Höxter

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Höxter
Map of Germany, position of the city of Höxter highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Detmold
Circle : Höxter
Height : 96 m above sea level NHN
Area : 158.16 km 2
Residents: 28,808 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 182 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 37671
Primaries : 05271, 05531, 05275, 05277, 05278
License plate : HX, WAR
Community key : 05 7 62 020
LOCODE : DE HOX
City structure: 13 districts

City administration address : 		Westerbachstrasse 45
37671 Höxter
Website : www.hoexter.de
Mayor : Alexander Fischer ( SPD )
Location of the town of Höxter in the Höxter district
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Höxter is a medium-sized town with almost 30,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia and the district town of the Höxter district , which is part of the Detmold administrative district. Höxter is a location of the OWL Technical University . The city lies on the Weser in the center of the Weser Uplands and is part of the Hochstift Paderborn region . Historical place names of Höxter are Hoxer and Huxaria.

The Corvey Monastery in Höxter was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June 2014 under the official title “The Carolingian Westwork and the Civitas Corvey” . The former Benedictine Abbey of Corvey was founded in 822 with the consent of Louis the Pious (778-840), a son of Charlemagne , and was one of the most important monasteries in Europe in the early Middle Ages. The old monastery complex, located directly on the Weser , was distinguished in particular for its almost completely preserved Carolingian westwork .

geography

Höxter with Corvey ( UNESCO World Heritage since 2014 )

Höxter is the easternmost town in North Rhine-Westphalia and is located in the Holzmindener Wesertal (part of the upper Weser valley ) immediately west of the Solling and east of the Oberwälder Land on the eastern edge of the Teutoburg Forest / Egge Mountains Nature Park . The easternmost point of the country is in the district of Stahle . The majority of the urban area is on the western side of the Weser. On the eastern side of the Weser there are only the Lüchtringen district and Brückfeld, a peninsula of the Weser upstream of the core town of Höxter. To the east of Höxter is the Solling , which already belongs to Lower Saxony . At the southern edge of the urban area near Godelheim the Nethe flows into the Weser, in the core town of Höxter the Bollerbach, the Grube and the Schelpe and in Albaxen the Saumer . The urban area extends in the north to the summit of the Köterberg at 496 meters above sea level. The next highest elevations are the Strohberg north of Bödexen with 394 meters, the Krekeler Berg southwest of the core town Höxter with 368 meters and the Scheelenberg south of Bosseborn with 346 meters.

The closest large cities are Paderborn (approx. 45 kilometers west), Bielefeld (approx. 65 kilometers northwest), Hanover (approx. 70 kilometers north), Göttingen (approx. 45 kilometers southeast) and Kassel (approx. 50 kilometers south).

geology

Geothermal map of Höxter

The bedrock in the urban area is largely determined by clay , marl , limestone and sandstones from the Middle Ages . These sedimentary rocks are between 1000 and 1500 meters thick. During the course of the earth's history, they were lifted out and broken down into numerous saddles , hollows , ditches , clumps and clods . Deeper is a solid rock plinth made of rocks from the ancient world ( Devonian , Carboniferous and Permian ). In the partly wide valley plains of the Weser and its western tributaries, the bedrock is covered with loose rock from the Ice Age ( gravel , sand and loess ).

The sands and gravels in the Weser Valley and in the side valleys are good aquifers. Limestone soils are widespread in the Oberwälder Land. The predominant characteristic are the rendzines and rendzina brown soils , which are mostly located under the forest .

Very deep silty - loamy parabrown soils , which are used as arable farming sites with high yields, developed from loess, especially in light slopes and hollows . In areas with larger differences in altitude on a small scale, forest use predominates, which is replaced by grassland use and arable farming in areas with more flat waves. In the area of ​​the Weser there are young, sandy-loamy river sediments from which brown floodplain soils have developed. Arable farming is used where flooding is unlikely.

The rise of the Solling vault and the Weser have shaped the morphology of the space. At Höxter, for example, the river cuts the border between the red sandstone and the shell limestone at an acute angle. At neighboring Holzminden , the river moves away from the center of uplift and takes its way through the shell limestone. In the west, the flanks facing the Weser fall steeply over 200 meters into the valley floor. Some cliffs have formed like the Rabenklippen on the Ziegenberg and the Princess Cliffs on the Räuschenberg. Valuable forest communities such as orchid-beech forests thrive here . The ridges of these mountains show little relief energy and are partly used intensively for agriculture. On the east side of the Weser, on the other hand, the Solling rises relatively gently. Between the Oberwälder Land and the Solling, the Weser meanders in a valley about 1 to 3 kilometers wide. Their river gravel is mined in many gravel lakes .

The settlement of the core town of Höxter has extended to the three surrounding limestone slopes on the Ziegenberg, the Räuschenberg and the Bielenberg since the 1950s. The edges of Ziegenberg and Räuschenberg are about 200 meters above the valley floor. Valuable juniper heaths have been preserved on the southern flank of the somewhat smaller Bielenberg . Two old quarries that were left open bear witness to its use for cement production . Located in the north of the city south slope of Räuschenberges called "vineyard", since during the Medieval Warm Period from Corvey was operated viticulture.

Höxter is well to very well suited for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of a geothermal probe and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see the adjacent map).

Expansion and use of the urban area

Aerial view of Höxter with the villages of Godelheim, Lüchtringen and Lütmarsen

The city classified as a "small medium-sized town" covers an area of ​​157.9 km². The largest extension in north-south direction is about 21.7 km and in east-west direction about 13.7 km.

Area
according to type of use 		Agricultural
schafts-
area 		Forest
area 		Building,
open and
operational space 		Traffic
area
Surface of water		 Recreation and
cemetery area 		other
use
Area in km² 70.8 63.4 10.2 8.0 3.7 1.2 0.6
Share of total area 44.8% 40.1% 6.5% 5.1% 2.4% 0.7% 0.4%

Neighboring communities

Lie Joint municipality of Bodenwerder-Polle
Marienmünster
Brakel 		Neighboring communities Integrated municipality Bevern
Holzminden
Brakel Beverungen Integrated community of Boffzen

Höxter borders in the north on the city of Lügde ( Lippe district , North Rhine-Westphalia ), in the northeast on the joint municipality Bodenwerder-Polle , in the east on the joint municipality Bevern and on the city of Holzminden , in the southeast on the joint municipality Boffzen (all district Holzminden , Lower Saxony ), in the south to the city of Beverungen , in the south-west and west to the city of Brakel and in the west to the city of Marienmünster (all in the district of Höxter , North Rhine-Westphalia).

City structure

The urban area of ​​Höxter is divided into twelve localities and the core city. In all localities there are local committees that are assigned the tasks that can be carried out within their area of ​​responsibility without impairing the uniform development of the city as a whole. In addition, all localities with the exception of the city center of Höxter have district administrative offices that are supposed to ensure that administrative action is close to the people. The office of head of the district administrative office is assigned to a resident of the locality as an honorary office for the duration of the council's electoral term .

Locality Residents
without secondary residences 1 		Share of the
district in percent 		Localities of the city of Höxter
Location of the districts within the urban area of ​​Höxter
City center Höxter 13,397 45.81%
Albaxen 01,591 05.44%
Bödexen 00.851 02.80%
Bosseborn 00.513 01.75%
Brenkhausen 01,285 04.39%
Bruchhausen 00.627 02.14%
Fürstenau 01,187 04.06%
Godelheim 00.898 03.07%
Lüchtringen 02,930 10.02%
Lütmarsen 00.975 03.33%
Ottbergen 01,547 05.29%
Ovenhausen 01,098 03.75%
Steels 02,376 08.12%
total 29,244 100.00%0

1  As of December 31, 2017

climate

See: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

history

Höxter around 1819

In the year 775 Frankish troops under Charlemagne occupied both sides of the Weserfurt in the area of ​​today's Höxter. Many Saxons died defending this strategically important place. The settlement of Huxori , which later became Höxter with its lands, was awarded to the newly founded Corvey Monastery by Emperor Ludwig the Pious in 822 . The place was conveniently located on the former highways from Bremen to Kassel and on the east-west connection, the so-called Hellweg .

In 1250 Höxter was granted city rights, and from 1295 the city belonged to the Hanseatic League . Höxter was badly hit by the Thirty Years' War , and soldiers of the Catholic League killed over 1,500 residents in the Höxter bloodbath in 1634 after a long siege. As a result, the city became increasingly impoverished.

Corvey and Höxter Castle, around 1840

From 1792 to 1803 Höxter was the capital of the Principality of Corvey. From 1803 to 1806 the city belonged to the House of Nassau-Orange , then from 1807 to the Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1813 Höxter was added to the Kingdom of Prussia . Since 1816 Höxter was the district town of the district Höxter in the administrative district of Minden in the province of Westphalia .

In 1865 a brewery was founded, which was renamed the Hermann Krekeler Brewery in 1908 and was called the Hermann & Otto Krekeler Brewery from 1915 ; It was closed in 1970.

In 1865 the connection to the railway network through the Altenbeken –Holzminden– Kreiensen - Braunschweig line of the Royal Westphalian Railway Company and the Braunschweigische Südbahn ( Duke Braunschweigische Staatseisenbahn ) led to an economic upswing. The line with the railway bridge over the Weser represented an important connection between Berlin , Braunschweig and the Ruhr area . The once two-track main line lost its importance over the decades due to the division of Germany after 1945, as the traffic flows more in a north-south direction relocated.

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The funeral of SS-Hauptsturmführer and adjutant of the camp commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Hans-Theodor Schmidt , caused a sensation on June 9, 1951 , at which up to 5,000 people attended among several hundred police officers. Hans Schmidt was the last war criminal to have been executed by the Americans in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison two days earlier . The Socialist Reich Party (SRP), which was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court a year later , had used the funeral in his home town of Höxter for propaganda purposes.

In 1956 the Residenz-Filmhaus was built on the site of the former steam sawmill with a hall and over 700 seats. In 1975 Heribert Schlinker took over the cinema. A second hall was built in 1979 and a third from 1982. In December 1999 the residence had to close and was converted into a town hall.

Damage to the windows of the Kilianikirche

The greatest disaster in the town of Höxter in the post-war period occurred on the morning of September 19, 2005. A suicide blew himself up in his house in the immediate vicinity of the historic town hall with more than 900 liters of gasoline. Three people died and more than 100 were injured. About an hour after the detonation of the house, a disaster alarm was triggered, which meant that several hundred rescue workers from the Höxter and Holzminden districts and the German armed forces were on site. The entire city center was affected, and the reconstruction work was not yet completed a year later. For example, the adjacent Protestant Kilian Church could only be used again on October 31, 2007 after extensive repair of the damage. The baroque monument organ , which had only been renovated shortly before the catastrophe due to lead corrosion , had to be relocated in parts due to heavy soiling and damage and was played for the first time again on April 6, 2008.

In 2016, the small district of Bosseborn hit the headlines nationwide thanks to the so-called horror house . Here a couple tortured at least two women to death.

Incorporations

As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform on January 1, 1970 with the "Law for the reorganization of the Höxter district" of December 2, 1969, the previously independent communities Albaxen, Bödexen, Bosseborn, Brenkhausen, Fürstenau, Godelheim, Lüchtringen, Lütmarsen, Ottbergen , Ovenhausen and Stahle from the office of Höxter-Land , the municipality of Bruchhausen from the office of Beverungen and the non-official city of Höxter have merged to form the new city of Höxter. The office of Höxter-Land was dissolved; The legal successor is the city of Höxter. On October 1, 1971, a sub-area of ​​the city of Holzminden with a little more than 100 inhabitants at that time was included.

Population development

The overview shows the population of the city of Höxter according to the respective territorial status, in some years also according to the current territorial status. The figures are census results up to 1970 and 1987 and from 1975 official updates by the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics. The figures from 1975 to 1985 are estimated values, the figures from 1990 are extrapolations based on the results of the 1987 census. From 1871 and 1946, the figures relate to the local population , from 1925 to the resident population and from 1985 to the population at Location of the main residence . Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey procedures.

Population development of Höxter from 1818 to 2018 according to the table below

Höxter according to the territorial status at that time

date Residents
1818 (Dec. 31) 2,858
1831 (December 3) 3,292
1837 (Dec. 3) 3,416
1843 (December 3) 3,656
1849 (December 3) 3,581
1852 (December 3) 3,806
1858 (Dec. 3) 3,858
1867 (December 3) 5,234
1871 (December 1) 5,047
1880 (December 1) 5,186
1885 (December 1) 6,046
date Residents
1900 (December 1) 07,625
1905 (December 1) 07,699
1910 (December 1) 07,891
1925 (June 16) 07,258
1933 (June 16) 07,844
1939 (May 17) 09,456
1946 (Oct. 29) 13.002
1950 (Sep 13) 14,606
1961 (June 6) 15,156
1969 (Dec. 31) 15,471

Höxter according to the current territorial status

date Residents
1939 (May 17) 21,411
1950 (Sep 13) 30,752
1961 (June 6) 30,799
1969 (Dec. 31) 32,823
1970 (May 27) 32,630
1975 (Dec. 31) 32,758
1980 (Dec. 31) 32,423
1985 (Dec. 31) 31,577
1987 (May 25) 31,972
1990 (Dec. 31) 33,079
1995 (Dec. 31) 33,560
date Residents
2000 (Dec. 31) 33.117
2005 (Dec. 31) 32,591
2007 (Dec. 31) 32,020
2010 (December 31) 31,089
2011 (Dec. 31) 30,991
2012 (Dec. 31) 29,812
2013 (Dec. 31) 29,523
2016 (Dec. 31) 29,553
2017 (Dec. 31) 29,244
2018 (Dec. 31) 28,824
2019 (Dec. 31) 28,808

Religions

56.5% of Höxter's population (as of 2013) is Roman Catholic , 23.7% are Evangelical Lutheran and 19.9% ​​profess other religious communities or are non-denominational.

The New Apostolic Church, the Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Baptists), Christians who are faithful to the Bible and Jehovah's Witnesses have their own congregations. In Brenkhausen Monastery there is a bishopric of the Coptic Church . Construction of a mosque has begun in Wegetalstrasse .

politics

City council election Höxter 2014
Turnout: 58.67%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
38.54%
30.79%
7.80%
2.77%
6.96%
1.88%
11.26%
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+ 0.72  % p
-2.17  % p
-2.85  % p
-5.49  % p
+0.02  % p
-0.97  % p
+ 10.73  % p.p.
Otherwise.

City council

Allocation of seats for City Council Höxter 2014
17th
14th
3
1
1
3
5
17th 14th 3 1 1 3 5 
A total of 44 seats

The following table shows the composition of the city ​​council and the local election results since 1975 (only results with at least 1% of the votes).

2014 2009 2004 1999 1994 1989 1984 1979 1975
Political party Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats %
CDU 17th 38.54 17th 37.82 23 51.07 24 54.17 26th 48.02 23 47.67 25th 53.06 27 56.53 30th 62.14
SPD 14th 30.79 14th 32.96 12 27.70 14th 31.41 19th 36.89 17th 34.83 13 29.49 15th 32.90 13 28.26
UWG / CWG 1 03 07.80 05 10.65 04th 09.65 03 06.19 00 03.96 - - - - 00 03.91 00 04.38
FDP 01 02.77 04th 08.26 02 04.74 01 02.73 00 02.11 00 04.82 02 05.67 03 06.67 02 05.22
GREEN 03 06.96 03 06.94 03 06.84 02 05.49 00 04.88 02 05.30 0- - - - - -
The left 01 01.88 01 02.85 - - - - 0- - 0- - 0- - - - - -
Citizens for Höxter (BfH) 05 11.26 - - - - - - 0- - 0- - 0- - - - - -
WBU 2 - - - - - - - - 00 03.92 03 07.39 05 11.79 - - - -
Total 3 44 100 44 100 44 100 45 100 45 100 45 100 45 100 45 100 45 100

1 Independent community of voters / Christian community of voters
2 Community of voters Proximity to the citizen and environmental protection
3 Without taking into account rounding differences

mayor

Historic town hall Höxter

For the first time since 1946, in the local elections on August 30, 2009, Alexander Fischer, an SPD candidate, won the mayoral election. The turnout was 57.6 percent. In the 2014 local elections, he received the most votes, with a turnout of 58.74%. In the runoff election on June 15, 2014, he was confirmed in office with 57.96%. Uwe Schünemann lost with 42.04% of the votes.

Mayoral election Höxter 2014 (1st ballot)
candidate Valid votes Share of votes
Alexander Fischer (SPD) 5,822 40.67%
Uwe Schünemann (CDU) 4,923 34.39%
Hermann Loges (individual applicant) 3,570 24.94%

Former mayors (incomplete)

  • 1999–2009 Hermann Hecker (CDU) (result 2004: 61.7%, 1999: 53.1%), full-time mayor directly elected by the citizens after the change in local law in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1994.
  • 1994–1999 Klaus Behrens (CDU)
  • 1979–1994 Dorothee Baumgarten (CDU)
  • 1970–1979 Heinrich Rosenbaum (CDU)
  • 1966–1970 Wilhelm Hattenhauer (FDP)
  • 1961–1966 Franz Lüke (CDU)
  • 1956–1961 Friedrich Dittmar
  • 1948–1956 Wilhelm Hattenhauer
  • 1946–1948 Heinrich Thies
  • 1945–1946 Gustav Recken
  • 1945 -0000Wilhelm Kronsbein (only for two weeks, then for a short time district administrator and senior district director of the Höxter district and from 1951 senior government councilor in Cologne)
  • 1943–1945 Franz Hartmann (previously mayor of Höxter-Land)
  • 1937–1943 Werner Holle (NSDAP) (previously mayor of Beverungen)
  • 1925–1937 Wilhelm Kronsbein
  • 1913–1925 Ewald Haarmann (1925 temporarily represented by Ludwig Hensel)
  • 1912–1913 Johann Farina
  • 1887–1912 Wilhelm Leisnering
  • 1880–1887 August Frohnsdorff
  • 1858–1880 Nikolaus Wilhelm Eckardt
  • 1856–1858 Ernst Lülwes (acting)
  • 1854–1856 Wilhelm Jahn
  • 1853–1854 Friedrich Freise (acting)
  • 1847–1853 Karl Georg Bartels
  • 1835–1847 Adolf Wilhelm Leopold Augustin
  • 1833–1835 Hillebrandt (acting)
  • 1830–1833 Ernst Koch
  • 1806–1830 Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Wiederhold

Before 1806 there were always two mayors.

  • (1648) Ludwig Rotermundt
  • (1586) Christoffer Hufener
  • (1586) Joannes Nidenstein
  • 1540 Hermann Böger
  • 1514 and 1516 Hans Derndal
  • 1504–1530 Johann Sifferdes (alternating every two years, except 1514 and 1516)
  • 1505–1523 Volquin Grovende (alternating every two years)
  • 1493–1518 Hinrick Masks
  • 1484–1493 Johann von Addessen
  • 0000–1484 Arnt von Haversforde
  • 145? –1505 Hinrick Sifferdes (alternated with Johann Derndal until 1490)
  • 145? –1490 Johann Derndal (alternated with Hinrick Sifferdes until 1490)
  • 0000–14 ?? Hinrick Grovende
  • 1422-1450 Gevehard Strolin
  • 1400– 0? 00Heinrich Strolin
  • 1351-1374 Arnold Strolin
  • 1331 -0000Konrad von Voltessen
  • 1301-1325 Gevehard I. Strolin

Former City Directors (incomplete)

  • 1951–1965 Werner Holle
  • 1966–1969 Heinz Kühn
  • 1969–1977 Ferdinand Otten
  • 1977-1999 Walther Anderson

coat of arms

The District President of Detmold granted the city of Höxter the right to use the coat of arms in a document dated July 1, 1970. The coat of arms shows in red a silver (white) gate building with a large open gate under an openwork Gothic gable between two pointed towers, which are bordered on the edge by two tin towers above a wall pierced by narrow gates.

In the same charter, the city is given the right to fly banners and flags. The banner is red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 striped lengthways with the city coat of arms above the center. The flag is striped lengthways from red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 with the city coat of arms shifted to the pole.

Town twinning

Since 1963/64 there has been a town twinning with Corbie on the Somme (Northern France) and since 1979/80 another with Sudbury (County Suffolk ) in Great Britain . Citizens' meetings are held regularly with these cities.

The König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium has had one of the oldest German school partnerships with schools in France, the Lycée Robespierre and the Lycée Gambetta in Arras, since 1956/57 . The Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Realschule also maintains several school partnerships.

Höxter is a member of the New Hanseatic League of Cities .

Culture and sights

music

The ensembles of the Höxter Music School , the choirs in the Höxter Musical Center and many other choirs and music groups in the city center and the localities offer opportunities for musical participation. In addition, concerts are regularly held in the churches of Höxter.

theatre

Theater performances take place regularly in the Residenz Stadthalle Höxter . The town hall offers a total of 680 seats on 2,000 m². An open-air stage has been set up in a former quarry in the village of Stahle.

Museums

  • An exhibition on the history of Höxter's settlement and town is housed in Corvey Castle with the title “From the villa to the town”. 1000 years of city history from the 9th century to around 1750 can be visited.
  • The Forum Jacob Pins in the Adelshof Heisterman von Ziehlberg shows the works of the Jewish artist who fled Höxter to Palestine in the Third Reich and donated his artistic estate to his native city, and a permanent exhibition commemorates the former Jewish citizens of the city.

Buildings

Half-timbered houses at Litto House, Marktstrasse 13
Deschool Höxter
House Horstkotte
  • The largely preserved medieval town structure is characterized by half-timbered houses , among which there are some examples of the Weser Renaissance style . Particularly noteworthy are the St. Kiliani Church from around 1100, the landmark of the Hanseatic City of Höxter, the Marienkirche from 1283, the earliest Gothic building in Westphalia and part of a Minorite monastery until 1804 , the sexton from 1565, the Adam-und- Eva House from 1571 in Stummrigestrasse, the Höxter town hall, also built in 1613 in the Weser Renaissance style, and the old deanship from 1561 on the market square; there are over 60 carved half rosettes to admire, all of which are different from one another. The deanery was a noble seat of the von Amelunxen family .
  • The Nikolaikirche, a listed monument, is also worth seeing .
  • Corvey Abbey is located on the edge of Höxter, directly on the Weser. The monastery church has a Carolingian crypt and an imposing westwork . Next to the church is the grave of Hoffmann von Fallersleben , who among other things wrote the song of the Germans . Nearby is the Tom Roden ground monument .
  • Tonenburg Castle, which is now used for gastronomy, is located in the Albaxen district directly on the Weser .
  • The Forum Jacob Pins in the Renaissance Adelshof Heisterman von Ziehlberg on Westerbachstraße shows the works of this Jewish artist from Höxter and commemorates the Jewish fellow citizens of the city.
  • Another attraction is the Obermühle , a former watermill that once belonged to Corvey Abbey. Today the mill café is also located in the upper mill.
  • The vineyard chapel on Räuschenberg (built in 1689/90, 1987, renovated around 1992 and June 2009)
  • The building of the former building trade school Höxter , the first state building trade school in Prussia, is located on Möllinger Platz . Today the Höxter-Marienmünster Adult Education Center and the Höxter City Library are based here.
  • The Rodeneck Tower is a 12 m high observation tower built in 1883 . The listed tower is located southwest of Höxter on the Ziegenberg and offers a very good view of the city and the surrounding area.
  • A little over 2 km to the west is the Bismarck Tower, inaugurated in 1900 . The 13 m high tower with oriel tower was built from limestone in just four months. A renovation took place in 1990.
  • The Felsenkeller , a listed half-timbered building used as a discotheque above the B 64 at the entrance to Höxter, burned down completely on October 17, 2006.

  • Vineyard chapel on the Räuschenberg

  • Bismarck Tower on the Ziegenberg

  • Passage in the city ​​wall

Parks

The 2  ha large spa Bruchhausen is relatively simple with wide lawns, single solitary trees and shrubs planted.

The privately owned Bruchhausen Manor Park , which is also 2 hectares in size, is open to the public. A quarry stone wall in the west and south encompasses the garden area. The access from the west is an avenue of plane trees. There is a pond on the complex. The park adjoins the spa facilities about 300 m to the south.

The church-owned Brenkhausen monastery garden, measuring around 3 hectares, is also open to the public. The outdoor facilities of the monastery consist of wide lawns with a few solitary trees.

The 3.5 hectare botanical teaching garden of the Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Höxter department is open on weekdays during the daylight hours and contains more than 620 species and varieties, of which more than 400 species are in the perennial plantations.

The approximately 2.5 hectare park at Haus Brunnen is inaccessible private property. It is a now overgrown park with remains of old trees and a central water basin.

The Corvey Castle Gardens are privately owned. The forecourt, the inner courtyard and the cemetery can be visited for a fee, the palace park is not open to the public. You can see wide, well-tended lawns with some narrow rose borders in front of the castle and the church. The palace park is used privately and can only be viewed through a garden gate on the north side.

The Höxter ramparts surround the historic old town. A public green area is located along the entire length of the historic city fortifications. Together with the Weser promenade, it forms a green ring around the old town.

Natural monuments

There are 14 nature reserves in Höxter. The largest are the Bielenberg nature reserve , which was established in 1930 on the plateau and on the southern slope of the mountain, and the Ziegenberg .

There is a bird sanctuary in the Albaxen district.

Sports

In the city center there is a municipal outdoor pool in Brückfeld and two sports fields. There is also a commercially operated, covered soccer arena Höxter / Weserbergland with two artificial turf pitches for soccer, in which senior men's tournaments of the FLVW district Höxter are also held.

There are two football clubs in the city center: The club SV Höxter , which was formed in 1985 from the merger between DJK Höxter and VfL Höxter , currently plays with the first team in the district league A and has 13 youth teams. In 2010 the team rose from the district league to the state league, in which they even became champions in 2003. However, SV Höxter rose directly from the association league in the following season. The club's best-known player is Stephan Maaß ( SC Paderborn 07 ). When VfL Hoexter began once Thomas von Heesen (professional for later Hamburger SV and Arminia Bielefeld ) his career. Phönix 95 Höxter , founded in 1995, plays in the women's district league and also has three girls 'teams and one men's team in the district league C. Both clubs' stadium is the Weserkampfbahn.

In the villages there are numerous sports clubs with a large number of members with large football departments, but also numerous other sports: u. a. SV Albaxen , SV Brenkhausen / Bosseborn , SV Fürstenau / Bödexen , TuS Godelheim , TuS Lüchtringen , TuS Lütmarsen , SV Ottbergen-Bruchhausen , TuS Ovenhausen and FC 30 Stahle . Fürstenau / Bödexen, Brenkhausen / Bosseborn, Ottbergen, Lüchtringen and Stahle have also played in the district league and are among the strongest teams in the district league A.

The largest sports club in town is the Höxter handball and athletics club (HLC Höxter) . The HLC offers a wide range: fitness courses , swimming , aqua jogging , back exercises , badminton , judo, etc. a.

In volleyball, the departments of SV Höxter and TuS Lüchtringen are the figureheads. There are numerous tennis and table tennis clubs. The TV Rot-Weiß Höxter played in the women's tennis association league in summer 2007.

In addition to leisure activities, there is also a bowling alley with twelve lanes and two mini golf courses as well as a riding hall, the boathouse of the Höxter rowing club from 1898 and a water sports house. Around Höxter there are opportunities for rowing, skydiving, water sports and hiking. The 18 km circular hiking trail offers beautiful viewpoints, such as B. the Köterberg .

Regular events

The Hoffmann von Fallersleben speech on May 1st in Corvey Castle will be followed by the Corveyer Music Weeks until June . In the Kilianikirche there is weekly music during market time (Saturdays) and open singing during market time (Wednesdays) between Easter and autumn holidays . A permanent fixture in the Kilianikirche is also the night music by candlelight on Pentecost and New Year's Eve. Every January there is an internet-based choir workshop in the Marienkirche.

The events in the course of the year will be opened in March by the Easter egg market in Höxter-Bödexen. The last weekend in April is the rafting and fishing days in Höxter . On the 2nd weekend in August there is a Laurentius Festival in Höxter-Bruchhausen. The last weekend in September is the Huxori market - the town festival in Höxter. The third Sunday in October is fairytale Sunday in Höxter. The Honky Tonk pub festival will follow in early November . After all, there is a big Christmas market in Höxter every year from the first Advent until Christmas Eve .

The shooting season is also from May to August. There is then a lot of celebration in the villages.

Culinary specialties

Regular culinary events in Höxter are "Höxter Culinary" in June and the "Rafting and Fishing Days" at the end of April. At these events, the catering and advertising community come together and present culinary delicacies.

Höxter in literature

Höxter is the scene of the story Höxter und Corvey by Wilhelm Raabe , published in 1879 , which deals with a pogrom by the angry Catholics and Lutherans against the Jews of the city in 1673.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Optibelt company in Höxter

At the beginning of the 19th century, in addition to the garrison, trading and commercial enterprises increasingly developed. Two Portland cement factories on Lütmarser and Brenkhäuser Strasse, which ceased operations in 1925 and 1929, were of great importance for many years. In 1872 the Höxtersche rubber thread factory Emil Arntz KG was founded, which manufactured molded articles, rubberized materials and tooth rubber and became an important producer of V-belts and toothed belts from 1948 . The company has been operating under the name Arntz Optibelt Group since its restructuring in 1999 and employs more than 1400 people worldwide.

The Serong commercial and packaging printer of the same name, founded in 1857 by Friedrich Serong and specializing in the production of bags, pouches and clothes boxes, still exists today under the name of Friedr. Serong GmbH & Co. KG .

In addition to the industrial company Wentus Kunststoff GmbH with 400 employees (Irish Clondalkin Group), the service company Getränke Waldhoff GmbH & Co. KG is one of the larger companies. In addition, the city has a large number of small and medium-sized craft businesses.

St. Ansgar Hospital in Höxter

There are two hospitals in Höxter. The St. Ansgar Hospital , which has existed since 1978, has been part of the Catholic Hospital Association Weser-Egge gGmbH since 2005 and emerged from the St. Nikolai Hospital and the Evangelical Kiliani Hospital. On December 6, 1949, the Räuschenberg hospital was built on the site of the Reichsbahn hospital built in 1937 and from buildings used in the 1940s as a Wehrmacht hospital and refugee camp and was later given the name Weserberglandklinik ; the historic old building was demolished in spring 2020 in favor of the new buildings. Since 2002, today's specialist clinic for neurological and orthopedic rehabilitation as part of Asklepios Weserbergland-Klinik GmbH , headquartered in Dusseldorf for clinics Asklepios group.

As a medium-sized center , the city supplies around 100,000 people in its catchment area. In addition to trade, mainly in the historic old town, service segments (such as authorities) are also based in Höxter. Due to the scenic location of the city in the Weser region and the city's cultural and historical monuments, such as the historic old town and Corvey Castle, Höxter has also developed into a tourist city.

traffic

Rail transport

Höxter Rathaus stop

The Höxter Rathaus stop is on the Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway line . It was opened on May 14, 1952 with a view to taking up rail bus traffic. The Höxter station , where train crossings can take place, was not closed to travel until the timetable change on May 30, 1976.

The route is served by the NordWestBahn in the Paderborn - Ottbergen - Holzminden section every hour with the RB 84 "Egge-Bahn", from Holzminden to Kreiensen every two hours . In Ottbergen there are connections to Bodenfelde , Northeim and Göttingen . Local rail passenger transport is carried out with Bombardier Talent railcars of the DB class 643, which can be used for speeds of up to 120 km / h.

Further stops are in Godelheim and Lüchtringen. The former Höxter train station is outside the city center near Corvey and is only used for train crossings when required. The Höxter Rathaus stop got its name for historical reasons.

For the entire public transport the valid Hochstift fare of transport interconnection Paderborn-Hoxter and collective space border of NRW fare .

From 1899 to 1933 there was a 4.8 km long Höxtersche Kleinbahn , which was owned by Industriebahn AG based in Frankfurt am Main and which operated within Höxter in freight transport and the like. a. Cement works and the gas works connected. It led from the port facilities at Corvey via today's industrial area Zur Lüre, today's relief road, to Lütmarser Strasse.

Streets

Höxter is connected to the national road network with three federal highways. The federal highway 64 leads west to Paderborn and east to Holzminden and Bad Gandersheim . The federal highway 83 leads north to Hameln and south to Kassel. The federal highway 239 leads north-west to Detmold . The B 64 and B 83 run together in the urban area between Godelheim and Stahle. The closest federal motorway is the A 44 Dortmund - Kassel 40 kilometers away with the Warburg junction .

Höxter owns three road bridges over the Weser. The Weser Bridge (Höxter) in the city center leads towards Boffzen and Solling . The Weser Bridge Lüchtringen provides the shortest connection between the city centers of Höxter and Holzminden. At Stahle the bridge of the B 64 leads over the Weser.

shipping

Passenger ship Holzminden of the Weser fleet on the Weser near Höxter. In the background the towers of the Kilianikirche and the town hall.

Höxter is located on the Weser, which is designated as a federal waterway . While cargo shipping on the Oberweser has almost come to a complete standstill since the Second World War, passenger shipping still plays a certain role. In addition to charter and round trips, Flotte Weser also offers a line connection between Höxter and Bad Karlshafen upstream from the pier on the Weser promenade . In addition, Höxter has a harbor that is mainly used by sports boats.

Bicycle traffic

The long-distance cycle R1 ( Europe bike path from Boulogne-sur-Mer to St. Petersburg ) of the river Weser (R99) from Hann. Münden to Cuxhaven and the wellness cycle route cross in the Höxter urban area.

aviation

The Höxter-Holzminden airfield is located about 2.5 km northwest of the town of Höxter on the Räuschenberg near the Brenkhausen district.

media

At daily newspapers appearing Neue Westfälische and Westfalen-Blatt , they report, six days a week on local events. The cover edition of both newspapers is obtained from the respective main editorial offices from Bielefeld . In the town of Höxter, the daily newspaper Holzminden is a third newspaper with 300 copies (2012). In addition, the magazine Die Warte for the districts of Paderborn and Höxter appears quarterly in the Hochstift Paderborn and Corveyer Land , with articles on regional history, literature and art. In addition, Höxter belongs to the circulation area of ​​the regional weekly newspaper OWZ on Sunday . The Westfalen-Blatt Group also includes the "Huxaria Extra", a weekly newspaper for Höxter, Beverungen and Steinheim, founded in 1883, which is also the official gazette of the district town of Höxter.

Höxter belongs to the reporting area of ​​the regional studio Bielefeld of the WDR . Radio Hochstift has been broadcasting since 1991, particularly addressing regional issues and having a higher share of listeners compared to the national broadcasters (e.g. WDR). In 2005 Radio Triquency , the university radio of the TH OWL , started broadcasting in Höxter. Due to the geographical proximity to Lower Saxony, the programs of the North German Radio as well as Radio ffn and Hit Radio Antenne Niedersachsen can be received.

Public facilities

Judiciary

The Höxter District Court belongs to the district of the Paderborn Regional Court and is responsible for the city of Höxter and the communities of Beverungen and Marienmünster. The district court is housed in the former "von Uffeln'schen Adelshof". The building in its current form goes back to a renovation between 1594 and 1610, but is of older origin.

armed forces

The most important location of the Bundeswehr in the city is the General-Weber-Kaserne in the Brenkhäuser Straße, next to it there is a water training area on the Weser. From 1959 to 1962 the 12th Panzer Grenadier Battalion was stationed here , and from 1985 to 1986 the Pioneer Battalion 150 and the Panzer Pioneer Company 210. From 1987 Höxter was the location of the 7th Engineer Battalion , which became the 7th NBC Defense Battalion in 1992 . In 1993 the battalion provided the advance command for the 1st UNOSOM contingent in Somalia , and later it was also deployed in UNOSOM II . In 1995 it was used during the Weser floods in the Höxter district. In 1995 and 1996, the battalion provided forces for the IFOR advance command . In 1997 the battalion was used in the Oder flood in the Oderbruch. In 1998/1999 forces were provided for the SFOR contingent in Raijlovac, and in 1999 also for KFOR . In 2002, parts of the battalion moved to Kosovo (KFOR mission) and as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Kuwait (until 2003) and Afghanistan. In 2002 the battalion fought the flood disaster on the Elbe. In 2005, the battalion was subordinated directly to the 1st Panzer Division in Hanover instead of the NBC Defense Brigade 100 . In 2006 the battalion helped secure the NATO summit in Riga . The number of posts is expected to grow from 850 in 2007 to 1250. In 2011, a new Bundeswehr reform stipulated that the number of positions for NBC Defense Battalion 7 should be cut by around 500 of the 1190 soldiers so far.

education

Höxter campus of the OWL Technical University (2019)
Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Realschule Höxter
König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Höxter

Höxter is a university town; The Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences conducts teaching and research in the fields of environmental engineering, applied IT, landscape architecture and environmental planning at its location in Höxter.

The city offers all types of school with the exception of a comprehensive school.

Eight primary schools are distributed throughout the city ; Open all-day primary school groups are offered in Höxter, Lüchtringen and Ottbergen.

The Höxter secondary school, which has existed since 2014, is an inclusive all-day school and, through cooperation with the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and the Höxter Vocational College, enables long-term learning together while observing grammar school standards. There is a secondary school that is being phased out, the Hauptschule am Bielenberg . It has been an all-day school since the 2006/07 school year. The Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Realschule, still known as the Municipal Realschule for boys and girls in 1952 , can look back on an existence since 1837. In that year, the first private girls' secondary school was established, which was renamed the municipal secondary school for girls in 1912 . The König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (KWG) was founded in 1867. The secondary schools include the sub-location of the Höxter district vocational college , a Höxter district vocational college . In 2007, a total of 3764 students were taught at the schools in the city with 232 teachers, 33.5% of them at the primary schools, 13.9% at the secondary school and 24.8% at the secondary school, 25.3% at the grammar school, as well 2.6% at the special school.

Participation by the city of Höxter

  • 50.00% gas and water supply Höxter GmbH & Co. KG (GWH), founded in 1977, the other 50.0% is held by Gelsenwasser AG. This also includes the 100 percent subsidiary Stadtentwässerung Höxter GmbH.
  • 33.33% Kulturkreis Höxter-Corvey GmbH, sponsor of the "Corveyer Musikwochen" and other musical events, as well as the "Museum Höxter-Corvey"
  • 10.61% Society for Economic Development in the District of Höxter mbH (GfW)
  • Until 2067 also owner of the property and the buildings of the airfield Höxter-Holzminden under hereditary law

Telephone prefixes

The area code for the city of Höxter is 05271. There are additional codes: 05531 in Stahle, 05275 in Ottbergen, 05277 in Fürstenau and Bödexen and 05278 in Bosseborn and Ovenhausen.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Sack, District Court Director, awarded in 1874
  • Jacob Pins (1917–2005), Jewish artist, fled Höxter into exile in the Third Reich, made an honorary citizen in 2003
  • Klaus Töpfer (* 1938), former Federal Minister D., came to Höxter as a child, passed his Abitur there, and was made an honorary citizen in 2011

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who are connected to Höxter

literature

  • Anna Bálint: Höxter in bronze and stone. Forgotten monuments and modern art in public spaces. Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 1999, ISBN 3-931656-23-3 .
  • Anna Bálint: Castles, palaces and historical aristocratic residences in the Höxter district. District Höxter (ed.), Höxter 2002, ISBN 3-00-009356-7 .
  • H. Joachim Brüning. Viticulture in Höxter 300 years ago. Monthly issues of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Höxter eV, 1980, Issue 5. online ( Memento from September 11th, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  • Andreas König, Holger Rabe, Gerhard Streich : Höxter, History of a Westphalian City, Volume 1: Höxter and Corvey in the Early and High Middle Ages. Hanover 2003, ISBN 3-7752-9580-1 .
  • Michael Koch, Andreas König, Gerhard Streich: Höxter , Volume 2: Höxter and Corvey in the late Middle Ages. Studies and sources on Westphalian history, Bonifatius Verlag, 2015.
  • Holger Rabe: O 'tempora, o' mores. A city in war and peace. Höxter the evening before and during the Thirty Years War (1550–1650). Holzminden 1988, ISBN 3-00-003159-6 .
  • Heinrich Rüthing : Höxter around 1500. Analysis of an urban society. Sources and studies on Westphalian history , 22 (1986).
  • Hans-Georg Stephan: Archaeological contributions to the early history of the city of Höxter. In: Münstersche Contributions to Pre- and Early History 7 (1973).
  • Ernst Würzburger: Höxter: Repressed history. On the history of National Socialism in an East Westphalian district town. New edition Holzminden 2014.
  • Ernst Würzburger: Jews in Höxter. From equality in the Kingdom of Westphalia to the Holocaust. Höxter 1989.
  • Ernst Würzburger: For 150 years: Höxter building trade school and Höxter – Altenbeken railway. Höxter 2014.

Web links

Commons : Höxter  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Höxter  - travel guide
Wikisource: Höxter  - sources and full texts
Wiktionary: Höxter  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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. ↑ German UNESCO Commission: Corvey Abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , accessed on August 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Landesvermessungsamt NRW, retrieved on February 9, 2016
  4. ^ Geological Service North Rhine-Westphalia, Geoscientific description of the municipality Höxter ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
  6. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia : Municipal profile Höxter ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lds.nrw.de
  7. ^ Main statute of the city of Höxter. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved May 28, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hoexter.de
  8. ↑ City portrait Höxter 2017 , accessed on January 6, 2018
  9. ↑ Regesta Imperii to 775 = RI I n.192d in: Regesta Imperii Online (accessed on February 7, 2015).
  10. ↑ Ernst Würzburger: The last Landsberger: Amnesty, integration and the hysteria about the war criminals in the Adenauer era . Holzminden 2015, ISBN 978-3-940751-97-3 , pp. 200-211.
  11. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/bekennerschreiben-zur-explosion-in-hoexter-1.1594125
  12. ↑ Baroque organ in the Kilianikirche Höxter
  13. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 108 .
  14. ^ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Citizens Service: Law on the reorganization of the Höxter district
  15. ^ 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. 323 .
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  17. ↑ State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia: Municipal statistics of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Population development 1871–1961. Düsseldorf 1964, pp. 388-389.
  18. ^ State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia: The resident population in the communities of North Rhine-Westphalia 1970: Results of the census on May 27, 1970. Düsseldorf 1972, p. 41.
  19. ^ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia: Special series on the 1987 population census in North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 1.1: Population, private households and employed persons. Düsseldorf 1989, p. 110.
  20. ^ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia: State database North Rhine-Westphalia
  21. ^ City of Höxter - Facts & Figures , accessed on August 15, 2014
  22. ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05762020
  23. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Local elections
  24. ↑ Chronicle of the Graduate and Supporters' Association e. V. of the Höxter department at Paderborn University (PDF; 4.6 MB) p. 10, accessed January 27, 2011
  25. ↑ Local law statutes
  26. ^ Council of the Municipalities and Regions of Europe, German Section: Partners of the Municipalities in Europe
  27. ^ Town twinning Höxter - Sudbury
  28. ^ Website of the Höxter secondary school
  29. ↑ Höxter Music School
  30. ↑ Höxter Musical Center
  31. ↑ Musikvereine in Höxter ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  32. ↑ Information according to the plate on the tower
  33. ↑ Bismarck Tower Höxter on bismarcktuerme.de
  34. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Kurpark Bruchhausen in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  35. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Gutspark Bruchhausen in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  36. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Brenkhausen Monastery Garden in LWL GeodatenKultur
  37. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Teaching garden on the Höxter university campus in LWL GeodataKultur
  38. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Park at the Brunnen house in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  39. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Corvey Castle Garden in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  40. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Höxter ramparts in LWL GeodataKultur
  41. ^ Corveyer Musikwochen
  42. ↑ Music at market time in the Kilianikirche
  43. ↑ Open singing at market time in the Kilianikirche
  44. ↑ Night music by candlelight in the Kilianikirche
  45. ↑ Internet-based choir workshops in the Marienkirche
  46. ↑ text
  47. ^ Information from the Höxter district archives with reference to newspaper articles from May 14, 1952 and excerpts from the timetable
  48. ↑ http://www.hvv-hoexter.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Entstehungsgeschichte-des-Kriegerdenkmals-in-Hoexter.pdf
  49. ↑ Höxter pays tribute to Potter's life's work , article in the Neue Westfälische on July 23, 2011
  50. ↑ a b http://www.hvv-hoexter.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hoexters-Buergermeister-und-Ehrenbuerger.pdf