Lämershagen-Graefinghagen

Lämershagen-Graefinghagen District of Stieghorst City of Bielefeld Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	190 m
Area :	12.89 km²
Residents :	970  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Primaries :	0521, 05202
Location of Lämershagen-Gräfinghagen in Stieghorst Stadt Bielefeld

Lämershagen, view from the northwest

Lämershagen-Graefinghagen is a district of the city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Stieghorst district . Until 1972 Lämershagen-Gräfinghagen was an independent municipality in the Office Heepen the circle Bielefeld .

geography

The city of Bielefeld is not further subdivided into administrative or political units below the ten districts . Districts in Bielefeld are therefore only informal sub-areas, the delimitation of which mostly relates to the area of ​​an old community. For statistical purposes, however, Bielefeld is divided into 72 “statistical districts”. The old community of Lämershagen-Graefinghagen is now part of the statistical district 60 Ubbedissen / Lämershagen .

Lämershagen-Gräfinghagen is located in the east of Bielefeld on a pass over the Teutoburg Forest and borders the Bielefeld districts of Sennestadt , Senne , Stieghorst , Hillegossen and Ubbedissen as well as the Lippe town of Oerlinghausen . The Hermannsweg long-distance hiking trail runs parallel to the main ridge of the Teutoburg Forest through the district. Large parts of Lämershagen-Gräfinghagen are forested.

history

Lämershagen and Gräfinghagen are two old farmers who belonged to the Heepen bailiwick of the Ravensberg county . A peculiarity for the Westphalian region was that up to the middle of the 19th century both farmers were not parish in the parish of Heepen, but in the parish of Oerlinghausen, although Oerlinghausen itself had always belonged to the Principality of Lippe . As part of the introduction of the Westphalian State Municipal Code Lämershagen and Gräfinghagen 1843 became a common community in the Office Heepen the circle Bielefeld summarized. While Gräfinghagen has remained a purely agricultural scattered settlement to this day, a closed residential area developed around Wrachtruper Strasse in Lämershagen in the 20th century.

With effect from January 1, 1973, the Bielefeld Act of October 24, 1972 merged the city of Bielefeld with the cities and municipalities of the Bielefeld district , which also resulted in Lämershagen-Gräfinghagen becoming part of Bielefeld. The Heepen office was dissolved and the city of Bielefeld became its legal successor. Lämershagen and Gräfinghagen have been part of the Bielefeld district of Stieghorst since then. The areas of the former municipality of Lämershagen-Gräfinghagen, which lay south of the main ridge of the Teutoburg Forest, have been part of the Sennestadt district since 1973 .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1843	776
1864	801
1910	766
1939	856
1961	1121
1966	1087
1970	1085
1972	1056
2008	970

education

There is a day-care center in Lämershagen .

Attractions

On the Hünensaut top of the Lewenbergs mentioned above the wall in the path to Lämershagen radicals are the ramparts of Löwenburg . The Löwenburg was a hill fort built in the High Middle Ages and quickly destroyed again. Her name refers to Henry the Lion .

The northern part of the Bielefeld-Sennestadt Roman camp, discovered in 2017, is located in the Lämershagen-Graefinghagen area. The camp was a marching camp that the Romans had set up around the time of Christ's birth south of the main ridge of the Teutoburg Forest.

traffic

The Autobahn 2 crosses the Teutoburg Forest near Lämershagen . The Lämershagener Straße , which leads from Bielefeld-Hillegossen via Lämershagen to Bielefeld-Sennestadt , is also a pass road over the Teutoburg Forest. Lämershagen is integrated into local public transport by bus lines 34 (Sieker Stadtbahn – Lämershagen – Gräfinghagen- Oerlinghausen) and line 30 (section Stieghorst-Hillegossen-Lämershagen-Sennestadt).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data from the city of Bielefeld
2. ^ Peter Florenz Weddigen: New Westphalian magazine on geography, history and statistics. (Digitalisat) 1789, p. 141 , accessed on April 12, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Ordinance No. 713. (digitized version ) In: Official Journal of the Minden Government. November 17, 1843, p. 360 , accessed April 22, 2010 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 320 .
5. ↑ Bielefeld Act §23 (1). (pdf; 322 kB) 1972, accessed on April 12, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Seemann: Geographical-statistical-topographical overview of the administrative district of Minden. (pdf; 802 kB) 1843, pp. 52-57 , accessed on April 23, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Minden. (Digitized version) 1866, p. 12 , accessed on April 22, 2010 . 
8. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 . 
9. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bielefeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ^ Bielefeld district (ed.): 150 years Bielefeld district . 1966.
11. ↑ 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. 97 f .
12. ↑ Social performance report 2008. (pdf; 9.5 MB) City of Bielefeld, December 31, 2008, p. 186 , accessed on May 25, 2010 : "Population of the statistical district 781 Lämershagen" 
13. ↑ Brief history of the Löwenburg. In: www.andreas-janda.de. Retrieved July 22, 2010 . 
14. ↑ New find of a Roman marcher in Bielefeld at the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association on May 8, 2019