Löwen (Willebadessen)

Lions City of Willebadessen Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '43 " N , 9 ° 5' 59" E
Height :	240 m above sea level NN
Area :	9.37 km²
Residents :	397 (Jan. 1, 2008)
Population density :	42 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	34439 ; ( old: 3533)
Area code :	05644
	Location of Löwen in Willebadessen

Lion is a village with about 400 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , and belongs to the city of Willebadessen , Höxter in Detmold . Local mayor has been Norbert Hofnagel ( CDU ) since 2004 .

Löwen is located directly at the foot of the eastern slope of the Egge Mountains , but still on the Warburger Börde plain in its northwest corner.

The surrounding area around Löwen is characterized by the Oberwälder Land in the north, the Weser with the Weserbergland in the east, the West Hessian mountains in the south and the Egge Mountains in the west.

history

Surname

Origin of the place name: Löwen (formerly Lovene) is supposed to combine the words Loh (forest) and Venn (morass ), similar to the city of Venlo , so that a bog forest is described. According to this view, the reinterpretation in lion must have taken place later, especially since the lion , as king of the animal world, was only known much later in the German-speaking world. Another interpretation of the old name Lovene goes back to a person named Liafheri. The short form Li (a) f could later have changed to Lov. The appended ending en or ene indicates a Saxon origin of the place, especially since places with Saxon origin are often found in the area around Leuven.

Incorporation

On January 1, 1975, Löwen was incorporated into Willebadessen.

Culture and sights

Until it was uprooted by a storm, the symbol of Löwen was the approx. 900 year old Femelinde ( court linden tree ) on the road to Peckelsheim . On September 2, 1997 , the trunk, weakened by rot , was no longer able to bear the mighty crown. The trunk, which is about 2 meters high and 5 meters wide, had long been so hollowed out that several children could play in it. In the spring of 1998 a new tree was planted in the same place. Some sacred objects in the St. Kilian (Löwen) church and the rifle chain of the St. Kilians rifle brotherhood were made by the gold and silversmith master Bruno Maria Sievering-Tornow , who was born in Löwen .

Regular events

Carnival of the Lions
Easter fire on Holy Saturday of each year
Schnadegang on Ascension Day
King shooting to the shooter king
Shooting festival
Sports festival
St. Martin's Train on Friday after November 11th ( Martin's Day )
Celebration of St. Nicholas

societies

Volunteer fire brigade of the city of Willebadessen, Löwen fire fighting group
St. Kilian Sagittarius Brotherhood of Lions
Musikverein Löwen 1974 e. V.
SV Black-White-Red TuS Löwen 1968 e. V.
KFD lions

Well-known sons and daughters

Bruno H. Maria Sievering-Tornow (* 1954), master gold and silversmith and head of the silversmiths class at the state drawing academy in Hanau

Web links

Löwen (Willebadessen) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

^ 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. 328 .
↑ Bruno Sievering-Tornow. on the website of the State Drawing Academy Hanau.

[1] 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. 328 .

[2] Bruno Sievering-Tornow. on the website of the State Drawing Academy Hanau.