Hochsauerlandkreis

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Coat of arms of the Hochsauerlandkreis Map of Germany, position of the Hochsauerlandkreis highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Regional association : Westphalia-Lippe
Administrative headquarters : Meschede
Area : 1,960.17 km 2
Residents: 259,777 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 133 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : HSK
Circle key : 05 9 58
NUTS : DEA57
Circle structure: 12 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Steinstrasse 27
59872 Meschede
Website : hochsauerlandkreis.de
District Administrator : Karl Schneider ( CDU )
Location of the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia
Niederlande Belgien Niedersachsen Rheinland-Pfalz Hessen Essen Wuppertal Solingen Remscheid Hagen Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Bochum Dortmund Herne Gelsenkirchen Bottrop Oberhausen Mülheim an der Ruhr Duisburg Kreis Mettmann Düsseldorf Rhein-Kreis Neuss Kreis Heinsberg Mönchengladbach Krefeld Kreis Viersen Kreis Wesel Kreis Kleve Rhein-Erft-Kreis Kreis Düren Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis Kreis Recklinghausen Kreis Borken Kreis Unna Märkischer Kreis Kreis Olpe Hamm Kreis Soest Kreis Coesfeld Kreis Steinfurt Kreis Warendorf Leverkusen Köln Städteregion Aachen Bonn Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Städteregion Aachen Kreis Euskirchen Münster Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Hochsauerlandkreis Kreis Paderborn Kreis Gütersloh Kreis Höxter Kreis Lippe Kreis Herford Kreis Minden-Lübbecke Bielefeldmap
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The Hochsauerlandkreis is a district in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Sauerland and, in terms of area, the largest in this state. The district town and administrative seat is the city of Meschede , which was the district town of the Meschede district before the Hochsauerlandkreis was founded.

geography

location

The district is traversed by the Ruhr and Lenne , both of which arise near Winterberg .

The highest elevation in the Hochsauerlandkreis and at the same time the highest elevation in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is the Langenberg at 843.2  m above sea level. NN , the lowest point in the district is on the Ruhr in Arnsberg- Vosswinkel near Haus Füchten at 146  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring areas

The Hochsauerlandkreis borders clockwise, starting in the northwest, on the districts of Soest , Paderborn and Höxter (all in North Rhine-Westphalia), on the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg (in Hesse ) and on the districts of Siegen-Wittgenstein , Olpe and Märkischer Kreis (all again in North Rhine-Westphalia).

history

For the history of the region before the communal reorganization, cf. a. the contributions Sauerland , County of Arnsberg , Duchy of Westphalia and Wittgensteiner Land .

The Hochsauerlandkreis was formed in its current form on January 1st, 1975 on the basis of the Sauerland / Paderborn law . This area was previously divided into the districts of Arnsberg , Meschede and Brilon . During the reorganization, the old Arnsberg district gave Warstein to the Soest and Balve district and Asbeck to the Märkische Kreis . The Serkenrode office was transferred from the old Meschede district to the Olpe district in 1969.

The Höhendörfer Neuastenberg ("the big village"), Mollseifen , Langewiese and the settlement Hoheleye fell from the Wittgenstein district to the newly formed Hochsauerlandkreis . The old district of Büren gave the villages of Essentho , Meerhof , Oesdorf and Westheim to the city of Marsberg .

Population development

year Residents
1975 269,748
1980 267,979
1985 260,684
1990 268,627
1995 283,857
2000 281.830
2005 277.219
2010 267,601
2015 263,762

According to the IT.NRW forecast from 2015, the population decline will continue unabated. The prognosis predicts another 16% population loss between 2014 and 2040.

For the same period, however, the IT.NRW is forecasting a more pronounced decline in the labor force of 27.4 percent (from 136,400 to 99,700, i.e. -36,700) due to demographic change ( old age quota ).

politics

Election of the Hochsauerland district assembly in 2014
in percent
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
52.3%
27.3%
6.8%
5.1%
3.2%
3.0%
2.2%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.4  % p
+ 2.0  % p
+ 0.1  % p
-4.8  % p
+ 0.1  % p
+ 0.7  % p
+ 2.2  % p
Allocation of seats in the
Hochsauerland district assembly 2014
       
A total of 54 seats

District council

Currently there is the following distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups in the district council (as of September 2014):

CDU SPD GREEN FDP THE LEFT SBL / FW Non-attached total
28 14th 4th 3 2 2 1 54
PIRATES 1

District elections from 1975 to 2014

year CDU SPD Green FDP The left Citizen List PIRATES
1975 61.9% 32.7% 4.4%
1979 60.7% 34.1% 5.2%
1984 56.4% 32.4% 7.3% 4.0%
1989 50.8% 36.0% 6.2% 5.5% 1.5%
1994 53.5% 35.6% 7.0% 3.9%
1999 61.7% 29.5% 4.2% 4.6%
2004 59.7% 26.1% 6.6% 7.6%
2009 52.7% 25.3% 6.7% 9.9% 3.1% 2.3%
2014 52.3% 27.3% 6.8% 5.1% 3.2% 3.0% 2.2%

Annotation:

  • The 1989 citizens 'list was a citizens' list in the city of Hallenberg
  • The Citizens List 2009 was created in 2006 when two district council members split off from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group. It founded the constituency association Sauerland Civil List (SBL).

Source:

District administrators

Upper District Directors

Parliamentary representations

The Hochsauerlandkreis is represented in the Bundestag and Landtag NRW by:

Coat of arms, flag and banner

  • Hoist flag

  • banner

The Hochsauerlandkreis has a coat of arms as well as a hoist flag and a banner .

Coat of arms of the Hochsauerlandkreis
 Blazon : "In red a silver (white) eagle with an inlaid silver (white) heart shield, covered with a continuous black cross."
Foundation of the coat of arms: The Hochsauerlandkreis comprises areas of the former territories of the County of Arnsberg and the Duchy of Westphalia. Accordingly, the two coats of arms were combined in the district coat of arms: the Arnsberg eagle in the original colors of red and silver and the Elector's Cross of Cologne. The coat of arms corresponds to that of the dissolved Arnsberg district, which was first awarded on October 31, 1963. The confirmation for the new district took place on October 31, 1975.

Ring of honor of the Hochsauerlandkreis

The Hochsauerlandkreis ring of honor has been awarded to the following people since 1975:

  • Rolf Füllgräb (†), former district administrator of the Hochsauerlandkreis
  • Konrad Heutger (†), former SPD parliamentary group leader in the district assembly of the Hochsauerlandkreis
  • Egon Mühr (†), former senior district director of the Hochsauerlandkreis
  • Willi Gerlach (†), former deputy district administrator of the Hochsauerlandkreis
  • Ewald Franzmann (born June 26, 1929, † January 27, 2010), former CDU parliamentary group leader in the district council of the Hochsauerland district
  • Franz-Josef Leikop , former district administrator of the Hochsauerlandkreis

Circle structure

District building in Meschede (2009)
District building in Arnsberg (2015)

The Hochsauerlandkreis is made up of twelve communities . Ten carry the title “ city ”. Of these ten, the four cities of Brilon , Meschede , Schmallenberg and Sundern (Sauerland) are medium-sized cities belonging to the district , as their population numbers are between 25,000 and 60,000. The city of Arnsberg is a large city in the district , as its population is over 60,000.

The following list enumerates the twelve cities and municipalities of the Hochsauerlandkreis alphabetically with their official names and - in brackets - the population as of December 31, 2019.

Cities

  1. Arnsberg (73,456)
  2. Brilon (25,451)
  3. Hallenberg (4,465)
  4. Marsberg (19,540)
  5. Medebach (8,000)
  6. Meschede (29,786)
  7. Olsberg (14,430)
  8. Schmallenberg (24,852)
  9. Sundern (Sauerland) (27,725)
  10. Winterberg (12,638)

Other communities

  1. Bestwig (10,623)
  2. Eslohe (Sauerland) (8,811)
Hessen Hamm Kreis Höxter Kreis Olpe Kreis Paderborn Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Kreis Soest Märkischer Kreis Arnsberg Bestwig Brilon Eslohe (Sauerland) Hallenberg Marsberg Medebach Meschede Olsberg Schmallenberg Sundern (Sauerland) WinterbergMunicipalities in HSK.svg
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nature and environment

The nature in the Hochsauerlandkreis is very diverse. There are many areas worthy of protection with rare plants and animals. Many species have a distribution focus in North Rhine-Westphalia. These types include B. the black stork , the eagle owl , the gray shrike and the whinchat . This led to the designation of a large number of protected areas of different sizes.

There are a total of 177 nature reserves in the Hochsauerlandkreis with a total area of ​​approx. 7,800 ha. Furthermore, 55 FFH areas with an area of ​​approx. 30,000 ha have been reported to the European Union by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with most of the larger nature reserves also part of mostly are even larger FFH areas. Two bird sanctuaries are entirely and two more partially in the Hochsauerlandkreis, including the European bird sanctuary Medebacher Bucht . The bird protection areas also overlap with nature protection areas and FFH areas. Other biotopes worthy of protection are z. B. designated as natural monuments .

The Hochsauerlandkreis is one of the very few districts in North Rhine-Westphalia that have drawn up landscape plans for the entire district . The Sundern and Arnsberg landscape plans are already being revised again.

economy

Agriculture and Forestry

Since the beginning of the systematic cultivation of Christmas trees in the 1980s, the Sauerland has developed into the largest cultivation area in Europe with 18,000 hectares of Christmas tree cultivation. In 1990 the area under cultivation was 3,000 hectares. After Hurricane Kyrill in 2007, an additional 3,000 hectares were added. Most of this area is in the Hochsauerland.

Other economy

The economy in the district is strongly characterized by medium-sized companies. The number of people employed in the manufacturing industry, at 44%, is significantly higher than the national average. The service sector is now the largest economic sector with 55%. While the unemployment rate was still one of the highest in North Rhine-Westphalia in the 1980s, it is now one of the lowest at 6%.

The Arnsberg, Hellweg-Sauerland Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the South Westphalia Chamber of Crafts are based in Arnsberg. The chamber district includes the Hochsauerlandkreis, the Märkische Kreis, the Olpe district and the Siegen-Wittgenstein district.

Several hidden champions are based in the Hochsauerlandkreis. These included the companies Burgbad , KettenWulf , Oventrop , Ritzenhoff , Tital , Trilux , Umarex and Wepa . The main focus of the resident companies is in mechanical engineering, in the automotive sector, in lighting technology, in the textile sector or in material technologies. Borbet , Brökelmann, Jäger und Busse , Centrotec , Falke , Honsel , Hoppecke , Interprint , Olsberger Hütte , Severin and Veltins are among the better-known and larger companies in the Hochsauerland district . There is also a center for the lighting industry in Arnsberg and a center for the Sauerland textile industry in Schmallenberg .

The Hochsauerlandkreis organized the Regionale 2013 with the districts of Olpe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Soest and the Märkischer Kreis .

media

The most important daily newspapers in the Hochsauerlandkreis are the Westfalenpost and the Westfälische Rundschau . The newspapers, which both belong to the Funke media group, have an editorial office or an office in most communities. In addition, the Sauerlandkurier appears free of charge in many communities on Wednesdays and Sundays and the Briloner Anzeiger on Wednesdays in several communities in the eastern district . Also Wednesday appears in Arnsberg and Sundern Wochenanzeiger .

The entire Hochsauerlandkreis is the broadcasting area of Radio Sauerland . The local radio station is based in Meschede. The television and radio studio of West German Broadcasting responsible for the Hochsauerlandkreis is the WDR studio in Siegen. The station has a regional office in Arnsberg .

traffic

railroad

The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway Hagen-Arnsberg-Meschede-Olsberg-Marsberg-Warburg of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft has been running through the Hochsauerlandkreis since 1870–73 . The long delay between the planning and construction of the route was one of the reasons for the region's economic lag behind the neighboring areas that were developed early on. Conversely, the opening of the railway meant an economic impetus, especially for the west of today's Hochsauerlandkreis. The route is of central importance for the rail-bound passenger and freight traffic in the Hochsauerlandkreis.

Branch lines that were built by the Prussian State Railways at the turn of the century to open up the side valleys of the Ruhr and the mountainous region, which had previously been poorly developed in terms of traffic , went off the main line :

  • 1900/01: from Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt and on towards Büren
  • 1902/08: from Nuttlar via Winterberg to the Hessian Edertal.
  • 1911: from Wennemen to Finnentrop on the Ruhr-Sieg route with a branch in Wenholthausen to Fredeburg (today: Bad Fredeburg ), where the connection to Altenhundem already existed in 1889.
  • 1914: from Brilon Wald through the Waldeck Upland to Korbach.

The Arnsberg district of Neheim-Hüsten also became a railway junction for both passenger and freight traffic: from here, AG Ruhr-Lippe-Kleinbahnen ran a narrow-gauge railway to Soest in 1898 and another three -rail line in 1907, parallel to the main railway in the Ruhr Valley Arnsberg. Although passenger service has now ceased, the route is still used for freight traffic. The third small railway line from Neheim-Hüsten was led in 1900 by the West German Railway Company in the Röhrtal to Sundern. This stretch was crucial for the industrial development of the Röhrtal. Today this is only used sporadically for freight traffic. Considerations to resume local passenger transport recently failed due to a negative assessment of the "integrated overall traffic planning" of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia .

In the east of the Winterberg plateau, another narrow-gauge railway ran from Steinhelle to the town of Medebach from 1902 and overcame the difference in altitude of more than 300 m using two switchbacks.

The Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn GmbH was also represented with the line from Belecke to Brilon Stadt, which opened in 1898.

In addition, some works railways opened up in the 19th and early 20th centuries - for example the line between the Ramsbeck ore district and the main line of today's Ruhr Valley Railway and, in the east, the Rhene-Diemeltal Railway, also for transporting ore.

Highways

The highways in the district are the federal highways 44 , 46 and 445 . The A 445 connects the A 46 with the federal motorway 44 (Dortmund-Kassel) at the Werl junction and then continues north towards Hamm. In the direction of Arnsberg, the A 445 changes directly into the A 46 and now runs in an easterly direction. This is followed by the connection points Neheim, Neheim-Süd, Hüsten, Arnsberg-Altstadt, Arnsberg-Ost, Freienohl, Wennemen, Enste, Meschede, and Bestwig. The motorway ends here. The Bestwig to Nuttlar section was opened on November 18, 2019. Further construction via Brilon to the A 44 in the area of ​​the Wünnenberg-Haaren junction is planned. Closing the gap between Arnsberg-Neheim and Hemer via Menden (Sauerland) is also planned. The A 44 runs through the northeastern municipality of Marsberg .

air traffic

The Meschede -Schüren airfield , a Category II airfield, is located in the Schüren district of Meschede . Arnsberg-Menden airfield is located north of the Vosswinkel district of Arnsberg . The Brilon-Thülen airfield , which is classified as a special airfield , is located near the Brilon district of Thülen . The airfield Schmallenberg Rennefeld lies approximately four kilometers northwest of Schmallenberg. The Hochsauerlandkreis has a stake in Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport .

Partnerships

License Plate

When the new circle was formed, it was given the MES distinguishing mark with effect from January 1, 1975 . This had been in effect for the Meschede district since July 1, 1956. On February 12, 1979, it was replaced by the HSK, which is still valid today .

Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old districts received special identification numbers:

area Letters numbers
Old district of Meschede A to Z 1 to 999
AA to ZZ 1 to 99
Old district of Brilon AA to ZZ 100 to 999
Arnsberg district A to Z 1000 to 9999

The earlier distinctive signs BRI (old district Brilon) , AR (old district Arnsberg) and MES (old district Meschede) have not yet been reintroduced.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 338 .
  3. ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia
  4. ↑ 2014 local elections , on Wahlresults.nrw.de
  5. ↑ § 2 of the main statutes of the Hochsauerlandkreis ( memento of July 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Kommunale Wappen des Herzogtums Westfalen, Arnsberg 1986, p. 43 ISBN 3-87793-017-4
  7. ↑ Official population figures ( Memento from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Thomas Fartmann, Steffen fighters, Franz Löffler: Christmas tree cultures in the Hochsauerland. In: Der Falke , 12/2017, pp. 20–23.
  9. ↑ Portrait of the circle
  10. ↑ Suedwestfalen.com: IHK - world market leader and best performance in the industry from South Westphalia, 2013, 3rd edition (PDF) ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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