Freudenberg (Siegerland)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ' N , 7 ° 52' E |
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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 |
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Mayoress : | Nicole Reschke ( SPD ) | |
Location of the city of Freudenberg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district | ||
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
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:
- Alks
- Bottenberg
- Buhl
- Büschergrund
- Dirlenbach
- Freudenberg
- Heisberg
- Hohenhain
- Lindenberg
- Mausbach
- Niederheuslingen
- Niederholzklau
- Niederndorf
- Oberfischbach
- Oberheuslingen
- Oberholzklau
- Plittershagen
history
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
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Core city Freudenberg
The population of the core city:
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politics
Municipal council
The 34 seats of the city council were distributed as follows after the past local elections :
year | CDU | SPD | FDP | Green | Alternative list |
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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
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.
Line number | Line route | operator | Note |
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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
- Gottfried Anton (1571–1618), legal scholar
- Theodor Siebel (1897–1975), entrepreneur and politician
- Gerd Uffelmann (1912–1999), lawyer and pharmacist
- Theodor-Otto Lindenschmidt (1917–1982), surgeon
- Wilhelm Leutzbach (1922–2009), transport scientist
- Wigand Siebel (1929–2014), sociologist
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), historian
- Herbert Krämer (1931–2015), politician, mayor of Freudenberg
- Gerhard Kritzler (1934–2013), entrepreneur
- Sven Michel (* 1990), football player
Others
The published in 2000 film LiebesLuder of Detlev Buck was partially filmed in Freudenberg.
literature
- Herbert Kienzler: Freudenberg ( Westfälische Kunststätten , issue 2). Münster undated
Web links
- Website of the city of Freudenberg
- Freudenberg on Siegerland.net
- Freudenberg 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 )
- ↑ City of Freudenberg, 7th amendment to the development plan of the city of Freudenberg, No. 24a ( PDF , accessed on July 9, 2019)
- ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of April 2, 2011
- ^ Genealogy.net: Freudenberg
- ^ Siegerland index of places ( memento of March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of September 11, 2010, p. 43
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 70 .
- ↑ State database NRW
- ^ Otto Schäfer: The district of Siegen - an expertise for elementary schools , Siegen 1968
- ↑ freudenberg-stadt.de: Distribution of residents (updated regularly)
- ↑ genealogy.net: Freudenberg (Siegen-Wittgenstein)
- ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 106–113
- ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Bernhard Oltersdorf: Freudenberg, Stadt ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.6 MB) , approx. 1995
- ^ Freudenberg: districts. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ kdvz - Council election 2014 City of Freudenberg
- ^ 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
- ↑ Freudenberg mourns the loss of Hermann Vomhof on www.derwesten.de on December 6, 2009, accessed on March 28, 2012
- ↑ Eckhard Günther retired on derwesten.de on October 2, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Sustainability Statutes of the City of Freudenberg , accessed on August 30, 2014
- ↑ District of Siegen-Wittgenstein, Freudenberg landscape plan ( PDF ) (accessed on July 9, 2019)
- ↑ State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia (LANUV), area list RB Arnsberg ( Link , accessed on July 9, 2019)