Herford city

Herford city City of Herford Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 50 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 50 ″ E
Height :	67 m above sea level NN
Area :	25.07 km²
Residents :	51,798 (Dec. 31, 2015)
Population density :	2,066 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	32049, 32051, 32052
Area code :	05221
	Location of Herford-Stadt in Herford

Herford-Stadt is Herford's largest district in terms of inhabitants . With 51,798 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015) it makes up around three quarters of the population of the entire city, for which it is the center, city center and administrative center. Until the municipal reform on January 1, 1969, the area of the district was identical to the independent city of Herford. After the local government reform, it was called Herford City and, like the former municipalities that were incorporated, received the status of a district.

structure

Herford-Stadt is not officially divided into further city quarters , but the linguistic usage still follows a historical classification: Some quarters are also referred to as city districts, although this does not correspond to Herford's official statutes.

Herford-Stadt consists on the one hand of the inner city, which can be further subdivided into the formerly independent municipalities of Radewig , Altstadt and Neustadt . The city center is enclosed by the ramparts.

Outside the ramparts, a formerly common mark extends to the former city limits belonging to an inner city area: The Altstädter Feldmark (in the southeast), the Neustädter Feldmark (in the northeast) and the Radewiger Feldmark (in the west). Within the Neustädter Feldmark lie the areas Stiftberg , Friedenstal , Waldfrieden (with the zoo ) and Nordstadt , which, however, are not exactly delimited and never formed separate districts. Nevertheless, these areas are also often referred to by the challenges as city districts.

Outline of Herford City

Population development

The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. These are census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office. From 1871, the information relates to the “local population”, from 1925 to the resident population and since 1987 to the “population at the location of the main residence”. Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey procedures.

year	Residents
1818	5,832
December 1, 1831 ¹	6,640
December 1, 1840 ¹	7,946
December 3, 1855 ¹	9,621
December 3, 1861 ¹	10,400
December 3, 1864¹	11,300
December 3, 1867 ¹	10,800
December 1, 1871 ¹	10,968
December 1, 1875 ¹	12,100
December 1, 1880¹	13,600
December 1, 1885 ¹	15,902
December 1, 1890¹	19,255
December 2, 1895 ¹	21,575

year	Residents
December 1, 1900 ¹	25.109
December 1, 1905 ¹	28,832
December 1, 1910¹	32,527
December 1, 1916 ¹	31,054
December 5, 1917 ¹	29,653
October 8, 1919 ¹	34,835
June 16, 1925 ¹	36,106
June 16, 1933 ¹	38,536
May 17, 1939 ¹	42,339
December 31, 1945	40,655
October 29, 1946 ¹	43,940
September 13, 1950 ¹	50.107
September 25, 1956 ¹	53,889

year	Residents
June 6, 1961 ¹	55,663
December 31, 1965	55,728
December 31, 2005 ³	51,818
December 31, 2008 ³	51,460
December 31, 2010 ³	50,693
December 31, 2012 ³	50,726
December 31, 2013 ³	50,838
December 31, 2015 ³	51,798

¹ Census result
² according to the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW
³ Registration file of the city of Herford

Economy and Infrastructure

The following sections were temporarily moved here from the Herford article in September 2019, as they will be revised there in the course of the review.

economy

Herford is an important business location, which is also due to the favorable traffic situation in the road and rail network.

Established businesses

The Bugatti administration building

The most important sector is the textile industry with the three globally active companies Ahlers , Bugatti and Brax . Other large companies are active in the areas of plastics , wood processing ( furniture ) and food production , some as world market leaders. In recent years Herford has developed more and more into a logistics location.

Textile industry

Three of the five largest European men's clothing companies are based in Herford.

The Ahlers AG , which is based in Herford since 1932, is Europe's second largest clothing producer, but it also provides women's outerwear ago. The clothing is sold under the brand names Baldessarini , Pierre Cardin , Otto Kern , Pionier Workwear , Pionier Jeans & Casuals and Pioneer Authentic Jeans .

The bugatti Holding Brinkmann GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1947, produces men's clothing such as coats, jackets, pants, suits, designer fashion, leisurewear, riding clothing, formal clothing and bespoke clothing with the brand names Bugatti , Wilvorst , Pikeur and Eduard Dressler . License partners also sell other articles under the Bugatti name.

Leineweber GmbH & Co. KG has also had its headquarters in Herford since 1932 . It manufactures men's and women's trousers, knitwear, men's shirts, women's jackets and golf clothing under the brand name BRAX .

The company Grobecker , founded in 1958, sells its women's and men's trousers under the name Vabond almost exclusively through its own direct sales shops , which are mainly located in North Rhine-Westphalia, and via the Internet.

The company JAB Anstoetz Teppiche in Herford-Elverdissen belongs to the JAB Anstoetz group of companies , which has its headquarters in Bielefeld. Carpets and carpets are designed and sold in Herford.

Furniture

Aerial photo of the Stiegelmeyer company

The Herford entrepreneur and pioneer Gustav Kopka (1832–1882) set up the first furniture factory with series production in Herford in 1861 . The main focus of production was the manufacture of inexpensive kitchen furniture. The company was one of the starting points for the development of the furniture industry with international recognition, with a focus on today's Herford district. The connection of the city of Herford to the Cöln-Minden railway was one of the decisive factors for the success. This enabled the furniture to be delivered beyond the borders of East Westphalia. In 1933 the Kopka company went bankrupt.

Poggenpohl Möbelwerke GmbH, which has been based in Herford since 1897, is Germany's oldest furniture brand. Only high-quality kitchen furniture is produced and sold worldwide.

Germany's largest manufacturer of hospital beds, Möbelwerke Stiegelmeyer GmbH & Co. KG, has its headquarters in Herford, where it has been producing hospital and nursing home furniture since 1899.

The office furniture factory Febrü Büromöbel GmbH is the successor company founded in 1999 to the once renowned company of the same name, which was named after the founder Felix Brünger and which had to file for bankruptcy in 1996.

Discountkuechen.de is a large internet kitchen retailer . Kitchen furniture from many well-known manufacturers is sold. Kueche24.com has a similar offer .

food

Weinrich's chocolate shack

The Milchwirtschaftliche Industrie Gesellschaft Herford GmbH & Co. KG (MIG Herford) has belonged to the baby food manufacturer Hipp , which produces baby food there for itself and Humana GmbH , since the end of 2016 . Humana GmbH, which previously had its headquarters in Herford, is a subsidiary of the Deutscher Milchkontor , which was created in 2011 through the merger of Humana Milchunion and Nordmilch . Baby food has been produced at the Herford site since the 1950s. The other dairy products originally produced there were relocated to the other locations of the company after several mergers in the dairy sector to form the Humana Milchunion.

In the 1920s Herford rose to become the center of the confectionery industry . Many brands became known in the German Empire . Of the originally 20 or so chocolate factories in Herford, only two remain. Ludwig Weinrich GmbH & Co. KG , founded in Herford in 1895, produces not only Vivani organic chocolate , Transfair chocolate for the Gepa trading company and standard chocolate bars, but also chocolate for Lidl . In the center of Herford, Weinrichs Schokoladen Bruchbude sells factory-made chocolates and so-called “ broken chocolate”.

The second chocolate factory is Eickmeyer & Gehring GmbH & Co. KG , which mainly sells chocolate on a stick at Easter as an Easter bunny on a stick and at Christmas as Santa Claus or a snowman on a stick.

The Vandemoortele Germany GmbH sells Herford from the products of Belgian company Vandemoortele in Germany and Austria. These are frozen baked goods, patisserie and Vienoisserie as well as margarine, fats and oils.

The Herford Brewery GmbH & Co. KG, which was taken over by the Warsteiner Brewery in 2007, is based in neighboring Hiddenhausen . It was founded in 1878 and is the largest brewery in East Westphalia.

mechanical engineering

Herford Elektromotoren-Werke GmbH & Co. KG (HEW) , which has existed since 1892, manufactures electric motors, chimes and church clocks. The company's bell machines are located in Cologne Cathedral , St. Peter's Basilica in Rome , St Paul's Cathedral in London and Canterbury Cathedral , among others .

The Schwabedissen Maschinen + Anlagen Service GmbH manufactures woodworking machines. The Wemhöner GmbH & Co. KG is the global market leader in short-cycle presses. These are presses for woodworking, the automotive industry and solar technology. As a specialist in material flow and storage technology, Systraplan GmbH & Co. KG develops and produces systems for the tire and wood-based material processing industry. The company Prekwinkel mechanical and plant designs, manufactures and sells tooling systems for wood materials processing industries. The all-stone GmbH is a manufacturer of flexographic presses.

Plastic, disposal

After several changes of ownership, Sulo GmbH , which was founded in 1892, now mainly produces garbage containers in the world's largest garbage can factory. The Heinze Kunststofftechnik GmbH & Co. KG manufactures injection molding plastics for the automotive industry as well as housing for mobile phones and small electrical appliances. The judge Tooling GmbH is active in Product Design and product development, design and manufacture of injection molds and the injection molding production for the household appliance, housing systems and automotive industry.

Fittings

With the furniture factories located in the Herford area, manufacturers and dealers of furniture fittings have settled in the city. The Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG, which in 1994 moved from Bielefeld to Herford, is the largest industrial employer in Herford. It sells fastening u. Hardware technology and is market leader in Germany in some areas. The D-fog GmbH , which has its headquarters and distribution in Herford, is mainly handles for furniture ago. The Becker Hardware GmbH since 1953 manufactures now in the third generation furniture handles and other fittings of a real full production out - one of the last in Germany. The German headquarters of the Austrian Julius Blum GmbH , the world market leader in furniture fittings, is based in Herford.

logistics

Large parts of East Westphalia-Lippe and other regions are logistically supplied from Herford.

The German Post AG , Herford Mail Branch, operates since 1996 at the Bielefelderstraße the sorting center for the postal code areas 32 and 33. It is one of the 16 largest German mail centers and offices of the Management of the Bielefeld parcel center .

The logistics company Trans-o-flex Express transports packages and pallets. The pharmacy wholesaler NOWEDA has a branch or a regional distribution center in Herford. SK Pharma Logistics GmbH also sells pharmaceutical products .

The Loewe Logistics is a logistics company for high-end consumer, advertising materials and forms. The Schöneberg Group with corrugated cardboard and packaging plants has its own logistics company Wellogistik . The TEC Mahlmann GmbH distributes food from the company Harry-Brot there is a Distributor.

The companies Ahlers , Brax Leineweber , Bugatti and Weinrich operate storage and distribution centers in Herford.

Other companies

Other companies are in alphabetical order: branch of ALSCO Berufskleidungs-Service GmbH, Bonitas Holding GmbH & Co. KG (care service), branch of Brillux GmbH & Co. KG (paints and varnishes), Eratex (manufacture of textile abrasive carriers ), Ferrocontrol control systems GmbH & Co. KG (measurement and control technology), Glockenklang GmbH (PA devices, amplifiers and loudspeakers for bassists), HAN Bürogeräte GmbH & Co. KG , HL-Technology GmbH (chemical-technical products), HTT energy Systems GmbH ( Thermischer Apparatebau), imos AG (software for the wood and furniture industry), Inometa GmbH & Co. KG (development, manufacture and sale of web guide and sensor rollers made of aluminum and carbon fiber reinforced plastic for the printing industry and film production), KFM Regelstechnik GmbH , Ladage Media GmbH (audio marketing agency), Packsize GmbH (Germany representative of Packsize International LLC, packaging on demand), Prekwinkel Strahl- und Beschichtun gstechnik GmbH , Schöneberg-Verpackungs-GmbH & Co. KG , T + A elektroakustik GmbH & Co. KG (electro-acoustics, light and sound systems, including high-quality loudspeaker boxes), sales branch of Viessmann Werke GmbH & Co. KG (heating technology), Wellformat GmbH & Co. KG (corrugated cardboard factory), Westfa-Werbung Modersohn GmbH & Co. KG , Westfalen Weser Energie GmbH & Co. KG, (headquarters in Herford, successor company of the energy supplier E.ON Westfalen Weser ). Planatol Wetzel GmbH & Co. KG (glues and adhesives), Xylem Water Solutions Deutschland GmbH (environmental technology under the name Wedeco).

Industrial and commercial areas

One of the largest industrial areas in the city of Herford is the Herringhausen industrial area in the east of the city. Like the Herringhausen industrial estate, the Diebrock industrial estate was created after the two former municipalities were incorporated. It is located on both sides of Laarer Strasse in the area of Zeppelinstrasse.

In the south of the city there are the smaller industrial areas Gaußstraße , Waterfuhr and Hohe Warth / Ahmser Straße . The Heidsiek industrial park south of the bypass, which is still being expanded, is one of the city's larger industrial and commercial areas. On the border of the cities of Bielefeld , Bad Salzuflen and Herford in Elverdissen , an intermunicipal industrial area called GewerbePark OWL was created. The Auf der Helle industrial park to the north has been developed since mid-2014 .

Business associations

The following professional associations for the wood and furniture industry are located in the Marta Museum: the Association of the German Kitchen Furniture Industry e. V., the Association of the German Upholstered Furniture Industry e. V., the Association of the German Home Furniture Industry e. V., the employers' association wood processing and timber trade in NRW e. V., the Association of the Wood Industry and Plastic Processing Westphalia-Lippe e. V., the trade association for serial furniture companies in the trade, the lightweight construction interest group e. V., the Pro Massivholz initiative, the German Cork Association e. V. and the Daten Competence Center e. V.

Since 2004 the building has also housed a testing laboratory and advice center for the furniture testing institute LGA QualiTest GmbH, a subsidiary of the Bavarian State Trade Agency (LGA) ( Nuremberg ).

trade

Pedestrian zone and city center

The pedestrian zone is highlighted in red on the map

After the pedestrian-friendly conversion of some inner-city streets, the Herford pedestrian zone was opened on November 15, 1968 . Today it is particularly spacious compared to other cities of this size and stretches from Lübbertor via the Neuer Markt, the Alter Markt, the Bäckerstrasse and the Gänsemarkt to the Steintor. From Lübberstraße to Bäckerstraße it is around 750 meters long. However, many shops, such as the Kaufhof in the heart of the pedestrian zone, closed.

On the site of the former Kaufhof, the Altstadt-Center was opened in March 2018 , with shops and other commercial spaces as well as apartments.

Weekly market

Market hall

The weekly market , which takes place four times a week, is held in the market hall and partly on the town hall square in front of it. At the end of August 2019, the market hall was reopened with a new concept after two years of renovation. In addition to food and flowers, there are also clothing, gifts, food and drinks at mostly fixed stands. A show kitchen and an event room can also be rented. Civil weddings can be carried out in a wedding hall. The tourist information is located in the small market hall.

Factory sales

Herford is now known for the factory sales of the three clothing companies Ahlers , Bugatti and Brax Leineweber . The sales take place several times a day within the company premises. In Herford-Elverdissen there is a Lufthansa WorldShop outlet near the Ostwestfalen-Lippe motorway exit .

Parking facilities

The "Altstadt" car park has space for 577 cars. There are 412 parking spaces in the “Neustadt” car park. The “Radewig” car park at the train station, which can also be used by rail travelers, offers 444 parking spaces. There are 456 parking spaces available in the Marta-Areal car park.

Further public parking spaces are located on the Rathausplatz, at the District Court, at the Technical Town Hall, on the "Faulen Steg", on Wilhelmsplatz and in front of the City Theater as well as on weekends and after hours in the underground car park of the Sparkasse "Auf der Freiheit", in the employee parking lots at the Town Hall , at the technical town hall, at the Sparkasse / Volksbank “Am Pulverturm” and at E.ON Westfalen Weser on Bielefelder Straße.

media

Newspapers

In Herford there are two daily newspapers, Neue Westfälische and Herford Kreisblatt. The latter is a regional edition of the Westfalen-Blatt .

Herford circular sheet

The Herford district sheet first appeared on July 4, 1846, initially only weekly every Sunday evening. The newspaper was eight pages long and cost 20 silver groschen a year , the equivalent of about two days' wages for a farm laborer. At that time the city of Herford had about 9,000 inhabitants. In 1880 the bookseller Ferdinand Eßmann, who came from Minden, acquired the Herford district newspaper, for which he had worked as editor-in-chief since 1873. In 1913 he handed the newspaper over to Fritz Heidemann. In 1918 the new publisher moved from Mönchstrasse, where the Kreisblatt had been printed up until then, to Brüderstrasse. A few years later, the newspaper was acquired by a group of industrialists who sold it in 1926 to the Busse family, who had been involved up until then. In 1936 the new publishing house was built on Brüderstraße, which still houses the editorial office and the office to this day. The Herford district sheet was not allowed to appear between Whitsun 1941 and November 1, 1949. After Carl-Wilhelm Busse took over the Bielefelder Westfalen-Blatt in 1949, the Herford Kreisblatt appears today as one of 28 local editions of the Westfalen-Blatt. The newspaper is considered bourgeois-conservative.

New Westphalian

As in the rest of the distribution area, the Neue Westfälische was created in Herford on July 3, 1967 from the merger of the social democratically oriented Free Press and the Westfälische Zeitung, which was founded in 1879. The Free Press goes back to the Volkswacht founded in 1890 . The Herford edition with the subtitle Herford Kreisanzeiger is one of 19 local editions of the Neue Westfälische, which is considered social democratic- liberal.

Advertising papers

The Herford Weekly Gazette has been published on Wednesdays as a free advertising paper since 1975. In 2012 he was replaced by the weekly Telegraf OWL . The Herford Kreisblatt or Westfalen-Blatt has published the weekly Herford Extra on Thursdays since 1978 . The weekly OWL am Sonntag appears on Sundays .

broadcast

Herford is the seat of the local radio station Radio Herford (distribution area: Herford district ). From October 1990 to July 2009, the headquarters of the British soldiers broadcaster British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) was in Herford.

In Herford-Schwarzenmoor there was a medium-wave transmitter of the WDR on the Eggeberg until 1993. Since then, the Radio Herford program has been broadcast from the location. Up until the 1980s there was also an FM transmitter from BFBS. Digital radio programs are also broadcast from there.

Public facilities

Judiciary

The Herford District Court is located on the street “Auf der Freiheit”, the Herford Labor Court on Elverdisser Straße and the penal institution for young people on Eimterstraße.

Federal and state authorities

Employment Agency Herford

The area of responsibility of the Employment Agency on Hansastraße extends to the Herford and Minden-Lübbecke districts. A career advice office for the German Armed Forces was set up in the building at the beginning of 2014 . From 1956 to 2013 there was also a district military replacement office .

The Herford District Police Department is also located on Hansastraße .

The tax office in Wittekindstrasse is responsible for Herford, Hiddenhausen, Vlotho, Enger and Spenge. In the area of Wittekindstraße / Amtshaustraße / Borriesstraße, the Herford district administration is spread over several buildings. The Herford office of the main customs office in Bielefeld is on Mindener Strasse and is responsible for financial control of illegal work .

The local branch of the technical relief organization has its headquarters on Ackerstrasse.

Healthcare

Hospitals and medical institutions

Herford Clinic

The Herford Clinic is a hospital operated by the Herford district with 755 beds. It is a cooperation partner of the University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum (UK RUB).

The Mathilden Hospital with 211 beds is a Catholic institution.

There is a screening center for early breast cancer detection on Kurfürstenstrasse and a practice clinic with several medical practices on Hansastrasse .

There is a day clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine on the street “Unter den Linden”.

The Herford district is considered to be the district with the smallest density of general practitioners in Germany; In 2018 there were only 50.4 general practitioners for every 100,000 inhabitants.

Health insurance

In Herford there are these health insurance companies : The General Local Health Insurance Fund (AOK Nordwest) on Kurfürstenstraße, the Barmer GEK in the Altstadt-Center, plus the BKK Herford Minden Ravensberg on the street “Am Kleinbahnhof”, the DAK-Gesundheit on Johannisstraße and the IKK classic on Fürstenaustraße. The medical service of the health insurance Westphalia-Lippe can be found in Hochstraße .

Urban facilities

In addition to the facilities listed under the Culture and Sightseeing , Sports and Event Rooms sections , there are also the following municipal facilities:

Fire Brigade Hauptwache

The main station of the fire brigade is on Werrestrasse. The full-time workers are stationed there with the rescue service and the fire-fighting train in the middle. There are other fire fighting groups in the districts of Diebrock, Elverdissen, and Schwarzenmoor.

One of the most modern sewage treatment plants in Germany is located on Goebenstrasse between the railway line, the Werre and the bypass road . The Stadtwerke have their headquarters on Werrestrasse.

Other facilities are the city library and the tourist information on Linnenbauerplatz.

Church establishment

The administration of the parish of Herford is located on Hansastraße .

Day care centers and children's playgrounds

There are over 37 daycare centers in the city, five of which are Bornbrede, Maiwiese, Zur Bleiche, Schobeke and Stedefreund. Other daycare providers are the Protestant and Catholic Church with eleven and four daycare centers, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) with seven, the Association for Social Work and Advice (VAB) with four daycare centers, the German Red Cross with three daycare centers and the Herford gymnastics community with a daycare center. In August 2013, two day-care centers were opened that are run by associations. These are the forest kindergarten "Unterm Blätterdach" in Stuckenberg and the daycare center "Die Forschungshaus-Zwerge" in the city center.

There are 57 playgrounds throughout the city.

The privately operated Springolino is located between Ackerstraße and Kiebitzstraße , one of the largest indoor play facilities in Germany with an area of 5,000 m².

Neighborhood centers

Ten institutions are referred to as citizens' get-togethers, neighborhood get-togethers, district get-togethers, meeting centers or community centers. They are supported by the city, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Caritas, Diakonie, the Protestant Johanneswerk and, like the multi-generation house in Ottelau, the German Red Cross.

Advice centers for women and girls

Since 1980 there has been a women's shelter in Herford , which is run by the Frauenhaus Herford e. V. is operated.

The women's advice center Herford e.V., which has existed since 1998, is at Rennstrasse 15. V., which helps women and girls from the Herford district with a focus on domestic violence and eating disorders .

Since March 1991, the girls' advice center “Femina Vita, Mädchenhaus Herford e. V. ”has its seat. She advises and helps girls and young women up to the age of 27 from the Herford district after experiencing violence.

Under the sponsorship of the Protestant Women's Aid in Westphalia e. V. there are two advice centers for women and girls from East Westphalia-Lippe at Bielefelder Str. 25: Since 1997, the Nadezhda advice center has been helping women who have been victims of human trafficking and who have been forced into prostitution. Nadezhda is Russian and means hope. Theodora started work in March 2011 as a prostitute and exit counseling service for girls and young women .

Other social institutions

Social institutions are the Arbeiterwohlfahrt on Schillerstraße, the unemployment center on Berliner Straße, the Caritas Association on Clarenstraße, the German Child Protection Association on Münsterkirchplatz, the German Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband on Werrestraße, the German Red Cross Herford-Stadt on Wittekindstraße, and the Diakonische Werk Auf der Freiheit, the outpatient hospice service Hospizbewegung Herford Auf der Freiheit and the Herford Tafel on Benter Weg (with branches in Enger , Spenge and Hiddenhausen ).

Die Klinke , a non-profit association for psychosocial work in the Herford district , has existed on Kurfürstenstrasse since 1982 . The offers consist of assisted living , a contact and meeting place, a day care center in Herford with a branch in Kirchlengern .

On Hermannstraße, the Herford lunch table is available. V. offers warm lunches to those in need. The social counseling center and the city's housing maintenance department are located in the same building.

The recycling working group is located on Heidestrasse with sales on Radewiger Strasse.

Individual evidence

↑ Business location . Hanseatic City of Herford. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved on May 9, 2019.

↑ Herford as a business location

↑ 150 years of serial furniture production in Herford ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

^ Christoph Laue: Gustav Kopka goes to prison. In: HF magazine. No. 81 (Download Heimatverein, PDF 1.9Mb) , ed . District Home Association and New Westphalian , June 2012.