Herford
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Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ' N , 8 ° 41' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Herford | |
| Height : | 65 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 79.16 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 66,638 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 842 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 32049, 32051, 32052 | |
| Area code : | 05221 | |
| License plate : | HF | |
| Community key : | 05 7 58 012 | |
| LOCODE : | DE HRD | |
| City structure: | 12 districts | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 1 32052 Herford |
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| Mayor : | Tim Kähler ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Herford in the Herford district | ||
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Herford [ ˈhɛɐ̯fɔʁt ] ( Westphalian-Low German : Hiärwede, Hiarwede, Hiarwe ) is a large city belonging to the district with about 67,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the administrative district of Detmold and is the district town of the Herford district .
The city belongs to the East Westphalian agglomeration, which stretches from Gütersloh via Bielefeld and Herford to Minden . The city is located in the Ravensberger Hügelland between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehengebirge 15 kilometers northeast of Bielefeld and 46 kilometers east of Osnabrück and roughly in the middle between Dortmund and Hanover , which are about 100 kilometers away and which are accessible via the Bundesautobahn 2 and the Hamm – Minden railway are attainable. Herford is an important business location, which is also due to the favorable traffic situation in the road and rail network.
Herford's beginnings are generally dated to the year 789. The Herford women's monastery, which was established around 800, was elevated to the status of an imperial abbey soon after its foundation and gained imperial immediacy in the 12th century , which the monastery was able to maintain until 1803. As a result, the city of Herford developed into an important, heavily fortified trading city in Westphalia in the Middle Ages and joined the Hanseatic League in 1342 . Between 1224 and 1634 there were two independent cities in the area of today's core city, Herford's old town and Herford's new town , each of which had its own mayor. From the middle of the 13th century until around 1530, a condominium government of the monastery and the city exercised imperial city law. The imperial freedom obtained in 1631 was lost as a result of the annexation by the Electorate of Brandenburg . From 1911 to 1968 Herford was an independent city in Prussia and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Herford is a founding member of the Westphalian Hanseatic Cities and the New Hanseatic League and has been officially named Hanseatic City since 2013.
geography
Geographical location
The district town of Herford is located in the north-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia in East Westphalia-Lippe , which is congruent with the administrative district of Detmold .
Geographically, Herford belongs to the Ravensberger Hügelland and lies between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehen Mountains . The eastern elevations of the city like the Stuckenberg with the city forest already belong to the Lipper Bergland . The highest point is the Dornberg ( 240 m ) in the Schwarzenmoor district . The lowest point ( 56 m ) is in the Werre Valley in the Falkendiek district . The Ravensberger hill country is slightly wavy with numerous small caves and is used intensively for agriculture . The poorly forested landscape is only forested in the higher areas.
The city lies at the confluence of the Aa and the Werre , which is north of the city center. The Werre flows through the city from Bad Salzuflen to the mouth of the Aa in a south-east-north-west direction. From there it runs north, where it largely forms the city limits to the municipality of Hiddenhausen . The Aa comes from the direction of Bielefeld, where it only gets its name shortly before the Herford city limits at the confluence of the Lutter and Johannisbach. The Aa is the border river between the Herford districts of Elverdissen, which lies east of the Aa, and Stedefreund and Diebrock . To the north it separates the Old Town Feldmark from the Radewiger Feldmark , the Old Town from the Radewig and the New Town of Herford from the Radewiger Feldmark. The Werre forms the border between the Neustädter Feldmark east of the river and the Altstädter Feldmark, the Neustadt and the Radewiger Feldmark west of the Werre.
Herford is located 15 kilometers northeast of Bielefeld and 46 kilometers east of Osnabrück. Dortmund and Hanover, which are about 100 kilometers from Herford, can be reached via the federal motorway 2 and the Hamm-Minden railway line. The East Westphalian agglomeration extends along this axis, which runs from Gütersloh via Bielefeld and Herford to Minden.
Since the loss of district freedom , it has been back as the largest city in the Herford district since January 1, 1969 .
City structure
Since 1969 the city has consisted of the following districts (population figures as of December 31, 2015):
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| district | surface | Residents |
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| Herford city | 25.07 km² | 51,798 |
| Thief rock | 7.04 km² | 2024 |
| Eickum | 7.39 km² | 1767 |
| Elverdissen | 9.31 km² | 4158 |
| Falkendiek | 6.57 km² | 861 |
| Herringhausen | 2.16 km² | 2736 |
| Laar | 4.80 km² | 467 |
| Schwarzenmoor | 14.74 km² | 1632 |
| City friend | 1.78 km² | 1462 |
Herford-Stadt refers to the core city as it existed until December 31, 1968. It consists of the city center and the field markers , which are not separate parts of the city.
The city center is the historical center of the city, which is located within the ramparts. It includes the former abbey district ("freedom"), the oldest district of Radewig , the old town and the new town . The old town and Radewig were jointly administered by a town hall on the old market, the new town was independent and had its own town hall. The three districts only merged into one city in 1634.
For each city district there is a field mark that extends from the city center to the former city limits: 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 and Waldfrieden (with the zoo ) and Nordstadt , which, however, are not precisely delimited.
The largest of the districts incorporated on January 1st 1969 is Schwarzenmoor, the smallest is Stedefreund. Within the districts there are the areas or quarters Dickenbrock (in Herringhausen), Hausheide and Hollinde (in Diebrock), Nieder-Eickum, Ober-Eickum, Pottkamp and Kaishagen (in Eickum), Elsen, Herford Heide and Hillewalsen or Hillewalser Baum (in Elverdissen) and the mountains Dornberg , Hamscheberg and Stuckenberg (in Schwarzenmoor) and Homberg (in Falkendiek).
Expansion and use of the urban area
The total area of the city of Herford is 78.95 km² . The largest extension in north-south direction is about 13.1 kilometers and in east-west direction about 13.8 kilometers. The city limits have a length of 56 kilometers. The city center within the ramparts (old town, new town, Radewig) has an area of 58 ha (0.58 km² ). The length of the ramparts is 3.1 kilometers.
| Area according to type of use |
Agricultural schafts- area |
Forest area |
Building, open and operational space |
Traffic area |
Surface of water |
Sports and green space |
other use |
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| Area in km² | 41.16 | 7.53 | 20.20 | 7.28 | 0.81 | 1.86 | 3.0 |
| Share of total area | 52.00% | 9.5% | 25.5% | 9.2% | 1.0% | 2.4% | 0% |
Neighboring communities
Herford borders the cities of Enger and Hiddenhausen in the west, Löhne in the north, Vlotho (all Herford district ) in the northeast, Bad Salzuflen ( Lippe district ) in the southeast and the city of Bielefeld in the southwest .
geology
From the east, the Herford Keupervorprung pushes past the city to the north as part of the Piesberg - Pyrmont axis as an extension of the Lippe mountainous region . The Keuper projection, which becomes flatter towards the west, is cut through between the 201-meter-high Homberg and the 168-meter-high Schweichelner Berg by the Werre Valley, which is 55 meters above sea level. About three kilometers south of the Keupervorsprungs the Aa flows into the Werre coming from Lippe . Due to the structuring effect of their river valleys, two further high areas push themselves up to Herford between them: one from the south, from the Teutoburg Forest , the other from the west, from the Jöllenbeck plateau.
The 100 to 200 meters high, 10 km wide Herford Lias basin with clay and clay marl stretches south of the Keupervorprungs . In the Pliocene and Old Pleistocene, the landscape was divided into its current form by wide valleys. During the Ice Age , the area was covered with a fertile layer of clay or loess clay , which is four to six meters thick. The city of Herford is located in this area. During the Vistula Ice Age , the ice cover no longer reached this area. Due to the damming effect, it created sandy embankment terraces two to five meters high in the larger valleys.
Herford is moderately suitable in some locations in the western city area, in some locations especially in the north-eastern city area very well and otherwise good for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating .
climate
Climate data
Herford lies in the area of the sub-Atlantic maritime climate and has very weak continental influences in places. The maritime climate of the Atlantic climate region characterized by relatively uniformly distributed and regular rainfall and relatively mild, in the annual cycle relatively balanced temperatures from. The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic and the summers are moderately warm. Under this influence, the temperature in winter tends to be colder, in summer tends to be warmer, and precipitation tends to be lower than under the influence of the predominantly sea climate.
Due to the basin location of the city of Herford in the Ravensberg hill country , spring arrives there up to two weeks earlier than in the surrounding low mountain ranges. The prevailing wind direction from the southwest brings regular rainfall from the Atlantic , the amounts of rainfall are lower due to the basin location in Herford than in the Teutoburg Forest, where incline rain falls more often .
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Average monthly temperatures, precipitation and sunshine duration for Herford (1981-2010)
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Weather station
There has been a weather station in Herford since July 19, 1891 . It was initially located on the premises of the Mindener Straße school on the corner of Ortsieker Weg and was operated by the then teacher and later rector Heinrich Wulff until his death in 1927, then by his family on their own property. The data were measured three times a day and initially transmitted to the Royal Prussian Meteorological Institute in Berlin, and after the Second World War to the German Weather Service , which gave up the weather station on December 31, 2007. One reason for the task was the progressive development in the area of Ortsieker Weg, which influenced the measurement results for the temperature upwards. Since then, the Wulff family has recorded the precipitation for the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia . The temperatures will continue to be measured out of personal interest. Over time, the mean annual temperature has tended to become higher and higher. At the end of the 1990s, it left the single-digit to double-digit range. It cannot be determined whether this is due to climate change or the ongoing development and sealing of the area around the station. The observed area is too small for that.
Another weather station in Herford is available at wetter.com.
history
City foundation
The confluence of the rivers Aa and Werre has attracted people as a settlement area since the Neolithic Age . In the later urban area, several farms can be identified since the Saxon period in the early Middle Ages .
Located in a favorable, economically and militarily not unimportant traffic situation, Herford developed from 789 (founding legend in the Vita Waltgeri ) on the area of three older farms (Adonhusa, Herifurth and Libbere). The important Herford women's monastery was established around 800, and its importance extended far beyond the region. In 823 Emperor Ludwig the Pious placed the monastery under his personal protection. The emperor transferred other goods to the abbey, which now remained closely linked to the Corvey monastery . Soon afterwards a merchant settlement developed. It is believed that in 833 Ludwig the Pious granted the Herford monastery market , coin and customs rights .
The Ottonians in particular were closely connected to Herford: Mathilde , the wife of Henry I , was brought up here; In 926 the monastery was destroyed during the Hungarian storm and then rebuilt with royal support. Otto the Great confirmed the market and customs rights in 973, making Herford one of the oldest markets in Germany. In 1011 the abbess Godesdiu founded on the basis of an apparition of Mary ( Herford's vision ) in front of the gates of the city the monastery on the mountain as a training center for the daughters of the lower nobility, which developed into a place of pilgrimage.
From 1988 onwards, valuable finds from Carolingian , Ottonian and later times were made in the remains of the abbey buildings .
12th to 15th centuries
Herford was an important spiritual and spiritual center in the Middle Ages and one of the best fortified German cities with five city gates and 14 towers that were assigned to the various guilds . They were part of the 3.5 kilometer-long city fortifications with walls that were surrounded by the Werre , the Aa and the city moat. The Bowerre , which is filled in today , represented the original course of the Werre, while today's Werrelauf between Bergertor and the Aa estuary was originally part of the city fortifications as a canal.
In the Hohenstaufen era, Herford Abbey was confirmed as imperial direct (1147, Friedrich Barbarossa 1152); later emperors confirmed various rights of the monastery and imperial city of Herford . The abbess was an imperial duchess with quasi-bishopric rights ("Monstrum Westphaliae").
Around 1170 a civil parish was formed and the city law developed, using the Dortmund city law as a template. The earliest mention of the Herford City Council can be traced back to 1220; he was one of the first in Germany. The New Town of Herford was founded in 1224. The condominium , the jointly independent government of the monastery and the city, exercised imperial city law from the middle of the 13th century; In return, the mayor and council of the abbey took the oath of feud. Various Roman-German kings and emperors from the House of Otton and Staufer visited the city, as did Emperor Karl IV in 1377.
Herford was a member of the Ladbergen City Association and other city associations and was very active in the Hanseatic League from 1342 to the 17th century . In the security of the city, almost all of the monastic orders of that time founded spiritual settlements, so that the city was called Sancta Herfordia . The lively commercial activity extended early on to the entire Hanseatic region, but connections to the west (Flanders) were also important. The production and trade of cloth was particularly important in the 13th century . In the Herford legal book around 1375 numerous guilds and guilds are mentioned.
Until 1634 the new town remained independent next to the old town with its own mayor. The outer borders (Landwehr borders) of the medieval city of Herford remained the city limits until 1969. On the arterial roads, the trees opened the barriers for those who wanted to enter or leave the city. The farms Vlothoer Baum (towards Vlotho), Ufler Baum (towards Bad Salzuflen), Ahmser Baum (towards Ahmsen), Lockhauser Baum (towards Lockhausen), Hillewalser Baum (towards Elverdissen), Niederbaum (towards Bielefeld) are still in place today . Strothbaum (towards Enger), Düsedieksbaum (towards Bünde) and Eimterbaum (towards Löhne). Only the new tree in the direction of Minden no longer exists.
Modern times
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In the early modern period, a long legal dispute began over the status of the city as an imperial city . The abbey was free of the empire with abbesses as imperial duchesses , who were mostly noble ladies from Brandenburg-Prussian families. The city of Herford exercised imperial city law due to the so-called condominium of the pen and the city. Several lawsuits before the Reich Chamber of Commerce , which were initially initiated by the Reich, which wanted to collect Reich taxes from Herford, finally led to confirmation as an imperial city in 1631, which was in the interests of the city.
The Reformation took hold in the city as early as 1530 , and the abbey remained Catholic until 1565. The city was besieged several times during the Thirty Years War , in 1638 large parts of the city burned down.
As a result of the Jülich-Klevian succession disputes , Herford was occupied by Brandenburg troops in 1647 and lost its independence. The transition to Brandenburg in the Peace of Westphalia was finally confirmed in 1652. Herford was added to the County of Ravensberg and thus a Brandenburg-Prussian country town . Administratively, the County of Ravensberg was merged with the Principality of Minden in 1722 . When the city wall was no longer needed in 1765, the material was auctioned. In 1803 Herford Abbey was secularized and added to the County of Ravensberg.
After the heavy defeat Prussia against Napoleon in 1806, the area was as Canton Herford of the departments of the Weser the 1807 newly founded Kingdom of Westphalia annexed. The next territorial change occurred for the Herford area in 1811, when large parts of north-west Germany were annexed to the French Empire , with the border with the Kingdom of Westphalia running in this area on the Werre. The city of Herford belonged to the Westphalian department of the Fulda until 1813 .
In 1816 Herford became the district town of the Herford district within the Prussian province of Westphalia and with this in 1946 it became part of the newly founded state of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1911 to 1969 Herford was an independent city , but remained the seat of the district administration of the Herford district.
In 1847 Herford received a railway connection with the construction of the Cöln-Mindener Railway . In 1880 the line to Detmold and Altenbeken (Lippische Bahn) and in 1904 the line to Bünde was built. In 1902 the old station building was replaced by a new building and has since been rebuilt several times. From 1911 the two freight train tracks were built between Hamm and Minden, which went into operation between 1912 and 1916, so that the line has had four tracks ever since. In this context, the previously ground-level railway line was placed on a dam and the level crossings were replaced by bridges. In addition, new freight and sidings were added, for which the old freight handling had to be canceled. It was rebuilt in 1918 further west at its current location. The electrification of the main Cologne-Minden line was completed with the first trip on September 29, 1968. This was followed by the route to Altenbeken on May 27, 1975 and the connection to Kirchlengern on September 20, 1976, which leads to Bünde.
In August 1900 the Herford small railway to Enger was opened and in September it was extended to Spenge and Wallenbrück. In 1902 a line was added via Bad Salzuflen and Exter to Vlotho . The narrow-gauge railway (meter gauge ) was electrified in the 1930s. The operation was discontinued in 1962 on the Herford - Vlotho line, and in 1966 on the Herford - Spenge line.
Favored by the railway lines, the era of high industrialization began very early in Herford with the settlement of numerous factories in which in particular textiles, underwear and outerwear were manufactured.
After the renaissance-style town hall on the Alter Markt was demolished in 1878, the new neo-baroque town hall was built on the site of the former abbey from 1914 to 1917 during the First World War. At the same time, the new market hall was built opposite in the same architectural style, as the old market was no longer sufficient for the market stalls.
During the First World War , parts of the German Army were stationed in the city , for which mass quarters were set up in schools, factories, restaurants and in the city theater. At times up to 2,400 soldiers were housed in the city. Military hospitals were set up in orphanages, in the Schützenhof and in the hospitals. After barracks had been built in three areas of the city in the 1930s, Herford became a garrison town from 1935 .
To relieve the old cemetery in the city center, which has existed since around 1800, the Eternal Peace cemetery was created in the north of the city in 1924, which is still the largest cemetery in Herford. The spacious chapel was built in 1955.
During the Second World War, the city was relatively little destroyed by air raids . Almost 40 percent of the houses were slightly damaged, seven percent showed moderate to severe damage and only about six percent were completely destroyed. After the war, part of the historical building fabric fell victim to a simplistic urban planning. So the whole quarter around the Bergertor wall gave way to a new four-lane road. Nevertheless, the medieval floor plan of the city was largely retained and remains understandable to this day despite the extensive demolition work.
On April 3, 1945, the 5th American Armored Division reached today's Federal Motorway 2 near Herford and continued on its way towards the Weser. This ended the National Socialist regime in the Ravensberger Land. They were followed by the British allies. In the course of the division of the Allies, Herford fell into the area of the British zone of occupation . The British Army of the Rhine took up large areas of the city. The Stiftberg , near the barracks on Vlothoer Straße, was cordoned off from the city in 1945 and a large number of private houses for the families of the soldiers and officers were confiscated. They were only returned until 1957, after several housing developments for the British had emerged in the city. Several British military units were stationed in the city in the post-war period. After the British armed forces were withdrawn from Herford in December 2015 , there are no more military facilities in the city.
At the first zone committee meeting of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) in the small meeting room of the Herford town hall, Konrad Adenauer was elected chairman of the CDU in the British zone on January 22, 1946.
After exceptional rainfall throughout northern Germany, a flood wave flooded large parts of Herford city center from February 8th to 10th, 1946 after it had rained heavily days earlier. Werre and Aa burst their banks within a very short time. Because of the lack of firewood after the Second World War, the forests were cut down so that the soil could not take up water. The ruins of the Herford – Altenbeken railway bridge, which was still in the Werre, which had been destroyed by air raids, significantly prevented the Werre from flowing away and led to a huge damming above the railway embankment. Due to the pressure of the pent-up water masses, the railway embankment broke in four places on the morning of February 9th. With tremendous pressure, the floods poured into the lower urban area. In doing so, they wreaked havoc on the houses and the banks. The Hansabrücke, which stood just behind the confluence of the Aa into the Werre, was also torn away by the water, which interrupted the Herford small railway line until May 1949.
In 1948 the church music school for the Evangelical Church of Westphalia started operations, which in 1991 was renamed the College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . In 1950, the Northwest German Philharmonic was based in Herford, a result of the merger of the Städtebund-Symphoniker from Bad Pyrmont with the Herford Symphonic Orchestra. It is one of three North Rhine-Westphalian state symphony orchestras .
Between March 15 and the end of June 1949, thousands of people flocked to house 7 Wilhelmsplatz, where the so-called miracle healer Bruno Gröning had allegedly cured a terminally ill boy.
From 1949 to 1984 the Supreme Restitution Court had its seat first in the Herford town hall and then on the corner of Berliner Straße and Petersilienstraße. This international court, as the highest appellate instance, decided on disputes in applications for the restitution of identifiable property that had been confiscated from an owner under political duress between January 30, 1933 and May 8, 1945. In 1984 the seat was moved from Herford to Munich and in December 1990 the court was dissolved.
From 1950 to 1957, the main office of the German Schaustellerbund , which was founded in Herford on January 13, 1950, was located in Herford.
In the course of the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1969, the city was reintegrated into the Herford district and enlarged by eight surrounding communities. Herford is the founding city of the "Westphalian Hanseatic League", founded in 1983, to which 48 (2014) former Hanseatic cities from Westphalia , the neighboring Lower Saxony and North Hesse belong, and has been called Hanseatic City of Herford since 2013.
Since the opening of the contemporary art museum Marta on May 7, 2005, Herford has developed into an important museum location in East Westphalia-Lippe. On September 23, 2008, the city received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .
On June 4, 2009, the first stumbling blocks were laid in Herford by the artist Gunter Demnig . More stones followed in the years that followed.
Name and origin of name
The name of the city has been spelled differently over the centuries, for example Herifurth, Herivurth, Herfurt, Herforden, Vorden, Heruorden, Herevorde, Hervede, Her Werden, in Middle Latin Hervordia, Herfordia, Herfurtum . Heinrich von Herford (around 1300-1370) called himself Henricus de Hervordia in Latin . In the 13./14. In the 17th century Herford was called Sancta Herfordia or Hilliges Hervede because of the numerous monasteries and churches .
Early evidence is 838 Heriuurth, 851 Herifurd, 859 (copy from the 10th century) Heriford, 1004 Heriuurti, 1290 Heruord, 14th century de stad van Hervorde, whereby the uu, uo can be read as vu, vo . The basic word is altniederdeutsch FURD, ford, Middle Low German vord, prede , ford 'and refers to the broad Aafurt, which is in the course of an old ways route. The defining word is Old Low German hari (-), Middle Low German her (e) 'Heer'. The place name originally meant 'on foot, on horseback or with vehicles crossable river shallows on an army road'.
Since mid-2013 the official name is Hanseatic City of Herford . See also: List of cities and municipalities with names added in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Population development and incorporations
The population of Herford grew only slowly in the Middle Ages and the early modern period and fell again and again due to the numerous wars, epidemics and famine. With the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century, population growth accelerated. While only 5,832 people lived in the city in 1818, by 1900 there were already 25,000. By 1950 that number had doubled to 50,000.
On January 1, 1969, the following communities were incorporated into the city: Diebrock , Eickum , Elverdissen, Falkendiek , Herringhausen Ost (the western part, Herringhausen Dorf , belongs to the city of Enger ), Laar , Schwarzenmoor and Stedefreund , which increases the area of the urban area of 25 km² to 78.95 km² tripled. The city's population grew by 12,486 on January 1, 1969, to an all-time high of 67,661.
The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. These are census results 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.
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Religions
Christianity
Monasteries
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, Herford had more than 20 sacred buildings and facilities. The number of monasteries and monasteries was similar to that in the neighboring episcopal cities of Osnabrück , Minden and Paderborn . Sources speak of St. Herford, "Sancta Herfordia" and the "Hilligen Hervede". The term was probably coined by the papal protonotary Hermann Dwerg from Herford . He was a close confidante of Pope Martin V (term of office 1417–1431).
In addition to the Münster, Johannis, Jakobi- and Marienkirche as well as the no longer existing Nikolaikirche on the Alter Markt, there were numerous other monasteries besides the free world prince abbey and the women's monastery on the Stiftberg .
Between Gehrenberg and Brüderstraße was the Augustinian hermit monastery , which developed great spiritual radiance, especially during humanism . The last monks handed over the entire property, including the church and the valuable library, to the city council on June 30, 1540, according to Martin Luther's writing "To the councilors of all cities in Germany that they should set up and maintain Christian schools". The old Latin school of the imperial abbey was moved here from the minster and initially supported jointly by the council and abbess. The Friedrichs-Gymnasium emerged from it. The Franciscan monastery between Gänsemarkt and Altes Markt later became the poor house and the hostel for home.
The Fraterhaus of the Brothers of Living Together and the Süsternhaus (sister house) were in Holland . On Clarenstrasse there was the Poor Clare Monastery and not far from there was the Beguinage .
In the 13th century, the Commandery of the Order of St. John was established in Komturstrasse , later they were called the Knights of Malta . While almost all other monasteries in Herford dissolved after the introduction of the Reformation and the houses were given different purposes, the Commandery became the nucleus of the Catholic community in Herford. The former commandery building with its renaissance portal at Komturstraße 4a is the oldest stone house in the city. It is close to the St. John Baptist Catholic Church .
Patron saint Pusinna
The Herford patron saint was Saint Pusinna until the Reformation , one in the 5th / 6th centuries. Century well-known hermit and consultant. In the year 860, their bones were transferred from their hermitage near Corbie to Herford Abbey , which gained considerable spiritual importance and whose minster was named St. Marien and Pusinna. Remembrance day is April 23.
Some of Pusinna's relics - together with the usual documents - were included in the tower knob of the Herford Minster in 1490 ; During the renovation in 1854, the Evangelical Lutheran parish decided to do this again. Parts of the reliquary are in the winged altar of the Catholic Church of St. Johannes Baptist , others came from Wendhusen Abbey to Quedlinburg, others to Paderborn Cathedral and Heddinghausen .
Marian apparition
In the 10th century, the oldest apparition of Mary north of the Alps is said to have taken place in Herford . According to legend, a shepherd took a rest with his sheep on today's Stiftberg. He stuck his shepherd's staff in the ground. In a dream Mary appeared to him in the form of a white dove, who sat on his staff. She asked him to have a church built on this site. Meanwhile, the shepherd's staff began to knock out like a linden tree. When the shepherd woke up again, he ran into the city and told the canonesses who were building St. Mary's Church in the place of the vision.
A piece of tree trunk is kept in the altar of St. Mary's Church as an alleged remnant of the linden tree. Presumably these are “Christianized” remains of an old Saxon sanctuary. In the past, wood splinters were put between the teeth in the hope of a cure for toothache.
Jacob pilgrims
Until the Reformation Herford was an important gathering place for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela . The city was conveniently located at the intersection of the trade routes from Mainz to Lübeck and from Hameln to Osnabrück. In the north the Hellweg ran in front of the Santforde (today's Bundesstraße 65), in the south the Westphalian Hellweg ran from Paderborn to Soest .
Numerous brotherhoods based in Herford took care of the pilgrims passing through and ran hospitals and hostels. Four pilgrim hostels are well documented: the Gertruden-Gasthaus in Komturstrasse (closed in 1545) near the Malteser-Kommende, the pilgrim hostel in today's Lübberstrasse no.31, the Fürstenau house in Radewiger Strasse no.25 and the no longer existing neighboring house No. 24.
Points of attraction for the pilgrims were the miraculous Marienkirche as the location of the Herford vision and the holy Pusinna , whose relic was kept in the cathedral church . In the Radewig, the resting place and market place of the long-distance traders, a chapel was built, from which the later Jakobikirche (Radewiger Church) arose. From a bull of Pope Julius II from 1510 it emerges that the Jakobikirche was not a parish church, but a pure pilgrimage church which served the cult of Jacob. In 1530, by order of the council, the church was closed because of the pilgrims who had become a "plague". Jacob pilgrims were seen in the city well into the 17th century.
St. James , still venerated today, can be found in the form of old sculptures in the cleats of the Remensniderhaus (Brüderstraße No. 26), in the eaves house (Tribenstraße No. 8), on the facade and in the seal of the Jakobi Church from 1494, in the coat of arms of Mayor Johann von Rintelen from 1523, as a figure in the Herford Minster and in the form of two stone sculptures from 1350, which are in the holdings of the currently closed Herford Museum.
On the initiative of the Council of Europe , the historic Way of St. James was scientifically documented in 1987 , and the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe revived the old cultural routes. “Path 3” was marked in 2009 and has since promoted Christian and secular tourism.
Devotio moderna and Reformation
In the life of the Herford Church there were renewal movements as early as 1400, such as the Devotio moderna that had an impact from Holland to Westphalia . The brotherly lords related to the Augustinians - called Brothers von der Feder because of their monastery printing works - influenced the intellectual life of Renaissance humanism and later the Reformation .
As early as 1523, six years after Luther posted his theses , the brother and sister preachers preached the gospel to the challengers in a new way. Two years later, German hymns were sung for the first time in Herford's cathedral , which the city authorities initially tacitly tolerated. Because of the imperial city law, the Reformation was introduced in the winter of 1529/1530 through the resolution of a citizens' assembly. As the first church in the Ravensberg region, the Johanniskirche allowed Protestant sermons in 1530.
Religious communities
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In 2011, 49.7% of the population belonged to the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , 15.1% to the Catholic Church, 3.6% to Evangelical Free Churches, 1.8% to Orthodox Churches and 6.5% to other religious communities.
The following Protestant parishes in the city belong to the Herford parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , which has its seat in the city: the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Herford-Mitte with the minster , the Johanniskirche and the Jakobikirche , Stiftberg with the Marienkirche , Emmaus with the Christ Church , the Markus Church , the Thomaskirche in Schwarzenmoor and the Trinitatiskirche in Falkendiek, Kreuzkirche , Herringhausen , Laar with the Resurrection Church and Elverdissen with the Peace Church . The Trinitatiskirche in Falkendiek was de-dedicated in December 2008 and later sold to a funeral home with the provision that the congregation can continue to celebrate several services there each year. The Evangelical Reformed Petri Church is on Wilhelmsplatz.
Other Protestant churches are the Evangelical Free Church Community of Herford on Ravensberger Strasse, the Christ Community of Herford e. V. an der Jungfernstrasse, the Evangeliums-Christengemeinde Herford an der Kiebitzstrasse, the Missionswerk der Gemeinde Gottes e. V. on Zimmerstrasse and the Landeskirchliche Gemeinschaft e. V. Herford on Jahnstrasse. The German-Russian parish Jesu Christie has had its parish hall in the Homberghof in Falkendiek since 2013.
The Catholic Church has merged the parishes of St. Johannes Baptist , St. Paulus , Maria Frieden and St. Josef (in Elverdissen) to form a pastoral association. This is part of the deanery of Herford-Minden, which in turn belongs to the Archdiocese of Paderborn .
The New Apostolic Church “Herford-Mitte” on Hermannstrasse is the city's New Apostolic Congregation. The "Herford-Nord" community was closed in late summer 2005.
The Herford parish of the Apostolic Community is located in Komturstrasse.
The parish hall of the Catholic Apostolic Church is located on Renntorwallstrasse , a brick building from 1995.
The Greek Orthodox community is another Christian community in the city. She holds her services in the Wolderus Chapel next to the Minster Church, which has been named Nektarios Chapel. The Wolderus Chapel is still owned by the Herford-Mitte parish.
Judaism
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After persecution in the Rhineland in the 11th century, people of the Jewish faith came to Westphalia and Herford. From 1306 there is documentary evidence of Jews in Herford. The Jews served there as donors for the abbey due to the prohibition of interest for Christians . The empire-free abbey was able to grant escort to the Jews. In exchange for the payment of taxes, the city of Herford allowed the Jews to settle in the city. During the time of the condominate , the city carried out the escort of Jews. During the persecution of the Jews at the time of the Black Death , the Herford Jews were murdered. Shortly afterwards, Jews were resettled in Herford again. For the period up to the end of the 16th century, it can be assumed that 3 to 5 families were permanently present. Whether the Judengasse in the old town had a ghetto-like function cannot be proven. In 1910 it was renamed Lessingstrasse. After the Thirty Years' War , the Brandenburgers again directed Jews in Herford.
In 1808 the Jews were allowed to build a synagogue and the Jewish community grew to around 300 people. Nevertheless, there was no complete equality with all civil rights , which only took place in 1869.
The synagogue of the Jewish community, consecrated for the first time in 1852, was located in Komturstrasse. Between 1892 and 1893 it was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. In 1934, SA men set fire to the Herford synagogue , but this only caused minor damage. It could be used again quickly after repairs. The synagogue was set on fire again for the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, and it was also looted. The synagogue was completely destroyed by the fire and the additional destruction by the arsonists.
After National Socialism only very few Jews lived in Herford. In 1945 they formed a new Jewish community with 10 to 15 people. This church did not grow very much. Due to some immigrants from the former Soviet Union, the community has around 40 members. The parish hall , which was built at the same time as the synagogue was rebuilt, now serves as a prayer room for the Herford-Detmold Jewish community. The Herford-Detmold Jewish community, which is based in Herford, had 83 members in 2018.
On November 9, 1978, a memorial stone paid for by the Jewish community was unveiled on the site of the old synagogue.
On May 29, 2008, the first sod was turned for the construction of a new synagogue, which opened on March 14, 2010.
Between June 2009 and May 2011 Gunter Demnig laid 123 stumbling blocks in front of houses in Herford where Jews who were murdered by the National Socialists lived until the Second World War .
Islam
The prayer and cultural sites of the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion e. V. (DITIB) are located in the Merkez Camii (Cami = mosque) on Bielefelder Straße. The Islamic Community Millî Görüş e. V. their Fatih Camii. In 2006 the Herford Camii of the Association for the Promotion of Integration and Education e. V. opened on Goltzstrasse. The association is part of the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers. V. Since 2004 there has been a mosque of the Islamic Center on Ahmser Strasse. V. Herford, which does not belong to any umbrella organization. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, which was founded in Herford in 1987 and has around 150 members, has been looking for rooms for a community center or a plot of land for the construction of a mosque since 2013. Currently (as of November 2018) the meeting place is a hall on Werrestrasse. For several years now, members of the Ahmadiyya community have been cleaning downtown Herford from the remains of the New Year's rockets on New Year's Day.
Other religious communities
There is a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Eimterstrasse .
After an Alevi community was founded in Herford in May 2009 , an Alevi community center was opened on Goebenstrasse in November 2010. At that time the community had 210 members.
The Yazidis in Herford, who belonged to the Yazidis in Ostwestfalen Lippe e. V., are looking for a community center in Herford after prospective locations in Elverdissen and Laar had to be abandoned due to resident protests.
politics
City council
The Herford City Council currently has 44 seats. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The members of the council are elected for a term of five years.
| year | CDU | SPD | Green | FDP | LEFT | List 2004 | Citizens for Herford | total |
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| 2014 | 17th | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 44 |
| 2009 | 17th | 15th | 4th | 4th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 44 |
| 2004 | 18th | 16 | 4th | 3 | - | 2 | - | 44 |
| 1999 | 27 | 18th | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 50 |
Results for the independent city of Herford before the regional reform through the law for the reorganization of the district of Herford and the independent city of Herford
City leaders
After the Second World War until 1974, Herford had a full-time senior city director as head of administration (election officer) and an honorary mayor who was chairman of the city council. Due to the loss of the district freedom and the reintegration of the city into the Herford district, both were only allowed to use their name until the end of the term of office of the city director in 1974. After that there was a mayor and a city manager in Herford . Since 1999 a full-time mayor has been directly elected by the population in accordance with the municipal code of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The office of city director has not existed since then.
badges and flags
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“The coat of arms of the city of Herford consists of an open gate with adjoining wing buildings. A Gothic vaulted roof with a cross rises above the gate. A fluttering flag appears on each of the roofs of the outbuildings, slit in three pennants up to the middle, and a key in the gate opening. The colors of the flag to the right are red and white. The flag on the left is black and white. ”The official coat of arms also has a wall crown with three towers. This coat of arms leads the city as a result of a royal award on November 1, 1899. The picture is taken from the oldest seal of the old town, which was first handed down from 1231 with the inscription: "SIGILLUM CIVIUM HERVORDENSIUM" and has since been retained without interruption with minor deviations: “In a golden shield, a red Gothic gateway with an open gate, in which an upright black key stands; on the top of the gable of the gate a red cross, flanked by two flags, the right one red and silver, the left one black and silver, on long red poles. "
The key in the archway, which is given on numerous city coats of arms in the administrative district of Arnsberg (e.g. Brilon , Hallenberg , Schmallenberg , Soest , Werl ) represents the symbol of St. Peter , the canon saint of Kurköln , to whom the city was subordinate. The black and white flag also indicates Kurköln, while the other one contains the colors of the Herford Imperial Abbey.
In addition to the coat of arms, the city of Herford also wields a flag made of red and white cloth.
Until 1899 the coat of arms of the city was that of Herford Abbey , a red bar in a silver shield, with the bar representing the ford and the silver surface representing the water. The coat of arms is still used as the second coat of arms of the city.
City partnerships and friendships
Herford maintains city partnerships, city friendships and is a member of a city union.
Twin towns have been Hinckley ( England ) since 1972 and the Danish city of Fredericia since 1987 . Since 1991 there has been a corresponding document between Herford and Fredericia. The trigger in both cases were student and citizen contacts between the cities.
City friendships have existed since 1974 with Vodice in Croatia, since 1991 with Quincy ( Illinois in the USA ), since 1995 with Gorzów Wielkopolski / Landsberg an der Warthe in Poland , since 2008 with Manavgat in Turkey and since 2015 with Xinbei , a city district in the Chinese province of Jiangsu . Citizen contacts exist with Vodice, which came about through contacts of the Herford district to Croatia. The initiative to contact Quincy came from the USA, as many residents there have ancestors from the Herford area. Connections to Manavgat came about through Herford sports clubs.
Since 1990 there has been a city union between Herford and the cities of Quedlinburg from Saxony-Anhalt, Hameln , Celle and Hann. Münden . The contact with Quedlinburg came about because Mathilde, who was educated in Herford Abbey, married Duke Heinrich von Sachsen , who later resided in Quedlinburg as the future German king.
Further contacts exist within the framework of a citizen friendship with Leutesdorf am Rhein. The place was first mentioned in a document in 868, when King Ludwig the German donated the Leutesdorf Fronhof to the prince abbey of Herford .
In addition, Herford is a founding member of the New Hanseatic League and the Westphalian Hanseatic League. In June 2013 the 33rd International Hanseatic Days of Modern Times took place in Herford. At this event the Wirtschaftsbund Hanse e. V. officially founded with headquarters in Herford.
MPs
The Hanseatic city of Herford belongs to the constituency of Herford I - Minden-Lübbecke III and is represented in the NRW state parliament by Christian Dahm ( SPD NRW ); other members of the state parliament are Stephen Paul ( FDP North Rhine-Westphalia ) and Markus Wagner ( AfD NRW ). Herford belongs to the Herford - Minden-Lübbecke II constituency and is represented in the German Bundestag by Stefan Schwartze (SPD) (as of October 2018).
Culture and sights
theatre
The Herford City Theater on Mindener Strasse, which was built in 1960 and has 692 seats, is hosted by guest theater stages.
In the vicinity of the Neuer Markt, the “LAG Spiel und Theater e. V. ”. In the former linen factory there is next to the office and a theater-pedagogical library a theater hall for rehearsals, workshops and performances. There are various offers for children and young people as well as nationwide theater education training courses. In addition, the "manufactur" is the starting point for mobile theater projects.
Since 2010, the Herford theater has found a performance and production facility in the Johannes-Haus senior center . The Moment Theater stages indoor and outdoor productions. Historical productions such as For example, the Herford “Vision Play” and historical city tours for PRO Herford GmbH, as well as modern productions and walk-act productions in North Rhine-Westphalia and throughout Germany show the diversity of the theater. In 2010, the Kleines-Theater is running the theater festival Instant-Time! with eleven cultural events over seven days.
Cinemas
The Capitol in Elisabethstrasse, with its four movie theaters, is the only remaining public cinema in the city.
Museums
The Marta Herford opened its doors in May 2005 . In this museum for contemporary art and design, the exhibitions change at larger, irregular intervals.
Furthermore, the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus is located in Herford , there is a permanent exhibition on the city's history. Thematic changing exhibitions are shown in the extension.
In 2005, the Zellentrakt memorial, documentation and meeting place was set up in the cellar vaults of the Herford town hall . This reminds of the persecution and extermination of minorities in the past and is intended to show tendencies and handling of this topic in the present.
Since autumn 2016, the Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation in Herford-Elverdissen has been holding art exhibitions and other events in the fields of art, literature and music near Ahlers AG. The foundation founded in 1995 by Jan A. Ahlers and his daughter Stella Ahlers researches and documents the influence of Expressionism on modern art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
At the site of the former prince abbey next to the Herford cathedral, a museum for city history is to be built with the support of the Ernstmeier Foundation, which is to be named Archaeological Window on the Münster .
music
Herford is the seat of the Northwest German Philharmonic , one of three North Rhine-Westphalian state synphonic orchestras . The rehearsal room and seat of the orchestra are located in the Schützenhof city park on the Stiftberg, where the Herford concerts are also given.
An important Herford choir is the Westfälische Kantorei of the College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
Every year since 2001, the Herford Organ Summer has been held with organ concerts in the city's churches. In November 2006 the Herford International Organ Competition took place in St. Mary's Church for the first time.
From 1966 to 1970 one of the most famous beat clubs in the region was located in the city. In the Jaguar Club in the former Scala cinema then, many nationally and internationally known singers and bands performed.
The Herford Music School was founded in 1970 and is an educational institution for children, young people and adults. The OWL Rock Academy promotes young bands and musicians. It has been awarding the title of “Best Young Artist of the Month” every month since 2005.
Buildings
Churches
The Münsterkirche is the oldest church in Herford and was the church of the empire direct women's monastery in Herford. The late Romanesque hall church was probably built in 1220–1250 and, along with the cathedral in Paderborn, is the first large-scale building of a hall church in Germany and is now considered the largest in Westphalia . It has been a Protestant church since 1532. With eleven bells from around 1200 to 2001, the tower holds one of the most extensive bells in the country. The former women's monastery stretched from the market square over the terrain of today's town hall to Stephanplatz, where (reconstructed) foundations of individual buildings still stand today. The cathedral church has been a listed building since 1981. The Wolderus Chapel is also located in this area, immediately north of the Minster Church. According to tradition, St. Waltger (died 825), the founder of the women's foundation, is buried in the chapel. Today's simple hall was built in 1735 and has been a Greek Orthodox Nektarios chapel since 1962.
The Jakobikirche in the Radewig district of Herford is a Gothic hall church from the 14th century. The tower dome , which is unusual for Westphalia, a Welsche dome , was given to the church after a fire in the 18th century. The church was to the 16th century pilgrim church of the pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela . After the Reformation in 1530, pilgrims were no longer welcome, the church was closed and reopened as a Protestant church in December 1590. Since there were no flowers available to decorate the church at this time of year, "brown cabbage" was used for this. The Radewiger Kohlfest is still celebrated on this occasion .
Two other Gothic hall churches from the 14th century are St. Johannis (Neustädter Kirche) and St. Marien auf dem Berge ( Herford Marienkirche ), a church belonging to the subsidiary founded in 1011 . Johanniskirche and Marienkirche have been Protestant churches since 1530 and 1548 respectively.
Of the late Gothic Süsternkapelle , the monastery church of the Herford Augustinian nuns (consecrated 1518), only the south wall with two vaults is still preserved. The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is a baroque hall building from 1715/16.
The other Herford churches were built in the 20th century. The oldest of these is the Evangelical Reformed Petrikirche from 1902. The architectural style was based on the central buildings of the 14th century with a cross-shaped floor plan.
The Friedenskirche in Elverdissen was built in 1914/15. Built in 1931 in Black Moor community center was founded in 1962 to Thomas Church consecrated the Holy Trinity Church in Falkendiek emerged in 1962 from a 1934 built community center. All three churches in the then independent political communities are Protestant places of worship. However, the Trinity Church was de-dedicated in 2008. Today it serves as a funeral parlor for a funeral home , but is still available for special services.
In particular because of the influx of refugees after the Second World War, the following five Protestant churches were built between 1958 and 1965 in the city and some then still independent surrounding communities: the Christ Church on Glatzer Strasse (1958), the Evangelical Church of Herringhausen (1958), and the Markuskirche on Landsberger Strasse (1960), the Church of the Resurrection in Laar (1963) and the Kreuzkirche in Friedenstal (1965).
Three Catholic churches were consecrated between 1955 and 1962: Maria Frieden on Lübberlindenweg (1955), St. Josef in Elverdissen (1957) and St. Paulus on Kiebitzstraße (1962).
In the Lutherhaus on Oetinghauser Weg, which was built in 1914 as the second preaching site for the Münster parish, services are no longer held today.
Town halls and residential buildings
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The town hall located in the immediate vicinity of the Münsterkirche , a large neo-baroque building with side wings and adjoining market hall is worth seeing . It was built from 1913 to 1916 according to plans by the Hanoverian architect Paul Kanold in place of the former abbey building. Further municipal offices are located in the Technical Town Hall . The Neustädter Rathaus on Neuer Markt, which is no longer used by the city, was built around 1600. The elaborate volute gable was redesigned in an expressionist manner in 1930. From 1988 the original renaissance facade was reconstructed .
Anglo-American bombings during World War II hit several inner-city quarters (such as Johannisstrasse) badly and burned out. However, more serious consequences for the destruction of the medieval cityscape were the destruction caused by urban planning in the 1950s and 1960s. Here the stock of older residential buildings and entire quarters (Bergertor wall) has been reduced considerably. While around 20% of the stock of the half-timbered houses, some of them medieval, was destroyed during the war, 60% of this historical building fabric fell victim to urban planning only after the war. The loss of the so-called Crüwell house on Lübberstrasse is particularly painful . The half-timbered building , which was demolished in 1957, was characterized by a remarkable solid gable from 1589 in Weser Renaissance forms . In 1960 the house at Alter Markt 14 followed (with fan rosettes , around 1560), in 1961 at Hämelingerstraße 2 (1639), in 1966 the Hagen house in Rennstraße ( no.47 ), a stately half-timbered building from 1537 and in 1972 the late classical Friedrichs-Gymnasium disappeared from 1869 in the Brüderstraße.
Despite these losses, several half-timbered buildings from the 16th century have been preserved in Brüderstraße , the most famous of which is the so-called Remensniderhaus from 1521 (No. 26). The three-storey building has richly carved figures knaggen . Right next door (No. 28) is the Engelkinghaus , a two-storey gabled house with a gate that was built in 1532. It was restored in 1961/62. While the hallway house at Brüderstraße No. 14, built around 1550, has a lateral gorge , the two-storey gable house, built around 1528, is characterized by dew-band knobs .
At the edge of the Münsterkirchplatz on Elisabethstraße stands the Kantorhaus , a two-storey half-timbered eaves house built between 1484 and 1494 with decorative brick infill. The upper floor protrudes on all sides over fluted studs, some of which have coats of arms carved into them. The Kantorhaus is one of the oldest half-timbered buildings in Westphalia; on the plaque attached to the exterior it is referred to as the “second oldest half-timbered house in Westphalia”. The latter, however, has long since ceased to apply, as buildings have now been discovered that could be dated to the 14th century.
Also at Holland were several older half-timbered houses from the ravages of time spared: # 21 is designated the 1554th. No. 39 is only a little younger, a two-storey eaves house dated 1559, the cleats of which are decorated with dewsticks . No. 29, a gabled house in a corner, probably dates back to the early 16th century. At Komturstrasse 9 there is a small half-timbered gable house, which, like the neighboring building on the eaves (No. 11), was built around 1600. In Lessingstraße 14 is a plastered half-timbered building, which is probably still belongs to the first half of the 16th century.
The former Adelshof at Löhrstraße 5 is an eaves house built in 1648, which was provided with ashlar plaster and a classicistic portal in the middle of the 18th century . The old pastorate at Löhrstraße 11 is a two-storey hall house with a roof, which is slated on the front. According to the latest findings, it dates from the years 1638–1639.
Also worth mentioning are the gabled houses Neuer Markt 7 from 1695 and Radewiger Strasse 23 from 1638, the core of which probably dates back to the 16th century, Radewiger Strasse 27 an eaves house with carved panels (1645), Rennstrasse 32 a two-storey half-timbered gable house (around 1550-1560 built and restored in 1979) and Steinstraße 17 a half-timbered hall house with rich carving, which is marked 1639. In the Tribe Straße 8 furthermore represents a small Traufenhaus with figures cleats , which was probably built from 1500 to 1550.
The buildings on Elisabethstrasse 3–11 with half-timbered buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries, reminiscent of the former monastery freedom, are particularly beautiful . On the Stiftberg in the immediate vicinity of Sankt Marien there are still some residential buildings of the canons, including Stiftberger Straße 33 (former curia of the Dean de Vincke) - a two-storey eaves house with a hipped roof from the 18th century. There is a baroque coat of arms above the entrance .
In addition to the half-timbered buildings mentioned above, a number of stone buildings have been preserved. At Hämelinger Straße 4 there is a late Gothic, massive gabled house with a combined triangular and stepped gable, similar to Frühherrenstraße 11, which was probably built in the middle of the 16th century. At Höckerstraße 4 , framed by buildings from the Wilhelminian era, is the mayor's house , a two-story building with a late Gothic stepped gable based on the Münster model. It was built in 1538. The house, the ground floor zone of which has been changed by adding shop fittings, is strongly reminiscent of the Crüwellhaus in Bielefeld, which was only a few years older .
At Frühherrenstraße 11 there is the Frühherrenhaus , a plastered solid building with a combined triangular and stepped gable, the construction time of which is given as 1591. A thorough restoration has recently been carried out (2004–2005) in which the completely built-in hallway and the original window arrangement were restored. In addition, the exterior was given a new plaster . The Wulferthaus at Neuer Markt 2 is a two-storey gabled house that was built in 1560. The gable presents itself in the form of the so-called Lipperenaissance . From 1977 to 1979 it was extensively restored. In the course of these measures, the front bay was reconstructed based on comparable models. Also worth mentioning is Radewiger Strasse 33 , a gabled house designated in 1610. The facade was rebuilt in the 19th century in the neo-renaissance style. Next door (No. 35) is a stone building with a pointed arched gate and half-timbered upper floor from 1555.
The Villa Bergertorwall 22 of the former Jewish textile entrepreneur family Elsbach is an exemplary example of an Art Nouveau property after the turn of the century. The company's factory building, the Elsbachhaus , was also built in Art Nouveau style in 1909 .
Inner city squares
The old market was the most important trading place and is still the lively center of the old town of Herford . The originally Gothic Old Town Hall, which was expanded with Renaissance elements in the 16th century, stood here until 1878.
The New Market as the center of Herford New Town is one of the most beautiful squares in Herford and is characterized by half-timbered and Renaissance architecture. The fountain from 1599 shows a knight with a banner and shield of the free imperial city of Herford. The fountain, which was sold by the city around 1830, was rebuilt at its old location in 1962. The former town hall of the new town, which was independent until 1634, is a stone gabled house with a medieval core. Its gable from the time of the Weser Renaissance , which was torn down in 1930, was reconstructed in 1988/89. The Wulfert House, built in 1560, has a gable in the style of the Lippe Renaissance and illustrates the self-confidence of the Herford merchant and bourgeoisie.
The Linnenbauer monument, inaugurated in 1909, stands on Linnenbauerplatz . It shows the last hand weaver in Herford who brought his bales of linen to the wholesaler in town and sold it and now counts the money received with a mischievous smile. Until about the mid-1970s, a section of the Bowerre ran there , which had powered a mill and separated the old and new towns.
The Wilhelmsplatz is part of the Herford ramparts that surround Herford city center and is largely reserved for pedestrians and cyclists . The monument to the Saxon Duke Widukind , popularly known as Wittekind, stands on Wilhelmsplatz . At Wilhelmsplatz is the now listed building of the former Wilhelmsplatz Citizens' School , in which the Wilhelm Oberhaus School is now housed.
Fountain
There are numerous fountains in the center of Herford. They are listed below from the Lübbertor to the Steintor.
The Hansebrunnen , which stood at the beginning of the pedestrian zone (intersection Lübberstraße / Berliner Straße) until mid-2016 and has been in storage since then, is a reminder of the city's Hanseatic membership. The bronze sculpture is designed in the form of a Hanse cog. A new location has been sought since mid-2019. The Neustadtbrunnen from 1599, a Renaissance sandstone fountain, stands on the Neuer Markt . In the Gehrenberg at the confluence with the Brüderstraße there is a fountain with moving figures depicting the Herford originals Mother Green and Trompeten-Oskar (by the way, a married couple) as well as the showmen. Also in the Gehrenberg at the confluence with “Am Gange”, a modern fountain was set up, which is popularly known as the “Citizen Shower” because of its shape. The old town market fountain from 1616, which formerly stood on the old market, is now on the Münsterkirchplatz. The abbey fountain on the town hall square is supposed to keep the memory of the abbey alive. Another fountain depicting a boy is on Bäckerstrasse. The goose fountain is located on the goose market .
Monuments, memorial stones, busts and works of art
In addition to the Widukind and Linnebauer monuments already mentioned, there are other monuments, boundary stones, memorial stones, busts, reliefs and works of art in public space in the city. They are described in the main article. These include the abbey stele , the city history monument , a city model of the walled imperial city in the middle of the 17th century , the Fürstenaudenkmal , the seven bronze reliefs from the city's history at the Hotel zur Abbey and the busts of Herford's abbess Elisabeth von Herford and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and Friedrich Schiller .
Works of art stand in front of the employment office and at the stone gate, where a wrecked car was set up on a traffic island. At the Bergertor are two sculptures named Safety Cones by the US installation artist Dennis Oppenheim . Other works of art in public space were placed in the vicinity of the Marta Museum.
Green spaces and recreation
The 4.5 hectare Aawiesenpark developed in 1957 from an old cemetery. In 1987 the site of the former Breder nursery was added. The park has extensive lawns, a large playground and a beach volleyball facility. A bridge leads over a pond with reeds.
The Schützenhofpark adjoins the Schützenhof city park. It goes over to the Luttenberg in the north. In the Weddigenuferpark at Bergertor there is a memorial for the victims of war and tyranny. The small park of the Hinckley rose garden was created on the former route of the Herford small railway and the Bergertor small station. Further west are located between Werre, Werre street and Hansastraße the Werre gardens where the "Aloah Beach Club" is open in the summer.
Worth mentioning is the Stiftberg with Langenberg and Luttenberg. The Herford vision took place on the Luttenberg in the 10th century . According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to a shepherd there . The Stuckenberg with Bismarck Tower is an extensive forest area in the east of the city with a view of Herford, which merges into the Bad Salzufler Obernberg. The forest area south of the Stuckenberg is called the city forest . Herford Zoo is located on the western edge and in part of the city forest .
The city of Herford includes six nature reserves, these are the Asbeke-Kinzbachtal , the Bramschebach - Nagelsbachtal (in two officially managed sub-areas), the Füllenbruch , the Jammertal and the Uhlenbachtal . A total of around 351.9 ha, of which 4.45% of the urban area is under nature protection.
Herford is the starting point of the Hansaweg , a 72-kilometer long- distance hiking trail that connects Herford with Hameln . The 54 km long Stiftsweg , a hiking trail with the abbey coat of arms as a marker, meanders around the city limits of Herford .
The Elisabethsee in the Eickum district is a leisure facility that also has a campsite that is occupied by many long-term campers from the Ruhr area .
graveyards
Until 1808 the citizens of the old town, the Radewig, the abbey and the farmers belonging to Herford were buried on the Münsterkirchplatz. There were also cemeteries at the other churches. Against the resistance of the population, the inner-city burial grounds were closed during the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807–1813) and a new, rationally planned cemetery on Eisgraben (today Friedhofstrasse) was opened.
There are two municipal cemeteries in the old Herford city area (without incorporated districts). The Eternal Peace main cemetery is located between Mindener Strasse and Eimterstrasse. The largest cemetery in Herford was inaugurated on June 29, 1924. The relatively large cemetery chapel was built in 1955. The double complex of the old cemetery and “old cemetery” (old part) is located on Friedhofstrasse / Hermannstrasse. The "Am Eisgraben" cemetery, which was created in 1808 when the burial grounds were relocated from the church yards, is now a park that merges into the Aawiesenpark. The war memorial that was previously on the old market in the center of the city has stood here since 1964. The cemetery on Hermannstrasse with numerous large burial sites and war cemeteries has been in use since the end of the 19th century.
Further cemeteries of the Evangelical Lutheran Marienkirchengemeinde Stiftberg are the Erika cemetery on Vlothoer Straße, the Marien cemetery on Marienstraße and the Schwarzenmoor / Falkendiek cemetery on Mindener Straße.
The Jewish cemetery is located on Friedhofstrasse and has served as a burial place for the Jewish community since the 17th century.
The municipal cemeteries Friedhof Diebrock (Hausheider Straße), Friedhof Eickum (Diebrocker Straße), Friedhof Elverdissen (Hillewalser Straße), Friedhof Laar (Laarer Straße) and Friedhof Stedefreund (Bielefelder Straße) are located in the districts incorporated in 1969 .
The private Schwarzenmoor animal cemetery is located near the Herford Ost motorway junction .
Sports
There are 62 sports clubs in the city (as of 2019) with 18,792 members (as of 2010). The gymnastics community Herford (TGH), founded in 1860, is the oldest and with around 4,000 members (early 2009) and 16 specialist sports departments, the largest sports club in the city. Sports such as badminton, basketball, popular sports, fencing, handball, judo, bowling, athletics, (Nordic) walking, swimming, table tennis and volleyball are practiced in the club.
The Health and Disabled Sports Community Herford e. V. (GBSG) was founded in May 1951 as one of the first disabled sports associations in North Rhine-Westphalia. She was a founding member of the Disabled Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia. With more than 550 members, it is one of the large clubs within the Disabled Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (BSNW) and the city of Herford. What was initially founded for the self-help of war invalids soon developed into a sports club for all those affected or threatened by disabilities. GBSG Herford has made the integration of the mentally handicapped through play and sport a special task for more than 20 years.
The largest sports facility is the Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion , which with its 400-meter circular running track offers space for 18,400 spectators. The games of the women's soccer team of Herford's SV Borussia Friedenstal and the games of SC Herford are played here. The home games of the Herford EV , which has been playing in the association league and the regional ice hockey league since the 2006/07 season, are played in the ice stadium with around 2000 spectator seats . The H2O is an adventure, leisure and sports pool with a large sauna landscape and wellness area. In the Waldfrieden sports park, newly created in 1996, several sports clubs (but also apartments) have been settled on the site of the former British Maresfield barracks. Among other things, the Herford Tennis Club (TCH), the Herford Gymnastics Community (TGH), the Herford Aviation Association, the German Life-Rescue Society (DLRG), the Endspurt cycling club and the Herford Motor-Veteranen-Sport-Club ( MSC).
Equestrian sports play a major role in Herford . The riding and driving club "von Lützow" is one of the riding clubs in Westphalia with the largest number of members. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, the Herford entrepreneur Wolfgang Brinkmann won the gold medal in team show jumping on the horse "Pedro" together with Ludger Beerbaum , Franke Sloothaak , and Dirk Hafemeister .
Herford provided with two cycling clubs some nationwide known athletes in road, cross-country and art cycling. The RSV Wittekind Herford organizes a street race in the city in spring. Every last weekend of the year, the cycling club RC Endspurt Herford organizes a cyclo-cross race. From 1960 to 2014 the event took place in the Eickum district on the Elisabethsee, since then the venue has been part of the Friedenstal comprehensive school.
The basketball players of BBG Herford (former syndicate of the clubs TGH and DJK) have been playing in the 1st Regionalliga West since the 2015/16 season. Furthermore, the TGH has had a basketball department again since the 2007/08 season and plays in the district league (men).
Crossing the border between Herford and the Vlotho district of Exter is a golf course operated by the Wippermann Golfanlage Heerhof, close to the Herford Ost motorway exit . The golf course of the Herford Golf Club is located three kilometers to the northeast in the neighboring town of Vlotho, near the Vlotho West motorway exit .
Events
Regular events
In March / April the Easter fair takes place along the street Auf der Freiheit , in May in the city center the Automeile , an East German specialty market , the Hanse Day and a jazz festival with several jazz bands appearing in various pubs, some of them Events are modified again and again or are canceled completely in individual years. The Radewiger Schützenfest is also held in May in the Radewig and the Radewiger Feldmark.
June 19th is the anniversary of the Herford vision , which goes back to the oldest apparition of Mary north of the Alps. After the Visionskirmes took place on this occasion until 2010, this festival is celebrated differently every year. For details, see the fair, vision play and pageant .
In July, perform on the summer stage on the Rathausplatz on four evenings i. A. Pop groups, but not every year. For several years now, the street theater / variety spettacolo teatrale has been performing in the city center on several days in July and August .
From July to September, the Herford Organ Summer is held with organ concerts and city tours on eight Sundays in the various churches of the city. This is largely prepared and accompanied by Stefan Kagl , the organist of the Herford Minster .
Since 1973, the Hoekerfest (Herford City Festival) has been taking place in June, July or August with many inner-city events, as well as the Herford-Elverdissen shooting festival in Elverdissen and the shooting festival of the Herford shooting club from 1832 in the old town and in the Schützenhof city park.
Since 2007, in September in churches, museums and other event rooms, the Kulturanker e. V. organizes the Herford Culture Night . Music events and exhibitions take place.
Every two years since 2009, on the last Sunday in September on the federal highway 61 between Herford and Bielefeld, no motor vehicles are allowed to drive without auto mobil as part of the event . On an approximately 16-kilometer stretch between Herford's Gänsemarkt and Bielefeld City Hall, urban roads and the main road are closed to motorized vehicles from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For pedestrians, joggers, skaters and cyclists, there are numerous gastronomic offers as well as action and information stands on the subject of mobility, health and leisure.
Events in October are the city fair in the area of Alter Markt / Münsterkirchplatz / Rathausplatz , the wine festival on the Gänsemarkt and the exhibition Herbstzeitlos in the former freight hall of the train station .
In November 2006, the 1st International Organ Competition was held for the first time in St. Mary's Church and has been held regularly since then.
The Radewiger Kohlfest is celebrated in December . It commemorates the reopening of Radewiger St. James Church on Thursday after 1 Advent in 1590. Also in December, the Christmas Market Christmas Lights in the city center instead.
Function rooms
The freight hall of the old freight yard , which was no longer required by Deutsche Bahn , was bought by the city and is available to all interested parties as an event hall.
Concerts, festive events, lectures and other events take place in the large and small halls and other rooms of the Schützenhof city park on Stiftbergstrasse.
The forum in the Marta Museum on Goebenstrasse is available for cultural events (music, lectures, discussions, films and exhibitions), receptions, congresses and business events as well as product presentations.
The GoParc disco , which has since been called the High Club , is located in the Radewig car park directly at the train station, while the X disco is on Bünder Strasse near the bypass. Live singers and bands perform in both discos. on. The catchment area of the two discos extends to the whole of northern East Westphalia.
Showman
Herford is a traditional fairground city . The city is the seat of the Central German Showman Association from 1895 Herford e. V. of the second oldest show association in Germany. On January 13, 1950, the German Schaustellerbund e. V. (DSB), which is now based in Berlin . From 1950 to 1957, Herford was the headquarters of the DSB's main office. It was moved to Bonn in 1957 . In 1963, 1995 and 2005 the delegates' day took place in Herford and in 2007 the main board meeting of the DSB.
Since 1981 there has been a boarding school for children of showmen, barge operators and artists on Mindener Straße . The children living there attend schools in Herford and do not have to travel with their parents and constantly change schools or receive one-to-one lessons in the fair car or on the ship. In the meantime, the offer has been expanded to include other children who cannot stay in their parents' home. Seven rooms with up to three beds are available for your stay.
Economy and Infrastructure
Commercial and industrial
The basis of the economy in Herford is the linen industry that predominated in the 18th century, which, starting from Bielefeld, also encompassed the Herford region. Initially only concerned with linen, this industry then took up the weaving of silk, wool and cotton, with the subsequent textile finishing. From this a mechanical engineering based in Herford developed - and the clothing industry .
The most important branches of the Herford economy today are the textile industry , plastics processing , wood processing ( furniture ) and food production .
Textile, furniture and mechanical engineering industries
Three of the five largest European men's clothing companies are based in Herford : Ahlers AG and Leineweber GmbH & Co. KG since 1932 and bugatti Holding Brinkmann GmbH & Co. KG since 1947.
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. The Stiegelmeyer GmbH & Co. KG since 1899 hospital and nursing home furniture produced in Herford. The Febrü Office Furniture GmbH is founded in 1999, the successor company of the once prestigious company of the same name, which was named after the founder Felix Brunger and had to file for bankruptcy in 1996. The imos AG develops software for the woodworking and furniture industry.
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.
The furniture industry was also the reason for the settlement of the mesh construction industry. Thus, the Wemhöner GmbH & Co. KG, among other pressing her for woodworking. There are also mechanical engineering companies and manufacturers of woodworking machines in Herford.
Food and other businesses
In 1950, the pediatrician Heinz Lemke in Herford developed the first adapted baby food in Germany after years of research, i.e. baby food that was largely similar to breast milk. This Humana milk was produced and marketed by the Herford dairy. In the 1960s, special foods for premature babies and medicinal foods were produced, followed by other special foods for babies. Humana GmbH has been a subsidiary of the Deutscher Milchkontor since 2011, which has been manufacturing Humana products at a different location since 2019.
The Milchwirtschaftliche Industrie Gesellschaft Herford GmbH & Co. KG (MIG Herford) has belonged to the baby food manufacturer Hipp , which produces baby food there , since the end of 2016 .
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.
After several changes of ownership, Sulo GmbH , which was founded in 1892, now mainly produces garbage bins. 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 T + A elektroakustik GmbH & Co. KG manufactures high-quality electro-acoustic, such as amplifiers and loudspeakers ago. The bells GmbH produces speakers and sound systems. 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 head office of Westfalen Weser Energie GmbH & Co. KG, which is based in Paderborn, is in Herford. Bitcoin Germany AG operates under the domain bitcoin.de a trading platform for crypto currencies . The Bonitas Holding GmbH & Co. KG is a nationally active association of service companies of the sick and the elderly. Herford is the seat of the Sparkasse Herford and the Volksbank Bad Oeynhausen-Herford , whose branch network far exceeds the city and Herford district boundaries.
Tobacco industry
In contrast to the surrounding towns and communities, the tobacco industry was reluctant to settle in Herford. For 1792 about a dozen so-called "tobacco mills" were identified, in which pipe tobacco was primarily produced. These craft businesses are not classified by science as forerunners of the later cigar or tobacco industry. In a petition to the German Reichstag in 1879, only five factories with a total of 281 workers were mentioned for Herford, while 19 factories with 754 and 1095 workers were named for the much smaller towns of Bünde and Vlotho in the district. In today's district the focus was on the cities mentioned as well as Enger and Spenge . Bünde is still the most important center of this industrial branch nationwide and had replaced Vlotho on the Weser as the "tobacco center" from around 1900 .
The first cigar factory in Herford was founded by Konrad Heinrich Wilhelm Böckelmann in 1842 on the "Alten Markt". This company stagnated at first, only the establishment of factories in the district, so-called branches, was successful. After moving to the then modern company headquarters, which was designed by the Germany-wide architect Wilhelm Köster on Hansastraße in Herford, production in the nearby Arndtstraße was discontinued in 1954, and the company went out altogether in 1955. The building on Hansastraße was taken over by the Bünder company Arnold André , now smoking tobacco and cigar boxes were produced here until the 1980s. In the 1980s, the administrative building of the district police authority was built on this site.
Trade and logistics
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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.
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 gifts as well as 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.
Herford is now known for the factory sales of the three clothing companies Ahlers , Bugatti and Brax Leineweber . Every year around 400,000 visitors come to the city (as of October 2019). In Herford-Elverdissen there is a Lufthansa WorldShop outlet near the Ostwestfalen-Lippe motorway exit .
Herford is the location of several logistics companies with regional and sometimes supra-regional reach. 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 . There are also other logistics companies in the city.
media
In Herford there are two daily newspapers, Neue Westfälische and Herford Kreisblatt. The latter is a regional edition of the Westfalen-Blatt .
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.
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.
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 .
Herford is the headquarters of Radio Herford , a local radio station with circulation area Herford . From October 1990 to July 2009, the headquarters of the British soldiers broadcaster British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) was in Herford.
In Herford-Schwarzenmoor, the Herford transmitter was located on the Eggeberg until 1993 - a medium-wave transmitter operated by WDR . About the built on the same spot radio tower digital radio programs are currently DAB + standard, and the programs of Radio Herford and BFBS Germany spread. Until the 1980s, a separate mast was used for FM broadcasting by BFBS.
Herford was and is the seat of several publishing houses . These include ES Mittler & Sohn (1974–2000), Maximilian Verlag (1949–1996) Busse (1947–2010; 1983–2010 “Busse Seewald ”), Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft (1966–2001) and, since 2015, “ostbooks”. Marta also sells self- published publications . About 2500 books have been published in Herford.
Public facilities
Authorities
The employment agency in the city of Herford is responsible for 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 in the city.
The judiciary has the Herford District Court , the Herford Labor Court and the prison for young people in the city. The Herford district police authority is not far away . The local tax office is responsible for Herford, Hiddenhausen, Vlotho, Enger and Spenge. The Herford office of the main customs office in Bielefeld is in Neustädter Feldmark and is responsible for financial control of illegal work . The local branch of the technical relief organization is based in the Radewiger Feldmark.
The Herford district administration is located in the vicinity, spread over several buildings. The main station of the fire brigade is located on the Neustädter Feldmark. 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. The Herford municipal works are located next to the fire station. The Herford sewage treatment plant is located between the railway line, the Werre and the bypass . Further facilities are the city library and the tourist information in the market hall.
Health care and day care facilities
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 also a screening center for breast cancer early detection in the city , a practice clinic with several doctor's offices and a day clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics . 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.
There are over 37 daycare centers in the city, five of which are Bornbrede, Maiwiese, Zur Bleiche, Schobeke and Stedefreund. Other carriers of day care centers are the Protestant and Catholic church with eleven and four daycare centers, the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) with seven, the Association of Social Work and Counseling (VAB) with four daycare centers, the German Red Cross with three day-care centers and the Turngemeinde Herford 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. In the Radewiger Feldmark is the privately operated Springolino , one of the largest indoor play facilities in Germany with an area of 5,000 m².
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.
Social facilities
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 helps women and girls from the Herford district with a focus on domestic violence and eating disorders . The girls' advice center “Femina Vita, Mädchenhaus Herford e. V. “has been advising and helping girls and young women up to the age of 27 from the Herford district after experiencing violence since 1991. Under the sponsorship of the Protestant Women's Aid in Westphalia e. V. there are two advice centers for women and girls from Ostwestfalen-Lippe: 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 .
Social institutions are the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , the unemployment center , the Caritas Association , the German Child Protection Association , the German Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband , the German Red Cross District Association Herford-Stadt, the Diakonische Werk , the outpatient hospice service Hospizbewegung Herford and the Herford Tafel with branches in Enger , Spenge and Hiddenhausen . Die Klinke , a non-profit organization for psychosocial work in the Herford district , has existed since 1982 . The offers consist of assisted living , a contact and meeting place, a day care center in Herford with a branch in Kirchlengern . The Herford lunch table e. V. gives out warm lunch to the needy. The social counseling center and the city's housing maintenance department are located in the same building. The recycling working group in Radewiger Feldmark has a sale in the city center.
Associations
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The Masonic Lodge "Zur Roten Erde" , founded in 1899, is located in the Logenhaus on Logenplatz, which was built in two stages in 1906 and 1924 .
There are also two Lions clubs and three Rotary clubs in town .
education
Herford has a well-developed school system with eleven municipal primary schools and one private primary school. The 18 municipal schools attended around 7,800 pupils in the 2014/15 school year, some of whom do not live in Herford. Around 20 pupils are taught at the private primary school. The open all-day school is offered in all primary schools, which offers a voluntary all-day program for all families with children of primary school age in Herford.
A special school, three secondary schools, three grammar schools and a comprehensive school are available as secondary schools in Herford. The originally old-language Friedrichs-Gymnasium , founded around 800, is the oldest existing institution in the city (see list of oldest schools in the German-speaking area). Since 1972, the school is in the Werre Gardens , not far from the former neusprachlich / mathematics and science Ravensberger high school (secondary school before), which was newly built there 1,960th The Königin-Mathilde-Gymnasium on the Stiftberg was originally a lyceum for girls. Boys have also been taught there since 1974. It is a sports school in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with a joint location in Bielefeld and Herford. The three secondary schools are the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule , the Otto-Hahn-Schule and the Ernst-Barlach-Schule .
There are seven vocational colleges available for vocational students: The Agricultural College , the Elisabeth-von-der-Pfalz vocational college of the Herford church district, the vocational college at Wilhelmsplatz of the Institute for Further Education in Economy and Society. V., the AWO's vocational college for social and health services and, under the auspices of the Herford district, the Friedrich List vocational college , the Wilhelm Normann vocational college and the Anna Siemsen vocational college.
In 1948 the regional church music school was founded in Herford, which is responsible for the training of church musicians in Westphalia. In 1991 it was converted into the College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . It is one of seven Protestant universities for church music in Germany.
In September 2017 the Herford Education Campus was opened on the site of the former Wentworth barracks on Stiftberg. Several educational institutions are to be located there. The first thing to do was to open a branch of the North Rhine-Westphalia University of Finance (FHF), which has been called North Rhine-Westphalia University of Finance since December 2019 .
In addition, there is a study center of the Fernuniversität in Hagen in Herford and a study center of the Hamburger Fern-Hochschule for courses in business administration, business law, industrial engineering, and a supplementary course in business. In the Marta Museum, an advisory office for the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences was set up in May 2009 and an advisory office for the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in January 2010 .
traffic
air traffic
The closest airport is Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport at a distance of 85 kilometers. The Hannover-Langenhagen Airport is 90 kilometers away from Herford. In 1911 a provisional runway for emergency landings was built in Herford on the Füllenbruch ; it was destroyed during the Second World War. Air sports shows were held in Herford until the Second World War.
Rail transport
The Herford train station is a crossing station with four platforms and seven platform tracks. It is located on the electrified, four- track Hamm – Minden railway , the main connection from the Ruhr area to Hanover and Berlin , which was opened in 1847 by the historic Cologne-Minden Railway Company . The Herford – Kirchlengern connection to Osnabrück and Rahden and the Herford – Altenbeken railway (Lippische Bahn) branch off here . In rail transport Herford is to Bielefeld's second largest railway junction in regional transport Eastwestfalia with hourly nine arriving and departing commuter trains and hourly one intercity and some daily ICE in or from Hanover.
Bus transport
The city network of buses in Herford is defined by two nodes: On the one hand the ZOB at Herford train station and on the other the central transfer point at the Alter Markt . The Herford city bus network consists of six lines (S1 to S6). Regional buses go to Bünde , Löhne , Vlotho , Bad Salzuflen , Spenge , Bielefeld-Milse ( Stadtbahn ) and Schildesche , among others . On weekends and before public holidays, night buses run in the city area and to Bielefeld ( Ringlokschuppen and Jahnplatz ), Bünde, Enger and DiscoBusse to Löhne and Bad Salzuflen.
The bus system is supplemented by the call taxis , the call line taxis and the taxi bus supplemented. There is also a bicycle bus that connects the cities of Herford and Vlotho.
Bus traffic in Herford and part of the Herford district has been carried out by Busverkehr Ostwestfalen GmbH since June 2011 . The city belongs to the OWL Verkehr (OVLW) "Der Sechser" association. The districts of Herford, Lippe , Minden-Lübbecke , Gütersloh and the city of Bielefeld belong to the transport association . All regional trains can be used with the “six-person ticket”. However, association tickets are not valid on night and disco buses .
Road traffic
In Herford city center, parking space management is supported by a parking guidance system along the inner city ring (Berliner Straße, Auf der Freiheit, Wittekindstraße, Hermannstraße, Rennstraße, Johannisstraße, Bergertorstraße), which informs drivers about free parking spaces.
There are four multi-storey car parks in the city center: the “Altstadt” car park has space for 577 cars, the “Neustadt” car park 412, the “Radewig” car park at the train station 444 parking spaces, which can also be used by rail travelers, and the Marta-Areal car park 456 parking spaces. 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.
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The motorway A 2 roams the city in the East since the 1938th The junctions Herford Ost, Herford / Bad Salzuflen and Ostwestfalen-Lippe as well as a motorway service station are located there . In the north, the Autobahn 30 can be reached at the Kirchlengern junction. The federal highways 239 and 61 serve as a bypass for long-distance traffic.
Herford is the seat of the Herford autobahn maintenance department and the autobahn police , which are stationed near the Herford / Bad Salzuflen autobahn junction.
Bicycle traffic
The city of Herford is a founding member of the working group bicycle-friendly cities and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia and joined the working group in 1993. Herford is involved in the planning of a cycle expressway that will lead from Minden via Herford and Bielefeld to Güterloh
There is a bicycle station at the train station (car park and bicycle center with workshop and sales). In and around Herford there is a signposted network of cycle paths and several local cycle routes . The BahnRadRoute Weser-Lippe runs through the city. Scenic routes are the footpaths and bike paths directly on the Werre to Bad Salzuflen and via the former small railway line to Enger. These routes are often very busy.
E-scooter
Tier Mobility has been distributing 150 e-scooters in the city since mid-May 2020 . These can be borrowed via a smartphone app and simply left on the spot at the end of the journey.
bridges
Herford lies on the Werre, the Aa and the Stadtgraben rivers running through the city. More than 20 road, railway and pedestrian bridges cross these three watercourses. In addition, the route of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft leads through the city. Their railway systems require 17 bridges over roads and rivers.
The Herford bridges have no official names. Some are named by the population after the street that leads over the respective bridge or after the former city gates. There is the Lübbertorbrücke, the two Bergertorbrücken over the Werre and one of the oldest Herford bridges, the Steintorbrücke over the city moat.
Personalities
At the beginning of the 10th century, Queen Mathilde , the wife of King Henry I of East Franconia , was raised in the monastery of her grandmother Mathilde of the same name in Herford. She distinguished herself as a benefactress of the poor and founder of spiritual foundations. The chemist and doctor Otto Tachenius (1610–1680) and the architect and builder Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736), the builder of the Dresden Zwinger, were born in Herford . In addition, the submarine commander in World War I Otto Weddigen (1882–1915), the Reich Minister of the Interior and Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing (1875–1952), the SPD politician and co-creator of the Basic Law Frieda Nadig (1897–1970) First Prime Minister (1946) of Brandenburg Karl Steinhoff (1882–1981), as well as the first President of the Federal Constitutional Court Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (1883–1954) born.
Hermann Kunst (1907–1999) was pastor of the ev.-luth from 1932 to 1956. Mariengemeinde Stift Berg and at the same time local pastor until 1945, and from 1942 to 1954 superintendent of the Herford parish . From 1949 to 1977 he was the first authorized representative of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) to the federal government. From 1956 to 1972 he was also a Protestant military bishop . His grave is in the Erika cemetery in Herford.
literature
- Thomas Schuler, Theodor Helmert-Corvey (ed.): 1200 years of Herford. Traces of history. (= Herford research. 2). Maximilian Verlag, Herford 1989, ISBN 3-7869-0249-6 .
- Theodor Berndt: Herford Plutarch. Life pictures and achievements of well-known men of the old abbey and Hanseatic city. Herford 1951, DNB 1115863843 .
- Ralf Dorn: The church of the former women's monastery St. Marien and Pusinna in Herford. Architecture under the nobles of the Lippe. Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-087-9 .
- FB Fahlbusch: Herford. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 4, Col. 2152 f.
- Otto Gaul : The Marienkirche in Herford. (= Great architectural monuments. Issue 232). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969.
- Otto Gaul: The cathedral at Herford. Presbytery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish, Herford 1982.
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. 7th, completely revised edition. Beck, Munich 2007, p. 269 f.
- Christoph Laue: Herford C.4.2 . In: Handbook of Courtyards and Residences in the Late Medieval Empire. Volume 15.1. Ostfildern 2003, pp. 266–268.
- Christoph Laue (Ed.): Archives in the Herford district. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1993, ISBN 3-927085-72-3 .
- Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present . Bussesche Verlagshandlung, Herford 1979, ISBN 3-87120-857-4 .
- Rainer Pape: The Herford City Museum - A guide through its collections. Maximilian Verlag, Herford 1976, OCLC 832701374 .
- Mathias Polster, Sven Nieder, Björn Pollmeyer: About Herford. tpk-Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-936359-44-2 .
- Norbert Sahrhage: Dictatorship and Democracy in a Protestant Region. City and district of Herford 1929 to 1953. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89534-548-2 .
- Eris Valentowicz: Herford between 1900 and 1960. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-142-4 .
- Heinz Stoob, Wilfried Ehbrecht (ed.): Westphalian city atlas . Volume 1, 8 sub-volume. On behalf of the Historical Commission for Westphalia and with the support of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association. [City folder Herford by Heinz Stoob]. Dortmund-Altenbeken 1975, ISBN 3-89115-335-X .
Web links
- City of Herford
- Document requests from the archive of the city of Herford in the state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Link catalog on Herford at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Herford city tour - walks through the district town
- Herford in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
- Information about Herford on the website of Peter Bubig
Remarks
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Herford as a business location
- ↑ City of Herford, figures, data, facts , accessed on May 22, 2019.
- ↑ Kommunalprofil Herford, Stadt 2015. (PDF) it.nrw, May 31, 2017, accessed on June 8, 2019 .
- ^ Geological Service NRW (Ed.): Geology in the Weser and Osnabrück Bergland. Krefeld 2003, pp. 26, 29, 60.
- ^ Geological Service NRW: Geoscientific community descriptions NRW: Herford .
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 360 kB)
- ↑ German Weather Service Many years averages observation station Herford. dwd.de, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Rudi Wehmeier - Karsten Adam: City stories from the Neustädter Feldmark Herford , 2017, ISSN 1619-7828, p. 14
- ↑ Gisela Schwarze: The collectors of the weather data , in Westfalen-Blatt, August 9, 2019
- ↑ Frank-Michael Kiel-Steinkamp: Herford Weather Frog: 2019 will be a record year , in Neue Westfälische, December 16, 2019
- ↑ Bernd Bexte: Only 2018 was warmer, weather report 2019 , in: Westfalen-Blatt, January 7, 2020
- ↑ Frank-Michael Kiel-Steinkamp: This day in 2019 was the hottest since records began in Herford , in Neue Westfälische, January 8, 2020
- ↑ Herford weather station at wetter.com
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, pp. 15-22.
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, pp. 23-37.
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, p. 38 f.
- ^ City history of Herford: The beginnings in the Middle Ages
- ↑ City history of Herford: The Herford Imperial Foundation in the Middle Ages
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, p. 55.
- ↑ No award certificate has survived.
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, p. 74 f.
- ↑ Christoph Laue: Herford C.4.2. In: Handbook of Courtyards and Residences in the Late Medieval Empire. Volume 15.1. Ostfildern 2003, p. 266f.
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, pp. 112-114.
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, p. 155 ff.
- ^ City history of Herford: The city of Herford in the Middle Ages
- ↑ Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia. History of Herford from the beginning to the present. Herford 1979, p. 164 ff.
- ^ Wilhelm Heinrich Neuser : Evangelical Church History of Westphalia in the ground plan . Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, p. 66 ff.
- ^ City history of Herford: The Reformation and its consequences in Herford
- ↑ City history of Herford: From the imperial city to the Ravensberg country town
- ^ City history of Herford: From the Thirty Years' War to industrialization
- ^ City history of Herford. Herford in the 19th century
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Herford: 100 years town hall, a historical overview , accessed on November 25, 2019
- ↑ Christoph Laue: A market hall is something special , in HF-Magazin, August 29, 2019
- ^ LWL: Westphalian History , accessed on November 18, 2019
- ^ British housing developments
- ^ Flood events in the Weser area: The February flood in 1946.
- ↑ Herford History Association: Flood 1946 , accessed on January 29, 2020
- ↑ Thomas Hagen: The flood of the century from Herford , in multimedia.nw.de , accessed on January 29, 2020
- ^ City history of Herford: 20th century
- ↑ Westfälische Hanse: Herford accessed on September 5, 2019
- ↑ Birgit Meineke : Herford. In: Manfred Niemeyer (ed.): German book of place names. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-018908-7 , p. 258.
- ↑ Hartmut Braun: Herford, oh you Hansestadt In: Neue Westfälische, May 17, 2013
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 74 .
- ↑ census database
- ↑ Evangelical Free Church Herford
- ↑ Christ Church Herford
- ^ Regional Church Community of Herford
- ↑ Church of Jesus Christie
- ↑ Mosques in Herford
- ↑ Natalie Gottwald: Ahmadi Muslims emphasize loyalty to Germany In: Neue Westfälische, November 6, 2018
- ↑ Peter Schelberg: Muslims profess to Germany In: Westfalen-Blatt, November 6, 2018
- ↑ § 2, paragraph 2 of the main statute of the city of Herford. herford.de, May 17, 2017, accessed June 8, 2019 .
- ^ City of Herford: city arms
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Herford: City partnerships and friendships , accessed on October 8, 2019
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Herford: City partnerships , accessed on October 8, 2019
- ↑ Homepage of the City of Herford: City Friendships including City Union , accessed on October 8, 2019
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Herford: The deed of gift of the Leutesdorf winery , accessed on October 8, 2019
- ↑ Review of the 33rd International Hanseatic Days 2013
- ↑ Hanse Economic Association
- ↑ Capitol
- ↑ Zellentrakt Memorial
- ^ Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation , accessed on March 12, 2020
- ↑ Archaeological window at the Münster : Geschichtsverein Herford, accessed on August 26, 2019
- ↑ Organ Summer
- ↑ a b Münsterkirche , accessed on December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Herford city tour: Wolderus Chapel , accessed on December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Herford city tour: Jakobikirche , accessed on December 27, 2015.
- ^ Johanniskirche , accessed on December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Herford city tour: Marienkirche , accessed on December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Herford city tour: Petrikirche , accessed on December 27, 2015.
- ↑ outdooractive.com
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Herford ramparts in LWL GeodatenKultur
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Aawiesenpark in LWL-GeodatenKultur
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Luttenberg and Schützenhofpark in LWL-GeodatenKultur
- ↑ http://www.teutoburgerwaldverein.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=129#Stiftsweg
- ↑ stadtfuehrung-herford.de: war memorial
- ^ City of Herford: sports clubs
- ^ Stadtsportverband Herford: Sports clubs
- ↑ City of Herford: Hoekerfest , accessed on September 16, 2019
- ↑ Herford Culture Night , accessed on September 16, 2019
- ↑ City of Herford: ohne auto mobil , accessed on September 18, 2019
- ^ City of Herford: Events , accessed on September 16, 2019
- ^ City of Herford: freight yard
- ^ The Marta Forum
- ↑ Lena Henning: The Go Parc is now called High Club . In: Herford . ( nw.de [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ GoParc
- ↑ Discotheque X
- ^ Deutscher Schaustellerbund: Schaustellerstadt Herford proves its name , in: www.dsbev.de , accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ Central German showman association of 1895 Herford e. V.
- ^ Deutscher Schaustellerbund: History of the German Schaustellerbund eV In: www.dsbev.de. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
- ↑ kirmes forum: de: 56. Delegiertentag the German Federal showmen in Herford
- ↑ Deutscher Schaustellerbund: 171st main board meeting in Herford , in: www.dsbev.de , accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ Children's and youth center, Mindener Strasse 8
- ↑ Carl Baumhöfener: "Growing prosperity through versatile industry", page In: Ostwestfalen-Lippe, the administrative district of Detmold. Monographs of German Economic Areas Volume IV, Oldenburg 1957
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Humana Milestones , accessed February 1, 2020
- ↑ 'Dairy Industry Society Herford GmbH & Co. KG
- ↑ A little luxury is a must. Special gift packaging can be seen in the municipal museum. accessed on August 20, 2017.
- ↑ Chocolate factory Eickmeyer & Gehring
- ↑ http://www.lwg.uni-hannover.de/wiki/Zigarrenindustrie_Herford
- ↑ B. Rausch, industrialization in the city and district of Herford, Herford municipal archive, archiv pedagogical materials No. 6, pp. 19ff., 2003
- ↑ Neue Westfälische Zeitung, local edition Herford, as of April 21, 2016
- ↑ Corina Lass: These shops are moving into the new Herford old town center . In: Herford . ( nw.de [accessed on February 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Market hall
- ↑ Culture and leisure tips in the fashion outlets , in: Hallo Herford , October 2, 2019
- ↑ catalog. In: German National Library . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Economic Forum: Herford Abwasser GmbH , accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ Day clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics
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- ↑ Day care facilities for children in Herford, as of August 2019
- ↑ Playgrounds in Herford
- ↑ Springolino
- ↑ Multi-generation house "Old School Ottelau"
- ↑ Frauenhaus Herford e. V.
- ↑ Herford women's advice center
- ↑ Femina Vita Girls' House Herford e. V.
- ↑ Nadezhda
- ^ Theodora OWL
- ↑ AWO Herford
- ↑ Unemployment Center
- ↑ Herford Caritas Association
- ^ Herford Child Protection Association
- ↑ The parity
- ^ DRK Herford-Stadt
- ↑ Diakonisches Werk Herford
- ↑ Herford hospice movement
- ↑ Herford plaque
- ↑ The handle
- ↑ Herford lunch menu
- ↑ Recycling exchange
- ↑ Website of the Masonic Lodge "Zur Roten Erde"
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Herford: Primary schools in Herford , accessed on November 12, 2019
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- ↑ Ostwestfalen-Lippe Bus: Herford Bicycle Bus , accessed on November 4, 2019
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- ↑ Homepage of the city of Herford: Bicycle-friendly city , accessed on September 25, 2019
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