Freudenberg (Siegerland)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
coat of arms Germany map
Coat of arms of the city of Freudenberg
Freudenberg (Siegerland)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Freudenberg highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '  N , 7 ° 52'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Circle : Siegen-Wittgenstein
Height : 330 m above sea level NHN
Area : 54.6 km 2
Residents: 17,711 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 324 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57258
Area code : 02734
License plate : SI, BLB
Community key : 05 9 70 016
LOCODE : DE FGB
City structure: 17 districts

City administration address : 		Mórer Platz 1
57258 Freudenberg
Website : www.freudenberg-stadt.de
Mayoress : Nicole Reschke ( SPD )
Location of the city of Freudenberg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
Rheinland-Pfalz Hessen Hochsauerlandkreis Kreis Olpe Bad Berleburg Bad Laasphe Burbach (Siegerland) Erndtebrück Freudenberg (Siegerland) Hilchenbach Kreuztal Netphen Neunkirchen (Siegerland) Siegen Wilnsdorfmap
About this picture
Freudenberg, aerial photo (2020)
Freudenberg, Alter Flecken, 2005

Freudenberg is a town in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on the German-Dutch holiday route Oranier Route .

geography

geography

Freudenberg is located in the historic Siegerland in a hilly low mountain range between 243 and 505 m above sea level. The landscape largely belongs to the Freudenberger Bergland , which in turn is part of the Siegerland natural area . The southern urban area belongs to the Giebelwald ridge , in which the 527 m high Giebelberg is also located. Although its tip is on Niederfischbacher area, its slope on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate forms the highest point in Freudenberg's urban area. The 17 districts are spread over an area of ​​approx. 55 km², about two thirds of which consist of deciduous and spruce forest. The climate in the urban area is described as Atlantic, rich in clouds and rain. The mean annual temperature is 8 ° C.

The three longest rivers in the city are the Asdorf , the Fischbach and the Alche . The approximately 6.5 km long Fischbach flows into the Asdorf west of Niederndorf. This in turn joins the Sieg after 8.6 km in the city and a total length of 20 km near Kirchen . The Alche rises north of Bühl near the border with the Olpe district and flows about 5 km in the urban area before the river flows over Seelbach to Siegen and there into the Sieg.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities and cities of Freudenberg are Wenden (Olpe district), Siegen and Kreuztal (both belong to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district) on the North Rhine-Westphalian side, and Friesenhagen , Harbach and Niederfischbach on the Rhineland-Palatinate side.

Expansion of the urban area

City structure

The easternmost district is Niederholzklau , it is only about one kilometer from the Siegen district of Langenholdinghausen . North of Niederholzklau is Oberholzklau, the northernmost district. In the south is Niederndorf , about two kilometers from the border with Rhineland-Palatinate and Oberschelden . To the west lies Mausbach , right on the border with the Friesenhagen part of Gerndorf in the Altenkirchen district . This district is the westernmost built-up part of Freudenberg; the undeveloped area of Plittershagen south of it extends about half a kilometer further.

City structure

Freudenberg consists of 17 districts:

history

Freudenberg (turquoise) on the Uerdinger line, the language border to the Low German Sauerland

The oldest parts of the city are probably the Oberholzklau (1079) and Niederholzklau (1256), which were mentioned in documents as early as the 11th and 13th centuries. Freudenberg has been the official and court seat since the beginning of the 15th century. The place and the castle Freudenberg were first mentioned in 1389.

The castle was founded over the Weibetal with a settlement by the Counts of Nassau as the western cornerstone of their area. Count Johann IV of Nassau , Vianden and Diez gave the citizens of Freudenberg their liberties on November 7th, 1456 . This freedom letter from 1456 is today seen as a reference to the granting of city rights. Documents give evidence that Freudenberg was founded as a “Flecken” very early on. The historic city center still bears the name “Alter Flecken” today.

In 1540 the castle and the settlement were seriously affected by a fire. By order of Wilhelm the Rich , new urban development was built around the middle of the 16th century. The spot got a fence with four gates. The Hohenhainer Tor was built in the northwest, the Weihertor in the northeast, the Braastor in the southeast and the school gate in the southwest. A second fire, triggered by a lightning strike on August 9, 1666, devastated the city again. Only one house (Kölner Str. 3) remained undamaged and is therefore Freudenberg's oldest house. Prince Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen rebuilt the area on the largely unchanged floor plan from 1540. The castle was left out, so only the remains of the wall can be seen today.

On March 18, 1588, more than 100 armed Sauerlanders attacked two Freudenberg restaurants. The Herlingen farm was mentioned as early as 1597 . It existed until around 1780.

On September 8, 1796, a spectacular robbery of the French war chest is reported in Freudenberg.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1969, the previously independent communities of Alchen, Bottenberg, Bühl, Büschergrund, Dirlenbach, Heisberg, Hohenhain, Lindenberg, Mausbach, Niederheuslingen, Niederholzklau, Niederndorf, Oberfischbach, Oberheuslingen, Oberholzklau and Plittershagen were incorporated. Most of the places were already part of the Freudenberg Office .

Population development

Official population of the city of Freudenberg since its foundation

year Residents
1969 13,979
1970 14,294
1971 14,588
1972 14,898
1973 15,182
1974 15,341
1975 15,346
1976 15,354
1977 15,518
1978 15,579
year Residents
1979 15,732
1980 15,844
1981 16,058
1982 15,950
1983 16,010
1984 16,062
1985 16,081
1986 16,146
1987 16,469
1988 16,495
year Residents
1989 16,731
1990 17,079
1991 17,529
1992 17,859
1993 17,935
1994 18,011
1995 18.094
1996 18,187
1997 18,227
1998 18,168
year Residents
1999 18,232
2000 18,328
2001 18,315
2002 18,352
2003 18,477
2004 18,563
2005 18,562
2006 18.601
2007 18,570
2008 18,556
year Residents
2009 18,392
2010 18,392
2011 18,349

Core city Freudenberg

The population of the core city:

year Residents
1563 237
1740 351
1818 618
1830 667
1843 867
1858 967
year Residents
1871 1086
1885 1595
1895 1761
1905 2137
1910 2047
1925 2213
year Residents
1933 2371
1939 2488
1946 3409
1950 3694
1961 4212
1967 4574
year Residents
1994 5169
2000 4938
2011 5022

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 53.7% (2009: 57.6%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
34.8%
39.8%
9.4%
6.6%
9.5%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-6.2  % p
+ 6.5  % p
-0.1  % p
-3.4  % p
+ 4.0  % p

Municipal council

Freudenberg town hall

The 34 seats of the city council were distributed as follows after the past local elections :

year CDU SPD FDP Green Alternative
list		 total
2014 12 14th 2 3 3 34
2009 14th 12 3 3 2 34
2004 17th 11 2 2 2 34

mayor

The later senior city director of Bielefeld and Duisburg, Herbert Krämer , was mayor in the early 1960s. From 1969 to 1989 Hermann Vomhof (1929–2009, SPD) and then Heinrich Hubbert (CDU), elected on October 19, 1989, held the office. From 1991 until the installation of a full-time mayor in 1998, Vomhof was again the chief administrative officer.

In 1999 Eckhard Günther (CDU) took over the town hall of Freudenberg, his term of office ended on October 20, 2015. He was replaced by Nicole Reschke (SPD), who won the runoff election against Heide Batz (CDU) at the end of September 2015.

Finances

As of December 31, 2012, the city of Freudenberg's debts were EUR 58,262,543. This corresponded to a per capita debt of 3,234 euros per inhabitant. As one of the first municipalities in Germany, Freudenberg voluntarily introduced a so-called sustainability statute for the area of ​​urban finances, with which the city wants to reduce the financial burdens of future generations and reduce its debts.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden city gate on a blue background, the colors of the Princely House of Nassau-Siegen.

Town twinning

Since 1989, Freudenberg has maintained a twinning partnership with the Hungarian city of Mór , which resulted from a youth exchange .

Culture and sights

The Alte Flecken, Freudenberg's historic city center
Mittelstrasse in Freudenberg
Small waterfall not far from the Asdorfer Weiher

In the South Westphalian open-air theater in Freudenberg , two new productions for children and adults are staged every year in a forest and rock backdrop. The grandstand is covered. Every year around 50,000 visitors visit the open-air theater.

The city museum in the middle of the historic city center of Alter Flecken exhibits exhibits on the city's and economic history, including the clock collection of the Freudenberg clockmaker Stahlschmidt. The technology museum on Olper Straße shows exhibits from the commercial and industrial history of the region. A working steam engine from 1904 and a historical machine workshop powered by transmission form the heart of the collection. Historical vehicles of all kinds are also on display.

Buildings

  • The “Old Patch” is Freudenberg's inner city, built entirely in half-timbered construction. It gives an impression of a small town from the 17th century. The old patch was included in the cultural atlas of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a “monument of international importance”; there is no comparable historical city center in half-timbered construction. After Freudenberg had become an independent parish in 1585, the Evangelical Church was built in 1602–1606 as a defensive and protective church. The bell tower and the remains of a wall on the Schlossberg are the only evidence of the earlier castle complex.
  • The church in Oberholzklau, built at the beginning of the 13th century, is a lovely Romanesque church with a clearly visible transition to Gothic. The half-timbered rectory next to it dates from 1608. It is the oldest rectory of the Ev. Church of Westphalia.
  • The St. Mary's Church with glass work by Georg Meistermann is also worth seeing .

Film set

Among other things, the place was used by Detlev Buck's film LiebesLuder as a symbol of the decent, narrow-minded small town in which it “stinks” behind the facades. The location was also used as a film set for the film "Lupo and the Muezzin" (Diana Film, Munich) . Parts of the place, including the local Bethesda Hospital, formed the venue for the movie Jakobs Bruder with Christoph Maria Herbst and Klaus J. Behrendt .

Protection designations for nature

There are a total of 26 natural monuments in the city, such as the more than 650 year old, 30 meter high bear forest oak . Furthermore, 12 nature reserves are designated in the urban area, of which the Kirrberg , Asdorfer Weiher , Plittersche , Rödersche , Süselberg , Uebachtal and Wending- and Peimbachtal protected areas are mentioned as examples. Furthermore, Eulenbruchswald ( NSG Seelbachs- and Eulenbruchswald ) and Heiden and Magerrasen Trupbach (NSG Kirrberg) were designated two FFH areas .

Economy and Infrastructure

The city is crossed by the A 45 from north to south-east . Up until the 1980s there was also a rail link via the Biggetalbahn to Olpe in the north and via the Asdorftalbahn to Betzdorf in the south. Today, large parts of the former route have been converted into cycle paths or filled with earth.

In Freudenberg there is a bus station, also called Mórer Platz - from here buses run to Siegen, Betzdorf and various other neighboring communities of Freudenberg. The lines are operated by Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH (VWS) , Westerwaldbus des Kreis Altenkirchen GmbH , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westerwaldbahn des Kreis Altenkirchen GmbH , and H. Ochsenbrücher GmbH .

There is also a night bus from Siegen to Freudenberg on weekends.

Bus routes in Freudenberg
Line number Line route operator Note
298 Freudenberg - Hohenhain - Friesenhagen Westerwaldbus of the Altenkirchen GmbH district
290 Büschergrund - Freudenberg - Niederfischbach - Churches - Betzdorf Westerwaldbus of the Altenkirchen GmbH district
N71 Freudenberg - Niederfischbach - Churches - Betzdorf Westerwaldbus of the Altenkirchen GmbH district
276 Freudenberg - Hohenhain - Friesenhagen - Morsbach H. Ochsenbrücher GmbH
L152 Freudenberg - Bethesda Hospital Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH
L151 Freudenberg - Hohenhain - Mausbach - Plittershagen - Freudenberg Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH Round trip
L150 Freudenberg - Oberfischbach | Freudenberg - Bühl - Oberholzklau - Alchen Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH
R42 Freudenberg - Römershagen - Wenden / (Olpe) Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH
R40 Freudenberg - Niederndorf - Oberheuslingen - Lindenberg - Seelbach - Siegen Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH
R38 Freudenberg - Lindenberg - Siegen Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH
R37 Freudenberg - Büschergrund - Bühl - Alchen - Seelbach - Siegen Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH
N4 Freudenberg - Lindenberg - Seelbach - Siegen Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH Subject to surcharge

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Lothar Uebach
  • Hermann Vomhof

sons and daughters of the town

Listed by year of birth

Others

The published in 2000 film LiebesLuder of Detlev Buck was partially filmed in Freudenberg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Freudenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Freudenberg (Siegerland)  - travel guide
Wikisource: Freudenberg in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

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. ↑ City of Freudenberg, 7th amendment to the development plan of the city of Freudenberg, No. 24a ( PDF , accessed on July 9, 2019)
  3. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of April 2, 2011
  4. ^ Genealogy.net: Freudenberg
  5. ^ Siegerland index of places ( memento of March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of September 11, 2010, p. 43
  7. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 70 .
  8. ↑ State database NRW
  9. ^ Otto Schäfer: The district of Siegen - an expertise for elementary schools , Siegen 1968
  10. ↑ freudenberg-stadt.de: Distribution of residents (updated regularly)
  11. ↑ genealogy.net: Freudenberg (Siegen-Wittgenstein)
  12. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 106–113
  13. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  14. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  15. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 186 .
  16. ↑ Bernhard Oltersdorf: Freudenberg, Stadt ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.6 MB) , approx. 1995
  17. ^ Freudenberg: districts. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  18. ↑ kdvz - Council election 2014 City of Freudenberg
  19. ^ Siegerland Chronicle from September 1, 1989 to August 31, 1990 , Siegerland home calendar. 1991, p. 173f., 66th edition, publisher: Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, publishing house for local literature
  20. ↑ Freudenberg mourns the loss of Hermann Vomhof on www.derwesten.de on December 6, 2009, accessed on March 28, 2012
  21. ↑ Eckhard Günther retired on derwesten.de on October 2, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016
  22. ↑ Two SPD victories, two CDU victories ( Memento from February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on wdr.de from September 27, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016
  23. ↑ Federal and State Statistical Offices: Integrated Debt of the Municipalities and Municipal Associations - Proportional model calculation for the inter-municipal comparison - as of December 31, 2012 - joint publication
  24. ↑ Sustainability Statutes of the City of Freudenberg , accessed on August 30, 2014
  25. ↑ District of Siegen-Wittgenstein, Freudenberg landscape plan ( PDF ) (accessed on July 9, 2019)
  26. ↑ State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia (LANUV), area list RB Arnsberg ( Link , accessed on July 9, 2019)