Erwitte
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ' N , 8 ° 21' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Soest | |
| Height : | 105 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 89.41 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 16,065 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 180 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 59597 | |
| Primaries : | 02943, 02945 | |
| License plate : | SO, LP | |
| Community key : | 05 9 74 016 | |
| LOCODE : | DE ADV | |
| City structure: | 15 districts | |
City administration address : |
Am Markt 13 59597 Erwitte |
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| Mayor : | Peter Wessel ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Erwitte in the Soest district | ||
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Erwitte ( ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Soest district .
geography
Geographical location
Erwitte is located in Westphalia , about 8 km south of Lippstadt , 15 km east of Soest , about 60 km from Dortmund and 30 km west of Paderborn . The highest point is in the south-eastern part of the city at 183.8 m above sea level. NN and the lowest northwest of the district Böckum at 75.5 m above sea level. NN.
Expansion and use of the urban area
The city, classified as a "Major Small Town", covers an area of 89.41 square kilometers. The extension of the urban area in north-south direction is around seven kilometers, in east-west direction 15.5 kilometers. Most of the urban area is used for agriculture.
| Area according to type of use |
Building, open and operational space |
Recreation and cemetery area |
Traffic area |
Agricultural schafts- area |
Forest area |
Surface of water |
Bog, heather, unland |
Quarrying land |
Areas of other use |
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| Area in km² | 7.96 | 0.82 | 4.86 | 70.7 | 2.18 | 0.87 | 0.99 | 1.02 | 0.01 |
| Share of total area | 8.9% | 0.9% | 5.4% | 79.1% | 2.4% | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0% |
Neighboring communities
Erwitte borders the city of Lippstadt to the north , the city of Geseke to the east, the city of Rüthen to the southwest , the municipality of Anröchte to the south and the municipality of Bad Sassendorf to the west .
City structure
Erwitte is divided into 15 districts .
| Locality | Residents | surface | Mayor |
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| Bad Westernkotten | 4648 | 13.2 km² | Wolfgang Marcus (SPD) |
| Berenbrock | 293 | 3.45 km² | Rita Ahle (CDU) |
| Böckum | 245 | Ulrich du Mont (CDU) | |
| Ebbinghausen | 225 | Teresa Klause-Deimel (CDU) | |
| Eikeloh | 492 | 7.73 km² | Theodor Antonius Kaiser (CDU) |
| Erwitte | 6595 | Lothar Spenner (CDU) | |
| Horn Millinghausen | 951 | 3.24 km² | Martin Nienhaus (SPD) |
| Merklinghausen-Wiggeringhausen | 165 | Franz Große Kleemann (CDU) | |
| North village | 143 | Jürgen Werner (CDU) | |
| Schallern | 307 | 3.55 km² | Ralf Gärtner (FDP) |
| Loach | 680 | Mario Bussmann (SPD) | |
| Seringhausen | 80 | 3.22 km² | Meinolf Hatte (CDU) |
| Stirpe | 1010 | 5.56 km² | Michael Peitz (CDU) |
| Völlinghausen | 753 | 7.73 km² | Hubert Hense |
| Weckinghausen | 63 | 2.24 km² | Hubert Rickert-Schulte jun. (CDU) |
history
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St. Laurentius Erwitte and the town church of St. Petri Geseke were the only original parishes between Soest and Paderborn. Tradition from Corvey shows that the place existed in the 9th century. The place was at the intersection of Hellweg and Lipperweg. Several kings and emperors were guests in the royal court there. Henry I in particular stayed there in 935 and issued various documents there. King Heinrich II donated some goods in the area to Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. Conrad II donated the Curia regis in Erwitte to the diocese of Paderborn in 1027. A chapel belonged to the royal court. This was the oldest church building in the area. The parish rights, however, had the Laurentiuskirche , which is subordinate to the Archbishops of Cologne . Under Archbishop Sigewin von Are this was placed under the patrol monastery in Soest.
In the Middle Ages, the place and the surrounding area were the seat of various important noble families. Among them were the gentlemen von Erwitte . A market already existed in 1027. But Erwitte did not develop into a city in the legal sense in the Middle Ages.
The Cologne archbishops are in 1256 as the owner of the local Goger othing testified for the first time. Erwitte was therefore often controversial between Cologne and Paderborn. In the 17th century, the Landsberg zu Erwitte family managed to unite both the Electorate of Cologne's Drostenamt Erwitte and the hereditary office of the Erwitte-Westerkotten royal court district in one hand. They built the Erwitte Castle. The Droste zu Erwitte family built the Erwitte house .
During the time of the witch hunt around 1630, witch commissioner Heinrich Schultheiss led the witch trials in Erwitte. In 1630 the Westerkötter complained that “unfortunately this inquisition, execution and extermination of the witches was being passed too indulgently”. The hermaphrodite pastor Jodocus Boget was burned at the stake in 1630 for witchcraft .
It was only after the cement industry began to boom in the 1920s that Erwitte was promoted to town in 1936.
During the time of National Socialism , a Reich training castle of the DAF and the NSDAP was housed in the Erwitter Castle . From 1959 to 1970 Erwitte was the location of the anti-aircraft missile battalion 21 (Fla Rak Btl 21) and the battalion's 2nd battery. The units were housed in Erwitte Castle, the local castle. In 1970 the company moved to Echtrop am Möhnesee.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1975, the previous city of Erwitte and the municipalities of Bad Westernkotten, Berenbrock, Böckum, Ebbinghausen, Eikeloh, Horn-Millinghausen, Merklinghausen-Wiggeringhausen, Norddorf, Schallern, Schmerlecke, Seringhausen, Stirpe became, according to Section 46 of the Münster / Hamm Act , Völlinghausen and Weckinghausen merged to form a new community. The community received the name Erwitte and the right to use the designation "city". The Erwitte office was dissolved. The newly formed town of Erwitte became the legal successor.
politics
Municipal council
The 34 seats in the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows since the local elections on May 25, 2014 :
mayor
Currently, the office of Mayor Peter Wessel of the CDU / FDP is held .
Coat of arms, flag and seal
The city of Erwitte was granted the right to use a coat of arms (Section 3 (1) of the main statute), which is almost identical to the coat of arms of the former Erwitte office, in a certificate from the District President in Arnsberg dated December 21, 1977 .
“Split by gold and red. In front an upright red, gold-crowned lion , in the back an oblique left golden house brand-like symbol in the form of a wolf's tang with a crossbar . "
meaning
The colors are those of the Corvey Monastery (first documented mention of Erwittes), the lion comes from the coat of arms of the Knights of Erwitte, the house brand-like symbol is interpreted as a salt hook and is attached to the steeple of the Johannes Church in Bad Westernkotten
Flag and banner
The city of Erwitte was also granted the right to carry a flag and a banner in a certificate from the District President in Arnsberg dated December 21, 1977 (Section 3 (2) of the main statute).
Description of the flag:
From yellow to red in a ratio of 1: 1, the city's coat of arms is in the middle.
Description of the banner:
From yellow to red in a ratio of 1: 1, striped lengthways, in the middle of the upper half of the city's coat of arms. "
seal
In addition, the city of Erwitte was granted the right to use an official seal by a certificate from the District President in Arnsberg dated December 21, 1977. (Section 3 (3) of the main statutes)
"Description of the seal:
The seal shows the coat of arms of the city and has the legend STADT in capital letters at the top and ERWITTE at the bottom."
Town twinning
There is a partnership with the city of Aken in Saxony-Anhalt .
Culture and sights
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There are numerous sights in Erwitte itself and in the associated communities. These include:
- the historic town hall
- the royal court from the time of Charlemagne
- the Westphalian Hellweg
- the castle grounds with the festival hall
- the Laurentius Church in Romanesque style from the 9th century with a high tower
- the Erwitte Castle of the Counts of Landsberg
- the so-called Böllhoffhaus with the home parlor
- the home courtyard
- the graduation tower and the Schäferkämper watermill in Westernkotten
- the historic windmill in Schmerlecke (1831)
- the KONTRASTE gallery of the artist couple Evelyn and José Ocón (also in Horn).
- In 2010 two new discovered gallery graves of 20 and 25 m in length were excavated in Erwitte-Schmerlecke .
Groups and clubs related to music
- Tambourkorps Musikverein Bad Westernkotten
- DJK Fanfarenzug Erwitte
- Erwitter children's and youth choir competition
- GFF (Society of Friends and Supporters of Classical Concerts in Erwitte)
- Hellwegmusikanten Erwitte e. V.
- Erwitte hunting horn blower corps
- Church choir Cäcilia
- Men's Choir 1885 Erwitte e. V.
- Erwitte Music School
- Tambourcorps Erwitte 1906 eV
- Bad Westernkotten brass orchestra
- Vocal ensemble Erwitte
Parks
- the city park with the castle bath
- the spa park in the Bad Westernkotten district
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Erwitte is on the federal highway 44 . Bundesstrasse 1 and Bundesstrasse 55 intersect in the village . The Münster – Warstein railway line , which runs through Erwitte, is the main line of the Westphalian State Railway and is used by this for freight traffic.
Established businesses
- Theodor Heimeier Metallwerk , manufacturer of heating fittings
- Schlüter Baumaschinen GmbH
- Spenner cement works
- Gebr. Seibel cement works
- Wittekind cement plant
- Hella Distribution
- Franz Bracht crane rental company
- Schäffer Maschinenfabrik GmbH
- Springs Brand (Branch)
- Material testing office NRW, Erwitte branch, fire testing center
- Volksbank Erwitte, branch of Volksbank Beckum-Lippstadt
- BTM [Europe] Blechverbindstechnik GmbH
education
- Erich Kästner Elementary School Erwitte
- Astrid Lindgren Primary School Bad Westernkotten
- Cyriakus primary school Horn-Millinghausen
- Laurentiusschule Erwitte secondary school
- Erwitte municipal high school
- Secondary school Anröchte / Erwitte
- Special school with the special focus language "Lindenschule" in the district of Bad Westernkotten (responsible for the district of Soest)
- Erwitte Music School
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Placidus von Droste (1641–1700), prince abbot of Fulda
- Ferdinand Franz von Landsberg zu Erwitte (1643–1682), canon in Hildesheim, Münster and Osnabrück
- Friedrich Kreilmann (1719–1786), Abbot of the Grafschaft Monastery
- Edmund Rustige (1746–1816), last abbot of the Grafschaft monastery
- Engelbert Pape (1827–1909), Prussian civil servant and railway director
- Gerd Offenberg (1897–1987), architect and construction clerk
- Friedrich Blumenröhr (* 1936), lawyer, presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1992 to 2001
- Hans Janke (* 1944), journalist and media manager
- Ulrich Cyran (* 1956), actor and lecturer
- Christof Rasche (* 1962), politician (FDP)
- Wolfgang Schäfers (* 1965), holder of the chair for real estate management at the University of Regensburg
- René Schulthoff (* 1972), journalist, reporter and editor
People connected to the place
- Jodocus Boget († 1630), Erwitter pastor, burned at the stake for witchcraft
- Heinrich Gersmeier (nickname: Schäfer Heinrich ) (* 1966), farmer and pop singer from Völlinghausen
See also
literature
- Westphalian City Atlas, Volume VI, 2nd Part. On behalf of the Historical Commission for Westphalia and with the support of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, ed. by Heinz Stoob † and Wilfried Ehbrecht. City map Erwitte, author: Wilfried Ehbrecht. Dortmund / Altenbeken 1999, ISBN 3-89115-940-4 .
- Mayor Maurer (Ed.): 1100 years of Erwitte. Westfälische Vereindruckerei, Münster 1936.
- Clemens Böckmann: The Jewish Community in Erwitte - The processing of almost 300 years of Jewish history in a small town. Soest district, Erwitte 1986.
Web links
- Website of the city of Erwitte
- Document registers from the general archive of Landsberg-Velen with holdings on the castle and town of Erwitte / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Erwitte 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 )
- ↑ Municipal profile of Erwitte. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), September 21, 2015, archived from the original on January 9, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ City of Erwitte: [1] (Status: 01.02.2019, accessed on 16.03.2019; PDF; 9 kB)
- ↑ Roger Wilmans : The Imperial Documents of the Province of Westphalia 777–1313, Volume 2 The documents of the years 901–1254. Edited by F. Philippi. Regensberg, Münster 1881 ( online ).
- ↑ Mayor Maurer (Ed.): 1100 years of Erwitte . Westfälische Vereindruckerei, Münster 1936, p. 296 .
- ↑ see manual of the historical sites of Germany. Vol. 3: North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart 1970, p. 210f.
- ↑ Critical notes on dealing with the National Socialist legacy in Erwitte
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Münster / Hamm ( Münster / Hamm Law ). 9 July 1974
- ^ 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. 334 .
- ↑ http://www.wahlresults.nrw.de/kommunalwahlen/2014/aktuell/c974016kw1400.html
- ↑ a b c Main Statute of the City of Erwitte ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 112 kB)
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^ City of Erwitte - city arms ; compare the blazon according to § 3 paragraph 1 of the main statute of the city of Erwitte ( memento of the original of July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 112 kB): “Split by yellow and red; in front a red, yellow-crowned lion, behind a diagonally left, crossed yellow double hook. "
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Erwitte Castle and City Park in LWL GeodatenKultur
- ^ Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe: Bad Westernkotten spa gardens in LWL GeodatenKultur
