter – Seesen. It overcomes the steep slope of the Egge into the Driburg Valley in serpentines and bypasses the city center south to follow the Aa and Nethetal to lead to the Weser. The A 33 and A 44 motorways can be reached around 30 kilometers away at Paderborn and Scherfede. The railway junction is Altenbeken, ten kilometers away on the west side of the Egge Mountains, with ICE and local transport connections. The 1632 meter long Rehberg tunnel leads through the Egge . Regional and local rail transport also uses the Aatal in the direction of Höxter and Holzminden. The nearest airport is Paderborn / Lippstadt , 40 kilometers away.

The Egge Mountains form the eastern edge of the Westphalian Bay and the western border of the Weserbergland . The mountains are the watershed between the Rhine and the Weser. The ridge mountains with an average height of 400 m above sea level. NN is the southern continuation of the Teutoburg Forest and the connection to the Sauerland . In overflow springs arise at the foot of the eastern layer slope at 280 m above sea level. NN in the source horizon between Röt and overlying fissured Muschelkalk the tributaries to the Weser: Emmer (in Bad Driburg-Langeland), Aa (in Bad Driburg-Reelsen), Nethe and Öse (in Bad Driburg-Neuenheerse). Carbonated groundwater appears near the surface in healing springs, but is also drilled in deeper layers. The highest point of the urban area is 435 m above sea level. NN in the Egge, the deepest at 147 m above sea level. NN in the valley of the Aa near Herste.

The basin in which the core town of Bad Driburg is located has two drains. The northern part is drained by the Schwallenbach , which flows into the Aa between Rosenberg and Steinberg. The middle and southern part is drained by the Hilgenbach , which flows into the Aa between Steinberg and Düsenberg.

geology

Geothermal map of Bad Driburg

The bedrock in the urban area is essentially made up of clay , marl , limestone and sandstones from the Middle Ages . They come mainly from the Triassic , to a lesser extent, especially in the Langeland area, also from the Jura and in the Kühlsen area from the Chalk . These sedimentary rocks are up to 1 km thick here. During the course of the earth's history, they were lifted out and broken down into numerous saddles , hollows , ditches , clumps and clods .

The valley basin of Bad Driburg is crossed by a wide saddle structure, while the northern and southern parts of the city are part of a mountain range . Ancient rocks can be found in the deeper subsurface. Loose rocks from the Ice Age , i.e. gravel , sand and loess deposited by the wind , cover the bedrock in the valley plains and the Alhausen - Eichmilde basin.

The largely karstified limestones from the Triassic are good aquifers. The carbonated mineral waters, which rise up on paths marked by mountain faults and partially mineralize the groundwater, lie in the layers of the middle red sandstone .

On the harrow crest, sandy podsols are very poor in nutrients . Pseudogleye have formed in the north and south of the adjacent eastern slope of the harrow . In the middle area, nutrient-rich rendzines of stony-clayey loam and brown earth with a top layer of loess loam predominate . The agricultural use of areas in which the remains of the Ice Age loess cover has been preserved competes with the use as urban settlement area.

From a geothermal point of view, Bad Driburg is basically consistently good to very good for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery with groundwater heat pumps (see the adjacent map). Since the core town of Bad Driburg is completely located in the state-recognized medicinal spring protection area Bad Driburg-Hermannsborn, geothermal boreholes cannot be approved due to the protection of medicinal springs. Another problem is the difficult geology. Difficult artesian conditions occur even at a depth of 30 m .

Expansion and use of the urban area

The area of the city, classified as a “small town”, of 115.07 km² has a north-south extension of 15 kilometers and a west-east extension of 7.5 kilometers.

Area according to type of use	Agricultural schafts- area	Forest area	Building, open and operational space	Traffic area	Surface of water	Sports and green space	other use
Area in km²	51.18	49.10	6.64	5.86	0.67	1.06	0.57
Share of total area	44.48%	42.67%	5.77%	5.09%	0.58%	0.92%	0.50%

Neighboring communities

Bad Driburg borders in the north on the cities of Steinheim and Nieheim , in the east on the city of Brakel , in the south on the city of Willebadessen (all in the district of Höxter) and in the southwest on the city of Lichtenau and the municipality of Altenbeken in the west (both in the district of Paderborn ).

City structure

The city of Bad Driburg is divided into the following ten localities, which were independent municipalities in the Driburg and Dringenberg-Gehrden offices before 1970 and 1975 and in the case of Bad Driburg were free: Alhausen , Bad Driburg, Dringenberg mit Siebenstern , Erpentrup , Herste , Kühlsen , Langeland , Neuenheerse , Pömbsen with Bad Hermannsborn, Reelsen .

The following table gives an overview of the population of the districts. The indicated population figures refer to the residents with their main residence in the area of responsibility of the registration office of the city of Bad Driburg as of December 31, 2016

District	Residents	Districts of the city of Bad Driburg
Bad Driburg, city center	12,102
Alhausen	00.732
Bad Hermannsborn	00.042
Dringenberg	01,411
Erpentrup	00.177
Herste	00.860
Cooling	00.100
Langeland	00.201
Neuenheerse	01,621
Pömbsen	00.463
Reelsen	00.789
Seven star	00.353
Total number	18,851

climate

The prevailing south-westerly and westerly winds determine the climate, which is defined as a "light, stimulating climate". In connection with the abundance of forests, the weather is free of summer sultriness. Fog forms in early winter. The uphill rain increases the amount of precipitation to around 1000 mm on a long-term average.

Climate diagram for Bad Driburg (225 m) (Temperature for Bad Driburg 195 m)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	5.2	5.5	6.3	11.2	14.1	17.5	20.6	19.6	16.2	12.3	7.2	4.9	O	11.7
Min. Temperature (° C)	−3.3	−2.3	1.4	6.0	10.5	13.6	14.5	14.9	10.6	5.4	2.0	−2.2	O	6th
Temperature (° C)	−0.1	0.5	3.4	7.2	11.7	14.9	16.4	15.9	12.8	9.0	4.3	1.3	O	8.1

Precipitation ( mm )	51.3	41.1	51.8	51.1	71.9	75.4	69.3	64.0	52.0	42.9	54.7	63.4	Σ	688.9

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	1.0	2.2	3.2	4.9	5.8	6.0	6.0	5.9	4.4	3.0	1.3	0.9	O	3.7

N i e d e r s c h l a g	51.3	41.1	51.8	51.1	71.9	75.4	69.3	64.0	52.0	42.9	54.7	63.4
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Source: Precipitation: DWD ; Temperature: Climate Bad Driburg

history

General story

Development up to the early modern times

Coat of arms of the Knights of Driburg

Medieval moth on the Kerlsberg near Alhausen

Driburg and Iburg in Monumenta Paderbornensia , around 1671

Groups of barrows from the Bronze Age testify to early settlement . The jewel of a bicycle needle from a grave is now a sign of the circular hiking trail.

The most important place in history was the Iburg at 380 m above sea level. NN and 170 meters above the valley located spur of the harrow. Archaeologically (2000/2003) there are two limestone walls in the core of the earth wall on the west side, which are interpreted as Saxon and Franconian fortifications. The Franconian Reichsannalen mention an Iburg 753 when the Archbishop of Cologne Hildegar was killed by the Saxons there. That the Saxon sanctuary of the Irminsul was destroyed here during the conquest by Charlemagne in 772 is a popular legend. According to a source around 1400, Charlemagne gave the castle to the Bishop of Paderborn in 799, who built the Petruskirche within the castle grounds, which was an archdeaconate church from 1231–1256 and was replaced by a larger new building whose foundation walls are in place. In the 10th century, the castle hill belonged to the free world noble dynasty Heerse (868-1803), located in the place that was later called Neuenheerse . Benedictine nuns founded a monastery around 1135, which was moved to Gehrden in 1142 . Bishop Bernhard II of Paderborn built a knight's castle within the older complex in 1189, which was expanded in 1223, but burned down in 1444 during the Soest feud and has been in ruins ever since. After the death of the last knights Johann and Heinrich von Driburg, the town inherited the castle and the forest on the Egge. The relief of the canon Heinrich († 1463) is in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul.

The Iburg was named for the place Driburg (first mentioned in 1253; seal of the 14th century "Sigillum Civitatis Iburg"). The granting of town charter before 1290 results from a document of that year, which is testified by judges and councilors. In 1345, Bishop Balduin von Paderborn confirmed all city rights after a previous legal letter was lost. The small oval city area is around the parish church, which was originally built with three naves with two bays and a transept in the late Romanesque style in the 13th century. After renovation in 1676 and expansion in 1823, the church was demolished in 1894 due to disrepair and replaced by today's large neo-Gothic church. A part of the city wall at the mill gate has recently been restored. As the "Long Street", the Fernstraße formed the longitudinal axis with the gable Deelen houses.

Administrative history

In the prince-bishop's epoch until 1802, the Driburg bailiwick was the seat of a lower court. Several small settlements have perished as desertification in the area since the 14th century. The former prince-bishop's "Oberwaldische district" was after belonging to the " Kingdom of Westphalia " from 1807 to 1813 under King Jérôme Bonaparte in the Kingdom of Prussia initially as Brakel and Warburg and from 1832 - after the merger of Brakel and Höxter - as Höxter and districts Warburg managed. Bad Driburg was part and the administrative seat of the Driburg District . This Prussian administrative structure was also retained in the German Empire, with North Rhine-Westphalia taking over the legal succession after the Second World War.

Development of the districts

Independent developments took the other districts. In 868, at the request of his sister Walburga, founder and first abbess, Bishop Luithard set up a women's monastery called Ecclesia Herisiensis at the Nethequelle , which was soon called Herisia , and finally Heerse in what is now Neuenheerse . The focal point is the collegiate church, popularly called "Eggedom", an originally three-aisled Romanesque columned basilica, which was badly damaged by fire in 1165 and devastated in the Thirty Years' War . The noble women's monastery was abolished in 1803 by the Prussian king, who had it set up under the same conditions as a “pension institution for needy noble women”. Under Jérôme Bonaparte as King of Westphalia , this pen was also expropriated. The village of Kühlsen belonged to the monastery as well as other places .

The neighboring Dringenberg was founded by Bishop Bernhard V. von Paderborn on the mountain plateau 280–295 m. ü. NN, 70 meters above the valley of the Öse , and granted town charter in 1323. On the west side is the episcopal castle with the houses of the former freedom and the tithe barn . 1488 extended Bishop Simon III. the old castle. His coat of arms, the Lippe rose , stands over the castle gate. At times the castle was the summer residence of the prince-bishops of Paderborn. During the Thirty Years' War the castle was burned down, but rebuilt as the "Oberamtshaus" of the Oberamt Dringenberg in the Oberwald district of the Duchy of Paderborn . After the end of the Landdrosten era (1803), Dringenberg bought the castle from the Prussian state in 1825. It became the seat of the bailiff of the Dringenberg office until it was incorporated into Bad Driburg in 1975. The preservation of the castle, the tithe barn as a town hall, the old town hall and the city walls since then has been due to the civic initiatives, especially the Heimatverein.

In the north of today's city of Bad Driburg, the mountain village of Pömbsen is 315 m above sea level. NN as a church location Exit of the church development for the places Reelsen, Alhausen, Erpentrup and Langeland. The city of Nieheim once belonged to this large parish. The villages emerged as clustered villages in the vicinity of manors during the prince-bishop's epoch and were subject to the patrimonial jurisdiction of the Lords of Asseburg and of Oeynhausen . The oldest documented village mentioned in the Corveyer traditions is Herste in the east of Driburg.

Development of economy, infrastructure and education

The glassmaking industry and forestry

Waldglashütte Erpentrup with a mural of a glass blower

Hochstift regional forest office

The early modern era began with the glassmaking trade. However, the oldest glassworks (probably from the 12th century) is located in the forest between Driburg and Altenbeken. In 1532, the abbess of Neuenheerse appointed glassmakers who have used the abundance of wood in traveling glassworks since the first hut was founded in the "Helle" between Siebenstern and Neuenheerse. The "fine" hut on the Emde was the highest quality of the numerous foundings. Kohler and potash boiler were accompanying professions in the forest industry. Prince-Bishop Heinrich IV. (1577–1585) issued the first timber regulation in the Egge Mountains. At the end of the 18th century the spruce was introduced. The State Forestry Service, based in Neuenheerse after several structural reforms and regional forestry office Bishopric of the State Office Wald und Holz NRW concentrates the Forest Service of the circles Hoxter and Paderborn since July 1 of 2007.

Long-distance trade

Glass trade: glass sales and also the shipping of medicinal water required long-distance trade. In trade trips that lasted up to eight weeks, the Driburger glass was driven out by traveling merchants in northern Germany. The "Driburger Glaswagen" were mainly known from Oldenburg to Mecklenburg, allegedly to East Prussia. A new economic situation followed the introduction of the kerosene lamps . In 1859, Benedikt Koch brought glass cylinders for petroleum lamps from Silesia and Bohemia as return freight. He delivered them to Driburg dealers who took over sales to Flanders and France. This is how glass wholesale began.

The Driburg glass dealers used one another's own trading language. The Driburg dialect, which is rich in diphthongs , was alienated to a secret language by changing consonants and adding broad a-o-sounds . In 1900 the list of members of the Driburger Handelsverein still listed more than 100 glass dealers.

The cattle trade: Another branch of long-distance trade was the goat trade. Goat farming is known from a Hud trial in 1656. The main pasture area was on the "Knüll" or "Ziegenhügel". In 1840 458 goats were kept. The goat herd of a goat dealer (mua. Ssäenkäper) had i. d. Usually up to 80 animals and was accompanied by a herding boy. It was also bought and sold on trade routes. The trade routes were apparently based on the experience of the glass traders and led to Denmark and Silesia . There is evidence of a goat trade as far as Poland in 1842. In 1757, the glassmakers were banned from keeping goats because of the forest damage caused by the browsing of young wood. After the advent of the railroad (1864) and the re-establishment of the colliery settlements in the central Ruhr area, the goat traders shipped their herd to Dortmund by rail and drove them to Duisburg through the colonies in the Emscher area. Goat breeding ended in 1963, when the buck station in Bad Driburg was demolished.

Development of the spa

The takeover of the state springs and forests by Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff (1750–1842) in 1782 was decisive for the future. His publications point to the beginning of sustainable forest management in the deforested landscape. He introduced the "Rosenberg larches" that have become famous for forestry. The new bath was connected to the town (850 inhabitants) by an avenue of lime trees. The farm was located between the two places. In the first bathing season in 1782, 101 guests visited the new bathhouse. The lodgings were built as half-timbered buildings in the country house style. In 1815 von Siersttorpff bought the former sovereign Paderborn forests from the new state of Prussia and became one of the largest landowners in the region with the acquisition of the Rothehaus estate (1821) and the Gehrden monastery domain (1826). The hereditary interest on the springs was renewed by the Prussian king in 1828. This hereditary interest contract expired by law in 1850, so that Quellen and Bad have been private property ever since. At the request of the Prussian government in Minden on August 26, 1919, the city of Driburg was named "Bad Driburg".

As a result of the health policy in the Weimar Republic after the First World War , the city of Bad Driburg developed into a spa and bathing town with sanatoriums and private accommodation facilities. Near Pömbsen (1924/25) the Barmer substitute fund created a health clinic with a park from the “drinking and climatic health resort”: “Bad Hermannsborn”. The neo-baroque design of the complex and the late Art Nouveau interior in Caucasian walnut are remarkable. The number of guests in Driburg rose to 9,400 with 170,000 overnight stays during the summer season until the Great Depression.

The bathing city in a recreational area

As a hospital town undestroyed during the Second World War , after the approval by the British occupation (1950), the bathroom with health care through four new clinics from various insurances and carriers and through the influx of initially displaced persons took on the greatest increase in residents and guests. The numbers reached their peak in 1987 with 57,736 guests, 962,564 overnight stays and additional day guests. The thermal bath was built by the city to strengthen the spa in the spa area.

At the same time, the infrastructure was transformed with the city center redevelopment, in which the manor was replaced by residential and commercial buildings. With extensive residential development, the city expanded mainly to the south and north. Early relief through the bypass road, relocation of the business in two new business areas in the south of the city and in Herste with the sewage treatment plant made the country town a modern residential town. In particular after the Second World War, the historical building stock was largely replaced by retail stores as part of the city center renovation. The 18-hole golf course, tennis courts and hall were laid out near the spa gardens, and guest houses and riding stables were built in the villages. The Eggegebirgsverein looks after the network of hiking trails and guided hikes. He organized the German Hiking Day twice with the city of Bad Driburg .

Development of education

In the 20th century, it began developing into a school town. The monastery of the Divine Word Missionaries with a high school for religious offspring (founded in 1915, grammar school in classical language since 1947 , St. Xaver grammar school since 1975 ), the municipal high school for boys and girls (1922/1923, grammar school since 1965), the first grammar school for adults in Germany: the Clementinum for late priests (1925), made Bad Driburg the largest boarding town in Westphalia. In the Clementinum, the Max Planck Society was founded in the British Zone on September 11, 1946 as the successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. The school structure with grammar school, secondary school, secondary schools and elementary schools was concentrated in two new school centers after the Second World War.

Structural crisis and rejuvenation of the spa image

The decline in visitors that has been observed since the late 1960s took on a crisis in the second half of the 1990s. By then the 700 boarding school places had already been canceled. The Clemens-Hofbauer-Kolleg high school for late -career professionals closed in 1997 due to a lack of students . Labor-intensive manual work in glass production and in its subsequent glass grinding operations forced factories to close for cost reasons. The plywood factory, which housed around 300 jobs in its heyday, also had to close under cost pressure. The austerity measures in health policy led to a drop in the number of guests by around 25%. The retail sector suffered from the decline in foreign visitors. The glassworks in Siebenstern owned by Walther-Glas developed positively through automation and increased glass exports. The health clinics are now run as rehab clinics with a different guest structure.

After the turn of the millennium there was a redesign of the spa operation. The private spa operators, the Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff group, have now placed the historic parks at the center of the spa offer. The park was laid out by the founder around 1800 in the style of an English landscape garden over 60 hectares. Between the world wars, a rose garden and rhododendron hedges and a concert shell were added. In 2003 a memorial was created for the most famous guests of the spa, Friedrich Hölderlin and Susette Gontard ("Diotima"), who spent a few weeks together in Bad Driburg in the summer of 1796. In 2005/2007 the historic buildings of the hotel and the guest houses were renovated and modernized and operations were reorganized as the “Graeflicher Park Hotel & Spa”.

Infrastructure and traffic

The old post road led since 1769 over the 398 m above sea level. NN high Stellberg (at a relative height approx. 150 m) from the valley to Paderborn. In 1827 it was expanded to become the Prussian highway, now the B 64. In 1864 the railway reached Driburg. On the avenue from the spa park to the city are the "Bad Driburger Naturparkquellen", the traditional center of the spa and spa business.

Religions

Traditions

The St. Martinus Church in Reelsen

The Joseph Chapel in Kühlsen

In the affiliation to the Prince Diocese of Paderborn until 1802, the indigenous population of the city of Driburg and the villages that belong to it today were traditionally Catholic and the majority of them are still today. There are early parishes in Driburg St. Peter and Paul with a late Romanesque predecessor church, in Pömbsen with the Church of the Assumption in Baroque style, in Dringenberg St. Mary's Birth with a late Gothic church (1380-1412), and in Neuenheerse with the Romanesque collegiate church of St. Saturnina (1100-1130). The subsidiary communities in the villages owned chapels: the chapels of St. Martinus Reelsen for the parish of Pömbsen , the parish vicarie of St. Vitus Alhausen (both 18th century) and Johannes Nepomuk in Erpentrup and Langeland. Pömbsen also has the Kluskapelle from 1687, and the community still maintains the baroque tradition of the cross on Good Friday. The parish of St. Urbanus in the village of Herste had the Gothic St. Urban chapel from the 14th century and another from the 17th century. The chapels were replaced by larger churches for worship in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The St. Antonius chapel on the Ösequelle and the St. Josef chapel in Kühlsen belong to the Neuenheerse parish.

Memorial from 2009

The Jewish communities

Few Jews have lived in towns and villages without citizenship for several centuries. The first synagogue was built in Driburg in 1808 after the emancipation of the Jews in the Kingdom of Westphalia . In the revolution of 1848 , Jewish citizens took part in the democratic people's association . There were also synagogues in Pömbsen ( broken up after the November pogrom in 1938, cemetery in Nieheim) and in Dringenberg. In 1933 there were over 50 Jews in the city of Bad Driburg. The devastation of the synagogues in 1938 and the deportation of the last 28 Jews by the National Socialists in 1942 meant the end of the synagogue communities. There are Jewish cemeteries in Bad Driburg and Dringenberg .

On October 18, 2009, a memorial to the Jewish citizens of Bad Driburg who was murdered during the National Socialist era was opened to the public in Langen Strasse . The memorial was designed by the sculptor Herbert Görder and initiated by the non-profit association “bürgerpunkt”.

St. Peter and Paul

Today's Catholic Pastoral Association Bad Driburg

The Catholic parishes belong to the Archdiocese of Paderborn and have been in this tradition since the early and high Middle Ages. The decline in priests and believers led to the formation of pastoral alliances: the parishes of St. Peter and Paul in the city center, the Assumption of Mary in Pömbsen with the parish vicarie of St. Vitus in Alhausen and the subsidiary community of St. Martinus in Reelsen and St. Johannes Nepomuk in Langeland -Erpentrup temporarily formed the pastoral network Bad Driburg-Nord with approx. 5,800 Catholics, the parish of the Transfigured Christ in Bad Driburg-Süd, the parish vicarie St. Urbanus in Herste, the parishes of the Birth of Mary in Dringenberg and St. Saturnina in Neuenheerse, the pastoral association Bad Driburg-Süd with approx. 6400 Catholics. Since September 1, 2009, all Catholic parishes in the city of Bad Driburg have been amalgamated to form the “Pastoral Association Bad Driburg”. In terms of area, it is congruent with the political community of Bad Driburg, around 12,000 Catholics belong to it.

Catholic communities and institutions

The Divine Word Missionaries maintained the St. Xaver Mission House (1915-2008) with a grammar school, which since 1959 has been publicly admitting students as well as offspring. The Archdiocese of Paderborn has supported the St. Xaver High School since 2001 . The Bad Driburg family education center is also part of this sponsorship.

The initially old-language advanced high school and later college Clementinum (1922–1997 with interruptions from 1941 during the Nazi era ) of the Clemens-Hofbauer-Hilfswerk e. V., was founded by the born Driburg prelate Bernhard Zimmermann as the first grammar school in Germany for adults with vocational training and the aim of leading young priests (late professions) to the Abitur.

The Trinity Monastery of Bad Driburg , founded in 1924, is supported by the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Spirit and Eternal Adoration and is a generalate.

In Bad Driburg-Neuenheerse, the congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood Bearers of the St. Kaspar High School is located on the property of the former noble ladies' monastery Heerse (868-1810).

The St. Josef Hospital is part of the Weser-Egge Clinic, which is part of the Weser-Egge Catholic Hospital Association .

The Protestant parishes

Evangelical Church at the Kurpark

The Evangelical Church Community of Bad Driburg was branched off from Brakel in 1850 and became an independent parish. Today it is divided into four municipal districts: The core city and northern districts form districts 1 and 3; District 2 is Altenbeken (political municipality Altenbeken); District 4 with its own church in Neuenheerse includes Dringenberg and - belonging to the political community of Willebadessen - Altenheerse. The Evangelical Johanneswerk e. V. maintains the Melanchthon-Haus retirement home.

Other religious groups

The New Apostolic Congregation Bad Driburg has its own church. Jehovah's Witnesses own the Kingdom Hall as a worship room. The Evangeliums-Christengemeinde Bad Driburg, a free church association, meets at Siedlerplatz in the southern part of Bad Driburg. The community was founded in August 2006 by the Free Christian Community from Lichtenau.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1970, the municipalities of Alhausen, Erpentrup, Herste, Langeland, Pömbsen and Reelsen , which had previously been independent in the Driburg district, and the town of Bad Driburg were merged to form the town of Bad Driburg on December 2, 1969, as stipulated in the law on the reorganization of the Höxter district . The Driburg office was dissolved.

On the basis of the law on the reorganization of the communities and districts of the Sauerland / Paderborn area (Sauerland / Paderborn law) of November 5, 1974, the city of Dringenberg and the communities of Kühlsen and Neuenheerse (formerly all of the Dringenberg- Gehrden belonging) incorporated into the city of Bad Driburg. Furthermore, the affiliation of the city to the district of Höxter was regulated.

Population development

The following overview shows the population of the city of Bad Driburg according to the respective territorial status, in some years also according to the current territorial status. Changes to the territorial status resulted from the merger of the city with six surrounding municipalities on January 1, 1970 and the incorporation of three further municipalities on January 1, 1975.

The figures are census results up to 1970 and 1987 and from 1975 official updates by the State Statistical Office . Figures for 1975, 1980 and 1985 are estimated values and the numbers from 1990 extrapolations based on the results of the census of 1987. The data refer to 1867 and for 1946 to the local attendees population , from 1925 to the resident population and from 1985 to the Population at the place of the main residence . Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey procedures.

Bad Driburg according to the territorial status at that time

Population development in Bad Driburg from 1818 to 2017 according to the tables opposite

year	Residents
1818 (Dec. 31)	1,586
1831 (December 3)	2,090
1837 (Dec. 3)	1,940
1843 (December 3)	2,068
1849 (December 3)	2,104
1852 (December 3)	2.145
1858 (Dec. 3)	2,000
1861 (December 3)	2.163
1867 (December 3)	2,094
1871 (December 1)	2,083
1885 (December 1)	2,509
1895 (December 1)	2,615

year	Residents
1900 (December 1)	02,650
1905 (December 1)	02,702
1910 (December 1)	02,895
1925 (June 16)	03,679
1933 (June 16)	04,341
1939 (May 17)	04,900
1946 (Oct. 29)	07,232
1950 (Sep 13)	07,226
1961 (June 6)	07,898
1970 (May 27)	12,950
1974 (June 30)	13,985

Bad Driburg according to today's territorial status

year	Residents
1939 (May 17)	09,355
1950 (Sep 13)	13,698
1961 (June 6)	13,729
1970 (May 27)	16,247
1974 (June 30)	17,336
1975 (Dec. 31)	17,477
1980 (Dec. 31)	17,711
1985 (Dec. 31)	17,060
1987 (May 25)	16,582
1990 (Dec. 31)	17,525

year	Residents
1995 (Dec. 31)	19,122
2000 (Dec. 31)	19,462
2005 (Dec. 31)	19,502
2007 (Dec. 31)	19,364
2010 (December 31)	18,959
2011 (Dec. 31)	18.802
2012 (Dec. 31)	18,431
2017 (Dec. 31)	18,930

politics

During the revolution in 1848 three directions emerged among the citizens: the conservative Catholic campaigned for the election of the Bishop of Paderborn as a member of the Prussian National Assembly, the bourgeois liberal founded the “Volksverein” and hoisted the black, red and gold flag, the The proletarian harassed the Jews and demanded that the count return previous timber collection rights. The physician Friedrich Wilhelm Weber , born in Bad Driburg-Alhausen, was one of the founders of the Volksverein. In political poetry he expressed criticism of Prussia. He represented the constituency Höxter-Warburg 1862-1893 as a member of the center faction in the Prussian state parliament. In 1878 his Westphalian epic Dreizehnlinden appeared , which became a popular book. Social unrest increased in 1923 to the "Driburger Landfriedensbruch", in which physical attacks against merchants and the estate inspector led to the death of the inspector. The glassworks were shut down during the global economic crisis. In 1931 the local branch of the NSDAP was established. During the Nazi era, resistance was directed against the persecution of the church and the destruction of the synagogue (exile of the dean Becker, Father Riepe † 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp ). The St. Clement School for Priests was closed in 1941. Bad Driburg lost its Jewish fellow citizens. In the period after the Second World War, the CDU became the strongest party that provided the mayor.

Majority ratios of the political parties in the city of Bad Driburg in representative years (in% of the valid votes cast):

year	choice	center	CDU	SPD	KPD	DVP	DDP	FDP	DNVP	NSDAP	Independent	Others
1919	National Assembly	71.9	-	11.1	-	< 6.4	7.5	-	3.1	-	-	-
1933	Reichstag election	62.9	-	04.0	4.0	<0.1	-	-	2.8	26.4	-	<0.1
1947	State election	13.5	59.8	18.3	5.0	-	-	3.4	-	-	-	-
1949	Bundestag election	9.8	46.9	21.0	1.8	-	-	5.7	-	-	11.4	< 3.4

City council

In the first city council election after the Second World War on September 15, 1946, the parties won the following mandates in what was then the city of Bad Driburg: CDU 16 seats, center and SPD one seat each.

The following table shows the composition of the city council and the local election results since 1975 (only results with a share of at least 1% of the votes):

	2014		2009		2004		1999		1994		1989		1984		1979		1975
Political party	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%
CDU	17th	52.97	15th	48.93	16	50.81	19th	58.03	20th	47.91	21st	48.81	22nd	52.87	21st	52.95	24	58.39
SPD	06th	18.87	05	15.81	06th	18.23	07th	22.28	12	27.79	10	24.07	08th	20.65	09	24.54	09	23.20
GREEN	03	07.96	03	09.80	02	08.15	01	04.40	02	06.52	00	04.88	03	07.63	0-	-	0-	-
UWG	02	06.44	03	08.85	03	08.62	03	08.35	03	07.10	04th	10.39	06th	14.77	07th	16.93	05	12.97
ÖDP	02	05.74	03	08.38	03	08.73	02	06.64	02	06.89	02	06.06	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-
FDP	01	04.29	03	08.23	02	05.45	0-	-	00	03.78	02	05.78	00	04.09	02	05.58	02	05.44
left	01	03.73	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-	0-	-
Total ¹	32	100	32	100	32	100	32	100	39	100	39	100	39	100	39	100	39	100
voter turnout	52.53%		55.30%		58.38%		63.07%		84.41%		73.02%		72.48%		77.09%		n / a

¹ without taking into account rounding differences

mayor

Mayor of Bad Driburg is Burkhard Deppe (CDU). He was elected for the first time on September 26, 2004 with 58.3% and on August 30, 2009 with 72.65% of the valid votes. In 2014 he was confirmed in office with 78.35% of the valid votes. Deppe's predecessor was Karl-Heinz Menne (CDU), who was elected on September 12, 1999 with 68.3% of the valid votes.

Coat of arms, banner and seal

City coat of arms on the town hall

The city of Bad Driburg was granted the right to use a coat of arms and a banner with a certificate issued by the District President in Detmold on May 9, 1973. It also carries a seal with the city coat of arms (main statute § 2). Bad Driburg was approved to display the coat of arms in gold and blue, this was the city's wish. Before that, it had had an almost identical coat of arms in the colors gold and red since July 6, 1908.

Description of the coat of arms :
In blue a golden (yellow) tinned city wall with an open gate surmounted by a double tinned tower; A golden (yellow) Latin cross floating freely above the wall in the left shield field .

The tower has been a symbol of Driburg for almost 800 years and you can find it on the “Driburg Pfennig”, minted in 1215, of which there are only two copies left today. It was already used on a seal from 1390. The later added cross represents the affiliation of the city to the duchy of Paderborn.

Description of the banner:
Blue and yellow striped lengthways with the city arms slightly above the center of the banner.

Description of the seal:
Inscription above: City. Inscription below: Bad Driburg. Seal image: coat of arms in which the content of the city arms is shown in outline.

Town twinning

Bad Driburg has been friends with Uebigau in the southwest of Brandenburg since 1990 . Uebigau was absorbed into the newly formed town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück at the end of 2001 . There is an exchange at church and club level, especially the rifle clubs (Bürgererschützengilde) meet regularly.
In 2003, the city council approved the establishment of a town twinning with the municipality of Sains-lès-Marquion in northern France. The town twinning was officially established in 2004. This reinforces the partnership relationships that have existed for many years between the parishes of Sains-lès-Marquion and Neuenheerse. The Holy Saturnina whose bones are kept in Eggedom Neuenheerse, was martyred in Sains-les-Marquion. There are regular pilgrimages between the places in her honor.

Culture and sights

Heinz Koch House, Bad Driburg Glass Museum

The Friedrich Wilhelm Weber Museum in Alhausen

theatre

The city administration maintains a series of theaters in which performances in Bad Driburg are performed in the auditorium of the municipal grammar school or in the town hall, and performances in neighboring theaters such as the Detmold State Theater are attended. The theater group of the Reelsen Heimatverein performs a play every year. In the district of Dringenberg there is also the “Burgtheater Dringenberg e. V. “regular performances.

Museums

The moated castle Heerse is home to a museum network consisting of an international museum for natural history, an ethnographic museum, an ethnographic museum and a museum for European cultural assets.

The Friedrich Wilhelm Weber Museum in the Alhausen district shows memorabilia from the life and work of the doctor, politician and poet Friedrich Wilhelm Weber in the house where he was born.

The Bad Driburg Glass Museum shows the 500-year history of glass production and processing in the region. Glassmaking tools, typical historical utility glass and extraordinary glassmaking art are on display. In the Schauglashütte in Erpentrup, glassblowers can be observed at their work in demonstrations.

The model federal railway (formerly "Modellbahnschau MO187") in the historic goods station Bad Driburg shows a detailed replica of the railway stations Ottbergen and Bad Driburg on a scale of 1:87 ( nominal size H0 ). The Ottbergen depot and the Ottbergen / Bad Driburg railway facilities are shown as they were built in 1975.

A local history museum with rooms typical of the 19th century on the local history of Dringenberg and regional natural history exhibitions has been set up in Dringenberg Castle, which is operated by the Dringenberg Local History Association.

music

In the core town of Bad Driburg there are two music associations, on the one hand the Stadtkapelle Bad Driburg e. V., which was created around 1900, on the other hand the fanfare parade “Blau-Weiß” Bad Driburg e. V., which was founded in 1965. There are also some music clubs in the villages that belong to the city of Bad Driburg, including the Herste, Reelsen and Dringenberg brass bands, the Herste, Neuenheerse and Pömbsen marching bands, the Dringenberg fanfare band, the Pömbsen fire brigade band and the Hegering's hunting horn group.

The Society for the Maintenance of Classical Music Bad Driburg organizes a series of concerts every year. The gospel choir "Spirit Voices" of the evangelical parish has existed since 2009.

Buildings

Exposed reliquary shrines in the collegiate church of St. Saturnina, Neuenheerse

Iburg ruins

Dringenberg Castle

View from the Kaiser-Karls-Turm, St. Xaver high school

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built between 1894 and 1897 according to plans by Arnold Güldenpfennig . It is a three - aisled neo - Gothic hall church with a transept. The interior is still fully equipped with a pulpit, organ, altars and (partially) glazing from the time it was built. The painting was done in 1909 in the form of Baroque Art Nouveau . Some pieces were taken over from the previous building, including the Romanesque baptismal font (around 1260), two Baroque figures of the patron saint from 1676, and the tombstone of the canon Heinrich von Driburg, who died in 1463.
Train station - The late classicist building was built after 1865 and fundamentally renovated in 2006/2007 and brought up to date with the latest thermal technology. A modern financial services center and six light-flooded residential units are now in this building.
Count's House - two-storey classicist stone building with an outside staircase from 1780.
octagonal St. John's Chapel on the Aliser bed - donated by Johannes Humborg in 1846
Michaelskapelle in the Westfriedhof (inaugurated in 1933)
St. Xaver High School (inaugurated in 1915)
Study home St. Klemens (1922) with Marienkapelle (1952).
Protestant church
Heavily restored and reworked remains of the city wall can be found at the so-called mill gate.
Neuenheerse moated castle
Collegiate Church of St. Saturnina in Neuenheerse ("Eggedom"), built between 1100 and 1130, was badly damaged by fire in 1165 after a lightning strike
The ruins of the Iburg from the 8th century, a so-called Irminsul , the national shrine of the Saxons , is said to have stood here

The Kaiser-Karls-Turm opened in 1904

Dringenberg Castle , square wall ring, 1318–1328 by Prince-Bishop Bernhard V. zur Lippe , gatehouse with castle chapel 1488–1499, 44-meter-deep well from 1320, largely renovated by the city of Bad Driburg with the help of the Dringenberg Home Society

Old town hall in Dringenberg , Burgstraße 30. The two-story half-timbered building dates back to around 1550 and was later converted for residential purposes. The ground floor has been massively renovated in parts. The vaulted cellar was built around 1320. The entire building was restored in 2002–2004. It now houses art exhibitions, Sunday cafés and function rooms.

Schöpfmühle in Dringenberg, water art from 1545, by Landdrost Hermann von Viermunden

glas cube in the Herste industrial area, in 2007 opened exhibition and seminar building of the Leonardo company with extraordinary architecture

The Catholic parish church of the transfigured Christ was built in brick from 1966 to 1968 according to plans by the architect Hans Haas.

About 53 tombstones have been preserved in the Jewish cemetery .

Only a few half-timbered buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center. In 1967 the Josephinum hospital, the Rentei building and the old post office building were demolished as part of a city center renovation. Compared to the districts, the core city has relatively few architectural monuments .

Parks and monuments

The park landscape in the urban area is comparatively large and diverse.

The green area at the Schonlau chapel south of Dringenberg is a publicly accessible area of approx. 500 m², which is owned by the Catholic community of Dringenberg. It is located on a flat hilltop. For several centuries the free court was judged here, usually three times a year, on Epiphany (January 6th), Corpus Christi (in June) and on the Monday after the feast of St. Michael (September 29th). The place of justice ( Feme ) was first mentioned in the 13th century and belonged to the former Free County of Things, which stretched from Bad Driburg to Arolsen . The last of these diets is recorded for 1593. In 1763 the free chairs were abolished by a prince-bishop's decree. A single-nave chapel with a half-timbered gable and roof turret , which was built in 1675, belongs to the site, consecrated to Saint Liborius .

Also in Dringenberg is the Dringenberg Castle Garden , which is owned by the city. Servants' houses , stables and the prison used to stand on the "Freiheit" south of the castle . The still preserved tithe barn is now used as a town hall. Mainly in the 1960s, the remaining farm buildings were demolished and a green area was created on the site. What is striking is a step in the terrain with a staircase that clearly divides the green area into two terraces. Presumably as early as the 19th century a promenade was laid out around the castle, which is still characterized by large old oaks and linden trees.

The gardens at Neuenheerse Abbey are owned by the Consul General of Ghana and are only accessible during opening hours or by appointment. Lawns and conically cut and symmetrically arranged hornbeams define the area. The stone border of an old roundabout can still be seen between the church and the monastery building . In the large churchyard north of the collegiate church there is now a modern green area with a mighty war memorial .

Brunnenhaus: Rommenhöller monument near Herste

The publicly accessible green area at the Rommenhöller source is located south of the village of Herste . This is a historic fountain avenue dedicated to the founder of the carbon dioxide industry, Carl Gustav Rommenhöller , consisting of two low hornbeam hedges and a long linden avenue. A well house in the form of a rectangular, high stone block with a tent roof belongs to the site. The two-row linden avenue ends around the fountain house in a semicircle as an exedra .

The approximately 20 hectares large spa bath Hermann Born in possession of the health clinic Bad Hermannsborn is publicly available. In the years 1924 and 1925 the neo-baroque spa park was built. The main design elements are the central driveway with the Kastanienallee and the large flower ring in the middle of the park. The western and eastern areas of the spa park are landscaped. In the east, a small oak grove is accessed by a promenade. The grove is underplanted with rhododendrons and azaleas. In the lower section of the park there are some ponds and water stairs. The ascent to the small hill then leads through a heather landscape with conifers . A few years ago, the spa park was expanded to its present size by including a forest area.

Sauerbrunnen with avenue in the Monumenta Paderbornensia from 1672

Count's Park

The Count's Park Bad Driburg is the most important park in Bad Driburg. Since the summer of 2010, the 27 hectare park has only been accessible for a fee. The complex began in 1669 under Prince-Bishop Ferdinand von Fürstenberg with the planting of a double-row avenue to the "Driburger Sauerbrunnen". The earliest depiction of this attraction of the Paderborn duchy shows the copper engraving after Johann Georg Rudolphi in the Monumenta Paderbornensia from 1672. In 1782 Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff took over the Driburg springs and became the founder of the Driburg baths and the park. The pool and park form a unit in a historically evolved ensemble, now known as the “Gräflicher Park Grand Resort”. Baron von Sierstorpff bought the lands around the springs and turned them into an English-style landscape garden. The founder knew this from his stay in England and from Hanover and Braunschweig, which are connected to England. The "Great Alley" of chestnut, linden and oak between the city and the fountain runs in a west-east direction and extends to the promenade between the lodging, gallery and bathing houses. In the middle, the “Brunnenhaus” was built around the main spring as a drinking and foyer in the neoclassical style in 1822/24. In front of this is the extended “Brunnenplatz” as an esplanade. An avenue meets at a right angle from the south as a central access and visual axis. This is framed by half-timbered buildings on natural stone plinths under mansard roofs in the fashion of the founding time from 1784. The basic structure of the center is a "T". This center is surrounded on the south side by wide lawns with trees of various species in solitary and group plantings. Winding walking paths open up varied sights and prospects. The founder intended a natural park for the guests of his bath.

The town's railway construction in 1864 led to the avenue being divided between town and bath. As an extension of the park, the "rose garden" (1932) with a size of 2 hectares with thousands of roses of different types and colors around a monopteros was created in the northwest, and the concert garden with the concert shell is surrounded by large rhododendron hedges. In the “fountain garden” behind the fountain house, between high hornbeam hedges around a round water basin with a moving bowl, there is a place of special contemplative calm. A colorful perennial garden was created in 2009 in the large west-east line of sight with its wide lawns. On the east side of the park, a stream is dammed up to the pond, from which the fountain rises and enlivens the water birds. Sunbathing lawns and extended bathing houses are a reminder of the heyday of the spa in times of expanding health care policy. With the recent renovation and modernization of the hall buildings, a new foyer hall was added and the driveway relocated. The "Spagarten" with swimming pool and sunbathing lawn has been located in the west since 2007. The floral decorations in the inner park change in all seasons. The poets who found relaxation in this idyll are reminiscent of the literary heritage: the Hölderlin Grove, the Diotima Island, the Annette von Droste Hülshoff House and the monument with the bust of the Driburg doctor, Prussian politician and author of the Westphalian epic Dreizehnlinden Friedrich Wilhelm Weber. In 2001 the park was awarded the “Golden Lindenblatt” from the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture and in 2005 it was accepted into the “European Garden Heritage Network”. The facility is one of the best-maintained in East Westphalia-Lippe.

On the Rosenberg there is the obelisk in memory of Count Kaspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff and the count's cemetery with chapel.

Buddenberg Arboretum in 2004

The Buddenberg Arboretum , also in Bad Driburg, is an arboretum founded in 1966 . The facility is located around one kilometer as the crow flies east of the Bad Driburg town center. It is part of the “Adolf Buddenberg Park”, has an area of around ten hectares and is home to over 200 tree species.

In the small city park, a forest surrounds a pond that the fishing club uses for its fishing sport.

War memorial at Schützenplatz

Where the tourist information is located today, the war memorial was erected in memory of those who fell in the wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870/1871. Today it stands at Schützenplatz and was restored in 2002/03. In 1932, a war memorial for the First World War was erected on the Aliser bed above the Johanniskapelle . In 1955 it was replaced by a memorial for both world wars.

Nature reserves and natural monuments

In the urban area of Bad Driburg there are seven nature reserves (NSG) designated. In NSG Gradenberg , is composed predominantly of Woodruff Buchwald is, the are black woodpecker , the Grauspecht and Rotmilan located. The NSG Hinnenburger Forst with Emder Bachtal and Iburg-Aschenhütte also consist primarily of woodruff beech forest. In the latter there are tufa springs .

The NSG plover pond is a fen , offering Marsh Helleborine , the broadleaf orchid and few-flowered bulrush , and the midwife toad and the frog protection.

In the NSG Nethe , a river landscape, there are a large number of plants and animals worthy of protection, including the brook lamprey , the kingfisher and the grass snake .

The Satzer Moor is also a low moor and consists predominantly of alluvial forests, but also has small proportions of moist tall herbaceous vegetation and is home to a notable occurrence of marsh stendrums. The pond bat and the large mouse-eared bat have found refuge in a tunnel on the Kassel-Altenbeken railway line .

On the Jakobsweg hiking trail , which leads from Magdeburg to Cologne , the old beech tree can be found on the bones of Bad Driburg .

Sports

View from the terrace of the Bad Driburger Golf Club

In the core city of Bad Driburg, the city maintains the Iburgstadion, a sports field with a gym, in which the regional athletics competitions are held every September. For the city schools there are three more gyms, including a triple gym, in the two school centers. The municipal indoor swimming pool is used for school and club sports. In the vicinity of the spa district are the leisure pool and the thermal pool with a state-approved mineral spring. In the Gräflichen Park, the spa garden with its large swimming pool offers relaxation and the mineral water indoor exercise pool offers health therapies. In and in the vicinity of the spa area are the private tennis courts and a tennis hall. The 18-hole golf course adjoins this in the northeast. The private high school St. Xaver has other school sports facilities. The Bad Driburg Schützengilde maintains a shooting range. In the south of Bad Driburg is the riding hall of the Reiterverein e. V. Bad Driburg.

The districts have numerous facilities for various sports. All places have sports fields. In Neuenheerse there is the outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, the Nethestausee with a campsite and a mini golf and boat facility. Dringenberg has the castle stadium, a riding hall and tennis courts. Reelsen owns the gym and shooting range. The whole of Bad Driburg is equipped with an extensive network of hiking trails over the ridge of the Egge and between the districts.

The following list provides an overview without claiming to be complete. The gymnastics and sports club from 1893 e. V. Bad Driburg has the departments for soccer, swimming, gymnastics, badminton, volleyball and table tennis. The women in the table tennis department play in the 1st Bundesliga. In the gymnastics club “Jahn” e. V. Bad Driburg: gymnastics, athletics, gymnastics, table tennis, skiing, budo, self-defense for women and children, ju-jutsu and basketball. There are shooting clubs in Bad Driburg and Dringenberg. Driburg, Dringenberg and Reelsen have riding clubs. There are tennis clubs in several places. The Turn- und Sportverein (TUS) Pömbsen e. V. operates football for men and women, basketball, badminton, table tennis and popular sports. All clubs have football in their program. Sports fishing is offered by clubs in Bad Driburg and Neuenheerse. Golf is at the Bad Driburger Golfclub e. V. played. Special clubs are the disabled sports community Bad Driburg, the DLRG local group, the police swimming club and the police shooting sports club.

Regular events

Shooting festival of the Bad Driburger Bürgererschützengilde (2nd weekend in July)
Shooting festival of the St. Fabian and Sebastian Neuenheerse e. V. (mid-August each year)
Mountain bike race “Iburg-Bergsprint” in June, part of the Challenge4MTB racing series
Glassblowing Festival of Bad Driburg Touristik GmbH
Iburg-Bergfest (regional athletics sports festival)
Advent market
Literature Week
Bad Driburg under steam
Bad Driburger Nativity Path
Bad Driburg Settlers Festival
Carnival parade in the city center

Infrastructure and economy

traffic

Transportation

The train station in Bad Driburg

The Bad Driburg stop , formerly a train station , is on the Altenbeken – Kreiensen (- Goslar ) railway line ( KBS 403 , 355). The route is served every hour by the RB 84 Eggebahn Paderborn - Ottbergen - Holzminden - Kreiensen , which is connected here with the RB 85 and runs from Ottbergen to Göttingen via Bodenfelde . Local rail passenger transport is carried out by the NordWestBahn , which uses Bombardier Talent multiple units (corresponding to the DB class 643) for speeds of up to 120 km / h. From the train station, buses run almost every hour to Brakel, Willebadessen, via Altenbeken to Paderborn, Steinheim and Nieheim. The carrier is the BahnBus Hochstift GmbH (BBH) or the local transport association Paderborn-Höxter (NPH).

The "Hochstift tariff" of the NPH applies to all local public transport and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .

A special feature is the citizens' bus that runs in the core town of Bad Driburg, which drives with volunteer drivers and is operated in the form of an association.

Road traffic

Bad Driburg is located on the main road 64 Münster - Paderborn - Höxter - Holzminden - Seesen , which runs in a west-east direction, and on the state road 954 in a north-south direction. The Paderborn-Zentrum junction of the A 33 is about 24 kilometers away. The Warburg junction of the A 44 is around 30 kilometers away.

Air traffic

The closest airport is Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport . It is about 40 kilometers away in Büren - Ahden .

Biking and hiking trails

The Teutoburg Forest wellness cycle route , which is around 500 kilometers long and designed as a circular cycle path, leads through Bad Driburg. Nine cycle routes (including four short routes), four trekking routes and four mountain bike tours are signposted in the city area.

You can hike on the eighteen-kilometer circular Sachsenring around the city and the Eggeweg , which leads through the city, and on a further 20 hiking trails, some of which are also laid out as circular hiking trails.

In September 2010, the network of hiking trails was supplemented by four routes as part of the “Teuto-Vital-Wanderwelt”. It is a cross-city project of the OWL-Marketing-Gesellschaft, in which hiking trails for medical applications are defined.

media

The daily newspapers from Mondays to Saturdays are the Westfalen-Blatt and the Neue Westfälische , each of which gets its cover from the central editorial offices located in Bielefeld. Both newspapers report in the local section about Bad Driburg and the surrounding communities. The responsible local editorial office of the Westfalen-Blatt is based in the neighboring town of Brakel , that of the Neue Westfälische in Höxter, 25 kilometers away . 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. In addition, the Bad Driburger Kurier newspaper is published free of charge once a month . The city of Bad Driburg's newsletter is also published free of charge .

Bad Driburg belongs to the reporting area of the regional studio Bielefeld of the WDR . Furthermore, the city belongs to the broadcasting area of Radio Hochstift , which it covers in the reporting as local radio.

Digital infrastructure

The broadband coverage in the core city of Bad Driburg and its localities is very different and overall below average when compared to NRW. In 1988/89, a coaxial cable network was largely set up in the core city and in Siebenstern , which in some cases enables download rates of up to 400 Mbit / s. Innogy has been partially expanding FTTC in the core city since 2017 . Around 50% of all cable distributors are connected with fiber optics, the others with copper cross cables. Download rates of up to 120 Mbit / s are possible in some cases. In the localities there is only classic DSL with download rates of up to 6 Mbit / s; this was partially supplemented in 2012 by directional radio. FTTC expansion is also planned for these locations. This should enable download rates of now "reliably at least" 50 Mbit / s.

Public facilities

There are two outdoor pools in the city, the leisure pool in the city center and the Eggefreibad Neuenheerse. There is also a municipal indoor pool and the Driburg Therme, the latter with a thermal area, sauna and gastronomy.

The city library located in the city center holds around 15,000 titles.

Due to its status as a spa town, Bad Driburg has a number of clinics. These are the Park Clinic Bad Hermannsborn, the Rosenberg Clinic, the Knappschaft Clinic, the Dreizehnlinden Clinic, the St. Josef Spital ( acute clinic ), the Berlin Rehabilitation Clinic, the Marcus Clinic and the Caspar Heinrich Clinic.

The Brakel District Court is responsible for the lower jurisdiction in Bad Driburg.

The Bad Driburg volunteer fire brigade consists of three fire engines . Fire fighting train 1 is based in the core city. Fire fighting train 2 has fire fighting groups in Neuenheerse, Herste, Dringenberg and Kühlsen. Fire fighting train 3 has fire fighting groups in Alhausen, Reelsen, Pömbsen and Langeland-Erpentrup.

With the quiet forest of the city of Bad Driburg, located in the Neuenheerse district, Bad Driburg has a currently unusual burial place.

education

The city offers a variety of school types. There are two primary schools distributed throughout the city, the community primary school in Bad Driburg, with sub-locations in Pömbsen and Neuenheerse, and the community primary school in Dringenberg.

The secondary schools in secondary level I and II include the newly founded Bad Driburg comprehensive school , the St. Xaver high school and the St. Kaspar high school in Neuenheerse. The municipal grammar school was phased out in the 2013/14 school year. And for adult education the Bad Driburg, Brakel, Nieheim, Steinheim adult education centers. There is also a municipal music school and the Kolping Education Center in East Westphalia.

In the school year 2009/10, a total of 3,616 students were taught at all Bad Driburg schools (excluding adult education center, music school and education center) with 221 teachers, 801 of them at primary schools, 260 at secondary schools and 566 at secondary schools, 1874 at the three grammar schools, and 115 at the special needs school.

In addition to the city and private sponsors, the Catholic parishes and the Protestant church also run kindergartens.

Established businesses

Glas-Koch company headquarters in the Herste district

B & E Antriebselemente GmbH, foundry: aluminum and gray cast iron (V-belt pulleys, drive pulleys, artificial casting, replicas of historical models)
Glass chef (" Leonardo "), gift items made of glass, 362 employees
INTEG integration company for the handicapped, limited liability company, recognized workshop for handicapped people (WfbM) (electronics production, cable assembly, packaging services, machining technology and gardening and landscaping), approx. 600 employees
Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff group of companies (health services: clinics, hotels, beauty farm, Bad Driburger Naturparkquellen), 829 employees
Ritzenhoff & Breker (glass, porcelain, ceramics, gifts), 250 employees
Wieneke Anlagenbau- & Verfahrenstechnik GmbH, system supplier for sheet metal assemblies, approx. 90 employees.
Wieneke Color GmbH, powder coating of metal parts
Elektro Beckhoff, building technology, approx. 800 employees
Goeken Backen, large bakery, approx. 400 employees

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The Clemens Hofbauer College

Heinrich Bunne (* 1834; † 1922), councilor for 30 years

Ferdinand Gildemeister, businessman, city councilor since 1904, city councilor chief (1910) and alderman, granted honorary citizenship in 1924

Josef Stock, Mayor from December 1, 1903 to December 1, 1933, granted honorary citizenship in 1928

Bernhard Zimmermann (* 1880; † 1969), late-calling priest, papal honorary prelate , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, honorary citizen of the city of Bad Driburg, founder of the Clemens Hofbauer relief organization for late priest professions . V. , builder and rector of the old-language “Gymnasium Clementinum” in Bad Driburg, 1922–1966, the later Clemens-Hofbauer-Kolleg , 1966–1997, after its dissolution continued in the “Westfalen-Kolleg” and as a community in the “Klarissenkloster” Paderborn.

Bernhard Brinkmöller, Mayor from 1959 to 1975.

Carl Gustav Rommenhöller (* 1853 in Geldern; † 1931), manufacturer, founder of the carbon dioxide industry, Dr. Ing. Hc and numerous honors. In 1894, Rommenhöller opened up the carbon dioxide deposits along the “Driburg Axis” in Bad Driburg-Herste. The memorial in Herste has been commemorating him since 1932 in the style of Expressionism.

Heinz Koch (1907–1989), businessman (glass cook), honorary citizenship granted in 1984.

Konradkap (* 1931), chairman of the Eggegebirgsverein

Caspar Graf v. Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff (1926–2009), owner of the Driburg baths, granted honorary citizenship in 2001.

Wolfgang Breker (* 1935), entrepreneur, honorary citizenship granted in 2010.

Persons connected to Bad Driburg

Count Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff

Count Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff (1750–1842), founder of the Count's Baths
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber (1813–1894), doctor and poet from Dreizehnlinden , member of the Prussian state parliament for the constituency of Höxter / Warburg 1862–1893
Willy Lucas (1884–1918), landscape painter, was born in Bad Driburg
Heinrich Lünnemann († 1919), Medical Councilor, founded the Beautification Association in 1898 (since 1932 "Heimatverein Bad Driburg") and in 1900 the Eggegebirgsverein. On January 30, 1900 he became the first chairman. The "Lünnemannstein" (a local sandstone block) at the foot of the Iburg near the Sachsenring has been a reminder of the club's founder since the 25th year of existence.
Hermann von der Forst (* 1892 in Bad Driburg, † 1968 in Melle), entrepreneur and local politician (NSDAP) in Melle
Klaus J. Breidenbach (* 1941), typesetter, graduate in business administration and local history researcher, was born in Bad Driburg
Bernd Finkeldei (* 1947), painter, was born in Bad Driburg
Bernhard Grümme (* 1962), Roman Catholic theologian
Thomas Philipzen (* 1969), cabaret artist, presenter at WDR
Lilli Schwarzkopf (* 1983), athlete, lives in Bad Driburg (Siebenstern district). The heptathlete took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London .

Others

Beatrix of the Netherlands met her future husband Claus von Amsberg here in 1962 on a New Year's Eve visit with friends. In later years, Claus von Amsberg stayed in the city for a long time to convalesce .

literature

Willi Lippert: The Egge Mountains and its foreland. Hiking guide . Ed .: Eggegebirgsverein. 5th, exp. and revised Edition. Junfermann, Paderborn / Bad Driburg 1996, OCLC 68706765 .
Ursula Wichert-Pollmann, Josef Weskamp, Gerhard Nolte, Theodor Simon: Bad Driburg - Landscape, History, Volkstum . Ed .: City of Bad Driburg. Bad Driburg 1966.
Franz Schuknecht: Bad Driburg . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Geographical Commission (ed.): The district of Höxter. Cities and municipalities in Westphalia . tape 3 . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-87023-077-0 .
Ramona Countess of Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff (Hrsg.): The Countess Spa Driburg . Ruit, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0777-8 .
Horst-D. Krus: Gardens and parks in the Höxter district . Ed .: District of Höxter. Höxter 2004, ISBN 3-938013-00-1 .
Fred Kaspar: The Count's Bad Driburg (= Westphalian art sites . Issue 98). Munster 2004.
Fred Kaspar: Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg 1782 . Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-302-1 .
Oliver Karnau, Barbara Pankoke: Beautiful churches in East Westphalia-Lippe . Aschendorff, Münster 2004, p. 146-149 .
Anna Bálint: Castles, palaces and historical aristocratic residences in the Höxter district. Ed .: District Höxter, Höxter 2002, ISBN 3-00-009356-7 .
Hermann Großevollmer (Ed.): Bad Driburg: Epochs of City History . Aschendorff, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-13229-6 .

Film documentaries

The Counts of Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff . Episode 3 of the series Dynasties in NRW . Documentation by Jobst Knigge , Germany 2009. 45 minutes

Web links

Commons : Bad Driburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Bad Driburg - Sources and full texts

Wikivoyage: Bad Driburg - travel guide

City administration Bad Driburg
Bad Driburger Touristik GmbH - Tourist information
Bad Driburg 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 North Rhine-Westphalia, Geoscientific Community Description Bad Driburg ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Geological Service NRW: "Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis" ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)

↑ Table of the water and mineral spring protection areas. (No longer available online.) Bezreg-detmold.nrw.de, archived from the original on March 1, 2014 ; accessed on March 26, 2014 .

↑ ^a ^b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia : Municipal profile Bad Driburg ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b Main statutes of the city of Bad Driburg (PDF; 82 kB) from January 18, 2000.
↑ https://www.kreis-hoexter.de/unser-kreis/portrait/zahlen-daten-ffekten/m_3801
↑ German Weather Service: Monthly precipitation values of the German Weather Service (1961–1990) ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ( ZIP ; 349 kB)
↑ Bad Driburg climate , monthly highs and lows for the period 1996–2007, mean temperature mean for the period 1961–1990.
^ Wilhelm Kohl (ed.): Westphalian history. Volume I: From the Beginnings to the End of the Old Kingdom. 1983, ISBN 3-590-34211-0 , p. 280, quote: "..castrum Iuberg (perhaps more the engraved Iburg near Bad Driburg than the Westphalian near Osnabrück) .."
↑ Heinrich Gottfried Gengler: Regesten and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages. Erlangen 1863, pp. 903-905.
↑ Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff: About the forest education, conservation and use of the most excellent domestic wood species. Volume 1: oak. 1796, Volume 2: Spruce. 1813.
^ Anna Bálint: Castles, palaces and historical aristocratic residences in the Höxter district . Ed .: District of Höxter. Höxter 2002, ISBN 3-00-009356-7 , p. 34-37 .
^ Driburger Zeitung of September 16, 1919, Bad Driburg City Archives
^ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Citizens Service: Law on the reorganization of the Höxter district
^ 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. 323 .
^ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Citizens Service: Sauerland / Paderborn Law
↑ State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia: Municipal statistics of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: population development 1816–1871 . Düsseldorf 1966, p. 195.

↑ State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia: Municipal statistics of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Population development 1871–1961 . Düsseldorf 1964, pp. 386-387.

↑ State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia: The resident population in the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1970 . Düsseldorf 1972, p. 41.

↑ State Office for Data Processing, Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia: Special series on the 1987 census in North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 1.1: Population, private households and employed persons. Düsseldorf 1989, p. 110.