Finnentrop
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ N , 7 ° 58 ′ E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
Circle : | Olpe | |
Height : | 250 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 104.42 km 2 | |
Residents: | 16,955 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 162 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 57413 | |
Primaries : | 02721, 02395, 02724 | |
License plate : | OE | |
Community key : | 05 9 66 012 | |
LOCODE : | DE FIT | |
Community structure: | 40 districts | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Am Markt 1 57413 Finnentrop |
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Website : | ||
Mayor : | Dietmar Heß ( CDU ) | |
Location of the municipality of Finnentrop in the Olpe district | ||
Finnentrop [ ˈfɪ.nən.tʀɔp ] is located in the Sauerland and is a municipality in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is classified as a Major Small Town .
geography
Geographical location
Finnentrop is located on the northern tip of the district of Olpe between the mountain ranges of the Ebbegebirge in the southwest and the Homert in the northeast. The most striking river is the Lenne , which flows through the municipality from south to north over a length of about 11 km. It reaches the municipality south of Bamenohl and leaves it again at Rönkhausen . Before that, the Lenne flows towards Finnentrop from the Bigge from the southwest , from Lenhausen from the Fretterbach from the east and from Rönkhausen from the Glingebach from the east . Here is the lowest point in the municipality with 220 m above sea level. NN .
The highest peaks of Finnentrop can be found in the wooded northern municipal area, the transition zone between Lennegebirge and Homert. The highest point is 651 m above sea level. NN on the Sellenstück north of Weuspert. The southern municipal boundary runs largely along the watershed between Fretterbach and Elspebach with elevations up to 519 m above sea level. NN ( Primeneke's head ).
Expansion of the municipal area
According to the municipal administration, the municipality has a north-south extension of 11.97 km and a west-east extension of 12.42 km. The largest extension is from Hollenbock in the southwest to Fretterspring in the northeast with around 17 kilometers.
Of the 104.42 km² municipal area, 65.07 km² (62%) are forest areas and 22.32 km² are agricultural areas (21%). Settlement and traffic areas account for 15.38 km² (15%). In 2001 and 2002, the traffic and settlement areas decreased slightly and have since increased as the national average (as of 2015).
Neighboring communities
Finnentrop borders in the north on Sundern , in the northeast and east on Eslohe (both Hochsauerlandkreis ), in the south on Lennestadt and Attendorn (both in the district of Olpe ) and in the west on Plettenberg in the Märkisches Kreis .
Community structure
The municipality is politically not further divided. However, for the designation in civil status registers and documents, the following municipal sub-names were specified in the main statute, to which further field names are sometimes assigned:
history
The history of individual localities in the municipality goes back to the Middle Ages. The districts Lenhausen and Rönkhausen are first mentioned in the sources around 1162 . However, based on archaeological investigations, it is certain that in place of today's parish church in Schönholthausen there was a previous building from the 11th century. The church was a separate church of Herford Abbey . In addition, the Counts of Arnsberg , the noble lords of Bilstein , the Deutz Abbey and the Cologne Mariengnadenstift were wealthy in the area of today's municipality. There are also properties belonging to the lower nobility, some of which are still preserved today as buildings. From the 13th century to the beginning of the 19th century, the area belonged to the Duchy of Westphalia . Then it belonged to Hessen-Darmstadt and from 1816 to Prussia.
The name goes back to the old town of Finnentrop, which is called Altfinnentrop today and is located a few hundred meters up the Bigge. The ending “trop” is derived from “trop” or “torp” for “village” and is not uncommon in North Rhine-Westphalia (such as in Bottrop , Castrop , Frintrop or Waltrop ).
Industrialization in the 19th century resulted in the settlement of factories in parts of today's predominantly agricultural area, and the associated social change. Road construction brought the first changes in the first half of the 19th century. The decisive factor for industrial development was the opening of the Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn in 1861. The area's train station was built at the confluence of the Bigge and Lenne rivers, very close to a bridge and the Neubrücke residential area, which had only existed since 1828. Since then the first companies have settled in this area. In this part of the municipality, today's center of the municipality developed.
Towards the end of the Second World War, American combat units reached the place on April 11, 1945 and took it. During the war, 68 men died as members of the Wehrmacht.
In 2002, Deutsche Bahn AG stopped selling tickets in the Finnentrop station building in Finnentrop. Two years later, the community took over the building. At the end of 2007 the old train station was demolished, despite protests from the population.
Incorporations
The community of Finnentrop was formed by the law on the reorganization of the district of Olpe on July 1, 1969 through a merger of the communities of Schliprüthen and Schönholthausen, both previously in the Serkenrode district ( district of Meschede ). Parts of the municipalities of Attendorn-Land, Helden and Oedingen were added. The new municipality was assigned to the district of Olpe through the regional reform .
Population development
Since 1999 (18,572 inhabitants) the population trend in the municipality has been declining, with the exception of 2014 and 2015. In 2003 there was still a surplus of births compared to deaths (+7), since then there have been more deaths than births (2018: - 41). Due to immigration, the overall trend has stabilized again in recent years.
The population density in 2017 was 164 inhabitants per km 2 . This is slightly less than the average for the district of Olpe (189 inhabitants per km 2 ) and significantly lower than the national average (525.1 inhabitants per km 2 ).
The number of non-German citizens was 895 (5.5%) in 1981, rose to 1,950 (10.6%) in 1996 and then fell again (2011: 1,129, corresponding to 6.6%). Due to immigration, especially in 2015, the number has recently risen slightly above the level of the 1990s (2017: 2,039, corresponds to 11.8%)
religion
The majority of the population (73%) is Catholic. Around 12% are Protestant and 15% belong to other religious communities or are non-denominational.
politics
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City council and mayor
The distribution of seats in the Finnentrop municipal council after the local elections on May 25, 2014 is shown in the diagram opposite.
The mayor has been the lawyer Dietmar Heß (* 1955) (CDU) since 1997. In the last re-election in 2015, Hess received 64.18% of the vote. At his side are Bernadette Gastreich (CDU) as 1st deputy and Manfred Schlossmacher (CDU) as 2nd deputy.
More choices
In the last state and federal elections, the parties in Finnentrop received the following votes:
Political party | State election 2017 | Bundestag election 2017 |
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CDU | 53.3% | 49.5% |
SPD | 22.2% | 19.9% |
FDP | 11.0% | 12.7% |
AfD | 5.2% | 7.6% |
The left | 1.7% | 4.1% |
The green | 2.7% | 3.3% |
Others | 3.1% | 3.0% |
coat of arms
Blazon : "The coat of arms of the municipality shows a silver (white) rose in green under capped silver (white) corrugated rafters." | |
Foundation of the coat of arms: The rose is the symbol of the Lords of Finnentrop (von Vinnentrop) and has been handed down from 1358. The trimmed corrugated rafter is supposed to symbolize the confluence of the Bigge and Lenne. The color green indicates the large green areas in the municipality. |
Community partnerships
Finnentrop maintains partnerships with the Belgian city of Diksmuide (since 1979) and the Saxon-Anhalt municipality of Helbra (since 1990).
Culture and sights
theatre
The Finnentrop Cultural Community organizes various kinds of cultural events . One of the venues is the Finnentrop Festival Hall. The "Schützenhof Lichtspiele", a cinema from 1954 completely renovated in 2006 with 170 seats, has also been used for events since 2007. In different parts of the community there are amateur theater groups, such as the amateur theater group "Ostentroper Scala" or the amateur theater group Serkenrode. Numerous clubs practice choir singing or other forms of music.
Museums
Agriculture and forestry, village handicrafts and local customs are shown in the Heimatstube museum in Finnentrop-Schönholthausen. For this purpose, a shoemaker's workshop, a carpenter's workshop, a forge with bellows, a schoolroom, a doctor's practice and a bedroom from around 1900 were set up in the museum. In addition to exhibits relating to milk processing and domestic slaughter, a large number of kitchen utensils are on display. There is also an exhibition on the subject of emigration from the Schönholthausen parish .
Buildings
The parish church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt in Schönholthausen is one of the most important sacred buildings . The current building was built between 1733 and 1736 in the Gothic style of the Baroque , whereby the west tower has Romanesque elements and comes from a previous building. The parish church of St. Georg in Schliprüthen is a Romanesque hall church. The interior is partly from the 17th century. The Matthias Chapel in Altfinnentrop dates from 1383. Sacred buildings in Finnentrop are the Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Nepomuk and the Evangelical Christ Church.
Three aristocratic residences that have emerged from former moated castles are important. The Schloss Ahausen at Heggen comes in its present form in the 18th century. The current state of Lenhausen Castle was essentially built in the 16th century. The Bamenohl house in its current form dates from the baroque era.
Various water mills belong to the area of technical cultural monuments. The "Old Mill" in Frettermühle has a tradition going back 600 years. The so-called "bone mill" dates from around 1900. Both mills can be visited. Some hydropower plants date from the 1920s / 30s. These include the Lenhausen run-of-river power plant and the Bamenohl run-of-river power plant .
For a long time, the railway systems were characteristic of the place. Built at a 1896 railway junction built reception building of the railway station at the Ruhr-Sieg railway was demolished of 2007. There are also three disused, historic signal boxes. Built in 1874 on the banks Lenne roundhouse in 1944 partially destroyed and 1982 shut down. The historic building was demolished after the roof collapsed under snow load in 2010.
In the Sauerland village of the LWL open-air museum Detmold there are the following buildings from the community: the courtyard house Kayser-Henke from Ostentrop from 1770 and the courtyard Remberg from Fretter from 1877. In addition, the bridges in the village were built based on models from the community of Finnentrop.
See also: List of architectural monuments in Finnentrop and List of stumbling blocks in Finnentrop
Nature and landscape protection
There are nine nature reserves in the municipality : Ahauser Klippen and Reservoir (24 ha), Auf dem Hahne (3 ha), Auf dem Stein (13 ha), Bamenohl (5 ha), Buchberg / Steinkopf (13 ha), Elberskamp (10 ha), Hohe Ley (48 ha), Hausschlade (22 ha) and Mutterstein cave (3 ha). In addition, there is the FFH area lime beech forests, limestone semi-arid grasslands and rocks south of Finnentrop (219 ha), which includes some of the above. NSG includes.
The community of Finnentrop is part of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge Nature Park . The Attendorn-Heggen-Helden landscape plan has existed for the western Finnentrop municipality since 2006 , with which areas outside the built-up districts were designated as landscape protection areas.
There are also four protected landscape components (LB) in the municipality . These are the Bigge steep slope on Attendorner Straße (1.47 ha), Feldgehölz Haardt (0.95 ha), Lüdenstein (1.07 ha) and Ökozelle in Biggetal (1.11 ha). There are also numerous legally protected biotopes .
In addition to the eagle owl , the large bird species black stork , red kite and common raven occur in Finnentrop .
Regular events
- Shooting festivals in Finnentrop and the larger parts of the community
- Grand meeting of the Lenhauser Carnevalsclub (Saturday before Altweiber)
- Children's youth guard meeting of the FFK (Sunday before old women)
- Forest festival "Im Schee" Finnentrop (weekend after Whitsun)
- Syringe festival of the Bamenohl fire fighting group (second weekend in August)
- Jazz morning pint at Haus Bamenohl (third weekend in August)
- Traditional potato fritters made by Löschgruppe Lenhausen (first weekend in September)
- Citizens' early pint of the fire fighting group Finnentrop (Day of German Unity)
- Christmas market at the town hall (second Advent weekend)
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture was the main livelihood until the 19th century. The pre-industrial mining industry or mining only played a limited role. With the road and, above all, the construction of the Ruhr-Sieg Railway since the 1860s, more and more commercial operations began to settle. The trend was reinforced by the opening of the Biggetalbahn to Attendorn. A number of industrial companies emerged.
Today, in addition to the metalworking industry, the woodworking and processing industry and plastics processing are also important. At the end of June 2017, there were 5,266 employees subject to social security contributions. Of these, 73% (national average 26.9%) were employed in the manufacturing or processing industry. It was followed by trade and the hospitality industry, etc. a. with a share of 12.9% (country 22.4%) of employees.
Nationally known local companies include Metten Fleischwaren , Eibach Federn , Kauth Group and a Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe plant .
In the municipality is located in Rönkhausen- Glinge also the pumped storage plant Rönkhausen .
A considerable part of the purchasing power flows outwards. According to the data on trade centrality (= ratio of retail sales per inhabitant to retail purchasing power per inhabitant) evaluated by the Siegen Chamber of Commerce and Industry , the ratio for Finnentrop in 2018 was 75.3. Beneficiaries of this unsatisfactory situation are likely to include the nearby towns of Lennestadt and Olpe with retail centralities of 107.5 and 133.7 for 2018, respectively.
traffic
The finnentrop station is located at the Ruhr-Sieg railway from Hagen to Siegen , here by the Bigge Valley Railway to Olpe branches. Finnentrop is the only train station in the Olpe district to be connected to three train directions and is the largest train station in the district. Up until May 1966, passenger trains also ran from here on the former railway line to Wennemen . Bus connections exist to, among others, Attendorn , Eslohe , Lennestadt and Plettenberg . In addition, a citizens' bus association organizes trips in the municipality.
Finnentrop is on federal highway 236 .
The Attendorn-Finnentrop airfield is located in the municipality .
Public facilities
- Finnentrop town hall
- Sparkasse in the middle of the Sauerland
- Finto adventure pool
- German Red Cross
- Youth hostel Bamenohl (Germany's first private youth hostel after World War II)
- Finnentrop volunteer fire brigade with eleven fire fighting groups
education
In the municipality Finnentrop there are six elementary schools , one primary , one secondary school and a comprehensive school .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Erwin Oberkalkofen († January 27, 2007), former mayor
- Ernst Vollmer († March 25, 2016), former municipal director
Sons and daughters of the church
- Gertrud von Plettenberg († 1608), mistress of Ernst of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne
- Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg (1644–1706), Prince-Bishop of Münster (1688–1706)
- Friedrich Georg Pape (1763–1816), theologian, lawyer, member of the Mainz Jacobin Club
- Johann Joseph Freidhoff (1768–1818), engraver
- Alexander Haindorf (1784–1862), physician, Jewish reformer, psychologist, university lecturer, publicist
- Eduard Bartling (1845–1927), entrepreneur and politician
- Lawrence Becker (1869–1947), American attorney, judge, and solicitor with the United States Department of the Treasury
- Heinrich Martin Arens , in the USA: Henry M. Arens (1873–1963), politician, Vice-Governor of Minnesota, member of the US House of Representatives
- Wilhelm Winzer (1878–1957), trade unionist and politician
- Josef Baumhoff (1887–1962), civil servant, newspaper editor and politician
- Kilian Kirchhoff (1892–1944), priest, translator and dissident
- Ferdinand Wagener (1902–1945), author and publisher of books about the Sauerland
- Josef Quinke (1905–1942), baker and victim of National Socialism
- Erich Feldmann (1929–1998), priest, church historian and Augustine researcher
- Albert Richter (physician) (* 1905), surgeon and gynecologist, doctor in prisoner-of-war hospitals after the Second World War, Federal Cross of Merit 1954
- Manfred Fischer (1933–2002), publishing and industry manager
- Klaus-Dieter Uelhoff (* 1936), politician, Member of the Bundestag from 1987 to 1998
- Reinhard Wilhelm (* 1946), scientist, computer scientist
- Paul Scheermann (* 1949), soccer player
- Bernd Leifeld (* 1949), dramaturge, director and theater manager
- Hilde Mattheis (* 1954), politician, Member of the Bundestag since 2002 (SPD)
- Dominicus Meier (* 1959), former abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Königsmünster in Meschede, official of the Archdiocese of Paderborn since 2013
- Michael Opitz (* 1962), soccer player
- Rolf Bauerdick (1957–2018), German author
- Andreas Schmidt (1963–2017), actor, director and rock singer
Personalities who have worked on site
- John August Roebling (actually Johann August Röbling; 1806–1869), designer of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York
- Johannes Dornseiffer (1837–1914), vicar in Fretter and pastor in Eslohe, founder of the (agricultural) winter school in Fretter
- Hermann Hagedorn (born August 20, 1884 in Borbeck-Gerschede, † March 7, 1951 in Fretter), German teacher and local poet.
- Hannes Pingsmann (1894–1955) painter and graphic artist, lived and worked in Fretter from 1945–1955
- Angela Autsch (1900–1944), religious sister of the Trinitarian order, perished in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
- Anneliese Schmidt-Schöttler (1920–2011), artist and from 1969 hostess mother of the Bamenohl Youth Hostel
literature
- Bitter, Franz: Finnentrop Sauerland. The parish village, its industry, the railway junction and its residents. Finnentrop 1955. Edited by Sasse, R., 2005. ( PDF )
- Feldmann, Thomas: The Finnentropic Chronicle. Finnentrop 1994.
- Pickert's collection , written down by Voss, W., edited by Sasse, R., 2005, PDF
- further literature collection of the “Working Group for History and Homeland Care in the Municipality of Finnentrop e. V. " online , since May 6, 2010" Heimatbund Gemeinde Finnentrop "
- The local chronicles and other literature can be found under the individual localities of the municipality.
- Christian Linder: The Finnentrop train station - A journey into the Carl Schmitt Land , Matthes & Seitz, 2008, ISBN 3-88221-704-9
- Finnentrop a municipality in the Sauerland, Strobel, 1989, ISBN 3-87793-026-3
- District of Olpe: Landscape plan Attendorn-Heggen-Heroes No. 3 . Olpe 2006.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Finnentrop
- The story of Finnentrop (PDF file; 1.86 MB)
- Finnentrop 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 )
- ↑ a b c Finnentrop municipal profile. (PDF) In: State database NRW. State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 24, 2019, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Municipality of Finnentrop: General geographical information ( Memento of the original from June 29, 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.
- ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
- ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Finnentrop ( Memento of the original from February 20, 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. dated September 4, 1997 in the version of the 5th supplement dated May 11, 2010
- ^ Peter Kracht: Sauerland, Siegerland and Wittgensteiner Land. Münster , 2005 p. 82f.
- ↑ Albert Hyskens: The circle Meschede under the barrage of World War II, Bielefeld 1949, p 118f and 178-180.
- ^ History. In: Bahnhof-finnentrop.de. Retrieved June 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 89 .
- ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Kommunale Wappen des Herzogtums Westfalen , Arnsberg 1986, p. 88 f.
- ↑ State Office Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), Düsseldorf, 2019. In: Municipal model calculation 2018 to 2040. State Office Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), 2018, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ 2011 census. Population by gender / nationality and religious affiliation - municipalities. In: State database NRW. State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, May 9, 2011, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Administrative report 2014 of the municipality of Finnentrop. (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on March 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Municipal data processing center: Landtag election result of the municipality of Finnentrop
- ↑ Municipality of Finnentrop - overall result. Election to the German Bundestag 24.09.2017 - second votes. Municipal data processing center Rhein-Erft-Rur, September 24, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017 .
- ↑ § 2 Paragraph 1 of the main statute of the municipality of Finnentrop
- ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Kommunale Wappen des Herzogtums Westfalen, Arnsberg 1986, p. 88.
- ↑ Roundhouse in Finnentrop collapsed. In: derwesten.de. Retrieved February 9, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Map of the NRW biotope register
- ↑ Natura 2000 area "Kalkbuchenwälder, Kalkhalbtrockenrasen und -Felsen south Finnentrop" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on August 17, 2017.
- ↑ a b landscape plan Attendorn-Heggen-Helden
- ↑ Municipal profile of the city of Lennestadt (as of April 24, 2019) on the website www.it.nrw.de (accessed on January 6, 2020)
- ↑ cf. Website ihk-siegen.de , section: Economic job market and statistics / statistical data / overview in figures 2018 (accessed January 6, 2020)
- ↑ CDU Kreis Olpe ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 2, 2010
- ↑ Municipality of Finnentrop: Home / Finnentrop. In: finnentrop.de. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .