Espelkamp

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Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Detmold
Circle : Minden-Lübbecke
Height : 50 m above sea level NHN
Area : 84.21 km 2
Residents: 24,782 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 294 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 32339
Primaries : 05772, 05743
License plate : MI
Community key : 05 7 70 008
City structure: 9 parts of the community

City administration address :
Wilhelm-Kern-Platz 1
32339 Espelkamp
Website : www.espelkamp.de
Mayor : Heinrich Vieker ( CDU )
Location of the city of Espelkamp in the Minden-Lübbecke district
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Espelkamp  [ ˈɛsplkamp ] ( Low German : Espelkämpe ) is a city in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the Minden-Lübbecke district in the Detmold administrative district ( Ostwestfalen-Lippe ). Please click to listen!Play

Espelkamp was first mentioned in a document in 1229 and grew up in the second half of the 20th century on the remains of a former army ammunition facility, initially as a camp for war refugees and later as a modern planned settlement for displaced persons and immigrants to the city.

geography

Geographical location

Espelkamp is located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia , in the north of East Westphalia-Lippe and in the northwest of the Minden-Lübbecke district . In terms of culture, Espelkamp is located in the Mindener Land and Lübbecker Land. The closest major cities are Osnabrück (40 km southwest) and Bielefeld (40 km south) and the district town of Minden (20 km east).

The urban area is around 15 km north of the Wiehengebirge and completely in the North German Plain . The area is therefore largely flat; there are no striking mountains. The hill in Fabbenstedt, which barely towers above its surroundings, is the highest point in the city at almost 70 meters. Otherwise, the urban area is on average at a height of around 45 meters, individual areas in the north-west of the city on the Great Aue only just over 40 meters. Espelkamp is still in the old moraine area Rahden-Diepenauer Geest - a natural sub-unit of the Dümmer- Geest lowland .

The urban area is bounded in the south by the Mittelland Canal , which has been running through the Weser glacial valley north of the Bastau since 1915 . In this valley, Moore found as belonging to Lübbecke bog Large peat bog . It should be emphasized in Espelkamp city the fen Old Moor and the free Moor in the southeast of the urban area. In the northern part of the city and in the moors in the east, the area is drained through numerous drainage channels. The largest "classic" rivers in the city include the Große Aue , which flows through the city in the west from south to north, and its tributary Kleine Aue , which rises near Espelkamp-Isenstedt and flows through the city to the north. With the Wiekriede , another larger tributary of the Große Aue rises near Frotheim , which leaves the urban area to the northeast towards Diepenau . The urban area thus belongs completely to the catchment area of ​​the Weser . There are two dammed lakes on the Große Aue, west of Espelkamp center: the Große Auesee and the bathing lake See am Kleihügel . The fork pond is in the city center .

geology

Geothermal map of Espelkamp

The geological structure of the area is relatively uniform. Most of the parts are made of Quaternary rocks . Individual hills are made up of layers of the uppermost chalk . The floors consist predominantly of geest floors . These are sandy and not very fertile. In the moorland, the area can only be used extensively for agriculture.

Espelkamp is moderately to good, in individual layers very well suited for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of a geothermal probe and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see the adjacent map).

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Hille in the east, Lübbecke in the south, Preußisch Oldendorf in the southwest, Stemwede in the west, Rahden in the north (all Minden-Lübbecke district) and the Lower Saxony joint community Uchte ( district of Nienburg / Weser ) in the northeast.

Expansion and use of the urban area

The municipality covers an area of ​​84.1 km². The urban area extends around 10 km in north-south direction. The west-east extension is a maximum of about 13 km.

Like all of Mindener Land, Espelkamp is also dominated by agriculture. There are larger forest areas immediately to the west (Kleihügel) and east ( Osterwald ) of the city center. The wooded portion is underrepresented in relation to the national average, but is well above the district average. This, and the fact that the city center was built in a former forest area and there are still larger stands of the original pine forest in the inner city area and the city center seems to be surrounded by forests, gave Espelkamp the reputation of a "city in the forest". This is one of the reasons why the center of Espelkamp used to be officially called Espelkamp-Mittwald. Unofficially, this term is still in use today. In detail, the following land use results:

Area
according to type of use
Agricultural
area
Forest
area
Settlement
and traffic areas

Surface of water
other
use
Area in ha 5,318 1,225 1,643 384 24
Share of total area 63.2% 14.6% 19.5% 2.3% 0.2%

Source: LDS

City structure

Since the territorial reform in 1973, the area of ​​the city of Espelkamp has been divided into the following localities according to Section 4 of its main statutes.

Locality Residents
June 30, 2014, including secondary residences
City structure
City structure
Old community Espelkamp 940
Fabbenstedt 847
Feast 1,039
Frotheim 2,664
Stringen 1,722
Isenstedt 2,624
Narrow 395
Failure 570
Espelkamp Center ¹ 15,304

¹ According to the wording of the main statute, Espelkamp Zentrum is a separate area, but is not officially a town.

In linguistic usage, these localities and the center are referred to as districts, with no distinction being made between the center and the old community. The city council can assign a local mayor to each of these localities and the center.

climate

Rahden climate diagram

The climate in Espelkamp is determined by its location in the ocean-continental transition area of Central Europe and by its location in the North German Plain. The area is mostly in the sub-Atlantic maritime climate , but has temporary continental influences . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic, the summers are moderately warm and the rainfall is relatively evenly distributed. Westerly and southwesterly winds predominate, which bring precipitation with them. Overall, the climate for Espelkamp hardly differs from the climate of neighboring Rahden , which is located in an identical natural area. The mean annual temperature is around 9.3 ° C. The average annual rainfall is around 650 mm in the east of the municipality and around 700 mm in the west and north of the municipality. This makes Espelkamp one of the driest and warmest areas in East Westphalia .

history

The map shows the situation in 1896: The areas of today's town of Espelkamp and the surrounding area used for agriculture were largely dominated by forests. For better orientation, the boundaries of the central urban development of Espelkamp (and Lübbeckes) and today's Mittelland Canal have been added

"Aspelekampe" was first mentioned in 1229 by the Bishop of Minden. The name is possibly derived from the noble Aspelkamp family who were resident in the area. Espelkamp remained in the sphere of influence of Großendorf (today Rahden) for centuries. Initially, the area was under the influence of the Minden bishops and was part of the Minden bishopric . With this it fell to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648 and became part of the Principality of Minden (Amt Rahden). According to a Royal Prussian ordinance, a secondary school was set up in 1701 “on Espelkamp”. Between 1806 and 1813/14 Espelkamp was under French rule. Between 1807 and 1810 it was part of the Minden district (canton Rahden) in the Weser department , which belonged to the French vassal state Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1811, the Minden district became an integral part of the French Empire as part of the department of the Upper Ems .

After 1813 Prussia regained control of the area; Espelkamp became part of the Westphalia province in 1816 and belonged to the newly founded Rahden district . Espelkamp was a dependent village in the municipality of Großendorf (Rahden district) for a long time. In 1832 the secondary school was elevated to an independent school. In 1899 Espelkamp received a station on the Ravensberger Bahn . On April 1, 1910, Espelkamp was spun off from Großendorf and became an independent municipality in the Rahden district. The young community had hardly any fertile and moist soils, so that around 1930 many people were forced to look for work in Holland ( Holland-goers ).

The Heeres-Munitionsanstalt Lübbecke

In 1938/39 the decisive step was taken on the way to today's city. In the district of Mittwald , appropriately and strategically hidden in a forest area, the German army began building an ammunition plant ( Muna ). The official name was Heeres-Munitionsanstalt Lübbecke . 133 massive one-story buildings, a 20-kilometer-long road network, waterworks, ring main, sewage treatment plant, high-voltage connection, transformer station and a siding on the Herford-Bassum-Bremen railway line were built on around 250 hectares of forest .

Grenades were made in the Muna . The ammunition parts such as detonators and projectile blanks were delivered by the armaments industry and assembled and packaged here ready for firing. Ammunition parts and finished ammunition were stored on site. By the end of the war, an unfinished filling system was built to fill poison gas grenades with the nerve gas tabun . On April 4, 1945, the area was captured by Allied troops and the ammunition plant fell largely undamaged in their hands, because on March 28, the commander Major Küppers refused to have the facility blown up as ordered. The consequences for Espelkamp would have been incalculable.

Housing estate in Espelkamp

As early as June 1945, refugees and displaced persons were relocated to the barracks in the colony. H. the residential complex of the former ammunition plant. According to the provisions of the Potsdam Agreement , the ammunition plant was to be blown up. English demolition and evacuation teams were supposed to carry out the demolitions in Espelkamp. The British Colonel Steege , at that time commandant in the Lübbecke district, gave Pastor Diehl, the liaison officer of the Ev. Aid organization Westphalia to the British military government , the advice to use the buildings of the "Muna" for tasks of the aid organization. On July 20, the former labor service camp " Hedrichsdorf " was evacuated by the Paderborn group of the British Red Cross and there with the help of the Ev. Aid Organization Westphalia set up a children's rest home in which, for example, children from the bombed-out Ruhr area were accommodated. By November 4, 1946, the Muna had been cleared of ammunition and poison gas grenades; the task of the British evacuation command in the camp was thus over.

Conversion into a refugee city

Espelkamp-Mittwald south gate in October 1958
Parade 10 years Espelkamp-Mittwald on October 3, 1959, flag bearer of the country teams

Until the beginning of 1947, the explosions were carried out on the initiative of Pastor Karl Pawlowski (Ev. Hilfswerk Westfalen, today Evangelisches Johanneswerk eV) and Birger Forell (Swedish pastor) only to a limited extent. The Muna buildings were provisionally Karl Pawlowski and his Ev. Aid organization in Westphalia made available for charitable purposes. In October 1948, General Alex Bishop ordered the final cessation of the Muna blasting. Tough arguments began about the future conceptual orientation of the Muna settlement and its management. The diaconal entrepreneur Karl Pawlowski, who was the first to be awarded the contract for the Muna, wanted to establish a model ecclesiastical settlement with a high proportion of homes, hospitals and educational institutions under his leadership. His opponent was Max Ilgner , a former IG Farben manager who worked on behalf of the Stuttgart relief organization . He developed the concept of a free city oriented more towards economic interests with limited union and state control. Both concepts were ultimately rejected and Pawlowski and Ilgner were ousted. As a legacy of Karl Pawlowski's concept, the Ludwig-Steil-Hof was founded in October 1948 . He summarized the charitable institutions of the Ev. Relief Organization Westphalia on the site of the former Muna. The Evangelical Church and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia agreed on the concept of a secular commercial social housing estate. On October 4, 1949, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ev. Aid organization and the Evangelical Church in Westphalia created the Espelkamp GmbH development community for this purpose . Espelkamp-Mittwald has now developed into one of the large cities for displaced persons in Germany.

In 1950, the US reconstruction aid company Espelkamp declared it a "pilot project". The construction community was responsible for the overall construction and was recognized on December 1, 1951 as the organ of state housing policy . Apartments were built and industrial companies settled. On October 22, 1959, Espelkamp-Mittwald received its town charter and from then on was only called "City of Espelkamp". The until then so-called village Espelkamp is now called Alt-Espelkamp or also "Altgemeinde". On October 3, 1960, the trains of the Ravensberger Bahn stopped for the first time at the new station.

The new town hall was inaugurated on September 15, 1960. With 3756 votes against 234, the population of Espelkamp decided against separating the municipality of Alt-Espelkamp from the city of Espelkamp. On July 28, 1964, the city took over the public land and infrastructure that had previously been managed in trust by the construction community. On January 1, 1966, the city of Espelkamp became vacant and no longer belonged to the Rahden office. Territory was gained and ceded. The neighboring municipality of Rahden von Espelkamp received an area of ​​2.97 km 2 . Espelkamp received 99 hectares from Fabbenstedt, 48 hectares from Frotheim and 11 hectares fromtonsheide. On January 1, 1973, Espelkamp was enlarged to include some surrounding communities (see below).

In 1985 the lake on Kleihügel was given its destination. The Auesee became a nature reserve. In 1990 the ATOLL leisure pool was inaugurated. In 1997, after discussions in the council and in public, the acquisition and renovation of the Ellerburg by the city was rejected in a referendum with 79.8% of the votes. On October 12, 2004, Ulrike Vieker named a Lufthansa Canadair Jet 700 “Espelkamp” in Frankfurt .

Incorporations

After Espelkamp became vacant in 1966, it was significantly enlarged in the district reform on January 1, 1973 in accordance with the Bielefeld Act . The town of Espelkamp (consisting of the old community and Mittwald) was merged with some communities and villages in the Lübbecke district that were independent until December 31, 1972 to form the "new" town of Espelkamp. In detail these were:

  • from the previous office of Alswede, the municipalities of Vehlage and Fabbenstedt and the parts of the municipality of Alswede that were north of the Mittelland Canal (villages Fiestel and Gestringen); 1
  • from the previous office of Gehlenbeck the communities Isenstedt and Frotheim;
  • from the previous Rahden office the southern part of the municipality oftonsheide , which is also known as Schmalge .

footnote

1 A smaller part of the municipality of Alswede (the village of Alswede itself) was incorporated into the city of Lübbecke .

Population development

The population structure of Espelkamp is heterogeneous due to urban development history. At the beginning of the settlement of the urban area, the population consisted mainly of displaced persons and refugees, who came mainly from the former German eastern areas and the former Soviet occupation zone. The naming of many streets in Espelkamp after the home areas and places of the first inhabitants is derived from this origin. At the time of the economic miracle, guest workers came to Espelkamp, ​​mainly from Greece, Italy, the former Yugoslavia and Turkey. Beginning in the 1970s and increasingly in the 1980s and 1990s, many ethnic German repatriates , mostly Mennonites , from Russia , Kazakhstan and other states of the former Eastern Bloc, settled in the northwest of Espelkamp, ​​the so-called "Westend". In addition to residents of Turkish and Kurdish origin and post-war settler families, this group represents a significant proportion of the city's population.

Espelkamp according to the territorial status at that time

Population development in Espelkamp from 1939 to 2017 according to the tables opposite
year Residents
1939 (May 17) ¹ 1,072
1950 (September 13) ¹ 2,784
1961 (June 6) ¹ 10,454
1970 (May 27) ¹ 12,709
1972 (December 31) 13,236
2007 (December 31) 16,518

Espelkamp according to the current territorial status

year Residents
1961 (June 6) ¹ 17,795
1970 (May 27) ¹ 21,615
1972 (December 31) 22,553
1974 (June 30) 22,816
1975 (December 31) 22,672
1980 (December 31) 23,045
1985 (December 31) 21,769
1987 (May 25) ¹ 22,049
1990 (December 31) 26.101
1995 (December 31) 27.004
2000 (December 31) 26,952
year Residents
2001 (December 31) 26,883
2002 (December 31) 26,790
2003 (December 31) 26,568
2004 (December 31) 26,350
2005 (December 31) 26,126
2007 (December 31) 25,593
2011 (December 31) 25,108
2012 (December 31) 24,592
2013 (December 31) 24,604
2016 (December 31) 24,766
2017 (December 31) 24,809

¹ census result

Religions

The population is predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran after the prince-bishopric of Minden had accepted the evangelical doctrine and at the latest since it was secularized in 1648 and was added to Protestant Prussia as the Principality of Minden . Due to the wave of immigrants after the Second World War , but also due to the increased influx of ethnic German repatriates in the 1980s and 1990s, there were, on the one hand, a relatively large number of new churches and congregations founded after 1945, and, on the other hand, a relatively diverse one for rural Minden-Ravensberg "Denominational landscape".

An Evangelical Free Church ( Baptist ) congregation has existed since 1946 and, after various intermediate stops, has had its own congregation center since 1985.

The Mennonites are represented by several parishes in Espelkamp. The oldest parish, the Mennonite parish Espelkamp, ​​which was founded in 1952, has around 650 members, the Mennonite Brethren parish around 2,300 Espelkamp members. The Mennonite community Espelkamp was able to inaugurate a new church building in summer 2009. A majority of the Espelkamp Mennonites are late repatriates ( Russian mennonites ).

In Espelkamp there is the central mosque Espelkamp Merkez Camii for the Muslim citizens .

An indication of the distribution of religious affiliation can be the denomination of the Espelkamp pupils. According to this, around 72% of the students are Protestant, 8% Catholic, 7.7% Muslim. 3.6% say they belong to another denomination and 8.5% do not belong to any denomination.

politics

City council

The city council of Espelkamp currently has 38 seats. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the local election results since 1975:

2014 2009 2004 1999 1994 1989 1984 1979 1975
Political party Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats %
CDU 22nd 55.87 21st 56.25 22nd 57.77 23 60.19 19th 47.14 18th 44.06 17th 43.64 18th 46.81 19th 47.85
SPD 11 29.41 10 26.87 10 25.88 11 28.35 14th 35.58 17th 43.96 18th 44.89 18th 46.66 17th 43.79
YOU 1 2 6.37 3 6.84 2 6.59 2 5.13 2 7.00 - - - - - - - -
FDP 1 2.84 2 5.57 2 5.52 1 3.66 2 5.25 2 6.88 2 5.20 3 6.53 3 8.36
GREEN 2 5.16 2 4.47 2 4.24 1 2.66 2 5.03 2 5.10 2 6.27 - - - -
Individual applicant 2 0 0.35 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 3 38 100 38 100 38 100 38 100 39 100 39 100 39 100 39 100 39 100
voter turnout 47.53 49.91 53.54 55.49 80.38 64.59 69.11 69.19 84.49
Allocation of seats in the
city ​​council in 2014
     
A total of 38 seats

1 Die Independent
2 Individual applicants 2014: Dawurske
3 without taking into account rounding differences

mayor

In the last local election on May 25, 2014, Heinrich Vieker (CDU) was re-elected as mayor with 61.85 percent of the valid votes. Since the local elections on September 12, 1999, Vieker has always been elected the city's first full-time mayor with an absolute majority. In return for the introduction of a full-time mayor, the post of city director was abolished.

The first mayor was Wilhelm Kern, who was elected city director in 1965. Gerhard Wetzel succeeded him as mayor on September 30, 1965. On April 25, 1973 Fritz (Friedrich) Steding (SPD) was elected mayor. In 1985 he was replaced by Heinz Goroncy (SPD). Friedrich Steding was named honorary mayor and honorary citizen in the same year. In October 1989, Heinz Hennemann (CDU) was elected the last honorary mayor. He, too, was later made an honorary citizen and honorary mayor.

coat of arms

Espelkamp coat of arms

In 1973, the city of Espelkamp was authorized to use a coat of arms by the district president . According to §2 of the main statute, the coat of arms has the following blazon : divided by silver (white) and black, above three fan-shaped green aspen leaves with black stems, below a continuous silver (white) cross.

The coat of arms was originally awarded in June 1966. The aspens allude to the place name. The cross is a reference to the development of the city, which was largely based on the initiative of the churches. The colors green and silver stand for Saxony , to whose tribal empire the area once belonged. The colors black and silver are the Prussian colors. The area of ​​today's city fell to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648. In addition, after the war, many of the settlers came from the German eastern regions in eastern Prussia.

City center: Breslauer Straße - in the background the Thomaskirche

Town twinning

Partnerships have been concluded with four cities:

  • GermanyGermany Angermünde (Brandenburg), since October 17, 1990
  • SwedenSweden Borås (Sweden), since September 13, 1995, Borås was the parish of Birger Forell
  • HungaryHungary Nagykőrös (Hungary), since May 29, 1991
  • GermanyGermany Torgelow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), since September 19, 1990

Culture and sights

Figure fountain on Breslauer Strasse
The Ellerburg

theatre

The New Theater opened on November 11, 1972. After 30 years of use, it was renovated in a public-private partnership with the support of entrepreneurs Margrit and Dietmar Harting and reopened on October 27, 2002 after a seven-month renovation period. The theater is characterized by its changing and varied offer and is also known beyond Espelkamp. Plays, concerts, children's theater, puppet theater, cabaret and musical theater are all performed. The theater has 647 seats, of which 159 are balcony seats.

Museums

The German Machine Museum has been showing a collection of over 1,800 historical coin operated machines from all over the world since 1995. Historical coins, goods, services, entertainment, money u. Skill machines, slots, pinball machines and jukeboxes.

In the old Fabbenstedter shop a corner shop with groceries, laundry and sweets is shown.

In the Brammeyer's barn , old agricultural and handicraft tools, as they were common in East Westphalia in the 19th century, are shown. The barn itself is a half-timbered two-column barn that was built in 1750 and once had a thatched roof (now thatched).

In the Tönsmann Carpet Museum exhibits from North Africa to Nepal and Tibet are on display. Guided tours tell about antique carpets, handicrafts, historical connections and the life of the Sahara nomads .

In the town hall, the permanent exhibition Espelkamp shows the development of the town in time and space from the beginning to the present form.

music

Nine clubs offer musical entertainment in Espelkamp. This ranges from the trombone choir and marching band to various choir communities to harmonica or country clubs. In addition, there is the Espelkamp-Rahden-Stemwede Music School Association.

For the 50th anniversary of the city in 1999, the rock band High above LA from Espelkamp wrote the song Espelkamp ... as good as we did about their hometown.

A Zumba dance school has been located in the city center since March 2011.

Buildings

The Ellerburg is a former moated castle in the village of Fiestel in the town of Espelkamp in the Minden-Lübbecke district. The estate was first mentioned in 1475. Since their buildings were propped up and in danger of collapsing, they have now been demolished and are to be made accessible to visitors in connection with the park.

The Ellenburger Mühle is the estate's overshot lease mill , was built around 1781 and was not only operated as a grinding mill, but also as a sawmill from 1905. From 1935 it was operated with a motor. The Ellenburger Mühle is part of the Westphalian Mühlenstrasse .

The Benkhausen Castle is a former manor west of the local part knitted rings. The Benkhausen estate was created in 1510 when the Ellerburg estate was divided between the heirs of the von Münch family. Between 1657 and 1683 the castle was built in its present form and rebuilt in 1899. In 2010, the Gauselmann family acquired the castle and converted it into a training and seminar center.

The Christ Church in Isenstedt was built between 1878 and 1880 according to plans by the Minden master builder Moelle. The interior of the late classicist gallery church is still completely preserved.

Examples of high-quality sacred architecture from more recent times are the Protestant St. Thomas Church, consecrated in 1963, and the Michael Church, consecrated in 1982 as a replacement building .

The half-timbered chapel Alte Klus in Frotheim was built in 1818. The simple half-timbered building has a three-sided choir and a bell rider.

For other structures see → List of architectural monuments in Espelkamp

Parks and natural monuments

Graves at Benkhausen Castle

The two manors are surrounded by parks. The approximately 4 hectare manor park on the Ellerburg was an area surrounded by the mill moat with moats, a mill pond, as well as garden and meadow areas. Essential elements of the former park have grown over. Noteworthy is a chestnut avenue, an approx. 400 year old linden tree in the courtyard. The park around Benkhausen Castle is around 8.6 hectares and was created around 1837 in a strictly geometric form and was later supplemented with elements of landscape parks. Apart from parts of the old trees, hardly anything has been preserved from the historical garden elements. The castle mill on an island in the pent-up flute no longer exists .

The local recreation areas Große Aue in the north-west, the Kleine Aue and the moors in the Frotheim district offer opportunities for local recreation in forest and green areas.

The center of the local recreation area Große Aue is the artificially created landscape lake Großer Auesee between 1979 and 1981 . This lake and the surrounding area is designated as a nature reserve Große Aue-See . The neighboring lake on Kleihügel serves as a recreational bathing lake. The Kleine Aue is the most important plain water in the Altkreis Lübbecke. The expansion of the water began before 1837. In the mid-1990s, a rain retention basin was to be built here, but the city restored the natural course of the water and was able to integrate the water ecologically into the landscape.

The Freimoor has only been partially wet since the construction of the Mittelland Canal and now offers rare plants a habitat and is a breeding ground for bird species that prefer wetlands. The old moor into a low moor with pools and unspoilt and swampy areas. Since groundwater and surface water meet here, endangered plant and animal species of the bog have their habitat here. These moors are part of a biotope network that continues beyond the Mittelland Canal with the large peat bog .

In the city area, 36 individual trees and groups of trees are designated as natural monuments .

Sports

The men's team of TV Espelkamp-Mittwald plays in the tennis Bundesliga . The men's team of FC Preußen Espelkamp plays in the national league . Preußen Espelkamp plays in the Albert-Pürsten-Stadion (formerly Waldstadion) and has been an important integration factor for the new citizens who fled and expelled to Espelkamp since it was founded in 1957.

The following larger sports facilities are available:

  • Leisure pool "Atoll"
  • Espelkamp forest outdoor pool
  • Espelkamp tennis and badminton hall
  • Espelkamp circular gym
  • Albert Pürsten Stadium

Regular events

The Cityfest takes place on the last full weekend in September. Every year there is a Christmas market and a shooting festival organized by the SG Espelkamp football club. The Espelkamp film festival SPITZiale has been held in October since 2015.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Espelkamp train station

Espelkamp is connected to the trunk road network via the B 239 ("Lübbecker Straße").

The Espelkamp station is located on the frets Rahden railway line . It is served every hour by the RB  71 Ravensberger Bahn Rahden - Lübbecke - Bünde - Herford - Bielefeld and further as the RB 67 to Münster . The local rail passenger transport is carried out by the Eurobahn , which uses diesel multiple units of the Bombardier Talent type . A small railway line planned around 1900 to Gehlenbeck – Frotheim – Minden was not implemented by the Mindener Kreisbahnen .

Regional buses run to Lübbecke , Minden , Rahden and Preußisch Oldendorf , and a citizen bus is offered. The public transport in Espelkamp part of the " Westphalia tariff " in the regional network "TeutoOWL". ( VVOWL )

The Mittelland Canal with the industrial port of Espelkamp forms the southern city limits.

Established businesses

8,910 people liable to social security are employed in Espelkamp (as of June 30, 2007), 54% of them (= 4,772 people) in the manufacturing industry. The next largest proportion of 15.6% (= 1,388 people) work in the public and private service sector.

The city has the following companies, among others:

media

In Espelkamp the Neue Westfälische and the Westfalenblatt are represented as regional newspapers with local sections for Espelkamp. The local radio for the Minden-Lübbecke district is Radio Westfalica .

Public facilities

The Espelkamp volunteer fire brigade is divided into six fire fighting groups and trains. The youth fire brigade group trains young people to become firefighters.

The local municipal utilities supply the city with drinking water they produce themselves and treat the wastewater with their own sewage treatment plant. They also run the forest swimming pool and the Atoll leisure pool in Espelkamp. The pools and large public buildings are heated by their own district heating network. The municipal building yard is also outsourced to the municipal utilities.

The municipal library offers over 30,000 items to borrow on 940 m². This includes not only literature, but also over 400 DVDs and over 700 CD-Roms and over 300 games. Almost 40 magazines can be read in the library. The library was opened on September 28, 1952 and in 2007 reached almost 53,000 visitors who made almost 107,000 loans.

Espelkamp belongs to the Rahden district court as well as the Lübbecke employment and tax office.

The waste from the city of Espelkamp is disposed of in the waste disposal center Pohlsche Heide in accordance with the Waste Act of the Federal Republic of Germany .

education

Söderblom high school . School yard in May 1960.

There are 14 kindergartens in Espelkamp for early childhood education. 9 of them are church-sponsored, three are sponsored by the DRK and two are sponsored by the AWO .

The city is responsible for six primary school locations. Three of them are combined to form the Espelkamp-Süd primary school network . There is also a private free church primary school.

The secondary school education will be given in an expiring secondary school as well as in the Evangelical School Center Espelkamp , which consists of the Birger-Forell- Secondary School and the Söderblom-Gymnasium run by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . The secondary school Bischof-Hermann-Kunst-Schule is operated as a boarding school and special needs school with a special focus on learning.

The Lübbecke vocational college in the Minden-Lübbecke district is located in Espelkamp. The metal industry and social education specialist groups are located there. There is also the private university of applied sciences for economics and technology, which offers the mechatronics / electrical engineering course.

Adult education is provided by the Lübbecker Land adult education center based in Espelkamp. The Espelkamp-Rahden-Stemwede Music School Association rounds off the offer.

Personalities

The personalities listed here come from the city of Espelkamp and have regional, national or even international significance. The list is not exhaustive.

(As far as possible, instead of the general specification Espelkamp, ​​the municipality of origin or later the respective district is noted. As each column can be sorted, not only the surname can be sorted alphabetically, but anniversary years can also be found quickly.)

sons and daughters of the town

Surname born in died in annotation
Friedrich Christoph Osemund Dec 30, 1655 Espelkamp   1733 Paderborn Publicist, philologist, historian and alchemist
Friedrich Langhorst Apr 15, 1872 Espelkamp Feb 16, 1935 Dresden Politician, trade union secretary and member of the Saxon state parliament
Wilhelm Tegeler May 17, 1893 Fabbenstedt Jan. 26, 1960 ? Politician, member of the state parliament
Günter Döding 04th Sep 1930 Isenstedt 0Aug 8, 2005 ? Chairman of the Food-Enjoyment-Restaurants Union
Ricci Hohlt   1945 Isenstedt   actress and singer
Gerhard Pollheide Oct 20, 1951 Isenstedt   Writer and visual artist
Harald Nickel July 21, 1953 Espelkamp 04th Aug 2019 ? National soccer player
Wolfgang Pohl Dec 30, 1954 Espelkamp   Soccer player
Heinz Rudolf Kunze Nov. 30, 1956 Mittwald   Musician
Uwe Leprich   1959 Espelkamp   Energy and economist
Dietmar Post Dec 26, 1962 Espelkamp   Director and label maker, Grimme Prize winner
Armin Wegner   1965 Espelkamp   Handball player

Honorary citizen

Surname born in died in annotation Received honorary citizenship
Ernst Wilm 1901 Reinswalde 1989 Luebbecke Pastor and church official, co-founder of the Espelkamp development community
Hermann Art 1907 Ottersberg 1999 Bonn Co-founder of the refugee town Espelkamp
John and Grace Gingerich American Mennonites who played a key role in building the city 1999
Paul Gauselmann 1934 Borghorst Entrepreneur in the slot machine industry 2004
Horst Eller 1934 former city ​​director
Heinz Hennemann 2012 Espelkamp former mayor
Margrit and Dietmar Harting Entrepreneurial couple December 13, 2009
Karin Gauselmann 1935 Berlin Entrepreneur 2015

Other personalities

The following personalities are not originally from Espelkamp, ​​but have worked here:

Surname born in died in annotation
The noble family Aspelkamp comes from Espelkamp
Karl Koch 1876 Witten / Ruhr October 28, 1951 Bielefeld Co-founder of the refugee town Espelkamp
Karl Pavlowski 1898 Hagen 22nd August 1964 Bielefeld diaconal entrepreneur, co-founder of Espelkamps and the Ludwig-Steil-Hof
Horst Eller former city director
Karl von Plehwe 1877 Memel Prussian politician, lived in Espelkamp
Birger trout 1893 Soderhamn 4th July 1958 Borås Pastor, founder of the Committee for Christian Post-War Aid
Max Ilgner 1899 Biebesheim March 28, 1966 Schwetzingen Manager, planning and supervision of the refugee town Espelkamp
Alfred Buss 1947 Charges Theologian and President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , attended grammar school in Espelkamp
Wilhelm Priesmeier 1954 Rahden Member of the Bundestag , attended grammar school in Espelkamp
Birger Kollmeier 1958 Minden Hearing researcher, attended grammar school in Espelkamp
Dieter Waltke 1954 Hille Handball world champion, teacher in Espelkamp
Maria Pankratz 1967 Almaty Actress, leading actress in Carlos Reygadas' film Stellet Licht (Cannes 2007, Jury Prize), lives in Espelkamp
Werner Koch 1910 Bielefeld Theologian and resistance fighter against National Socialism, was a pastor in Espelkamp
Tine Wittler 1973 Rahden Moderator and writer, attended grammar school in Espelkamp
Lena Klassen 1971 Moscow Writer, attended grammar school in Espelkamp.
David Neufeld 1970 Ingolstadt Founder and publisher of Neufeld Verlag , attended grammar school in Espelkamp.
Herbert Schediwy 1915 Prague March 21, 1986 Rahden Member of the Thuringian state parliament , GDR resistance , was an employee of the Harting company
Lars Windhorst 1976 Rahden Young entrepreneur and child prodigy of the 90s, attended high school in Espelkamp
Andreas Olenberg 1990 Minden-Lübbecke Filmmaker, spent his childhood and youth in Espelkamp, ​​attended high school in Espelkamp
Daniel Littau 1991 Minden-Lübbecke Filmmaker, spent his childhood and youth in Espelkamp, ​​attended high school in Espelkamp
Achim Post 1959 Rahden Member of the Bundestag and General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Europe , grew up in Espelkamp and graduated from high school

literature

  • Hanns Joachim Paris: Espelkamp. Wegweiser-Verlag. 1955.
  • oA: Espelkamp. Landesdienst-Verlag. 1962.
  • Ruby Simon: Espelkamp - history alive 1945-1959. It started in halls and barracks. Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke o. J. approx. 1986.
  • D. Köpper: You are called to freedom: The Söderblom-Gymnasium Espelkamp 1953-1984 . Uhle & Kleimann. 1987. ISBN 3-922657-64-8 .
  • We don't expect much. Just freedom . Die Zeit, issue 33/1988, August 12, 1988.
  • Roland Kirbach: Out, just out. Die Zeit, issue 21/1989, May 19, 1989.
  • Carl Röbelt: "The Espelkamper Lied". Autobiography, Wim-Snayder-Verlag 1995. ISBN 3-930302-47-0 .
  • Ulrich u. Martin Meyer: Espelkamp: Together on new paths. Self-published. 1998. ISBN 3-9806058-1-7 .
  • Hannelore Oberpenning: work, apartment and a new home ...: Espelkamp - the story of an idea. Plain text. 2002. ISBN 3-88474-985-4 .
  • Frank Lorentz: Espelkamp, ​​place of hope . World on Sunday. February 16, 2003.
  • Johannes Preuss and Frank Eitelberg: Heeres-Munitionsanstalt Lübbecke: Prehistory of the city Espelkamp. Mainz: Geographical Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University. 2003. ISBN 3-00-012863-8 .
  • Gerald Schwalbach: “Widen the view of the church!” Karl Pawlowski (1998–1964) - diaconal entrepreneur on the borders of church and internal mission. Bielefeld 2012.
  • Andreas Fasel: A city is looking for its past . Welt am Sonntag, NRW edition. February 17, 2008.
  • Espelkamp 1945–1966: Building a city - departure for a hopeful future . Verlag Geschichtskreis Espelkamp
  • Espelkamp 1969–1999: Second departure with new challenges . Verlag Geschichtskreis Espelkamp

Web links

Commons : Espelkamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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 )
  2. Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
  3. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW: Municipal profile Espelkamp  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 222 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lds.nrw.de  
  4. ^ City of Espelkamp city information. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 17, 2015 ; Retrieved April 1, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.espelkamp.de
  5. City of Detmold: Climate Maps ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtdetmold.de
  6. ^ A b c Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and municipalities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 232 .
  7. Gerald Schwalbach, "The Evangelical Relief Organization Westphalia (1945–1950) - The hour of the churches and the aid organization impulse of the post-war period", in: Udo Krolzik (ed.), Future of Diakonie-Zwischen Kontinuität un Neubeginn, Bielefeld 1998, p. 181 ff.
  8. Gerald Schwalbach: “Widen the view of the church!” Karl Pawlowski (1998–1964) - diaconal entrepreneur on the borders of the church and internal mission. Bielefeld 2012, p. 341.
  9. Hannelore Oberpenning: work, apartment and a new home ... Espelkamp - story of an idea. Essen 2002, p. 51.
  10. Gerald Schwalbach, "Der Kirche den Blick weiten!", Karl Pawlowski (1998–1964) -diaconal entrepreneur on the borders of the Church and Inner Mission, Bielefeld 2012, p. 353 ff.
  11. 50 years ago: The Espelkamp model estate becomes a town, museum archive accessed in December 2010.
  12. ^ 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. 324 .
  13. ^ Homepage of the Hope Community Espelkamp Evangelical Free Church Community EFG (Baptists) , accessed on November 11, 2019.
  14. Neue Westfälische: A house to praise God
  15. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Students at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation ( Memento from December 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ State database NRW; Election results for community code 05770008
  17. ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
  18. ^ Municipal data center Minden-Ravensberg / Lippe: Results of the 2014 council election
  19. ^ Municipal computer center (KRZ): election result for Espelkamp, ​​city. Mayoral election
  20. State Returning Officer NRW: The State Returning Officer informs: Final result for Espelkamp, ​​city
  21. Civic Heraldry Site: Espelkamp ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ngw.nl
  22. Tönsmann Carpet Museum
  23. Music School Association Espelkamp-Rahden-Stemwede. Retrieved August 8, 2012 .
  24. Breeze DanceFitness Google Profile. Retrieved August 8, 2012 .
  25. ^ Benkhausen Castle
  26. ^ Frotheim.de: Klus Frotheim
  27. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Gutspark Ellerburg in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  28. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Park Schloss Benkhausen in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  29. ↑ Directory of natural monuments. (PDF, 347 kB) Minden-Lübbecke district, lower landscape authority, accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  30. SPITZiale , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  31. City of Espelkamp: Kindergartens accessed in July 2019.
  32. Evangelical School Center Espelkamp. In: www.soederblom.de. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  33. The "Pax Boys" - American Mennonites as development workers
  34. New Westfälische.de: ESPELKAMP: honorary citizenship for Margrit and Dietmar Harting