Falkendiek

Falkendiek City of Herford Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	99  (56-201)  m
Area :	6.57 km²
Residents :	861  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	131 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32049
Area code :	05221
Location of Falkendiek in Herford

View from Dornberg (Schwarzenmoor) over Falkendiek, in the background the Homberg southeast slope

Falkendiek is the northernmost district of the East Westphalian city ​​of Herford in the Herford district . It has 861 inhabitants. (As of December 31, 2015)

geography

location

Falkendiek is located 5.1 km north-northeast of Herford city center. The largely rural village is located in the northwestern tip of the Lipper Bergland , which extends into the Ravensberg hill country . The highest point is the 201.2  m high Homberg . The lowest point is 56  m high in the western valley of the Werre , into which the Bramschebach flows a little north of the village .

Neighboring communities

Falkendiek borders the city of Löhne in the north, the Schwarzenmoor district to the east and the Neustädter Feldmark of the city of Herford to the south . In the west, the Werre forms the city and district boundary to the Schweicheln-Bermbeck district of the municipality of Hiddenhausen .

history

The Falkendieker peasantry arose after 1550 through an administrative reform from the settlement Evinctorp (also Evendorp, Eimptorp etc.), half of the Bredenbeck office and a farm belonging to the Hessinghausen farm group.

Until December 31, 1968, Falkendiek was an independent municipality that belonged to the Herford-Hiddenhausen office in the Herford district . On January 1, 1969, it was incorporated into the then independent city of Herford, which in turn was incorporated into the Herford district.

traffic

Mindener Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 61 ) forms the border with the Schwarzenmoor district over a length of around 1,000 meters . In the west, Löhner Straße runs parallel to the Werre in a north-south direction. Both roads lead from Herford to Löhne.

Homberghof

location

The Homberghof is located on the “Im Tiefental” road on the southwest slope of the Homberg. It consists of twelve buildings, some of which are structurally connected. Originally there was only a farm there, which then housed the Eickhof sheep farm.

history

In 1912, the Erziehungsverein bought the former sheep farm of the Eickhof, which is now part of the Evangelical Youth Welfare Service in Schweicheln, and converted the farm and the barns into an agricultural educational home for boys who had finished school.

During the Second World War, the Homberghof was used as an internment camp for prisoners who had to work on farms in the area.

In the 1960s, the Homberghof was completely redesigned. The old welfare house had to give way to new houses of education, a farm building and a ballroom. These houses were given the names Waldhaus, Berghaus, Landhaus and Tannenklause, which are still attached to the buildings.

Since the 1990s, parts of the farm have been used as accommodation for repatriates , foreign refugees and asylum seekers . At times more than 100 people of different nationalities were accommodated there. In February 2011, the 20 asylum seekers still living there had to move out because the Homberghof's water supply network was contaminated with heavy metals and the water could not be used. Since then the buildings in need of renovation, which were in the meantime owned by the city of Herford, have stood empty. In 2012, there were considerations to accommodate asylum seekers from the Balkans in residential containers on the Homberghof site.

The clubhouse of the gymnastics club Herford von 1907 has been located in one of the buildings since 1990. V. (see section Sport ).

Condition since 2013

In June 2013, the left wing of the building was sold to the "Church of Jesus Christ" from Kyrgyzstan. The then 80 community members set up a community hall and rooms for youth work there. The city sold another building in 2018 to the community, which now has around 130 members.

Sports

The Herford gymnastics club from 1907 e. V., who had started his gymnastics business with 30 men on the Stiftberg , acquired the club house in the area of ​​the Homberghof in 1990. In 2004 the “Tiefental” sports field was opened as a fistball field. The sports of the gymnastics club are fistball, basketball, apparatus gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and others.

The Sportgemeinschaft (SG) Falkendiek was founded in August 1908 as a workers gymnastics club Eintracht Falkendiek. In 1933 the name of the club was changed to Turngemeinde (TG) Falkendiek in the course of the synchronization . Since September 1945 the club has been called Sportgemeinschaft Falkendiek. About half of the approximately 300 members (2008) belong to the football department. Other sports include cycling, hiking and gymnastics. After the club was initially based at the sports field in Tiefental, in 1973 the city assigned the club home and the sports field at the intersection of Senderstraße with the street “An den Teichen” in neighboring Schwarzenmoor.

Trinity Church

Trinity Church

The Evangelical Trinity Church on Homberstrasse was built in 1962 from the Falkendiek parish hall, which was built in 1934. Therefore, it has a free-standing bell tower. The altar, pulpit and baptismal column are made of wood. The altar window on the east wall shows symbols of the Trinity (Trinity).

Until 1965 the church belonged to the Marien parish of Stiftberg . Afterwards it formed the Christ parish together with the Christ Church on Glatzer Strasse. Today it is part of the Emmaus parish together with the Christ Church, the Markus Church on Landsberger Strasse and the Thomaskirche in Schwarzenmoor.

At the request of the parish, the church was deconstructed by the Herford superintendent on December 28, 2008 and sold to a funeral home on September 14, 2009, which renovated the building in 2014 and used it as a funeral hall . Church services can still be celebrated in the building on festive days and on special occasions. The Falkendiek trombone choir also continues to rehearse there.

graveyard

The Schwarzenmoor / Falkendiek cemetery of the ev.-luth. Marienkirchengemeinde Stiftberg is located on Mindener Straße, but in the area of ​​the Schwarzenmoor district.

Landscape art project

The landscape art project AHorn -tex am Wegesrand has been running on the Homberg since 2008 . It was created by the Falkendieker sculptor Anke Stratmann-Horn and has sayings with reference to peace or environmental politics for reflection, which were carved into tree trunks.

supporting documents

1. ^ City of Herford: Numbers, data, facts
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB  456219528 , p. 74 .
3. ↑ Neue Westfälische of June 2, 2016, Stefan Boes: Homberghof: Between new building and decay
4. ^ Congregation of Jesus Christie
5. ^ Club home gymnastics club Herford
6. ↑ Sportgemeinschaft Falkendiek
7. ↑ Kirchenkreis Herford: Farewell to the Trinity Church ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 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.