Erndtebrück
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ N , 8 ° 15 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Siegen-Wittgenstein | |
| Height : | 490 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 70.98 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 6934 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 98 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 57339 | |
| Area code : | 02753 | |
| License plate : | SI, BLB | |
| Community key : | 05 9 70 012 | |
| LOCODE : | DE ERN | |
| Community structure: | 9 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Talstrasse 27 57339 Erndtebrück |
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| Mayor : | Henning Gronau ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Erndtebrück in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district | ||
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Erndtebrück is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .
geography
Geographical location
The core of the municipality of Erndtebrück is located in the southern part of the Rothaargebirge at the confluence of the Benfe in the upper reaches of the Eder coming from the southwest . The Ebschloh rises to the south . ( 686.3 m above sea level ) It is the highest mountain in the municipality. To the north of the town center, on a ridge, is the Hachenberg barracks of the former Air Force technical school .
Neighboring communities
Erndtebrück borders the cities of Netphen , Hilchenbach , Bad Berleburg and Bad Laasphe as well as Kirchhundem in the Olpe district .
Community structure
The municipality of Erndtebrück comprises nine districts :
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climate
With its height of around 500 m and its geographical location on the south-western edge of the Rothaargebirge, Erndtebrück has a very rough and cool climate. Especially on clear and windless nights, the temperature can drop sharply here in the upper Edertal. In the winter of 2009/10 alone it fell below the −20 ° C mark four times (lowest value −23.4 ° C on December 20, 2009). It was even colder on the morning of January 7, 2009 when -24.2 ° C was measured. In winter 2011/2012, -24 ° C was reached again. Even in the summer months there can be frost in the Edertal. This makes Erndtebrück one of the coldest places in northwest Germany in terms of minimum temperatures.
In contrast, the location in this wide and quite flat valley, with appropriate sun support, also favors high daytime temperatures. The annual average is around 6.5 ° C. The precipitation is around 1300 to 1400 mm, twice as high as, for example, in the Cologne Bay.
history
Erndtebrück was first mentioned in 1256. Initially the place was known as Ermingardibrugge and was the seat of a knight family and later a customs office with market rights .
Around 1502 the village was called Irmgardtenbrucken. The village was not called Erndtebrück until 1819. The current official spelling of the place name appeared for the first time in 1732, but it was not until the middle of the 19th century that it became established. In all versions, the personal name Irmin appears next to the name Brücke, albeit in a spelling due to sound changes. The first name Irmin was a popular first name among the Germans. In 1265 and 1283, Dominus Conradus de Ermingardebrugge miles, mentioned several times at the beginning, appeared as a witness, most recently when Wittgenstein was donated to the Caldern monastery.
In 1944 and 1945, Erndtebrück experienced heavy air raids by the USAAF as a railway junction . The attacks claimed over 100 lives.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1975, the municipalities of Balde, Benfe, Birkefehl, Birkelbach, Schameder, Womelsdorf and Zinse were dissolved on the occasion of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia. Together with parts of the former municipalities of Amtshausen and Stünzel, they were incorporated into the municipality of Erndtebrück.
Population development
The following figures are not those of the State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia. It can therefore be assumed that the second residences were also included. The figures are as of December 31st.
- 1992: 8498 inhabitants
- 1995: 8494 inhabitants
- 1997: 8418 inhabitants
- 2000: 8162 inhabitants
- 2002: 8068 inhabitants
- 2005: 7965 inhabitants
- 2007: 7881 inhabitants
- 2010: 7588 inhabitants
- 2012: 7591 inhabitants
- 2016: 7106 inhabitants
- 2018: 7351 inhabitants
Religions
The Catholic parish Christ the King has existed in Erndtebrück since the mid-1950s . This came about due to the high number of refugees who came to Erndtebrück and the surrounding area after the Second World War . The refugees, who mostly came from Silesia, had to make do with a temporary arrangement until 1954, when the new church in Birkenweg was built. On October 31, 1954, the altar of the Christ the King Church was inaugurated by the then Archbishop of Paderborn, Lorenz Cardinal Jäger. The four bells from Erndtebrück were manufactured on October 23, 1961 by the bell foundry company Rincker in Sinn .
politics
Municipal council
The 22 seats of the municipal council are distributed as follows:
(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )
mayor
In the mayoral election on September 13, 2015, Henning Gronau (SPD) was elected as the new mayor with 51.42% of the vote.
Before that, Karl Ludwig Völkel (SPD) had been directly elected mayor of Erndtebrück since the 2004 local elections. His predecessors in office included Klaus-Dieter Scheffrahn (CDU) († 1995).
Town twinning
In 1973 the partnership between the northern French town of Bergues and the municipality of Erndtebrück was established.
Culture and sights
Buildings
The powder forest stadium , built in 1924, serves as the home ground of TuS Erndtebrück .
Stumbling blocks
Of the more than 46,000 Stolpersteine laid worldwide , 10 Stolpersteine are in Erndtebrück .
Natural monuments
Sports
The sporting figurehead of the community is the first men's soccer team of TuS Erndtebrück , which was promoted to the regional soccer league West in the 2014/2015 season . After relegation to the Oberliga Westfalen in 2016, the club rose again immediately, so that it has been playing fourth-rate football again since the 2017/18 season.
rose Garden
A small rose park has been under construction at the Old Cemetery since April 2013. It is a purely privately financed and organized project. Over 300 different varieties are planted.
Local museum
The local history museum shows in the old town hall u. a. a doll and bear room, a school classroom and a large railway system with the Erndtebrück train station as the center.
Regular events
- Fun run on May 1st
- Various shooting festivals take place in almost all districts from June to August every year.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The community is connected to the neighboring towns via the federal highways 62 and 480 .
The Erndtebrück station was opened in 1888, is a separation station and is located at 28.8 kilometers of the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway and 0.0 of the Erndtebrück – Bad Berleburg railway . The Rothaarbahn passenger trains run in the direction of Betzdorf (via Siegen ) and Bad Berleburg , those of the Oberen Lahntalbahn run every two hours via Bad Laasphe and Biedenkopf in the direction of Marburg . The station has four platform tracks and some freight and side tracks. The station will be modernized by Deutsche Bahn from July 2016, but the station building will be retained. The platforms will be barrier-free.
Until 1944 there was a railway connection to Altenhundem with the Altenhundem – Birkelbach line , but its bridges were blown up by retreating units of the German army during the war . Some of the tunnel sections are still preserved.
In May 2016, the regional passenger transport association Westphalia-Süd announced that it would set up three new night bus routes in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district by December 31, 2016 as a trial offer. The night bus line 7 of the trial offer ran from Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday between Siegen , Netphen , Erndtebrück and Bad Berleburg . The offer was discontinued due to a lack of demand.
Erndtebrück has the Schameder airfield .
Long-distance cycle routes
The following cycle paths lead through Erndtebrück :
- The 180 km long Eder cycle path begins in the Rothaargebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia and is called here Ederauenweg . The largest part leads through Hesse and is then called the Eder cycle path . It follows the course of the Eder to its confluence with the Fulda (river) near Guxhagen .
- A cycle path on the Orange Route connects the cities of Diez, Nassau, Braunfels, Dillenburg, Siegen and Bad Arolsen, which have been closely linked to the royal family of the Netherlands for many centuries, over around 400 kilometers.
Industry and commerce
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The headquarters of the Erndtebrück ironworks are located on the outskirts of Erndtebrück . Further industrial and commercial areas are available in the community in Jägersgrund and in the intermunicipal industrial park Wittgenstein in Schameder . The Wittgenstein biomass cogeneration plant is located there, with an output of 5 MW (electrical) and 30 MW (thermal). A production plant for pellets is connected to this.
Public facilities
Authorities
In addition to the municipal administration, the town hall also has a branch office of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district job center , a citizens' office and the registry office.
armed forces
The Hachenberg barracks is located in Erndtebrück . This is the location of the operational management area 2 (formerly V teaching group of Technical School 2, from 1994 then V teaching group of Technical School 1 ) of the Air Force , the Control and Reporting Center with new ECM-hardened above-ground operations building, the system support center for the command services of the Air Force , a paramedic for the medical care of soldiers with a total of 860 posts and operates a phased array radar system of the type GM 406F for air defense. The disused air defense bunker Erndtebrück is also located near the village and is now partly used as a museum.
education
Erndtebrück is home to five kindergartens and two schools. These are the Erndtebrück primary school and the Erndtebrück secondary school . The secondary school named Rothaarsteig-Schule was closed in July 2016 due to the insufficient number of pupils, as the school laws did not allow continuation.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Heinrich Lange (1853–1920), chemist, first director of the Royal Dyeing and Finishing School in Krefeld
- Wilhelm Busch (1861–1929), instrument maker and father of the musicians and actors Fritz , Adolf , Willi , Hermann and Heinrich Busch.
- Ludwig Bald (1902–1945), historian and author of the territorial history of the Siegerland .
- Ewald Belz (1902–1978), politician
- Erwin Klotz (1906–1989), Senior Building Director at the Senator for Building and Housing in Berlin, "Father of the Berlin Autobahn"
- Heinz Müller (1914 – unknown), politician and former mayor of the community
- Werner Wied (1917–2011), educator and local researcher.
- Walter Kiss (* 1961), politician
Other personalities associated with the community
- Nicolaus Martin (1780–1869), German manufacturer and politician
Honorary citizen
- Paul Meißner (1876–1962), doctor
literature
- Günther Wrede : Territorial history of the county of Wittgenstein. NG Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung (G.Braun), Marburg 1927.
- Edgar Dietrich: Erndtebrück - The way it used to be . Volume I-III. Horb am Neckar 1987–1989
- Edgar Dietrich: Erndtebrück 100 years of the railway junction, the village of the railway workers . Horb am Neckar 1988
- Edgar Dietrich: 125 years of Erndtebrücker Schützenverein, the Erndtebrücker Schützenwesen . Horb am Neckar 1992
- Edgar Dietrich: When bombs fell from the sky . Erndtebrück 1995
- Edgar Dietrich: From Turnerplatz to the Pulverwaldstadion, the life's work of our gymnastics brother A. Willi Weber, Chronicle of the gymnastics and sports club 1895 e. V. Erndtebrück . Erndtebrück 1995
- Erndtebrück - a home book of the uppermost Edertal , volumes I and II. Edited by Werner Wied. Hunting Association Erndtebrück, Erndtebrück 1977
- 750 years of Erndtebrück . Published by Adolf Laues, Guido Schneider, Joachim Völkel and Wilhelm Völkel on behalf of the Association 750 Years of Erndtebrück e. V. Erndtebrück 2006
- Andreas Krüger: Erwin Klotz - father of the Berlin highways . In: Zeitschrift Wittgenstein , Volume 70/2006, Issue 4, pp. 126-130
- Willi Mues: The big cauldron. A documentary about the end of the Second World War between Lippe and Ruhr / Sieg and Lenne . Erwitte 1984.
- Peter Schneider: Spies in the Sky, Allied aerial reconnaissance in the Wittgenstein area during and after the Second World War. ISBN 3-87816-092-5 , Erndtebrück 1996.
- Peter Schneider: On the Reichsautobahn from Erndtebrück to Wunderthausen. Planning for a motorway through the Rothaar Mountains. In: Wittgenstein magazine , volume 81/2017, issue 1, pp. 19–45
Web links
- Erndtebrück municipality
- Bibliography Wittgenstein, a collection of references to the Wittgenstein region (with numerous references to Erndtebrück)
- Erndtebrück 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 )
- ^ Günther Wrede: Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein. NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (G.Braun), Marburg 1927, pp. 148–149.
- ^ 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. 337 .
- ↑ Population of the municipality of Erndtebrück and its districts from 1992 to 2012: Click on the download of the population statistics of the municipality of Ernstebrück since 1992 ! ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Results of the 2009 local elections. Accessed November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Official announcement of the municipality of Erndtebrück ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Municipality of Erndtebrück - overall result , accessed on December 9, 2015
- ↑ Honoring the dead , Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1996, p. 41, 71st edition, publisher Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature
- ↑ derwesten.de, Ten "stumbling blocks" warn in Erndtebrück , as of September 12, 2015
- ↑ siegener-zeitung.de
- ↑ Bus N7-N9: Night bus trial offer for Wittgenstein and Neunkirchen - Burbach. In: zws-online.de. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016 ; Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Test failed: express bus in Wittgenstein is discontinued. In: Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Archived from the original on March 6, 2017 ; Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Reference: BMVg, The Armed Forces of the Bundeswehr in Germany, October 2011.
- ↑ Kindergartens. erndtebrueck.de, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Summer holidays at the Rothaarsteig School - forever . In: Siegener Zeitung. Wittgenstein edition . July 9, 2016.
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