Kaunitz (Verl)

Kaunitz City of Verl Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '23 " N , 8 ° 33' 54" E
Height :	94 m above sea level NN
Residents :	4086 (Sep 2015)
Postal code :	33415
Area code :	05246
	Location of Kaunitz in the city of Verl ; (The settlement core of Kaunitz is marked in red, which partly extends to the old communities of Österwiehe and Liemke .)

View of St. Maria Immaculata in Kaunitz

Kaunitz is a district of the East Westphalian city of Verl in the Gütersloh district in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The place was built around 1746 and has 4086 inhabitants.

geography

Kaunitz is located southeast of Verl and borders directly on the municipality of Hövelhof in the Paderborn district in the east . In the north, the village borders on Holte-Stukenbrock Castle . Like the other districts is Verler Kaunitz part of the Teutoburg Forest upstream Senne landscape .

The village has a largely rural character; outside the focus of the settlement there is the typical park landscape for the Ems sand plain with hedges , pastures and green structures . There are also numerous individual farms surrounded by trees in the vicinity of the village.

Kaunitz is crossed by the Wapelbach to the north-west of the town center, and the Rodenbach and Sennebach also run across the town. In the West Kaunitz adjacent to the wetland reserve sea of grass meadows .

history

The foundation stone for the development of the village was laid in 1746 by the Moravian - Austrian Count Wenzel Anton Count Kaunitz by having the Catholic parish church of St. Maria Immaculata built. The construction work was initiated after Count Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz- Rietberg (1679–1746) had determined in 1743 that a new parish named Kaunitz, based on the original place of origin of the noble family , was to be established on the border between the Liemke and Österwiehe farmers in Bohemia, should arise. Today the “Fürst-Wenzel-Platz” located next to the church commemorates the founder and donor of the village.

Kaunitz has belonged to the municipality of Oesterwiehe (spelling at the time) in the Verl office since the Prussian rural community code came into force on October 31, 1841 . The place came together with Österwiehe as part of the municipal reorganization that came into force on January 1, 1970, to the municipality of Verl. In the course of this reorganization, the municipality of Verl also became part of the old municipality of Schloß Holte (until October 27, 1964: Liemke ) slammed. Today this area is often counted as part of Kaunitz, as it does not form a separate district.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the north-west of the village is the Kaunitz industrial park with numerous companies.

Among other things, the plant II of the kitchen manufacturer nobilia is located here . After commissioning in 2006, the production area of 50,000 m² has been continuously expanded and has now increased to 140,000 m². Including outside space, the company uses 220,000 m². 500 jobs were created in Kaunitz as early as 2011, well before the existing plant was completed. In 2017, the kitchen manufacturer's plant, which is the largest in terms of area, produced 15,000 cabinets per working day in two shifts. In 2014, plans were announced that provide for the doubling of the current production area and the necessary change to the regional plan with the aim of converting 20 to 25 hectares into an area for commercial and industrial use. At the beginning of 2016, the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany e. V. and the State Association for Nature Conservation and Environment (LNU) issued a statement about the change, since the plant expansion, through the clearing of around 15 hectares of forest and the disappearance of a legally protected biotope, would have a negative impact on protected animal species and the local climate. At the end of March 2017, the regional council of the Detmold district government approved the project with two dissenting votes. Shortly afterwards it became known that the project could not be implemented due to insufficient land acquisition. In February 2018, nobilia confirmed that it would continue to expand in Kaunitz. At the end of November 2018, a multi-storey car park at Plant II in Kaunitz with more than 450 parking spaces will be completed.

In July 2019, it was announced that Bosch would take over GFR Gesellschaft für Regelstechnik und Energieeinicherung mbH , also located in the Kaunitz industrial park , a company within the Wiedemann Group , subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities.

traffic

railway station

The L 757 road, which runs from Gütersloh to Hövelhof, runs through Kaunitz. This road connects the town to the Gütersloh junction of federal motorway 2 and the Hövelhof junction of federal motorway 33 . In addition, the L751 road runs through Kaunitz. You can use this to reach the Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock junction of the federal motorway 33 and, further along, the Lippe district . In the south, the L751 crosses the district boundary to Kaunitz and continues through several towns in the Paderborn district . Directly at the exit of Kaunitz the L867 joins the L751, which runs from the L791 at Varensell via Neuenkirchen to Kaunitz.

Furthermore, the branch line Gütersloh-Verl-Kaunitz-Hövelhof of the Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE) runs through Kaunitz , which has only been used for freight traffic since 1978 . The former Kaunitz train station therefore now serves as a meeting room for the village community. Every year on the first Sunday in December, a steam locomotive runs on the TWE with the Teuto-Express as a museum train to the Hövelhofer Nikolausmarkt. A reactivation of the route for local public transport is currently being discussed.

Public facilities

View of the main entrance of the Ostwestfalenhalle

Kaunitz has its own fire brigade , one of two fire engines within the Verler city area. The extinguishing district of the fire brigade, which has around 50 members, includes Kaunitz and the Österwiehe district .

The Ostwestfalenhalle used as a multi-purpose hall is located in the village . The hobby market , which takes place every first Saturday of the month and is one of the largest animal and flea markets in Germany, is of national importance.

The Kaunitz-Bornholte elementary school is the only school in town and is attended by 249 pupils (as of October 2012). Originally built in 1893, the primary school was with only two classrooms at the site of today's green and parking facility age schoolyard in the center of the village. When this became too small in the 1960s, despite multiple extensions, a decision was made to build a new building on the edge of the village. The school building at the current location with ten classrooms, a sports hall and adjoining sports center, additional social rooms and a caretaker's house was completed in 1965. The former caretaker's house has been used as an open all-day school since 2006 and additional rooms were added in 2008. From 2016 to 2019 the school building was expanded and renovated in several construction phases. The newly constructed two-story administration building with large glass fronts and a high entrance hall connected to the auditorium, as well as the modern classrooms, are particularly distinctive.

There are two day-care centers for children in Kaunitz. Since the expansion of the municipal facility Kleine Strolche in 2016, it has offered around 150 childcare places together with the Catholic facility Noah's Ark .

societies

The largest sports club in the village is FC Kaunitz with 430 members, whose first soccer team played in the Landesliga Westfalen for the first time after promotion in 2012 .

The 380-member TC Kaunitz is one of three tennis clubs within Verl. The club's premises are not in Kaunitz, but in the neighboring district of Bornholte.

The tradition of shooting is cultivated by the St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft Kaunitz , which organizes its shooting festival every year on the third weekend in July at the Ostwestfalenhalle.

The Kolping Family Kaunitz, founded in 1926, is, among other things, the organizer of its own shooting festival, which takes place on different farms.

Personalities

Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was an Austrian statesman and diplomat and was born on February 2, 1711 in Vienna. Among other things, he was the builder of the St. Anna Church in Verl and died on June 27, 1794 in Mariahilf.

Michael Esken (born July 23, 1966 in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia) was the acting full-time mayor of the town of Hemer in the Märkisches Kreis from 2003 to 2015 . On September 13, 2015, he was elected mayor of the city of Verl and returned to his hometown.

Alois Fortkord (born September 20, 1956) former German soccer player.

Web links

Commons : Kaunitz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the village community Kaunitz eV
Kaunitz (Verl) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

↑ Evaluation of the population registration data of the city of Verl in September 2015, published in: Project report 2017: Getting older in Verl: Lebenslagen - Lebensformen - Lebensperspektiven (p. 25): http://verl.de/files/medienpool/102878.pdf

↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 .

↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 111 .

↑ nobilia: history

↑ nobilia: numbers, data, facts.

↑ nobilia: history

↑ Annual press conference for the 2017 financial year , p. 22

^ The bell: Nobilia plans to expand in Kaunitz

↑ Neue Westfälische: Nobilia extension threatens the tree falcon and bat

^ Neue Westfälische: Regional council approves Nobilia extension in Verl

↑ Nobilia encounters resistance when expanding its factory in Verl-Kaunitz

↑ Westfalen-Blatt: Verler kitchen manufacturer Nobilia is pushing expansion in the region

↑ Annual press conference for the 2018 financial year

^ Neue-Westfälische: Bosch takes over the Kaunitz automation company GFR