Wages
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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ' N , 8 ° 41' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Herford | |
| Height : | 70 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 59.51 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 39,915 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 671 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 32584 | |
| Primaries : | 05732, 05731, 05228 | |
| License plate : | HF | |
| Community key : | 05 7 58 024 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LHE | |
| City structure: | 5 districts | |
City administration address : |
Oeynhausener Str. 41 32584 Löhne |
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| Mayor : | Bernd Poggemöller ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Löhne in the Herford district | ||
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Löhne [ ˈløːnə ] ( Low German : Loihne, Loine ) is a medium- sized town in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia , about 25 km northeast of Bielefeld . With around 40,000 inhabitants, it is the third largest municipality in terms of inhabitants in the East Westphalian district of Herford . The city was only raised in 1969. Löhne is an important location for the furniture industry and is therefore called the world city of kitchens . It lost its former function as an important railway junction in the second half of the 20th century.
geography
Geographical location
Löhne is located in the hilly landscape of the Ravensberger Mulde in the lower Weserbergland . From many points in the city you can make out the Wiehengebirge chain in the north, around 10 km away . The closest major cities are Bielefeld, 25 km southwest, and Osnabrück, 50 km west . The capital of Lower Saxony, Hanover, is around 80 km to the east. Neighboring cities and communities are Hüllhorst in the north, Bad Oeynhausen in the east (both district of Minden-Lübbecke ), Vlotho in the southeast, Herford in the south, Hiddenhausen in the southwest and Kirchlengern in the west.
Natural space
Wages are naturally divided into three sub-units. Centrally located in west-east direction, the 1-2 km wide runs Werre lowlands that are part of the Else-Werre lowlands is. Coming from the south, the Werre initially forms the southwestern city limit, then enters Talung, turns here (after the Else has been taken on the border with Kirchlengern) its course to the east and crosses the city center in the middle. At its transition to the Oeynhausen area there is at 48 m above sea level. NN Löhne's lowest point. To the north, the city has a share of the Quernheimer Hügelland, where heights of around 105 m each are reached in the west on the Obernbecker Egge and in the north at the Grimminghausen district. For the most part, however, the area lies at 55–80 m. In the south there is the steeper Oeynhausen hill country. Here the terrain is mostly over 80 m, it rises on the Dornberger Heide near the border point to Vlotho and Herford to 177 m above sea level. NN at.
From the north, the Werre, the most important brook, flows into the Rehmerloh-Mennighüffer Mühlenbach in the Ulenburg district. The most important tributary in the south is the Mittelbach , which has its source at the Steinegge in Vlotho .
The predominant climate is the Atlantic maritime climate . For more precise climate data, compare the long-term mean values (1971–2000) for Herford, about 15 km away . The data for wages are unlikely to deviate from this due to the similar situation in the Werre Valley.
see also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe
Expansion and use of the urban area
Löhne has an area of almost 60 km², which extends 9 km in north-south and 7 km in east-west direction. The city is densely populated and also heavily sprawled . It is part of the agglomeration in the north of East Westphalia-Lippe, which extends from the Gütersloh district via Bielefeld and Herford to Minden. The Gohfeld district has largely grown together with the Bad Oeynhausen settlement area. The predominantly fertile soils are used intensively for agriculture, primarily for growing grain, maize and rape. The forest area is small. The following table shows the exact land use.
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| Area in hectares | 2.121 | 3,405 | 308 | 11 |
| Share of total area | 35.7% | 57.3% | 5.2% | 1.8% |
City structure
Löhne is divided into the five districts of Gohfeld , Löhne-Ort , Mennighüffen , Obernbeck and Ulenburg , which go back to the independent rural communities that existed until 1969 . The eponymous municipality of Löhne, which was independent until 1968, was originally intended as a stopping point when the Cologne-Mindener Railway was built in 1847, but the planned train station was laid out further east while retaining the name "Löhne" on the Gohfeld area. The settlement around the train station is still unofficially called the “ Löhne train station ” and was defined as the inner city after the town was built.
Ulenburg along the Mühlenbach is by far the smallest district with only around 500 inhabitants and does not have its own settlement core.
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City center
The town of Löhne, which has grown together from formerly independent communities, lacks a typical inner city . In the so-called Löhne-Bahnhof district, there is a small business center with a pedestrian zone , which has so far only been able to develop little further between the competition from the surrounding medium-sized centers Bad Oeynhausen , Bünde and Herford . The other local centers in Löhne as well as newly built business centers in the outer area also form strong inner-city competition.
history
overview
Founded in 1969, Löhne is a very young city. The history of the Löhn area, which is part of the cultural landscape of the Ravensberger Land , was largely determined by its traffic situation. From the early days until today, supra-regional connecting routes have crossed here. The decisive factor was the construction of the large Löhner train station in the 19th century, which became the central point of reference for the surrounding area and brought about industrialization and the development of town-like settlement structures. But until well into the 20th century, a rural-village character prevailed in large parts.
The earliest documented mention of the Löhn area dates back to 993, although the sources for the period before the 17th century are generally rather thin. In early times in the tribal area of Cherusker , later the Saxony area, the space belonged since the Middle Ages to the Bishopric of Minden and came with this 1648 for nearly three hundred years of Brandenburg-Prussia . Within Prussia, it belonged to Minden-Ravensberg from 1719 , to the Bünde district from 1815 and to the Herford district in the province of Westphalia from 1832 , which became part of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1946 .
Until the station was built, the church towns of Mennighüffen and Gohfeld had been the central locations for centuries. From 1843, the Gohfeld and Mennighüffen offices , which were combined in personal union, existed . The Gohfeld office consisted of the municipalities of Gohfeld and Löhne (-Ort), the Mennighüffen office comprised the municipalities of Mennighüffen, Obernbeck and the Ulenburg manor district and, until 1919, most of what is now Kirchlengern . Both offices were merged in 1943 to form the office of wages and in 1969 it was made a city.
From the beginning to around 1800
Various archaeological finds indicate a continuous settlement of the Löhn area at least since the Mesolithic period (perhaps from 5000 BC). The Saxons, who have lived here since around 600 AD, with their ash corridors, left visible traces in the landscape for a long time . The preferred settlement location is the flood-proof upper lower terrace of the Werre. At that time Löhne-Dorf, Obernbeck and Ostscheid already existed as a drubbel , otherwise only small groups of farms and individual farms. Large areas are not used or are only used extensively as common land .
The Franconian conquerors who came to the country around 800 in the course of the Saxon Wars brought Christianization and subjugated the population to manorial and tithe rule , secured by the establishment of Fronhöfen in Mennighüffen and Gohfeld, in the vicinity of which village churches were soon to be built, and in Niedernbeck (the later House Beck). The most important landlords are initially the Herford monastery and the Minden monasteries.
Today's Jöllenbeck district was first mentioned in a document as Jolenbeke in 993 . The predecessor of today's Simeon Church in Jöllenbeck was inaugurated in 1035 by Minden Bishop Sigebert .
From around 1200 to the 16th century there was an increased expansion of the country , the previous settlements were expanded and new areas (Wittel, Bischofshagen) opened up, the farming groups of Erbkötter , Markkötter and Brinkitzer emerged. That the Meier stand entstammende aristocratic dynasty of Quernheim can draw a significant portion of the manor itself and built the Knights seats Beck and Ulenburg which merge in 1600 to changing owners. The largest landlords, however, from 1648 onwards as the new princes of Minden are the Brandenburg electors and Prussian kings.
As part of the Bishopric and the Principality of Minden Gohfeld than bailiwick seat administrative center for a larger region. The Reformation took hold early, probably around 1530, and the area became Lutheran . In 1682 the localities are grouped into nine farmers and the farms are numbered consecutively within them, a system that can be found in the postal addresses e.g. T. received until 1969. From the 17th century., Strengthened from about 1750, hired themselves an ever-growing part of the population that Heuer pieces in homework with the making of linen , which according to the linen trade cities Herford and Bielefeld is issued.
During the Thirty Years' War , the population was exposed to severe attacks by marauding soldiers . This is repeated several times later, because from the beginning of the Hohenzollern rule through Gohfeld the main connecting road between the heartland and the western possessions of Brandenburg-Prussia ran (Alter Postweg, later Koblenzer Strasse or B61 ) and often used for troop marches during times of war, as in French-Dutch War , the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars . In 1759, in the course of the Battle of Minden , there was also a battle near Gohfeld .
1800 to 1945
From 1807 to 1813 the Löhn area was under the control of Napoleonic France , initially as part of the vassal state Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1811 the parts to the north of the Werre fell directly to France, but in the course of the wars of liberation the whole area was returned to Prussia in 1813.
The period up to around 1860 was marked by increasing impoverishment and sometimes also by famine . Reasons for this are, on the one hand, brand divisions to the disadvantage of the hired people and several bad harvests . The decline of the linen industry, which began around 1830 as a result of mechanization , had a particularly devastating effect ; the majority of the population was now without income. In view of the hardship, one in ten people emigrated to America by 1860 , while others did seasonal work abroad , for example as a Holland worker .
The construction of the Cologne-Minden railway in 1846/47 marked the beginning of a new era for the Löhn area. The initially insignificant Löhn train station in the west of Gohfeld developed into one of the most important railway hubs in north-west Germany, after the Hannoversche Westbahn branched off here in the direction of Osnabrück and the Netherlands in 1855 and the line to Hameln and central Germany in 1875 . In 1917 a large marshalling yard is also completed. From now on, many people will find their livelihood at Deutsche Bahn. Even in the literature reference is made to the then important train station: Erich Maria Remarque uses the drill command “Change wages!” In his anti-war novel In the West, nothing new . Since this statement succinctly summarized the history of the city, which was shaped by the railway, it served as a motto for a long time .
As a result of the favorable infrastructural conditions, industrialization is now starting . The cigar industry is predominant at first, followed by the furniture industry , which is still important today, from 1920 . A new settlement focus with an almost urban character is emerging around the station under the name Löhne-Bahnhof and will soon form the center of the area. The other localities are also growing, new schools, churches and roads are being built. Mass poverty gave way to modest prosperity as early as 1900.
The revival movement leaves from about 1750 deep marks in church life Minden-Ravens mountain. Several pastors from the local parishes played a decisive role in this, such as Friedrich August Weihe and Eduard Kuhlo in Gohfeld and Theodor Schmalenbach in Mennighüffen. Thanks to Kuhlo and his son Johannes , Gohfeld became a starting point for the trumpet choir movement , which is still alive today in the region and beyond. The deepened religious life of the 19th century helps many people to survive the crises of the time, but generally leads to political fatalism . A certain joylessness is also taking hold, under pressure from the churchmen, for example, the previously colorful costumes must now be simply black, and dance music is no longer allowed to be played at weddings.
The pastors, who are consistently loyal to the monarchy, also use their position of influence to position the population against the “godless” Social Democrats . Politically, the Christian Conservatives have dominated the Reichstag elections since 1871 . Nevertheless, the SPD has been increasingly elected by the growing number of workers , especially in Löhne (-Ort) and Obernbeck, since around 1900 . After 1918 the conservatives (now DNVP ) and the SPD were initially about equally strong.
Between 1914 and 1918 about 650 men died as soldiers on the fronts of the First World War . The troubled times of the Weimar Republic with the inflation of 1923 , subsequent temporary stability and severe economic crisis from 1929 is reflected in the Gohfeld-Mennighüffen office.
Since the still strong conservative voter potential is generally receptive to National Socialism , the triumph of the NSDAP in the elections 1930–1933 is even more pronounced than at the Reich level (e.g. Reichstag election in July 1932 : 43.8% compared to 37.3%) . The Reichstag elections in March 1933 , the seizure of power , conformity and rule of the Nazi dictatorship proceeded similarly to elsewhere. Open resistance to National Socialism is hardly shown. An exception is the Mennighüffen parish, which, under its pastor Ernst Wilm, is close to the Confessing Church . About 40 people can be identified as direct victims of the regime, who were arrested or taken to concentration camps as Jehovah's Witnesses , Jews or for unpleasant political activities . At least five of them, all of them Bible Students, are killed.
In the final year of the war, 1945, there were around a thousand foreign forced laborers in the Wages Office , little is known about their living and working conditions.
Allied air forces launched a heavy attack on the Löhn train station on March 14, 1945 in order to prevent the Wehrmacht from getting supplies for the upcoming battle for the Ruhr area . Three hundred aircraft drop around 2200 high explosive and 20,000 incendiary bombs within a quarter of an hour , the greater part of which falls outside the track system. Around 130 people die and over 500 buildings are destroyed or damaged. On April 3, 1945, American troops occupied the territory without a fight.
Since 1945
The end of the war brought with the collapse of the administration a dramatic worsening of the already tense supply situation during the war (the legendary “coal theft” of stopping freight trains by the youth of the neighboring villages was an important remedy). These problems were largely resolved with great privation by 1948, thanks in part to the currency reform . The lack of housing was particularly serious. Over 5,000 refugees from the Eastern Territories and the Soviet zone of occupation , war returnees and temporarily evacuees from other cities and parts of the British occupation forces had to be accommodated . In addition, a lot of living space was lost due to the air raid in 1945 and the devastating Werre flood of February 1946. Thanks to a long-lasting construction boom, spurred on by public funding, the situation has eased here since the 1950s. The many refugees were successfully integrated after initial difficulties.
As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal reform , the five previous municipalities were merged to form the city of Löhne on January 1, 1969. On January 1, 1973, an area of the Gohfeld district with then fewer than 200 inhabitants was ceded to the neighboring town of Bad Oeynhausen.
population
Population development
The figures before 1969 summarize the values of the administrative units that were previously in existence. Their area differs slightly from that of today's urban area.
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language
The High German is the vernacular in wages. A hundred years ago it was still a foreign language, known only from school and church services and only used in dealing with official bodies. The Löhners only spoke flatly among themselves; H. Low German . Within three generations it almost died out in wages, since it was considered peasant and backward after the First World War. In addition, with the many refugees from the East after 1945 and later immigrants, communication was only possible in Standard German. For some time, attempts have been made to cultivate the linguistic heritage through adult education courses and occasional newspaper articles and theater plays on Platt.
Ravensberger Platt was spoken in Löhne , a variant of East Westphalian , which in turn belongs to the Westphalian language area . Essential features of the latter were also found in the Löhner language, such as many diphthongs , the dull o developed from the long Middle Low German a , the elongation of the short Middle Low German a and the preservation of the internal sk . Examples:
- Standard German: eat, cook; Evening, bowl, sleep; make, dig, thing; Fish, wash, German
- Löhner dialects: iaden, koaken / kuaken; Obend, Schole, schlopen; maken, grawen, ssake; Fisk, wasken, duitsk
- Gohfeld peculiarities: eden, koken
As can already be seen in part, even such a manageable area as wages was not linguistically uniform, there were noticeable differences, especially phonetic differences, between the different locations. One can differentiate between three sub-areas: Gohfeld, the area north of the Werre (Mennighüffen, Obernbeck, Ulenburg) and Löhne-Ort. The correspondence to the three oldest parishes is obvious. In the centrally located and quite young Löhne train station, the linguistic zones of influence may have overlapped and mixed.
Below are a few words to illustrate the differences:
- High German: break, nose, stove, brother, go, learn, we came, farmer, expensive, goose, in short.
- Gohfeld: breken, Nesen, Oben, Broer, john, lehrn, wui koimen, Buer, düer, Jäos, kocht.
- north of the Werre: briaken, Niasen, Oaben, Broer, gohn, leihern, wui germinate, Buer, duier, Gäos, koat.
- Wages location: briaken, Niasen, Uaben, Bräoer, gäohn, leihern, wui germinate, Biuer, duier, Gäos, kuat.
Religions
Exact religious statistics for wages are not published. The dominant feature, however, is the evangelical creed, to which the population almost without exception belonged from the Reformation into the 20th century. Only with the refugees from the east did a larger number of Catholics join. As elsewhere, the religious composition of Löhne became more colorful due to the subsequent immigrant groups, and there were also church resignations. The religious affiliation of the students' wages can serve as a guide for the exact distribution. Of these, 68% were Protestant, 8.3% Catholic, 8.4% Muslim, 7% followers of other denominations and 8.3% were non-denominational in the 2002/2003 school year.
In wages, the five find Evangelical Lutheran parishes Gohfeld, wages-place Mennighüffen, Obernbeck and Siemshof that the Evangelical Church of Westphalia belong, as well as the Evangelical Free Church communities "Cross Church" and "Christian Church Mennighüffen". The Löhn Catholics of the Archdiocese of Paderborn are organized in the parish of St. Laurentius , the members of the New Apostolic Church belong to the parish in Bad Oeynhausen.
The Islam is through a mosque represented along with cultural, including the Islamic Association and the Association of Islamic Turkish workers provide prayer rooms.
Are also represented Yazidis . The Society of Yazidi Academics has acquired Ulenburg Castle.
politics
city council in 2014
- LEFT: 2
- Greens: 4
- SPD: 18
- AFLO: 4
- FDP: 1
- CDU: 15
The citizens of the municipality directly elect a municipal council that currently has 44 seats and, since 1999, the mayor, who has also been the head of the city administration since 1997. The office of the municipal director has therefore ceased to exist in 1997.
City council
The Löhne City Council currently has 44 members. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman.
The Löhn Citizens' Alliance, which is attributed to the Free Voters , was founded in 2001 under the leadership of two city councilors who had resigned from the CDU council group. The Bunte List Löhne, which has existed since the 1980s, for a long time only covered the political spectrum on the left of the SPD and joined the Die Linke party in 2009 . The Greens , previously not represented in Löhne, founded their own local association in 2007 and ran for local elections for the first time in 2009.
The following table shows the local election results since 1975:
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| Political party | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % |
| SPD | 18th | 40.56 | 19th | 44.05 | 19th | 42.50 | 22nd | 48.59 | 23 | 47.66 | 23 | 48.67 | 25th | 55.16 | 24 | 52.63 | 24 | 49.62 |
| CDU | 15th | 33.61 | 14th | 32.61 | 17th | 39.71 | 19th | 43.94 | 19th | 40.73 | 16 | 35.25 | 18th | 39.53 | 19th | 41.80 | 18th | 41.98 |
| Green | 4th | 9.47 | 3 | 6.58 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| LBA 1 | 4th | 8.69 | 3 | 6.56 | 4th | 9.38 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| FDP | 1 | 2.22 | 3 | 5.66 | 2 | 3.53 | 1 | 2.63 | 0 | 4.60 | 3 | 7.80 | 2 | 5.30 | 2 | 5.57 | 3 | 8.39 |
| Left / BLL 2 | 2 | 5.45 | 2 | 4.54 | 2 | 4.88 | 2 | 4.84 | 3 | 7.00 | 3 | 8.28 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total 3 | 44 | 100 | 44 | 100 | 44 | 100 | 44 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 45 | 100 |
| voter turnout | 47.46 | 52.97 | 54.16 | 53.83 | 81.96 | 66.92 | 70.31 | 75.07 | 87.84 | |||||||||
1 Löhner Citizen Alliance
2 to 2004 Colorful list of wages
3 without taking into account rounding differences
mayor
Bernd Poggemöller (SPD) has held the mayor's office since October 21, 2015 . He prevailed against Ricarda Hoffmann (CDU) with 55.05 percent, who reached 36 percent. In the mayoral election in 2009, Heinz-Dieter Held (SPD) replaced the incumbent incumbent Kurt Quernheim (35.33%) with 48.05 percent, who was supported by the CDU . In 2004, he won the second ballot with 51.11% of the votes against the SPD candidate Egon Schewe (48.89%), who received even more votes than Quernheim in the first ballot. Kurt Quernheim, previously head of the city's civil engineering department, was a member of the SPD until the mid-1990s, but then left the party. As mayor, he relied primarily on the parliamentary groups of the CDU, LBA and FDP in the council. His predecessors were Werner Hamel (SPD) from 1992 to 2004 (directly elected in 1999 with 55.3% of the votes in the first ballot) and Heinrich Schneider (SPD) from 1969 to 1992.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In green a slanting left silver wave bar, covered with three red sea leaves."
The Löhner coat of arms , approved by the district president in Detmold in 1970, symbolizes the Werre as a dividing river and at the same time a connection between the two former offices of Gohfeld and Mennighüffen, which formed the office of Löhne until December 31, 1968. The red lake leaves are taken from the coat of arms of the Saxon dukes as a local historical symbol. The Seeblätter could be a symbol of the Saxon Duchy of Engern . This coat of arms could also have been designed for the Westphalian part of the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg in the 16th century . The coat of arms was designed in the 1930s during the Nazi era and has also been used by the Löhne Office, which was founded in 1943, since 1943.
Twin cities
The twin town of Löhne has been the Carinthian municipality of Spittal an der Drau ( Austria ) with 15,952 residents since 1973 . There are also friendly relationships with:
- Columbus , Indiana , USA (since 1993)
- Condega , Estelí Department , Nicaragua (since 1994)
- Röbel / Müritz , Mecklenburg Lake District , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (since 1996)
- Mielec , Subcarpathian Voivodeship , Poland (since 2002)
Infrastructure and economy
traffic
Road traffic
Löhne has three junctions on the federal motorway 30 (A 30), which crosses the city in a west-east direction. From the former triangle Löhne (today junction Gohfeld ) the federal road 61 leads via Herford to Bielefeld and Gütersloh . The federal highway 2 (A2) runs about two to three kilometers southeast of the city area, the federal highway 239 not far from the western border. In September 2008, the construction of the so-called northern bypass Bad Oeynhausen began. This was completed in December 2018. With the construction, starting from the Löhne triangle, the A30 in the Bad Oeynhausen city area has received the previously missing direct connection to the A2. The project was controversial in local politics as well as in the population of Löhne.
Löhne takes on a certain pioneering role in the construction of traffic roundabouts, which were unusual in Germany for a long time. As a result, some junctions previously equipped with traffic lights have been made noticeably more permeable to the flow of traffic in recent years.
Rail and bus transport
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The Löhne station used to be of great importance for passenger and freight traffic as the junction of the Hamm – Minden , Hannoversche Westbahn and Weserbahn railway lines . Today there are direct connections with regional trains mostly every hour in the following directions: Bielefeld - Ruhrgebiet - Düsseldorf - Cologne / Bonn Airport , Minden - Hanover - Braunschweig , Hameln - Hildesheim and every two hours Osnabrück - Rheine and via Petershagen to Nienburg . Gohfeld station has been out of service since 1992. The Löhne marshalling yard was also closed.
Bus traffic in Löhne is operated under the brand name Werre-Bus . Regional buses take over parts of the inner-city traffic development. Large vehicles and general operation without prior notification are only offered on the lines towards Bad Oeynhausen (430), Herford (425) and Hüllhorst (615). Minibuses are used on pure city lines , most of which operate on calls (“TaxiBus”). With the exception of line 430 (every half hour on weekdays), the bus runs every 60 minutes; the central connection point is the Erich-Maria-Remarque-Platz / Bahnhof bus station . In school traffic, there are increased offers with large vehicles.
Wages is part of the Westfalentarif tariff association ( TeutoOWL network ).
Air traffic
The airports of Münster / Osnabrück , Paderborn / Lippstadt and Hanover are each around 85 km away.
Bicycle traffic
There is a signposted network of cycle paths and several local cycle routes in and around Löhne. Löhne is on the Else-Werre-Radweg through the Else and Werre valley from the Else bifurcation to the Weser, 10 km away. A second cycle path is the Soleweg an, a circuit on the trail of salt extraction.
economy
The economy is characterized by medium-sized companies. Since 2005, Löhne has been called the “world city of kitchens”, as four large kitchen furniture manufacturers are based here. The largest employers are the kitchen manufacturers Nolte , SieMatic and Bauformat . There are 1,000 jobs at suppliers to the kitchen industry. Every year in September the kitchen mile , a community fair for kitchen furniture manufacturers, takes place.
In 2015, the disposable income in wages was € 21,118 per inhabitant, both below the average for the Herford district (€ 22012) and below the national average (€ 21336); This puts wages on rank 241 of all 396 municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia.
media
The daily newspapers are the Neue Westfälische and the Westfalen-Blatt with a local section for wages. The local radio station, Radio Herford, can be received on 94.9 MHz. Wages is part of the Bielefeld regional studio of West German Broadcasting .
education
Löhne has eight elementary schools , two secondary schools (Städtische Realschule Löhne and Goethe-Realschule), the Bertolt-Brecht- Gesamtschule , the municipal grammar school Löhne, the August-Griese vocational college , the Werretalschule ( special school for people with learning disabilities ) and an adult education center .
In 2005, the former secondary school Löhne-West received third prize in the secondary school competition "Germany's best secondary schools", which was launched by the Hertie Foundation and the Robert Bosch Foundation . In 2008 she was honored by the NRW Ministry of Education for her approach of emphasizing individual support for students. In recognition of this, Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit to the secondary school on August 22, 2008 on her so-called educational trip.
Culture and leisure
Buildings and parks
Ulenburg Castle
The Ulenburg is a moated castle in the style of the Weser Renaissance . The knight's seat was essentially given its present-day appearance between 1568 and 1570, and minor alterations were made until around 1900. The year 1299, which was added later above the main entrance and on a weather vane, is incorrectly considered the year of construction and does not refer to the Löhner moated castle. However, this date is also mentioned in the handbook of German art monuments and in the monuments list of the city administration.
In 2015, the castle changed from the Wittekindshof Diaconal Foundation , which used the complex together with the attached manor buildings as a diaconal facility with living and working places for the mentally handicapped, into the possession of a Yezidi community and has been rebuilt since then. The castle park can be visited.
The Ulenburg Castle Park is attached to the complex on an island between Gruppen and Mühlenbach . It was laid out as a landscape park in the second half of the 19th century and contains old trees and wide lawns, as well as a circular lawn with summer flowers. The park is open to the public and in summer often forms the backdrop for outdoor cultural events, such as the Löhn summer theater. Particularly noteworthy is the picturesque 2 km long Ulenburger Allee with oaks, chestnuts, lime trees, ash trees and locust trees, some of which were planted in the 18th century. It connects the Ulenburg with the other old knight's seat in Löhn, Haus Beck , which was first mentioned in 1147 and is privately owned. Not far from Ulenburg are the Ulenburger Wald and Ulenburger Heide, the largest forest areas of Löhne, which are accessible by hiking trails.
Rürupsmühle
The Rürupsmühle is already 400 years old. The ensemble includes a bakery from 1841, a half-timbered warehouse and a thatched farmhouse from 1727. Demonstrations show the entire bread making process as it used to take place under the motto “From grain to bread”.
State Garden Show 2000
For the State Garden Show Bad Oeynhausen / Löhne 2000 in Bad Oeynhausen and Löhne, the “Park of Magical Waters” was designed in 1997 by the French landscape architects Henri Bava and Olivier Philippe . The approximately 20 hectare park includes, among other things, the saline, warm healing springs that make Oeynhausen a bath. The site of the former state garden show is now the Aqua Magica landscape park .
Civil forests
Since 2007, more than 400 trees have been planted on three areas in Löhne as part of a community forest project. The first community forest in the form of an avenue is located on the Werre near the “Im Dall” tennis hall. Along the Wassiek street in Obernbeck is the 2nd Löhner Bürgerwald, where an insect hotel was also built. In close proximity to this, the third forest area was created in an area along the Wallücker Bahnweg, the former route of the “ Wallücker Willem ” small railway , which is only accessible to pedestrians and cyclists.
For climate protection or for certain occasions, such as weddings, births or passed exams, trees can be sponsored and given name tags at an annual planting festival. The sponsors can choose between common oak , red beech , hornbeam , winter linden , sycamore maple and bird cherry .
Due to the continued high demand from the population, the city council decided in May 2017 to make another urban area available as a community forest. This is located in Löhne-Ort between the street Greece and the Löhner Schulbach .
Nature reserves
There are a total of four nature reserves in the urban area of Löhne. Two of them, namely the Sudbachtal and the Blutwiese, are completely within the urban area, while Löhne has an area share of another two, namely the Bramschebach - Nagelsbachtal and the Rehmerloh-Mennighüffer Mühlenbach . A total of around 163.6 hectares, or 2.75% of the urban area, are under nature protection.
Museums
Löhne Local History Museum : The local history museum shows exhibits from the area around the city, for example on the Ice Age animal world, from the Stone and Bronze Ages and the so-called “Gohfelder Einbaum ” from the 6th century. There are also exhibitions on the linen trade, rural living, the cigar-making days and old Löhn customs.
Kemena Mill Museum : The Kemena watermill on Mittelbach has been a fully functional museum since 1996, after it ceased commercial operations in 1991. The mill dates from 1893, but was built on top of a building from 1655.
Werretalhalle
The Werretalhalle is an event hall near the train station and the venue for various cultural events by foreign and local artists. Here, for example, the group “Ravensberger Dance- und Speeldeel ” shows Low German plays as well as the “Association for the Promotion of Film Art in Löhne” its film screenings. The hall also houses the municipal gallery, the adult education center, the Riff youth center and the youth art school.
music
Wages will include the following musical groups: the Accordion Orchestra wages, Brass Band wages, the chorus of nature lovers , the Mixed Choir, the choir wages (-place) and Obernbeck and wages-Dunning, Männergesangsverein harmony and three other male choirs , the church choir St. Laurentius, the trombone choirs of the parishes and the musical choir of the Löhne Music School. There is also the city music school, which regularly organizes concerts. The new music school, which was financed by the “Foundation for Art and Building Culture, Britta and Ulrich Findeisen”, was built opposite the Werretalhalle. It stood empty from the beginning of 2011 due to the discovery of pollutants and was inaugurated on November 15, 2013.
Sports
Clubs are the soccer clubs SV Löhne-Obernbeck , FC Löhne-Gohfeld , SV Bischofshagen-Wittel and VfL Mennighüffen , TuRa Löhne, the handball clubs VFL Handball Mennighüffen and HSG Löhne-Obernbeck , the swimming club "Aquarius", the DLRG Löhne, the TuS Gohfeld as well the TV wages, which offers various sports. Badminton is played at BC Löhne.
Löhne has an 18-hole golf course run by the Widukindland Golf Club.
Others
The Löhner outdoor and indoor swimming pool is popular . The city library, with its main office in Löhne-Bahnhof and two branches in Gohfeld and Mennighüffen, has 50,000 media available.
In addition to the summer theater on the Ulenburg, the Löhn city festival takes place on the fairground, as well as shooting and district festivals in the districts.
Personalities
Born in wages
- Ernst Günther of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609–1689), registrar
- Philipp Ludwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (1620–1689), Duke
- Friedrich Ludwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1653–1728), Field Marshal General
- Sophie Eleonore of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1658–1744),
- Bernhard Schäffer (1823–1877), mechanic, inventor, manufacturer
- Gottlieb Viehe (1839–1901), missionary
- Johannes Kuhlo (1856–1941), co-founder of the Protestant trombone choir in Germany
- August Griese (1895–1962), trade unionist, mayor of Löhn, district administrator, state politician (SPD)
- Adolf Blomeyer (1900–1969), Mayor of Ulenburg, CDU politician, member of the Parliamentary Council
- Karl Kröger (1901–1970), member of the state parliament (SPD)
- Marie Hüsing (1909–1995), deaconess, poet, writer
- Ralf Arnie (1924–2003), bourgeois Artur Niederbremer, composer
- Friedrich Schütte (* 1933), journalist and emigrant researcher, author
- Karl-Heinz Schelp (* 1940), football player
- Heinz-Dieter Held (* 1948), Mayor of Löhne
- Wolfgang Flüshöh (* 1950), soccer player
- Thomas Krüger (* 1962), poet, author of children's books, editor
- Dirk Kelle (* 1967), handball player
Associated with wages
- August Philipp von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck , died in 1675 at Haus Beck , founder of the House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (later Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ), direct ancestor in the paternal line of the Danish royal family, the former Greek Royal Family and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Georg von Borries senior (1811–1870), politician, landowner in wages
- Theodor Schmalenbach (1831–1901), Protestant theologian, pastor in Mennighüffen
- Marie Schmalenbach (1835–1924), religious poet, married to Theodor Schmalenbach
- Nicolaus Prinz von Handjery (1836–1900), landowner in Löhne
- Ernst Wilm (1901–1989), Protestant theologian and church leader, pastor in Mennighüffen
- Heinz-Theo Branding (1928–2013), actor and voice actor, lived in Löhne from 1999
- Hermann Kreutz (* 1931), church musician, choir director in Löhne
- Heinrich Dreyer (1935–1994), local and state politician (CDU)
- Wolfgang Spanier (1943–2018), SPD member of the Bundestag, deputy headmaster at the Löhner Gymnasium
- Werner Stürenburg (* 1948), painter, sculptor and graphic artist, studio in Löhne 1983–1999
- Andreas Förster (* 1964), puppeteer, runs a puppet theater in Löhne
- Bernd Poggemöller (* 1966), Mayor of Löhne
- Lena Goeßling (* 1986), soccer player, grew up in Löhne
- Robert Tesche (* 1987), soccer player at VfL Bochum, grew up in Löhne
Web links
- Website of the city of wages
- Wages in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Movie
- Autobahn (film) , documentary film about the traffic situation in Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen and the construction of the northern bypass, 2019, 85 min., Script and director: Daniel Abma , premiere: DOK Leipzig 2019, www.autobahn-film.de
literature
- Heimatverein Löhne, City of Löhne (Ed.): 1000 years of Löhne: Contributions to the local and city history . Wages 1993, ISBN 3-922911-00-5
- Johannes Henke: The field names in today's urban area of Löhne - their meaning for the medieval history of fields and settlements . Steinfurt 2004, ISBN 3-934427-49-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Municipal profile Löhne ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF, State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW, status 2007
- ↑ Historical overview on the website of the city of Löhne
- ↑ Information from city archivist Joachim Kuschke, in: Neue Westfälische (Löhner edition) of March 18, 2008
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 75 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 323 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 115 .
- ↑ Pupils at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation ( memento of October 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, State Office for Data Processing and Statistics, as of 2002/03
- ↑ Evangelical Church District Vlotho - Gohfeld. In: www.kirchenkreis-vlotho.de. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Ev. Herford parish. (No longer available online.) In: www.kirchenkreis-herford.de. Archived from the original on September 28, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. Laurentiuskirche , Internet presence of the St. Laurentiusgemeinde.
- ↑ Homepage: History of the New Apostolic Congregations in the Herford District , accessed on December 9, 2015
- ↑ Ndeue Westphalian: wages is the Yazidis welcome edition of 4 May 2015 Retrieved on July 4, 2019
- ^ Neue Westfälische, July 10, 2009
- ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05758024
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
- ↑ Information and Technology NRW
- ↑ KRZ Lemgo
- ↑ HP Löhne, partner cities accessed on May 14, 2018
- ↑ Primary income and disposable income of private households in North Rhine-Westphalia , pp. 1, 57–58.
- ↑ Germany's best secondary schools. Federal President Horst Köhler awards the Hauptschulpreis 2005 , html, access date: July 2007
- ↑ Walls with history , Neue Westfälische from May 16, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2017
- ^ Diakonische Stiftung Wittekindshof separates from real estate - contract signing on Friday afternoon Yazidis buy Ulenburg castle , Westfalenblatt dated January 30, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2017
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Ulenburg Castle Park in LWL GeodatenKultur
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Park of the magical water in LWL geodata culture
- ↑ Löhner Bürgerwald is growing, Neue Westfälische from November 15, 2016
- ↑ Löhner Bürgerwald
- ↑ Announcement template of the Office for Urban Development from May 2017 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Brass band wages
- ↑ Löhne Music School
- ↑ svbw-diehaeger.de ( Memento from October 27, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gymnastics and lawn sports club Löhne 1910 e. V.
- ↑ Home
- ↑ Open house in Löhne: »Villa Mühlenbach« presents itself. A memorial is filled with life. Westfalen-Blatt, accessed on August 29, 2017 .
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