Ludenscheid
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ' N , 7 ° 38' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Märkischer Kreis | |
| Height : | 423 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 87.02 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 72,313 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 831 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 58507-58515 | |
| Area code : | 02351 | |
| License plate : | MK | |
| Community key : | 05 9 62 032 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LUD | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 2 58507 Lüdenscheid |
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| Mayor : | Dieter Dzewas ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Lüdenscheid in the Märkisches Kreis | ||
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Lüdenscheid ( Westphalian Lünsche ) is the county town and a large district town of Märkischer Kreis and located in the northwest of the Sauerland in Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia . The city has 72,313 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). The epithet "Bergstadt" has been used frequently for decades and found its way into the official name of the third urban high school. “City of Light” is a recent attribute used for city advertising and refers to the Lüdenscheid lamp and lighting industry. Lüdenscheid forms the cultural and economic center of the southern Märkisches Kreis with a variety of influences. Functionally it is a middle center with partial functions of a main center . Before the regional reforms of the 1970s , the city was the most populous in the Sauerland and South Westphalia .
geography
Geographical location
Lüdenscheid is located in the northwestern Sauerland at an altitude of 232-539 meters, geographically in the flat, west-southwest-east-northeast-facing Lüdenscheider Mulde . It has its core area in the basin of the source of the Rahmede and represents a saddle of the watershed between Lenne and Volme , which crosses the city from northwest to southeast. The hollow or depression can be seen if you look at Lüdenscheid from Homert ( 539 m above sea level ) in the south or in the north from the former radar area ( 505 m above sea level ) near Großendrescheid .
Lüdenscheid appears as a mountain town to visitors who approach from the valleys - for example from the direction of Altena (Rahmedetal), Werdohl (Versetal) or Bruges (Volmetal). The center of Lüdenscheid is at an altitude of about 420 m above sea level. NHN . The highest mountain in the vicinity of Lüdenscheid is the Nordhelle in the Ebbegebirge with 663.3 m above sea level. NHN . There are higher mountains in the north-east than around Lüdenscheid in the Harz , east in the Hochsauerland , west in the Eifel and south in the Taunus .
geology
The Lüdenscheid underground is of Devonian origin and is therefore over 350 million years old. In greywacke and layers of clay one often finds fossilized impressions of mussels and sea lilies, because the Sauerland was then the seabed. The Variscan Mountains unfolded in the later ages ( Paleozoic ), stretching from central France to Upper Silesia . The Lüdenscheider area is the remainder of a plateau of this mountain range and, as a result of erosion 225 million years ago, was about 400 meters lower than it is today. Only in more recent geological times, 65–1.6 million years ago in the Tertiary , did the current height arise during an uplift process. The rich relief has been shaped by streams, rivers and several ice ages since then.
Expansion of the urban area
The urban area of Lüdenscheid extends over 13 km in a north-south direction and 11.7 km in a west-east direction. The length of the city limits is 54.6 km.
The 86.73 km² urban area is divided into 47.4% forest area, 22.4% agricultural area, 18.1% building and open space, 7.3% traffic area, 2.3% water area and 2.5% remaining usable area.
Neighboring communities
Lüdenscheid borders Altena in the north, Werdohl in the northeast, Herscheid in the southeast, Meinerzhagen in the south, Kierspe in the southwest , Halver in the west and Schalksmühle in the northwest . All neighboring communities are in the Märkischer Kreis .
City structure
The city is divided into 16 statistical districts . The following table shows the population of the districts with the respective population density (status 2010 + 2011).
| number | Name of the statistical district |
Area km² |
Inhabitants 2010 (including second residence) |
Inhabitants per km² 2010 |
Inhabitants 2011 (including second residence) |
Inhabitants per km² 2011 |
Before municipal reorganization in 1969 |
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| 01 | City center / Staberg / Knapp | 0.99 | 6,793 | 6,861.62 | 6,416 | 6,480.81 | Ludenscheid |
| 02 | Ramsberg / Hasley / Baukloh | 3.40 | 8,327 | 2,449.12 | 8,368 | 2,461.18 | Lüdenscheid, Baukloh probably Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 03 | Grünewald | 1.22 | 4,689 | 3,843.44 | 4,958 | 4,063.93 | Ludenscheid |
| 04 | Tinsberg / Kluse | 0.98 | 7.001 | 7,143.88 | 7,454 | 7,606.12 | Ludenscheid |
| 05 | Honsel / Eichholz | 1.42 | 6,609 | 4,654.23 | 6,533 | 4,600.70 | Ludenscheid |
| 06 | Vogelberg | 2.80 | 3,767 | 1,345.36 | 3,567 | 1,273.93 | Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 07 | Wettringhof | 2.73 | 1,142 | 418.32 | 972 | 356.04 | Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 08 | Kalve / Wefelshohl | 3.09 | 5,099 | 1,650.16 | 5,061 | 1,637.86 | Wefelshohl: Lüdenscheid, Kalve: Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 09 | Brüninghausen / Augustenthal | 11.95 | 1,430 | 119.67 | 1,409 | 117.91 | Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 10 | Bierbaum / Höh / Hellersen | 21.90 | 4,640 | 211.87 | 4,749 | 216.85 | Höh: Lüdenscheid, Bierbaum and Hellersen: Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 11 | Bruges | 15.38 | 3,082 | 200.39 | 3,069 | 199.54 | Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 12 | Oeneking / Stüttinghausen | 2.78 | 6,862 | 2,468.35 | 6,920 | 2,489.21 | Ludenscheid |
| 13 | Buckesfeld / Othlinghausen | 3.98 | 6,595 | 1,657.04 | 6,439 | 1,617.84 | Buckesfeld: Lüdenscheid, Othlinghausen: Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 14th | Wehberg | 2.76 | 5.116 | 1,853.64 | 5.113 | 1,852.54 | Lüdenscheid, until 1935 Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 15th | Gevelnorf / Freisenberg | 7.14 | 3,997 | 559.80 | 4,058 | 568.35 | Lüdenscheid-Land |
| 16 | Dickenberg / Eggenscheid | 4.20 | 3,154 | 750.95 | 3,034 | 722.38 | Lüdenscheid-Land |
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| all in all | 86.73 | 78,365 | 903.55 | 77.905 | 898.25 | x | |
climate
The Lüdenscheid climate is shaped by the Atlantic . The prevailing westerly winds are responsible for this. Characteristic are the relatively large amounts of precipitation and the moderate temperatures for the altitude. July is the warmest month with an average of around 22 ° C and January is the coldest month with around 0 ° C. The mean annual temperature is just under 8 ° C. Due to the damming effect of the relief and the inclined rain that is caused by westerly winds, the annual precipitation amounts of more than 1200 l / m² are above average.
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Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Lüdenscheid (average values for the period 1961–1990)
Source: German Weather Service
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A weather station of the German Weather Service is located in Lüdenscheid-Oberhunscheid . The weather station has been unmanned and automated since 2010.
history
Prehistory and early history
The first traces of people in the Lüdenscheid area date from the Mesolithic . The largest site is the Brockhausen station , from which 2500 artefacts ( microliths , blades, core stones, flakes of flint and slate ) originate. Further stations with over 500 artefacts are: Bellmerei and Rittinghausen (Homert) . In addition, seven storage areas (50 to 500 artefacts), twelve rest areas (5 to 50 artefacts) and 24 stray finds (one to five artefacts) are known from this period in Lüdenscheid. A Middle Stone Age camp near Oedenthal also served people from the Neolithic Age in this function . Traces of settlements and graves from the Neolithic period in the Lüdenscheid area are unknown. Individual finds from this period were made in the following places: Augustenthal, Haus Schöneck, Hulsberg, Römerweg, Brockhausen, Tweer, Stilleking and Brunscheid. Artifacts from the Bronze Age have not yet been found. Regarding the presence of people in the early Iron Age , it says: “Only an iron spout ax, which is said to have been found in the vicinity of Lüdenscheid, is the only, albeit very uncertain, clue.” First settlement finds from the period between 800 and 1000 AD are known from Brockhausen, Stilleking, Rittinghausen, Ellinghausen, Springe bei Vogelberg, Woeste, Brunscheid and from Grünen Siepen bei Ellinghausen. During this time iron smelting and forging in the Normecke near Ellinghausen and in Eggenscheid could be proven. Whether Sugambrer , who settled in the Sauerland, also settled permanently in the Lüdenscheid area, should hardly be verifiable. In contrast to the Saxons , which penetrated the Sauerland from around 700 AD , they belonged to the Franks . The original local idiom should in addition to the dominant Saxon- Low German and Low Franconian influences have. Since the productive areas of the Sauerland were settled first and not the barren soils and the climatically less favored locations, especially because of their altitude, it is now assumed that the continuous settlement of the Lüdenscheid area did not begin until after the seventh century. Exactly when it took place is in the dark due to the lack of evidence.
middle Ages
Presumably in the 9th century, Lüdenscheid emerged as a Saxon settlement on an army route that led from Cologne via the areas of today's cities of Wipperfürth , Halver, Werdohl and Arnsberg to Soest . It was initially a peasantry , possibly with a customs post of the archbishops of Cologne , the sovereigns of the time. The place marked the point where the path crossed the watershed between Lenne and Volme . To this day, the course of the old long-distance connection can be read from the sequence of Knapperstrasse, Wilhelmstrasse and Werdohler Strasse. The first predecessor of today's Church of the Redeemer is also said to have been built in the 9th century . According to the theory of the historian Albert K. Hömberg , Lüdenscheid was one of the so-called parent parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne. In fact, it soon became the center of a deanery with 15 parishes , which included Radevormwald in the west and Schwelm , Hagen and Ergste in the north . The patronage of the church related to Saint Medardus , the bishop of Noyon and Tournai who was buried in the church of the same name in Soissons . Northern French influences are not documented. If you consider the climatic conditions in Lüdenscheid, it is not unlikely that he was chosen because he is considered a “ weather saint ”. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1067. Archbishop Anno II transferred part of the tithe income from the village (villa) Luidolvessceith to the newly founded St. Georg Abbey in Cologne. In 1072 he provided the now-founded Grafschaft monastery in the Hochsauerland with additional income from Luidolfessceide . The abbot of the monastery was then also responsible for the collature (appointment) of the Lüdenscheid pastor until the post-Reformation period. In 1114, the construction of a castle (castrum munitissimum imperatoris) by Emperor Heinrich V began in Lüdenscheid . It was supposed to serve as a base for the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich I. von Schwarzenburg, and the Counts of Arnsberg. The following year, 1115, it was destroyed for the first time by Friedrich von Arnsberg . The location of the small system is assumed to be in the area of today's Old Town Hall . In the following years Lüdenscheid became one of seven archdeaconates of the Archdiocese of Cologne. The head of this important middle administrative unit (archdeacon) was the dean of the St. Georg monastery in Cologne, which had been receiving income from Lüdenscheid since 1067.
Becoming a city
For Lüdenscheid, the early Middle Ages were marked by the contrast between the Archbishops of Cologne and the Counts of Altena , who later became Counts of the Mark . The clergymen also had the title of Duke of Westphalia ; the Counts of Altena were in their service. Thus, Kurköln also claimed secular sovereignty over the later Brandenburg area. However, the local counts strove to establish an independent territorial rule. In this context, Lüdenscheid, which was strategically and organisationally important, was important: the Counts of the Mark intended to strengthen their influence by elevating them to the city. However, permission from Kurköln had to be obtained. Count Engelbert I von der Mark was married to a niece of Archbishop Engelbert II von Falkenburg , asked his father-in-law to mediate in 1268 and wrote: “[…] dat de Hertoghe van Lymburg den van Valkenberghe and the van Henszberghe dar voir guit are van des Byschoppes because of van Colne, dat men van Ludenscheyde eyn Stat make marks. ". Trenches and walls were built, and the 400-year-old town became a city . However, she only gradually acquired the full rights and privileges associated with it. Even if 1268 is considered the year the city became a town, it was first mentioned as an oppidum (small town) not before 1278: Count Eberhard von der Mark received instructions from Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg that year to grind the walls and fill the ditches. However, this was averted by giving him the city as a fiefdom the following year . After the Battle of Worringen in 1288, Cologne's influence was largely a thing of the past.
A city council is mentioned for the first time in 1287 , and for 1351 there are first indications of two mayors (“Proconsules et consules”), comparable to the rules in Dortmund . The first incumbent known by name (Vrolich Hake) appears in a document from 1396 from the Herscheider church archive. The long-term final form of municipal self-government based on the Dortmund model had developed by 1462: In addition to the mayor, there was a “council” and a “community” with six members each to be elected by the citizens. The market privilege was granted to Lüdenscheid in 1425; initially there were three annual fairs and from 1533 four annual fairs .
By 1491 the so-called Kreuzkapelle was built as the second church in the area of today's Sternplatz (demolished in 1885). Lüdenscheid was mentioned as early as 1248 as a Hanseatic town in the Soester quarter. Since 1549 it was represented in the association of cities by Unna . With the Count von der Mark still wavering, the township introduced the Reformation between 1563 and 1578 ; Lüdenscheid confessed to the Lutheran denomination.
Place of jurisdiction
In the Middle Ages was a long time in Lüdenscheid a Veme - free court with more than regional significance. Mainly cases from southern Germany were negotiated. One example is a legal dispute from 1433 ff. Between Duke Wilhelm III. of Bavaria-Munich and Duke Heinrich XVI. from Bavaria-Landshut . From the 14th to the 18th centuries, a county supreme court had its seat in the city. Lüdenscheid's daughter cities in the legal sense, Neuenrade and Bergneustadt , and according to Walter Hostert (1992) also Breckerfeld , Plettenberg and the freedom Altena, obtained legal information from the local council court. At the end of the Middle Ages it was converted into a Vestengericht that existed until 1719, a higher court for appeal cases. In addition to the area of the former Altena district, the Vest Lüdenscheid also included Breckerfeld and Dahl in the Volmetal.
City fires
Lüdenscheid was affected by six large city fires in 1530, 1578, 1589, 1656, 1681 and 1723, each of which destroyed almost the entire building fabric. Several times, most recently in 1842, smaller fires destroyed parts of the city. The fires were so devastating because for a long time the houses were built of wood or half-timbered and thatched roofing, and there were also very dense buildings within the city limits. The trigger was often the iron processing industry, which was relocated in front of the city wall to today's lower Wilhelmstrasse in 1693. In the same year, Mayor Cronenberg issued the first municipal fire regulations . The erection of thatched or cane roofs in cities was not banned in County Mark until 1720. An eyewitness report has come down to us from 1656. The Drost Steffen von Neuhoff owned a town house next to Schloss Neuenhof and wrote in his diary: “In 1656 the town of Lüdenscheid dawned at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the fire started before our house was not far from Kirchhove, so the town burned down in an hour, that a house will not stand unharmed. The church burned down except for the roof, the tower was also burned in and all the bells melted apart from a small one, not hanging, but standing on the roof. ”As always, the city was rebuilt on the old floor plan. In addition to the preserved substance of the church, the remaining cellar vaults and outer walls of the houses were also included. After the last big fire in 1723, the reconstruction took place under Prussian rule. The eaves-standing town houses with their dormers, characteristic of the old town, were built . They are reminiscent of the type buildings erected in Potsdam by order of the state. At the same time, building regulations were created that comprehensively reorganized passive fire protection for Lüdenscheid.
Modern times
In 1609 Lüdenscheid and the County of Mark came under the common rule of Brandenburg and Palatinate-Neuburg (the latter until 1614). Since that time it has been part of the Brandenburg and later Prussian state association, whereby the cultural and denominational peculiarities are determined to this day. During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) Lüdenscheid was occupied by the French for five years. Under Napoleonic rule (1806–1813), formerly known as Franzousentied , Lüdenscheid belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg . In November 1806 the troops of the French general Louis Henri Loison occupied the county of Mark. However, the administrative reorganization was not completed until August 1808, when Peter Kercksig was sworn in as Maire (Mayor) of Mairie Lüdenscheid. In addition to the town and parish, the other so-called municipalities of Meinerzhagen, Ebbe and Halver also belonged to Mairie Lüdenscheid. After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , which was lost by the Napoleonic troops , Cossacks allied with Prussia in Russian service reached Lüdenscheid in November 1813 and some of them also quartered here. On November 18, 1813, by order of Peter Kercksig, the "reunification with Prussia" was celebrated; the Prussian eagle was again attached to the town hall in a solemn ceremony. Two years after the end of Napoleon, Lüdenscheid became part of the newly formed Prussian province of Westphalia as a result of the Congress of Vienna .
Due to the unfavorable topographical location, the connection to the railway network with the Bruges – Lüdenscheid line was not made until 1880 . This established a connection to the Volmetalbahn . Narrow-gauge routes of the Altenaer Eisenbahn (KAE) district to Altena and Werdohl followed. This improved the connection to the railway line in the Lennetal , which was built in 1862 .
An episode in the history of Lüdenscheid is the production of the aluminum frame and its pre-assembly of the Zeppelin airships , which began in a Carl Berg factory in 1898. His son-in-law Alfred Colsman from neighboring Werdohl also worked as an aluminum manufacturer - and from 1908 as commercial director of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH - and protected business relationships. Aluminum stands u. a. for the industrial importance of the city since the 19th century. After a strong increase in population as a result of steady economic growth, Lüdenscheid became a city in 1907.
The consequences of the First World War were also felt in Lüdenscheid. Although the years between 1924 and 1928 were stable, the unemployment rate was also around ten percent during this period. For a long time, the democratic parties retained a clear majority. In the city council election of 1929, the SPD was by far the strongest party, while the NSDAP failed to make it into the committee and was not represented there until the local election on March 13, 1933. Even in this polling, bourgeois and left parties retained the upper hand; The SPD and KPD alone received 14 seats, compared to 13 for the NSDAP; a further 8 seats went to bourgeois candidates. On January 30, 1933, the day Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, instead of a National Socialist rally, a communist demonstration against the “fascist dictatorship Hitler-Papen ” took place in Lüdenscheid . At that time, this could still be tolerated by the local police, administration and the bourgeois mayor Ludwig Schneider ( DVP ). Only in the following weeks did the National Socialists assert their claim to power against resistance from the strong social democratic and communist forces in Lüdenscheid. Now the seizure of power was similar to that in many comparable cities. As in the entire German Reich in the spring of 1933, all political and social forces were brought into line or prohibited. On March 29, 1933, the first five communists were arrested and taken to a former workhouse in Lippstadt-Benninghausen. On April 18, 1933, Adolf Hitler was made an honorary citizen of Lüdenscheid.
On October 15, 1935, Lüdenscheid became a garrison town. The 60th Infantry Regiment, an anti-tank department, a medical unit and - during the war - several replacement troops were stationed. In 1940, strong anti-aircraft units were relocated here, including five batteries from the 14th Flak Regiment. Walter Borlinghaus , previously NSDAP local group leader in Lüdenscheid and party district leader in the Altena district, was appointed to the district leader post in the far more important Dortmund on January 1, 1944 . In the same year, the production of parts of the combustion chamber of the A4 rocket , also known as V2 ( retaliation weapon 2) , assigned the top secret level of secrecy , in local factories began in Lüdenscheid . A year later, 14 Soviet prisoners of the Gestapo were executed in the Hunswinkel labor education camp in the course of end- of- war crimes. The camp had been used regularly for "special treatments" by the Dortmund and Cologne Gestapos since the end of 1942 . The number of people executed is between 100 and 350. A total of around 550 prisoners were killed in Hunswinkel. Citizens of Lüdenscheid also fell victim to the “crime of the final phase”. Paul Anton Weber and Alex Usseler from Lüdenscheid were brought to Dortmund and murdered there in March / April 1945. Shortly before the war, three soldiers were due on 9 April 1945 the market place desertion hanged. The last atrocity (shooting of civilian Hermann Masalski for “defeatist statements”) happened a few hours before the US troops marched in . Former Mayor Schumann, Karl Gertenbach - long-time local Gestapo chief and head of the Hunswinkel camp - and Walter Borlinghaus evaded their responsibility by suicide, the latter while attempting to make his way from Iserlohn to Lüdenscheid. The city was spared major damage from bombing or fighting. The thinking cells in the basement of the old town hall are a reminder, memorial and documentation center on the local history of National Socialism .
The US troops handed Lüdenscheid over to the British armed forces , in whose zone of occupation it was. The British in turn left the Buckesfeld barracks (called La Lys barracks by the Belgians), the Baukloh barracks, the Hellersen barracks, the military training area south of Lüdenscheid and a number of confiscated buildings to the Belgian armed forces . Because of greater demand, additional living space was confiscated for the Belgians and their own settlements ( Belgian settlements ) built. The complex of park theater and park swimming pool was initially created as a Belgian leisure facility, as was the so-called Belgian department store on Herscheider Landstrasse. The military facilities included the Stilleking II ammunition depot, the former tank halls on the Stilleking, the former training area below the Homert, the tank test area on the Heerwiese and the firing range on the Spielwigge. The Stilleking I ammunition depot was used from 1960 to 1963 to store nuclear ammunition, which was guarded by US, Belgian and German soldiers. The warheads were then transferred to the Lahn special ammunition storage facility.
post war period
The period after 1945 was characterized by strong population growth as a result of the influx of numerous expellees and refugees from the former German eastern regions and mainly from Saxony and Thuringia. City expansions on a previously unknown scale (Lüdenscheid-Worth, Lüdenscheid-Honsel, Lüdenscheid-Höh , Bierbaum , Gevelnorf, Buckesfeld or Wehberg ) and numerous new churches, schools and other public institutions were required. At the same time Lüdenscheid profited to a large extent from the economic rise of the young Federal Republic.
In 1968/1969 the city lost its district freedom and was merged with the Altena district to form the Lüdenscheid district, whose seat it was from then on. Altena initially retained the district council.
With the construction of the Bundesautobahn 45 in 1968, the unfavorable traffic situation was considerably improved.
From 1971 to 1973, when there was great interest (including a visit from Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt ), the international plastic house exhibition "IKA" took place on a specially designed exhibition area on the Höh . Parts of the exhibition grounds were used until 1975; in the same year most of the partly futuristic objects were foreclosed. The IKA was not economically successful, and the concept of the prefabricated plastic house did not catch on. Nonetheless, the exhibition was the climax of an international approach that had been pursued for decades and in some cases aroused a lively response from specialist circles.
Since 1975, the city has been the seat of the Märkischer Kreis , created at the time, consisting essentially of the old districts of Iserlohn and Lüdenscheid and the previously independent city of Iserlohn . In 1986 the new district hospital in Hellersen was moved into and the year after the district building on Heedfelder Straße was completed. In the same decade, which was largely characterized by economic prosperity, numerous other public buildings and cultural institutions were built, such as the culture house, the new city museum, the new city library, the now defunct wave pool in the city center and the newly designed outdoor and indoor pool area in Nattenberg.
Place name
The long common view that the name ending “-scheid” is derived from Wasserscheide is now considered outdated, even if Lüdenscheid is on the one between Lenne and Volme. Rather, the word component should refer to “separated”, that is, areas separated from the common land or landed property. This is also supported by the fact that places with the name ending “-scheid” are located in the valley, such as Lüdenscheid-Brenscheid in the upper Elspetal. The first part of the word "Lüdenscheid" goes back to the old Saxon male name Liudolf (mentioned in 1072 as Liudolfessceide). This in turn is composed of “ liud ” (= people, crowd) and “Wulf” (wolf). Whether Lüdenscheid was named after a historically classifiable Liudolf, and if so, after which, is controversial.
Religions
Denomination statistics
In 2006, 22.4% of the population in Lüdenscheid were Catholic and 38.7% in the Protestant regional church. 38.9% were free churches, had no denomination or belonged to other religious communities. On December 31, 2016, 20.6% of the population in Lüdenscheid were Catholic and 32.8% in the Protestant regional church. 46.6% were of other or no denomination.
history
The southern Sauerland in the Mark region was Christianized by the 9th century at the latest. During the Reformation , Lüdenscheid accepted the Lutheran denomination . During the industrial revolution , the proportion of Catholics rose again. As before, however, the regional and free-church organized Protestant Christians predominate . The FCJG, a charismatic group, is particularly well represented, but it still belongs to the Protestant regional church. There are several Muslim communities on site with three mosques and a Greek Orthodox community.
Lüdenscheid is the seat of the Evangelical Church District Lüdenscheid-Plettenberg and its superintendent . As part of an association, there is a collaboration with the church districts of Iserlohn as well as Siegen and Wittgenstein. The Lüdenscheider District Church Office is a joint institution with the Iserlohn Church District.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1969, the city of Lüdenscheid was merged with most of the previously existing municipality of Lüdenscheid-Land . The middle Rahmedetal , which previously belonged to Lüdenscheid-Land , came to the city of Altena. The municipality of Hülscheid , which together with Lüdenscheid-Land formed the Lüdenscheid office , was added to Schalksmühle . Since the infrastructural and administrative center of Lüdenscheid-Land has always been the city of Lüdenscheid, it is the rare example of a municipality that has never been expanded to include neighboring administrative centers.
Population development
In the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern era , Lüdenscheid only had a few hundred inhabitants. The population fell again and again through the many wars, epidemics and famine. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the plague in 1634 claimed numerous lives. It was not until industrialization in the 19th century that population growth accelerated. In 1800 only 1,500 people lived in Lüdenscheid, in 1900 there were already 26,000. By 1950 the population had doubled to 52,000.
As a result of the incorporation of the municipality of Lüdenscheid-Land (18,831 inhabitants 1968) on January 1, 1969, the number of residents rose to around 80,000. Since 1995 the population has been falling by several hundred every year. This demographic development can be observed throughout NRW. It is believed that this population decline will continue over the next 40 years. On June 30, 2011, the official number of inhabitants for Lüdenscheid was 75,419 according to updates by the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices).
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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In 2006, 51% of the population were female and 49% were male. The proportion of foreigners, which according to statistical data consisted of 107 nations, was 13.5%. The majority of the foreign residents were from Turkey and Greece.
politics
2010 there was a participatory budget , the first time for the financial year was set 2011th
City council
| Parties and Groups of voters | Seats | ||
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| 2014 | 2009 | 2004 | |
| SPD | 21st | 19th | 17th |
| CDU | 16 | 16 | 20th |
| GREEN | 4th | 4th | 4th |
| FDP | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| LEFT | 2 | 2 | - |
| Alternative for Lüdenscheid (AFL) | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| NPD | 1 | 1 | - |
| REP | - | - | 1 |
| Lüdenscheider List (LL) | - | 2 | 3 |
mayor
From 1720 to the present day, 35 mayors were at the head of the city. In the period of district freedom from 1916 to 1968 they held the title of Lord Mayor .
- around 1683 Cronenberg
- 1720–1725 Johann Heinrich von den Bercken
- 1725–1743 Johann Peter Pollmann
- 1743–1768 Johann Peter Kercksig
- 1768–1769 Consul Haardt
- 1770–1790 Caspar Jakob Theodor Christian Spannagel
- 1790–1791 Camerarius Schniewindt
- 1793–1808 Friedrich Wilhelm von den Bercken
- 1808–1814 Peter Kerksig (Maire)
- 1814–1818 Johann Jakob Friedrich Kobbe
- 1818 Riegelmann
- 1818–1820 Reinhard
- 1820–1843 Ernst Wilhelm Jander
- 1843–1856 Wilhelm Plöger
- 1856–1869 Heinrich Nottebohm
- 1869–1873 Rudolf Wiesmann
- 1873–1874 Eduard Hueck
- 1874–1896 August Selbach
- 1896–1930 Wilhelm Jokusch
- 1931–1935: Ludwig Schneider ( DVP )
- 1936–1944 Karl Friedrich Schumann
- 1944–1945 Otto Hagedorn
- 1945–1946 Karl Weiland
- 1946: Willi Bürger ( SPD )
- 1946–1948: Richard Hueck ( CDU )
- 1948: Ernst Mehlich (CDU)
- 1948–1949: Willy Hoffmeister (CDU)
- 1949–1951: Walter Kimmig (SPD)
- 1951–1952: Walter König
- 1952–1953: Walter Kimmig (SPD)
- 1953–1961: August Schlingmann (SPD)
- 1961–1964: Karl Diemer ( FDP )
- 1964–1971: Erwin Welke (SPD)
- 1972–1975: Herbert Weigert (SPD)
- 1975–1994: Jürgen Dietrich (CDU)
- 1994–1999: Lisa Seuster (SPD)
- 1999-2004: Friedrich Karl Schmidt (CDU)
- 2004 – today: Dieter Dzewas (SPD)
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In Gold (yellow) over a red crenellated wall with an open gate, a double row seventeen of silver (white) and red geschachter beams, about growing the bishop Medardus in red robes with red Mitra , silver crozier, a closed left hand red Holding book with golden cross and gilt edging. " |
| Foundation of the coat of arms: The oldest city church, the Church of the Redeemer , was originally consecrated to Saint Medardus , who was therefore considered a kind of city saint . The nested bar is taken from the coat of arms of the county of Mark , to which Lüdenscheid belonged for many centuries. The crenellated wall refers to the early fortification and thus elevation to the city. The coat of arms can be traced back to a city seal from 1341. |
The coat of arms approved in 1965 replaced the one that had existed since 1911.
Town twinning
Under the aspect of international understanding , the city of Lüdenscheid has entered into international partnerships with other municipalities.
A town partnership with Calderdale / Brighouse in Great Britain has existed since 1950/1983 . The Dutch Den Helder in 1980, the Belgian Leuven 1987 twin city. Myślenice in Poland followed in 1989. Romilly-sur-Seine in France and Taganrog in Russia have been partners with Lüdenscheid since 1991.
The Silesian town of Glatz (Polish: Kłodzko ) and the district of the same name have been sponsored since 1952 , because after the Second World War many displaced people from Glatz and the surrounding area found a new home in Lüdenscheid. This is also referred to in the seventh link of the Lüdenscheid chain of office .
Culture and sights
theatre
The Kulturhaus, which was completed in 1981 and designed by Rolf Gutbrod , is centrally located in the city center and borders directly on the city garden. Both the exterior and interior architecture are based on the Berlin Philharmonic . The large theater hall with 676 seats has an orchestra pit and stands reminiscent of vineyard terraces. Other halls of different sizes and dining facilities complete the offer. As part of the program, the Kulturhaus offers musicals, ballet, operas, operettas, plays, concerts and a cabaret program, mainly in the form of guest performances. Own productions have also been carried out since 1986. Here the focus is on classical theater ( Shakespeare , Goethe , Lessing or Frisch ).
Other venues with stage technology are the auditorium of the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium from 1964 (approx. 400 seats) and the New Schützenhalle . The latter was inaugurated in 1900 as one of the largest festival halls in Westphalia. It can be furnished with 1,420 seats in the large hall and another 200 in the foyer. It is a neo-baroque building that characterizes the cityscape with Art Nouveau elements and a characteristic tower. In addition, cultural events of all kinds take place on the free cabaret of the Alte Druckerei .
The theater stage “Die Bühnenmäuse” of the CVJM Lüdenscheid-West e. V. were founded in 1983. With one comedy a year, it is part of the Lüdenscheid cultural scene. The approximately 30 performances in Lüdenscheid were sold out.
The Lüdenscheider Altstadtbühne is an amateur theater with around 30 performances per year. One piece is played per season (October to May), mostly tabloid comedies or crime novels.
The theater group of longtime community center conductor Rudolf Sparing now called Ensemble K . She has been producing a play about once a year since 1986. After performing for many years in the Kulturhaus Lüdenscheid, she found a new home in 2005 in a redesigned glass pavilion in the administration building of the Sparkasse Lüdenscheid.
music
The musical reputation Lüdenscheid is since the 19th century by a number of choral societies influenced and choirs, which could be characterized in many singing competitions and excretions by price and good finishes. The Lüdenscheid singers' group forms the organizational framework . Since the end of the 19th century at the latest, there have also been other points of contact with national and international musical life. The Viennese musicologist and Beethoven researcher Martin Gustav Nottebohm was a native of Lüdenscheid. Kurt Weill , composer (for example setting the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht ), had his first engagement as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Lüdenscheid from 1919 to 1921 . His place of work was the then Hotel zur Post on today's Rathausplatz .
Local musical life received important impulses from the relocation of the musicologist and hymnologist Konrad Ameln in 1934. He went to the “provinces”, probably for political reasons. With the support of the industrialist Gertrud Hueck, he founded the Lüdenscheid Music Association and initiated the Lüdenscheid Small Music Festival . Until 1970 they offered an ambitious program with a focus on baroque music and new music . Thanks to Ameln's initiative, Lüdenscheid became an early center of historical performance practice . At the same time there was an upswing in Protestant church music . The Lüdenscheider Bach Choir with affiliated Bach Orchestra was founded in 1947. The Lüdenscheider Oratorio Choir has continued this tradition since 1985. For decades, church music performances with motets , cantatas or oratorios have been part of Lüdenscheid's cultural life. The Christ Church , among others, has proven itself as a sacred performance location.
The Lüdenscheid vocal ensemble has been of national importance for years , until 2012 under the direction of church music director Mary Sherburne. In addition to extensive touring activities , the choir, which is also committed to historical performance practice, performs regularly in the Erlöserkirche . A large number of church choirs and church singing groups or singing teams work on site, plus the Lüdenscheid Chamber Orchestra . The municipal music school with its own orchestras and ensembles has been an important supporter of local musical life since the 1960s . The Kulturhaus is professionally equipped for philharmonic concerts and music theater . There are also two chamber music halls , the older one in the former town hall , now the town library , the younger one since 1985 in the historic counter hall of the Alte Post , now the town music school. These structures are supplemented by smaller venues, such as, since 1992, in the hall of the integrative music school “limitless”.
Some important newer hymns come from the pen of Lüdenscheid Jürgen Werth (“This is reconciliation - this is how true peace must be”, “Never forget it - you are you” or “Heaven is not up”).
movie theater
The complex of park theater and park pool on the front Parkstrasse, built for the Belgian armed forces at the beginning of the 1950s , now houses a cinema center with seven screens. In the former theater foyer, the festive furnishings from the time of construction have been preserved. There is also a traditional large cinema from the 1950s on Werdohler Straße. Here, too, the original foyer is still there and is a listed building due to its characteristic design.
Museums
The museums of the city of Lüdenscheid include the municipal gallery , the history museum and the forge museum in the historic Bremecker Hammer .
The history museum of the city of Lüdenscheid shows objects on the history of industry and technology , including a historic small train from the Altenaer Eisenbahn AG district , a steam generator , models of the zeppelin and fire protection equipment. The unique collection of buttons from the Bronze Age to the present shows why Lüdenscheid was known as the “button town” in the 19th century. The exhibition also includes city models and a collection of historical maps, primarily from the county of Mark . The history museum and the municipal gallery have been in a joint complex on Sauerfeld since the late 1980s. The old office building (1910), which is also architecturally interesting, and an old bank building are connected by a glass building. In the connecting wing there are the largest exhibits and a museum café.
The Schmiedemuseum Bremecker Hammer on the upper reaches of the Verse is a technical history museum. "Blacksmithing days" are held regularly in the well-functioning hammer mill with a water wheel and reservoir .
The Phänomenta is the first and only Science Center in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The new SIKU // WIKING model world was opened on June 27, 2012 at Schlittenbacher Straße 56a on the edge of the Staberg district . Over 3500 exhibits are shown on approx. 500 m².
Johannisloge "Zum Märkischen Hammer"
Lüdenscheid citizens met in the Iserlohn Freemasons' lodge as early as 1797 . On May 6, 1888, the Lüdenscheid Lodge "Zum Märkischen Hammer" was founded. In 1900 at the current location Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 20 acquired a residential building. In 1901 a hall was added. In 1934/1935 all boxes were closed under National Socialism. The building has been converted into a dairy. In 1953 the lodge was given the building back by court order. Today around 60 Freemason Brothers meet in the box.
Buildings
All architectural monuments in the city of Lüdenscheid are listed in the list of architectural monuments in Lüdenscheid .
Castles and mansions
The Neuenhof moated castle is one of the outstanding monuments of art and history in the city of Lüdenscheid. The facility was first mentioned in a document in 1326. After a fire around 1638, the existing early baroque main building was erected by 1693. It is a two-storey cube on a rectangular floor plan with a hipped roof on the garden side. The courtyard side is flanked by two towers with curved hoods. In the middle between the towers, a gable with a large carved coat of arms (on site today a copy) represents the outstanding decorative element. In front of the main building, which is surrounded on all sides by moats, is a court of honor with flanking farm buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. A richly decorated wrought-iron gate system at the eastern end of the courtyard is remarkable. Neuenhof Castle was named after the noble family von Neuhoff and the adventurer and only King of Corsica Theodor von Neuhoff , who came from a Pungelscheid branch . The manor is privately owned and can only be viewed from the outside on the courtyard side. Comparably representative systems are rather rare in southern Westphalia.
Oedenthal Castle in the Grebbeck valley north of the city is now in the neo-Gothic style. After a fire around 1865, the current building was built on the layout of its predecessor. Two wings of different heights with different facade structures flank a massive tower. After removing the original corner battlements, it only has a simple pyramid roof. Immediately adjacent to the castle, which is elevated on a mountain promontory, is the Oedenthal watermill, which is now an excursion restaurant. Oedenthal Castle is important not least because of its owners, including the von Holtzbrinck family for a long time. Heinrich Wilhelm von Holtzbrinck , district president and Prussian trade minister, spent his twilight years here.
The Platehof in Brüninghausen is the representative property of an important local industrial family in the form of a manor house with outbuildings. The name of the original client, Brüninghaus , is still carved on the original side of the street.
Churches
The Erlöserkirche is the oldest church in Lüdenscheid. It was first mentioned in a document in 1072. The tower shaft, which essentially goes back to the Romanesque church building, is the oldest preserved building in the city. He received the characteristic, baroque -looking stepped hood in 1785. It has a significant impact on the townscape of Lüdenscheid. The late Romanesque nave of the church with its Gothic choir was demolished in 1822 because it was dilapidated. By 1826, the preserved classical nave with its characteristic arched windows and a facade structure by pilasters was built . Inside there are galleries and a Lutheran pulpit altar . Its design, probably by a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , refers to the centuries Lüdenscheid belonged to the Electorate of Brandenburg and later to Prussia .
The neo-Gothic Christ Church was consecrated in 1902 after two and a half years of construction. The striking tower is characteristic of the city's silhouette in the west. The church is the second Protestant church in the city center after the Erlöserkirche and the largest in the Märkischer Kreis. The interior, which is also neo-Gothic with galleries, has around 1200 seats. The building has been a listed building since 1986 .
St. Josef and Medardus is the most important Catholic parish church in Lüdenscheid. Architect Arnold Güldenpfennig designed the historicist building from 1882 to 1885 in the style of the north German brick Gothic . It replaced the small Kreuzkapelle in the area of today's Sternplatz, which was used by the Catholic community of Lüdenscheid after its re-establishment at the beginning of the 19th century. Initially, St. Joseph and Medardus only had one roof turret . The gable-roof crowned tower (54.15 m) by the architect Robert Lamm, also with architectural details of brick Gothic, but especially those of Expressionism , was built between 1927 and 1929. At that time it completed the silhouette of Lüdenscheid alongside the towers of the Erlöserkirche and Christ Church.
→ See also: List of churches and places of worship in Lüdenscheid
Cityscape and building fabric
The center of Lüdenscheid clearly shows its medieval origins on the ground plan of the old town with its ring-shaped streets surrounding the Church of the Redeemer . Until the beginning of the 19th century, the city had only developed along today's lower Wilhelmstrasse and on Hochstrasse and front Werdohler Strasse. Apart from the tower of the Church of the Redeemer and some vaulted cellars, the oldest buildings only date from after 1723. After the last big fire in the city, general regulations governed the reconstruction on the old street plan. The uniform appearance of the city in the 18th century was changed by numerous new buildings in the Wilhelmine era. In the 1960s and 1970s, the existence of the old town was threatened by large-scale demolitions, which also took place in the areas of the park pallet and today's Graf-Engelbert-Platz. A change of heart in the 1970s led to the restoration of the preserved areas, albeit in a slightly romanticizing way in places. However, years of neglect have recently resulted in the loss of an important historical record, the town's old rectory on Loher Strasse.
The last remaining part of the medieval city wall between Ringmauerstraße and Corneliusstraße could not be preserved in its original form in the early 1980s for structural reasons. In its place a new retaining wall with a tower-like semicircular extension was built and faced with quarry stone slabs; The old panels in the lower part of the wall were used for this. The apparently historical facility is intended to remind of the former fortifications.
In the course of the 19th century, Lüdenscheid grew along the old arterial roads and on access roads that were pragmatically adapted to the topography. The result is the mixture of moderate-sized apartment buildings, medium-sized and many small factories, and numerous villas with gardens and parks, which still defines the character of the city. Preferred residential areas were formed south of the Sauerfeld, on Humboldtstrasse and Liebigstrasse and above all around Parkstrasse at the city park . Finally, up to the First World War, a large number of largely preserved public buildings were erected, which gave Lüdenscheid the structural attributes of a regional center. Stylistically, historicism was dominant. However, some Art Nouveau buildings such as the Amtshaus on Sauerfeld or the Inselhaus on Wilhelmstrasse still set important accents today.
In the 1920s and 1930s, several uniform apartment building complexes were built in locations that had remained vacant until then, predominantly with an expressionist design language. A larger residential area was created between Am Grünewald and Wehberger Straße. Its structure, including a central grassy green area and former communal facilities, shows a relationship with well-known facilities that were built at the same time, such as the Hufeisensiedlung Berlin- Britz, the Rundling in Leipzig or the Viennese municipal housing . However, the design details and architecture of the individual buildings are increasingly being reshaped through modernization measures.
After the Second World War , the population of Lüdenscheid grew by about a third as a result of refugees and displaced persons who had moved there. Because of this and the high number of births at the time, numerous city extensions and new public buildings were necessary. Around the old farming hamlets of Worth and Honsel , large-scale apartment building complexes were built, predominantly in rows , and terraced houses . The city was also greatly expanded in the Höh district . The new Wehberg development area, which was created a little later, has the character of a satellite town with its larger, cubic residential complexes . In the former municipality of Lüdenscheid-Land, numerous larger, but carefully integrated, closed settlements emerged, for example Pöppelsheim , Piepersloh, Gevelnorf or, a little later, Dickenberg. Bierbaum , conceived at the beginning of the 1950s, has the urban structure of a garden city . In recent years, the settlements on the outskirts of the city have mostly grown together with the old city center due to extensive new single-family houses. A number of large modern buildings and high-rise buildings on Sauerfelder Strasse, Sternplatz and Rathausplatz changed the cityscape in the center, which was contemplative until the 1960s, as did street extensions, for example on Sauerfeld. Nevertheless, thanks to the lack of war damage, Lüdenscheid has a proportion of old buildings that is far above average for North Rhine-Westphalia .
Parks
The city park is a forest park created from 1888 on the initiative of influential Lüdenscheiders with an open-air stage , smaller horticultural areas and a promenade , which was previously used for concerts. Lüdenscheid's only large hotel is located on the site of the "parking garage", event location and restaurant, which was demolished in 1970. The most exclusive residential area in the city was built around the park.
The Loher Wäldchen , also a small forest park, which goes back to a reforestation campaign around 1790, has been in an inner-city location since the urban growth around 1900.
The Brighouse Park at Sauerfeld was named after Lüdenscheid's English twin town. It is located partly on the area of an evangelical cemetery that was inaugurated in 1818 and was later expanded to include their parks after some villas were demolished.
Also on the Sauerfeld, the city garden forms the environment of the cultural center . This area was also created through the demolition of older buildings; Among other things, the traditional event halls “Concordia” and “Recreation”, two predecessors of the Kulturhaus, were located here.
The most important inner-city green areas are the new and the so-called old Protestant cemetery . Today's old Protestant cemetery was opened in 1865, has old avenues arranged like a chessboard and numerous art-historical tombs, including many important Lüdenscheid factory owner families, the most important of which is the mausoleum of the Selve family . The new Protestant cemetery, which is adjacent to the old one, is a spacious park cemetery.
Nature and protected areas for nature
The character of Lüdenscheid is largely shaped by its surroundings, a strongly structured and wooded low mountain range . Their appearance has been disrupted by industrial and commercial settlements, especially in the north and east, but around a third of the urban area in the south still occupies an almost unchanged rural cultural landscape . For example, in the Mintenbeck valley or the upper Elspetal and their small side valleys you can still find the typically fragmented Brandenburg landscape with hamlets surrounded by gardens and fruit trees. The entire urban area of Lüdenscheid is traversed by a well-marked network of trails of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) , while the Lüdenscheider circular route runs around the entire urban area along the city limits. At 539 m, the Homert mountain is the highest point in the Lüdenscheid urban area. The Homert Tower erected here allows a wide view over the Sauerland to the borders of the Ruhr area . The Versetalsperre located in the southeast of the urban area with a water surface of 183 hectares is ideal for walks and hikes. It was built from 1929 to 1952 and commissioned in 1951. During the National Socialist era , prisoners from the Hunswinkel labor education camp were deployed on the construction site .
The urban area belongs to the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . Areas outside the built-up districts and the scope of a development plan are designated as landscape protection areas, unless there is a higher protection status such as a nature reserve (NSG). The six NSG's were in the city area.
The Stilleking nature reserve is a former military training area. The original cultural landscape was changed by the military use; there are still some ruins of the original courtyards. However, at the same time, through extensive use, habitats that have otherwise become very rare in the Märkisches Oberland natural area were preserved, including larger heather areas. There are also beech forest communities and alder forests that are characteristic of the natural area .
The other protected areas in the urban area are the nature reserve quarry Arenritt with 8.12 ha nature reserve Spielwigge with 6.81 ha nature reserve Verse south of the dam with 3.77 ha nature reserve middle and lower reaches of Matt Mecke and valley area of Linnepe east castle Ödenthal with 7.79 ha and the Volmetal nature reserve with 5.77 ha.
One of the most famous natural monuments of Lüdenscheid are the so-called hussar oaks below the Baukloh farm . They were planted on the graves of French hussars who were quartered at Neuenhof Palace during the Seven Years' War at the end of 1758.
Monuments and fountains
The Selve fountain by Luigi Calderini dates from 1910 and was donated by the industrialist Fritz Selve . It is crowned by a roughly life-size bronze figure of H. D. Selves, father of the founder and founder of the Basse und Selve company . He is shown as a blacksmith with an anvil. The fountain has a neo-baroque design language and emphasizes the corner situation Sauerfelder Strasse / Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse in front of the former administrative building, which is important for urban planning.
Uncle Willi , a popular bronze sculpture by the sculptor Waldemar Wien , depicts a typical Lüdenscheider with his dog. Some Lüdenscheiders claim that their uncle was a model for the figure placed in the center of Sternplatz.
The so-called Neumann fountain from the late 1970s is also located on Sternplatz . Relief depictions of the city's history can be found on the round wall surrounding the basin.
With the design of Graf-Engelbert-Platz in the old town in the 1980s, a historicizing fountain (also by KT Neumann) with the metal figure of a herald was created. There is also a relief representation of Count Engelbert I von der Mark , the city founder of Lüdenscheid.
Probably the most important sculpture in the Lüdenscheider Freiraum in terms of artistic authorship is called the Great Guardian . Georg Kolbe created the larger-than-life bronze in 1936 as a commission for the Buckesfeld barracks (“ Flakkaserne ”). Today it is on the green area in front of the AOK on Knapper Strasse.
The Bismarckian column on Kaiserallee, inaugurated in 1902, was torn down in 1965; however, a smaller, still existing monument for the Chancellor was erected in the Loher wood .
The memorial at the Stadtpark was completed by the sculptor Willy Meller by 1935 when the larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a young man waking or dying, depending on the interpretation . With its design reminiscent of the statecraft of the Third Reich , the area was intended to honor the victims of the First World War; later it was also dedicated to those of the Second World War. Because of the excellent view of the city from the terraced grounds, the memorial was a popular excursion destination for a long time, also in connection with the neighboring “Parkhaus” restoration , which was demolished in 1970 .
An example of modern sculptures in public spaces are the three precious metal cubes by Ansgar Nierhoff , which, as so-called “tin cans”, caused public controversy for a long time on the Rathausplatz. After years in a depot, they were set up again in 2013 in the city garden in front of the Kulturhaus.
Sports
In mid-2008 the Stadtsportverband Lüdenscheid e. V. organized 64 clubs.
The Lüdenscheider gymnastics club from 1861 is the oldest and with 1,800 members the second largest sports club in the city. Within the multi-sport club LTV v. 1861 should be emphasized in the field of competitive sport: the Jazz-Dance 30+ formation ( Jazz1 ; German runner-up 2006 DTB-Dance, multiple Westphalian champion), the fencing department (including some state championship titles 2006-2010 in the school, youth and adult sector, German champions , Vice German Champion) and the inline skater hockey department ( Highlander Lüdenscheid , 1st Bundesliga North).
Other large traditional sports clubs are the gymnastics and sports club Jahn 1891 Lüdenscheid e. V. (first chairman was Julius Lenzmann ) or the gymnastics club Friesen Lüdenscheid from 1892.
The MC 62 Lüdenscheid is a mini golf club that has been among the top ten places at German championships in recent years.
The soccer club Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid emerged in 1971 from a merger of Sportfreunde 08 and RSV Höh . From 1977 to 1981 he was represented in the 2nd Bundesliga North. The game is played in the Nattenberg stadium, built in 1972 in the southwest of the city.
The gymnastics club TuRa "Frisch Auf" Eggenscheid eV was founded on January 15, 1911 as a workers' sports club. The number of members of the entire association is currently around 800 members.
The football club Hellas Lüdenscheid was founded in 1965 by the Greeks Emmanuel Lagoudakis and Absiss Panagiotis and is now one of the oldest Greek football clubs in Germany.
The Latin formation TSG Lüdenscheid was founded in 1995. The TSG A-Team rose to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2005 and in 2007 as the first Lüdenscheid Latin formation to the 1st Bundesliga. The formation has now disbanded.
The Wasserfreunde Lüdenscheid was created in 1971 from the merger of the Lüdenscheider swimming club in 1901 and the SV Neptun Lüdenscheid (founded in 1908). In addition to swimming, another focus of the club is water polo. You can train in the indoor and outdoor pools on the Nattenberg.
Regular events
- Lichtrouten Lüdenscheid - International Forum for Light in Art and Design, a light art and light design exhibition that takes place regularly in the public space of Lüdenscheid
- "Lüdenscheider Talks" by the Institute for History and Biography at the Fernuniversität Hagen
- Christmas and Advent markets on Sternplatz and Neuenhof Palace
- "Lüdenscheider Environmental Market" (once a year)
- "Night flight" (bands play in various bars and pubs)
- Company Run : employees of companies in the Märkischer Kreis can where since 2003 the annual AOK -Firmenlauf participate.
- Shooting festivals: Every year on ten days in May there is a citizens' shooting festival with a large fair on the Hohen Steinert , organized by the Bürger-Schützen-Verein e. V. Lüdenscheid, instead. On the second weekend in August, the shooting festival of the Lüdenscheider Schützengesellschaft 1506 e. V. at Schützenplatz Loh . In 2006 the jubilee shooting festival 500 years Lüdenscheider shooting society was celebrated . However, the LSG shooting festival no longer takes place regularly for financial reasons.
- City festival: The Lüdenscheid city festival has been held annually on the second weekend in September since 1976. It is the big festival of the Lüdenscheider clubs.
Culinary specialties
The Potthucke is a typical potato dish from the Sauerland , it literally means: "that which is in the pot". It is a potato casserole filled with pieces of sausage and is often eaten with black bread in good company. Pilsner is often served as a drink with the hearty dish.
A crust (colloquially for bread crust) is a small dish that usually consists of at least one small schnitzel with a fried egg on a slice of rye bread or toasted bread.
Dialect, Low German
Until the end of the 19th century, Low German was widely used as a colloquial language in Lüdenscheid . The Lüdenscheider or Lünscher Platt is a variant of the Sauerland Platt with a specific pronunciation and a distinctive vocabulary of its own. Due to immigration, which has continued to be important since industrialization, the local Low German was progressively pushed back and no longer had any significance as an everyday language by the middle of the 20th century at the latest. In addition, there was hardly any effort on the part of cities or schools to halt this development. Although there are publications in Lüdenscheider Platt and an association (Plattdütsche Frönne) existed for a long time to maintain the local dialect, its end as a living language can probably no longer be stopped. In the current colloquial language, individual vocabulary is still known (for example Pööle = sandwiches, blasting = heavy rain or Buxe = trousers). Platt is also present in numerous place and field names ( Mintenbecke = Minzenbach, Woeste = Wüstung or Drögen Pütt = dry well). The insurance question wanted (like not it , eh , etc.) is still common practice rare but already the negation form wonnich . The variant with a stretched o (probably?), Which was once considered elegant, can hardly be heard .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Lüdenscheid is an old industrial city in which the metalworking industry has always been the focus. The Osemund was produced here early in the Middle Ages . While the iron ore deposits in the Siegerland and Sauerland in the surrounding valleys with their hydropower favored the construction of hammer mills and wire drawing mills from this age onwards , the metal extracted from the ore was further processed in small artisan forges in Lüdenscheid . The wide distribution of its products suggested Lüdenscheid joining the Hanseatic League . The smiths were not only an important source of income for the city, they were also a threat to the community. After the fifth city fire on June 12, 1681, they were expelled from the city and outside its walls. In 1735, eight years after the sixth city fire, nine small smithies were counted, in 1788 175 smithies. Schmidt is still the most common surname in Lüdenscheid today.
At the end of the 18th century, innovative metal forming techniques such as punching , embossing or turning enabled new production methods; In Lüdenscheid, numerous companies specialized in the manufacture of buttons and buckles .
In the 20th century, the ironmongery industry seamlessly merged into plastics processing , initially with Bakelite , then later with thermoplastics , which are molded into shapes using injection molding .
The toolmaker , both in the field of metal and plastics processing, who produces punching or embossing tools, injection molds and tools, became one of the most widespread apprenticeships in the city, and its own industry for the production of injection molds emerged .
In 1988, 30 companies and the city of Lüdenscheid founded the Lüdenscheid Plastics Institute , which is primarily intended to provide advice and research to medium-sized businesses and is connected as an affiliated facility with the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences .
The Institute for Metal Forming Technology (IFU) was founded for the metal industry and is also affiliated with the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences. Both institutes are located in the Lüdenscheid Development and Start-up Center .
From around 1885 until the end of the Second World War, the manufacture of buttons, buckles and medals played an important role; Uniform buttons were made for the military and other groups around the world. The button collection documenting this has been a separate department in the city museum for decades.
The manufacture of parts and accessories for the electrical and automotive industries (PC Turck, Busch-Jaeger, Kostal, Matsushita - formerly Vossloh, Gerhardi) plays a major role today, but also the pressing of aluminum and brass profiles or aluminum foils (Hueck) as well the production of special steel parts (Platestahl in Brüninghausen). Some companies, such as ERCO , have developed into system providers in their field.
Last but not least, Lüdenscheid is important as a retail location. In this regard, it has partial functions of a regional center . In the center there are several shopping streets , some of which are designated as pedestrian zones, two larger shopping arcades and the main office of Sparkasse Lüdenscheid .
Selected resident companies
Selected companies that exemplify the industrial history and structure of the city of Lüdenscheid:
PC Turck is one of the oldest companies in the city: Founded in 1791 as a metal button factory PC Turck , today it is mainly a supplier to the automotive industry, developing and manufacturing components for ball joints, steering systems, shock absorbers and window lifting technology. The company has remained true to its origins in textile connection technology, with the production of clips for braces. For decades the company operated as PC Turck Wwe .
Gerhardi Kunststofftechnik GmbH has been based in the center of Lüdenscheid since the company was founded (as Gerhardi, or later Gerhardi & Co / Cie) in 1796. With around 1200 employees, Gerhardi now manufactures for the automotive industry at two locations in Lüdenscheid and Ibbenbüren . The original company was divided into Gerhardi Kunststofftechnik GmbH (supplier for the automotive industry) and Gerhardi Alutechnik, as well as Lydall Gerhardi. The founding location on the Loh belongs to Gerhardi Kunststofftechnik and is still the headquarters today. Gerhardi Alutechnik has production facilities on Freisenberg in Lüdenscheid, Lydall Gerhardi is represented in Meinerzhagen.
Today's Eduard Hueck GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1812 as a "factory in various buttons and dealers in iron, steel and brass goods", is today a producer and supplier of aluminum profile systems and aluminum profiles. With over 600 employees, it is one of the largest employers in Lüdenscheid.
The Julius vom Hofe GmbH & Co KG is a 1863 founded traditional company with 100 employees steel shelves for archive, workshop and camp. The filing racks, shelving racks, special racks and pallet racks bear the RAL quality and GS marks.
The history of Busch-Jaeger Elektro GmbH goes back to the year 1879; it has been part of the ABB Group since 1969 . Busch-Jaeger describes itself as the market leader for electrical and installation technology in Germany and exports to over 60 countries worldwide.
The small company Steinhauer & Lück , founded in 1889, continues the Lüdenscheid tradition of manufacturing medals and decorations . One of her customers is the German Federal President's Office , for which she is the only producer to deliver the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (all eight levels). The 40 workers also produce badges, some of them by hand, for sports , hunting and carnival clubs and other organizations, as well as promotional items.
Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1912, employs over 2,000 people in Lüdenscheid and over 10,000 worldwide. This makes it the largest company in the district capital. Kostal develops and produces mechatronic products for the automotive industry.
The Wilhelm Schroeder GmbH & Co. was founded in 1912 and is the world's largest manufacturer of model steam engines . They are sold under the Wilesco trademark .
The Sieper Lüdenscheid GmbH & Co. KG is a foundation in 1921, and is a manufacturer for toy miniatures made of plastic and metal (mostly vehicles). The world-famous SIKU brand is produced by Sieper. In Lüdenscheid, SIKU is jokingly referred to as Europe's largest car manufacturer.
The ERCO luminaires GmbH is founded 1934 a relatively young company. As a globally active manufacturer of sophisticated architectural lighting systems, Erco has helped shape the character of Lüdenscheid as the “city of light”. ERCO employs around 800 people at the local site.
Insta Elektro GmbH develops and produces LED products and, alongside the aforementioned Busch-Jaeger, is one of the largest producers of EIB products . Of the total of 600 employees in Lüdenscheid, around 80 are developers.
MTS Sensor Technologie GmbH & Co. KG has been developing, producing and selling magnetostrictive position and level sensors for a wide variety of applications in Lüdenscheid for over 30 years. The parent company MTS Systems Corp. (MN, USA) employs over 1600 people worldwide.
The screws Betzer GmbH & Co. KG is a manufacturer of cold-formed parts and special screws, mostly for the automotive and electrical industries. With around 65 employees, it is a typical company in Lüdenscheid that traditionally processes wire.
Expansion areas for research and industry
In recent years, the city of Lüdenscheid has made free commercial and industrial areas available for business in five different parts of the city:
- Industrial park in Heedfeld- Süd (together with the neighboring community of Schalksmühle )
- Commercial area in Zum Timberg
- Industrial park in Wibschla
- Commercial area in Rosmart (together with the neighboring towns of Altena and Werdohl )
- Industrial area at the Lüdenscheid train station
The development of the areas has been very different in recent years. While the free areas of Heedfeld-Süd and Wibschla could be marketed very well to companies in a few years, many areas in the Zum Timberg and Rosmart areas have so far remained unoccupied, as the general demand for larger commercial and industrial areas in recent years as a whole rather decreased. In many cases, vacant lots were built on in existing commercial and industrial areas, for example on Buckesfeld , Freisenberg or Nottebohmstrasse .
At the Lüdenscheid train station, a lot of space has also already been given to various investors. a. to the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences and the German Institute for Applied Lighting Technology (DIAL). The construction of a business and conference hotel with around 100 beds is currently being discussed on the site. Lt. In the city of Lüdenscheid, the goal on this site from the very beginning was above all to create a high-quality industrial area that fits in with the conception of the institutions located in the neighboring development and start-up center (EGC).
traffic
Road traffic
Lüdenscheid is connected to the A 45 federal motorway ( Dortmund - Aschaffenburg ) through three junctions and to the German trunk road network with the B 54 and B 229 . The motorway runs in a semicircle around the city in the east. The B 54 directs traffic west through the Volmetal and the suburb of Bruges . The B 229 runs through the valleys to the east and south in a curve around the city center. In the 1980s, the north bypass was built, which has an intersection-free connection point with Heedfelder Straße in the area of the district building. In connection with the Lösenbacher Landstrasse, the Rahmedestrasse, the Lennestrasse and the Werdohler Landstrasse (in the Lüdenscheid urban area) as well as the B 54 and B 229, an extensive ring-shaped bypass of the city center was created.
The road and path network in Lüdenscheid consists of 13.9 km of federal autobahns, 20.3 km of federal roads, 62.4 km of country roads, 265.2 km of municipal roads and 220 km of hiking trails.
The main shopping street Wilhelmstraße, the upper Altenaer Straße as well as the Rathausplatz and Sternplatz have been pedestrian zones for decades . The old town is also largely closed to traffic today; only a few of the narrow streets are open to cars. The through traffic is directed through two tunnels (town hall and upper town tunnels).
Due to the lack of parking spaces, the State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia expanded the Schwiendahl and Brenscheid parking lots in the urban area of Lüdenscheid as well as two additional parking spaces outside the Lüdenscheid urban area on the A 45 in 2013. The capacity of the Schwiendahl rest area is to be expanded from 8 today to more than 20 truck spaces; the Brenscheid car park opposite is to grow from currently 14 to up to 26 truck parking spaces. In addition, car parking spaces are to be created along a lane facing the motorway. In addition, there should be a detour. The chairman of the planning and environmental committee of the city of Lüdenscheid considers the planned expansion of the parking lots to be sensible, as the increasing traffic will increase the frequency of the freeway.
Originally, a federal motorway A 54 (also formerly known in part as A 208) was to be built from the Dutch border near Brunssum via Puffendorf , Bergheim , Langenfeld , Solingen , Remscheid , Radevormwald , Halver , Lüdenscheid and Werdohl to Plettenberg in the Sauerland . The intersection with the then existing A 45 motorway would have been south of today's exit 13 Lüdenscheid-Nord. Except for two sections, today's A 542 and the state road 141n running through the Solingen city area, the A 54 was never completed.
Rail transport
present
There are two train stations in Lüdenscheid; the Lüdenscheid station is at the end of a branch line on the edge of the city center, the second Lüdenscheid-Bruges station is in the Bruges district on the Hagen – Dieringhausen railway in the Volmetal . The city is connected to the international rail network via the Volmetal Railway via Hagen and Dortmund . The approximately five-kilometer stretch from Bruges to the city center is one of the steepest branch lines in Germany with a gradient of 2.8 percent . By the late summer of 2009, the tracks of the station were relocated and a new stop was created to improve the connection with bus traffic . In November of that year, the now remote station building from 1880 (later rebuilt) was demolished.
In addition, due to the number of inhabitants in the surrounding districts, consideration was given to setting up a stop at the Lüdenscheider district building . However, due to the problematic topographical location, this would have been associated with very high costs. That is why the relocation of the Lüdenscheid train station was the focus; the project mentioned will not be pursued any further for the time being.
The German railway operates the Volmetal train since 12 December 2004. Through its subsidiary DB Regio NRW . From 1999 to 2004, Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn GmbH (DME) was the operator of the line, but was no longer eligible for the renewed tender. The DME was a joint project of the Dortmunder Stadtwerke (DSW21) and the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) .
Since December 10, 2017, there has been a continuous connection every hour from Lüdenscheid to Cologne via the reactivated Volmetal train with a travel time of just over two hours
With the express bus line S2, Werdohl train station on the Ruhr-Sieg route in the direction of Siegen , Wetzlar , Gießen and Frankfurt am Main can be reached in 20 minutes .
history
From 1887/88 to 1961 a narrow-gauge railway also connected Lüdenscheid with Altena and another between 1905 and 1955 with Werdohl. The routes were operated by the Altenaer Eisenbahn AG district. In popular parlance, the railways have remained known as Schnurre to this day. There was passenger and freight traffic, the latter on a section of the Werdohler line until 1967. The central narrow-gauge station was located on the middle Altenaer Strasse, roughly below the DB and former Reichsbahnhof, which is located here on a slope. From there, the narrow-gauge tracks for both connections ran downhill. At the level of Schafsbrücke the route branched off to Werdohl, overcame the Höhensattel on the Worth and continued through the Schlittenbach Valley and the lower Versetal. The route to Altena ran mainly through the Rahmedetal and only a short distance parallel to the DB / Reichsbahn route in the Lennetal.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were plans to connect the Volmetalbahn (Hagen – Dieringhausen railway) to the Plettenberg – Herscheid railway over a route in the urban area of Lüdenscheid and Herscheid, thus creating a connection between the Volme and Lennetal. However, this failed due to the high construction costs. The earthworks had already taken place beyond Herscheid. In the course of the First World War, however, the plans were not pursued because the necessary financial resources were lacking. In the 1920s, the municipality of Herscheid tried to revive the construction of the railway. But at the latest with the onset of rapid inflation in the wake of the global economic crisis, the topic of railway construction was over. And later, motor traffic finally prevailed on the roads in Germany. The section would have covered around 33.9 km. Due to the mountainous topography in the Sauerland , the planning envisaged mighty tunnels, bridges and underpasses, such as on the ridge between the Verse and the Ahetal, where a tunnel of 650 m length was planned. Another tunnel would have run in Herscheid from the Helle to below the Schützenhalle, with a length of approx. 300 m. A total of four tunnels with a total length of 2175 m were planned. The estimated costs for the tunnels amounted to 1.84 million marks. The Royal Railway Directorate put the total costs for the railway line at 9.8 million marks; that would have been 289,100 marks per train kilometer.
Lt. a plan from 1 April 1913 should also be at today's main traffic intersection Bräucken a station Bräucken arise for the railroad. To this day, this area of Lüdenscheid has never been opened up by the railroad. At that time, the area around today's Bräuckenkreuz was still almost undeveloped, so that at that time it would have been relatively easy to build a train station. On the map from this time you can still clearly see the former rural character of the area.
In 1963 a planning concept was presented to the city administration of Lüdenscheid, according to which today's Sauerfelder Straße should run on two levels and the Bruges – Lüdenscheid railway line from Lüdenscheid station should continue underground with a gradient of only one percent. The railway line should then have ended in the second basement at the central traffic junction Sauerfeld in the city center district . In addition, 500 parking spaces were to be created under today's Rathausplatz. However, because of the “utopian notion” at the time, the project was rejected.
Until a few decades ago, there were also direct trains from Lüdenscheid to Wipperfürth and Wuppertal via the Wuppertal Railway , which began in Oberbrügge . Wipperfurth towards Cologne , a railway construction was also discussed, of a railway link Lüdenscheid- stop -Cologne provides.
There were also plans to implement the Volmetalbahn from Dortmund via Hagen to Lüdenscheid as a light rail . The tram should run directly from Dortmund city center via Hagen city center to downtown Lüdenscheid . In 1997, a concept for the Hagen regional light rail system was presented, which was rejected for cost reasons, despite the transport benefits.
Bus transport
There are local and regional bus connections to all neighboring cities and towns. The city belongs to the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe (VRL), whose tariff also applies to the buses of the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft GmbH (MVG) and those of the Ruhr-Sieg bus service (BRS) as well as to the trains of the Volmetal Bahn . The central bus station (ZOB) of the city of Lüdenscheid is located on the lower Sauerfelder Straße .
The central bus station Sauerfeld ZOB has been completely redesigned in recent years. The two pedestrian tunnels have been redesigned and some have new entrances. In addition, the area between the Sauerfeld central bus station and the central Sternplatz was modernized. The upper pedestrian tunnel has also received two elevators at both ends. The stop signs and the electronic passenger information displays as well as the lanterns have also been redesigned at the Sauerfeld ZOB. The kiosk, the waiting areas and the seating elements have also been rebuilt and are to be further expanded and renewed in the future. The paving of the pedestrian path and the tarred road were completely replaced on both sides of the Sauerfeld ZOB.
Since the timetable change in August 2010, Lüdenscheid train station has also been the second central bus station in Lüdenscheid next to Sauerfeld ZOB . The stop consists of 5 bus stops, 4 of which go directly to the platform, and is served by 17 bus routes.
Airports
The closest airports for international flights are Dortmund , around 45 km away, and Cologne / Bonn and Düsseldorf around 100 km away. There are smaller airfields easily accessible in two neighboring communities: Meinerzhagen airfield and Plettenberg-Hüinghausen airfield in Herscheid .
media
Daily newspapers with a Lüdenscheider local section are the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten and until 2013 was the Westfälische Rundschau .
The city belongs to the editorial area of the radio station Radio MK , whose broadcaster is based in Iserlohn. Lüdenscheid has been assigned broadcast location No. 73 (frequency 100.2 MHz) by the State Agency for Media .
Lüdenscheid is part of the editorial area of Studio Siegen, a local broadcaster of the WDR .
Public facilities
The public library of the city of Lüdenscheid was opened as the predecessor of the Lüdenscheid city library on May 10, 1857. With its original name and purpose, it was one of the older such institutions in Germany. The library is now located in the former town house on Graf-Engelbert-Platz in the old town, which was supplemented by a post-modern extension.
For the music school of the city Lüdenscheid was old post office converted. It is a listed building in representative neo-renaissance style on the upper Altenaer Straße.
The old town hall now houses the headquarters of the Lüdenscheid adult education center .
Since 2005, the city archive has been housed in the Kerksighalle (Kerksigstrasse 4), a former gymnasium that was built in 1890 and expanded over time through various modifications and additions.
Lüdenscheid used to have a good range of swimming pools as a successor to the Schillerbad swimming pool (now a brewery), which was inaugurated in 1905. The wave pool in the city center and the swimming pool of the hospital for sports injuries in Hellersen, both public facilities used for decades, were closed. Lüdenscheid's public outdoor pools have been located on today's Talstrasse since around 1900. The current facility from 1934 was expanded in the 1980s and an indoor swimming pool was added. There is another public swimming pool in the large hotel on Parkstrasse. The next bathing lakes, dams with swimming possibilities - Glörtalsperre , Oestertalsperre or Listertalsperre - are difficult to reach with public transport and take a considerable amount of time.
In addition to the Nattenberg stadium , Lüdenscheid has several other sports fields.
Authorities
Lüdenscheid is the seat of the Märkisches Kreis . The district administration is mainly located in the district building on Heedfelder Straße. The Lüdenscheid district court responsible for Lüdenscheid, Halver and Schalksmühle has been located in the Dukatenweg 6 building since 2004, a simple building from the 1950s that originally housed the tax office . The traditional and representative old building, an important monument in the neo-renaissance style on Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße, was abandoned at that time. Today the tax office has a new building opposite the inner city train station (Bahnhofsallee). A branch of the Iserlohn Employment Agency can be found on Duisbergweg. Located on Parkstrasse is the Märkisches Sauerland regional forest office, one of 16 in North Rhine-Westphalia. The South Westphalian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SIHK) operates an office in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Haus on Staberger Straße. The district church office of the Evangelical Church District Lüdenscheid-Plettenberg is located in Hohfuhrstrasse. The church district includes the southern Märkische Kreis and, after a structural reform, also parts of the Olpe district .
Hospitals, health care and social services
The largest hospital with 979 beds is the Lüdenscheid Clinic . As an academic teaching facility at the University of Bonn , it offers maximum care and is the largest hospital in South Westphalia . The clinic emerged in 1970 from a merger of the traditional municipal hospital on Philippstrasse (founded in 1869 at the corner of Hochstrasse / Staberger Strasse) and the district hospital established in 1946 in the Hellersen barracks . Both locations were used until 1986, but this year they moved into the large new building in Lüdenscheid-Hellersen, Paulmannshöher Straße 14. Most of the old buildings of the municipal hospital were soon replaced by residential buildings; contrary to the original plans, the old buildings of the district hospital were taken back into use for the clinic when demand increased. The integrated children's clinic, which was previously housed in its own building at Hohfuhrstrasse 25, has 74 beds.
The Hellersen Sports Clinic, which is adjacent to the Lüdenscheid Clinic, has 260 beds in two main buildings. The Berglandklinik (Am Hundebrink) is a specialist clinic for gynecology and obstetrics with 40 beds.
The house Spielwigge is a specialist hospital for addicted men with 40 beds. There is also an open long-term psychiatric facility with 241 beds, Haus Hellersen - Karl Wessel GmbH & Co.
The German Diabetic Association operates a central facility for young people with diabetes on Danziger Weg .
The SOS Children's Village Sauerland is located on Claudiusstrasse on Dickenberg.
The Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe operates the regional office for South Westphalia in Lüdenscheid.
Education and Research
schools
Lüdenscheid has a differentiated school system. In the center and in many districts there are 11 primary schools, for example the Pestalozzi School , and others in Bierbaum, Bruges, Gevelnorf, on the Kalve, in the Lösenbach, on the Vogelberg or on the Schöneck. The Schöneck elementary school will be closed in 2015 due to falling student numbers.
There are five special schools: The Peace School focuses on learning, and the Michael Ende School is a municipal school for the sick. There is also the Astrid Lindgren School as a language special school and the Erich Kästner School as a special school for emotional and social development. The Märkische Kreis is responsible for the latter two institutions. The fifth is the Schule an der Höh with a focus on intellectual development.
Secondary schools are the Albert Schweitzer School with two locations (Stammschule and Wefelshohl), the Free Christian Secondary School and the Hauptschule Stadtpark . At Realschulen there is the Free Christian Realschule , the Richard Schirrmann Realschule and the Theodor Heuss Realschule . This offer is supplemented by the Adolf Reichwein Comprehensive School .
The city has three high schools. The youngest and largest in terms of the number of students is the Bergstadt-Gymnasium, founded in 1965 . The Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium emerged from a secondary school for girls founded in 1858 , later a lyceum , then an upper lyceum. The Zeppelin-Gymnasium is by far the oldest secondary school . It goes back to a Latin school that has probably existed since the 15th century. Until the introduction of co-education at the end of the 1960s, it was a pure boys 'school, just like the neighboring Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, which was exclusively a girls' school. For decades, both schools have shared upper-level lessons, which enables a wide range of courses.
In the area of vocational training there is the vocational college for technology and the Gertrud-Bäumer vocational college for health and social affairs . Both facilities are located at Raithelplatz 5. The core of the building ensemble there is a striking neo-baroque building, which was built in 1913 for a teachers' seminar that was then located in Lüdenscheid. With a total of more than 5,000 students, the two vocational colleges are the largest, at least in the southern Märkisches Kreis.
The other schools include the Lüdenscheid evening grammar school , the integrative school for music and art "limitless", the Greek Lyceum , the municipal music school , a school for nursing professions and the adult education center.
Higher education institutions
The higher education institutions are the Institute for History and Biography of the Distance University in Hagen , the Institute for Forming Technology Lüdenscheid and the Plastics Institute Lüdenscheid . The latter two institutions are affiliated with the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences . Last but not least, there is academic teaching at the Lüdenscheid Clinic , which is used by the University of Bonn to train medical professionals.
In addition, a new location for the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences was built by February 2012 for up to 600 students at the nearby Lüdenscheid train station . Since the summer semester 2012, courses in the fields of mechanical engineering , medical technology , plastics technology and industrial engineering - building system technology have been offered there.
The new building of the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences was inaugurated on March 14, 2012. The space for extensions is available in the immediate vicinity due to the dismantling of station buildings and track systems.
At the end of August 2013 it became known that the plans to expand the university of applied sciences were being pushed forward by the administration. However, it is also conceivable that instead of just partial courses, entire courses could also be offered at the Lüdenscheid University of Applied Sciences in the future. In mid-September 2013, a numerus clausus was also introduced for all subjects at the Lüdenscheid University of Applied Sciences , as there are now significantly more registrations than places at the Lüdenscheid University of Applied Sciences.
Research institutions
The German Institute for Applied Lighting Technology (DIAL) , which has also built a new building on the station premises, should also be mentioned as a research institution connected with local industry . The building now stands next to the building of the tax office. In addition, the city has promised the DIAL an optional area of 3000 m² if it wants to expand again. The foundation stone for the new building at the station was laid on July 13, 2011. On January 7, 2013, the 70 employees of DIAL GmbH officially moved into the new building at Bahnhofsallee 18. According to the company, the cost of the new building was 4.5 Million euros net for 3000 square meters of space below that of a conventional building. Another 3,000 square meters can optionally be used for an expansion over a period of ten years; however, they should initially only be a parking space for the new building. A false floor in the building leaves space for new technologies, with hardly any new lines having to be drawn, almost everything in the new building runs electronically. The building can also do without radiators, since the warmth of people and PCs should soon be sufficient for complete heating.
In the Freisenberg district , the South Westphalia tool making institute was also located on Freisenbergstrasse 19. The institute, which is affiliated to the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences , has over 600 square meters of space for administration, training rooms and the technical center. The shareholders of the tool making institute are a supporting association consisting of companies from the region (tws), the city of Lüdenscheid (EGC), the Märkische Kreis (GWS), the precision mechanics guild, the plastics institute Lüdenscheid and the institute for metal forming Lüdenscheid (IFU ). The institute sees itself as a mediator between theory and practice. The company's goals are to achieve networked toolmaking. This should also enable large tool projects to be brought to the region in the future.
Training centers
In mid-January 2015, the Lüdenscheid plastics institute received a funding notification for 2.8 million euros from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The decision enables the “Polymer Training Center” (PTC) to be built next to the Lüdenscheid Plastics Institute. According to a newspaper article, the PTC should break new ground in imparting knowledge, providing initial training and further education. It is also aimed at dropouts and long-serving company employees who - without a degree - have to reorient themselves.
The new five-story building is expected to cost around 5.2 million euros and provide 1,857 square meters of usable space. 56 office workplaces, two machine training rooms, two training and four meeting rooms and a large conference room are to be created in the building. The concept should also include a boarding school for schoolchildren, students from Germany and abroad as well as skilled workers during their training. With this concept one wants to attract new skilled workers for the region and counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the area.
Personalities
Lüdenscheid was the birthplace or workplace of numerous well-known personalities. These include the industrialist Gustav Selve and the airship builder Carl Berg . The film director Wolfgang Büld , the painter Paul Wieghardt , the painter Ida Gerhardi and the writer Else Hueck-Dehio can be named as examples of those who work in culture . The Prussian government president and trade minister Heinrich Wilhelm von Holtzbrinck and the liberal politician Julius Lenzmann were also connected to the city . Born in Lüdenscheider, Helmuth Groscurth was an officer of the Wehrmacht and active resistance fighter in the Third Reich ; Among other things, he took part in the September 1939 conspiracy. Jochen Bohl , former regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , also comes from the city and began his career here.
Others
Loriot, Precht and others
The character Müller-Lüdenscheidt from the cartoon sketch Herren im Bad by Loriot contributed to the popularity of the city of Lüdenscheid. In a café near the Kulturhaus is a memorial by the sculptor Frijo Müller-Belecke , which Müller-Lüdenscheidt and Dr. Represents Klöbner in the bathtub.
Lenin only got to Lüdenscheid is the title of a book by Richard David Precht published in 2005 and the corresponding film adaptation from 2008. The author describes his youth in a left-wing home in Solingen. Obviously he was impressed by the Whitsun meetings of the SDAJ , which took place in Lüdenscheid at the time. In an interview he sums up: "No, for me Lüdenscheid remains always connected with the world revolution and Lenin."
In his song Meine Stadt , the Christian songwriter, journalist and church politician Jürgen Werth from Lüdenscheid also criticizes the radical changes and upheavals in the center of Lüdenscheid in recent years and decades.
Far, far, far to Lüdenscheid is the title of a hit by Jonny Hill from the 1970s, which alluded to the city's poor accessibility and thus provinciality at the time.
The song Leben auf dem Lande by the songwriter Ulrich Roski tells of the daughter of a farmer who moves to the next larger town of Lüdenscheid and gets married.
Die Toten Hosen sing about a Madelaine from Lüdenscheid in their album "Reich & Sexy II"
The pop singer René Carol has his grave in the Protestant cemetery in Lüdenscheid.
Lüdenscheid , occasionally also Lüdenscheid-Nord, is the common derogatory term for the Borussia Dortmund football club , as it is used primarily by Ruhr area clubs that rival Dortmund, especially Schalke 04 . It aims to reduce the importance of the club's address and the city to that of a district of a smaller city outside the Ruhr area.
license plate
Vehicles registered in Lüdenscheid were given a license plate number starting with LÜD until December 31, 1974 , in the municipality of Lüdenscheid-Land license plates with AL ( Altena district ) were issued until they were split up in 1969, according to their district membership . Until March 31, 1980 the license plate for Lüdenscheid was LS . Until then, the license plate referred to the district town. In 1980, due to legal changes, the then possible MK as the abbreviation for Märkischer Kreis was changed. However, some vehicles with old license plates (LÜD / LS) still exist. Nationwide there are fan associations of rare license plates to maintain these vehicles.
literature
- Richard Althaus : Lüdenscheid in the old days . Lüdenscheid 1981, DNB 810665824 .
- Jürgen Braun, Jochen Schulte: Lüdenscheid back then - Theo Schulte's pictures. Lüdenscheid 1999, ISBN 3-9805425-3-X .
- Günther Deitenbeck: History of the city of Lüdenscheid, 1813-1914. Ludenscheid 1985.
- Paul Derks: The settlement names of the city of Lüdenscheid: linguistic and historical investigations . History and local history association, Lüdenscheid 2004, ISBN 3-9804512-3-2 .
- Karl AF Günther: Lüdenscheid, the face of a town in the Sauerland. Lüdenscheid 1959.
- Carl Haase : The emergence of the Westphalian cities. 4th edition. Münster 1984, ISBN 3-402-05867-7 .
- Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis: Art and historical monuments in the Märkischer Kreis . Edited by Ulrich Barth, Ehnar Hartmann, August Kracht. Balve 1983, ISBN 3-89053-000-1 , pp. 396-447.
- Heimatverein Lüdenscheid e. V. (Hrsg.): Lüdenscheid yesterday and today, 75 historical postcards - 75 current photos. Texts by Wolfgang Schumacher. Lüdenscheid 1992.
- Wilfried Hoffmeister: Lüdenscheid, pictures, notes, thoughts. 2nd Edition. Lüdenscheid 1983, ISBN 3-922650-02-3 .
- Albert Hömberg: Ecclesiastical and secular state organization (parish system and court system) in the original parish areas of southern Westphalia. Munster 1967.
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- Cultural Office of the City of Lüdenscheid (ed.): Book of the Bergstadt Lüdenscheid. Lüdenscheid 1951.
- Alfred Diedrich Rahmede: History of the city of Lüdenscheid. 2 volumes, (manuscript from 1943/44 in the archive of the city of Lüdenscheid).
- Ebbegebirge Nature Park - the excursion and recreational destination on the doorstep. With 52 photos, 11 drawings and 6 maps, published for the tenth anniversary of the Ebbegebirge Nature Park. Sauerland-Verlag, Iserlohn 1974, ISBN 3-87695-109-7 .
- Christoph Riedel: Lüdenscheid leaps in time. Past and present: Photo book with 55 pairs of pictures, which show the past and present in Lüdenscheid by contrasting historical and current photographs. , Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3954006274
- Wilhelm Sauerländer: History of the city of Lüdenscheid, from the beginnings to the year 1813. 2nd edition. Expanded and reviewed by Günther Deitenbeck. Lüdenscheid 1989.
- Franz Heinrich Schumacher: Chronicle of the city and rural community Lüdenscheid. Altena 1847 (reprint: Lüdenscheid 2006, ISBN 3-9804512-5-9 ).
- Dietmar Simon: Labor movement in the provinces: social conflicts and socialist politics in Lüdenscheid in the 19th and 20th centuries . Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-282-5 .
- Hans Strodel: Chronicle of the city of Lüdenscheid. From 75 years of the Lüdenscheider General-Anzeiger. Ludenscheid 1929.
- What does province mean: 12 photographers see Lüdenscheid . Texts by Robert Kuhn (with numerous articles by other authors), conception and design by Otl Aicher. Lüdenscheid 1984, ISBN 3-9800859-0-2 .
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Web links
- Website of the city of Lüdenscheid
- Private webpage on the history of Lüdenscheid
- Literature on Lüdenscheid in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lüdenscheid in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
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- ^ Commemorative plaque for the Veme on the replica of the city wall (Ringmauerstraße), donated in 1982 by the Verkehrs- und Heimatverein, research: Eberhard Fricke, design: Hans Matthies.
- ^ JJ Scotti: Collection of laws and ordinances ... in the Grafschaft Mark, Volume II. Düsseldorf 1826, No. 859.
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- ^ Wilhelm Sauerländer: The fire files of 1723. Lüdenscheid 1958, p. 119 ff.
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- ^ Walter Hostert: Lüdenscheid as a garrison town. In: Museums of the city of Lüdenscheid: Lure and compulsion - Lüdenscheid under National Socialism. 1999, p. 211.
- ^ Michaela Häffner: Social profile and career of a representative of the regional NS leader corps: the NSDAP district leader Walter Borlinghaus. in: ibid., p. 83.
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- ↑ Ev. Church Lüdenscheid-Plettenberg: Church district association
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 76 .
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- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x census result.
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- ↑ Homepage of the city of Lüdenscheid (official population figures 2016)
- ↑ a b c d Homepage of IT.NRW (official population figures 2018)
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook 2006 - Chapter 2 (PDF; 924 kB) ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lüdenscheid - Participatory Budgeting ( Memento from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Results of the council election on May 25, 2014
- ↑ § 1 of the main statutes of the city of Lüdenscheid (PDF; 66 kB) (PDF)
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- ↑ Sister cities of Lüdenscheid
- ^ Lüdenscheid SGV group visits Grafschaft Glatz. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Structure of the chain of office. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
- ^ Rudolf Sparing: Direction work in Lüdenscheid since 1986. Accessed on September 8, 2013 .
- ^ Profile of the Oratorio Choir Lüdenscheid
- ↑ Cultural Office of the City of Lüdenscheid: Book of the Bergstadt Lüdenscheid. 1951, p. 243 ff. (Music)
- ↑ Lüdenscheider Vocal Ensemble: National Performances ( Memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Lüdenscheid: Protected cinema foyer
- ↑ SIKU // WIKING model world website
- ↑ Flyer from SIKU // WIKING model world ( Memento from August 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ Information about the opening of the SIKU // WIKING model world ( Memento from October 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten about the opening of the SIKU // WIKING model world
- ↑ Cultural Office of the City of Lüdenscheid: Book of the Bergstadt Lüdenscheid. 1951, p. 111 ff. (Cityscape and building fabric)
- ↑ See Wilhelm Sauerländer, Günther Deitenbeck, 1989, p. 231.
- ^ Clubs in the Lüdenscheid City Sports Association . Archived from the original on November 29, 2009. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
- ↑ Lüdenscheid light routes
- ^ Lüdenscheid Talks
- ↑ Flyer Events during Advent ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 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; 255 kB)
- ↑ On the Lüdenscheider Platt cf. including Fritz Kuhne: Folklore from Lüdenscheid and the surrounding area. In: Kulturamt Lüdenscheid: Book of the mountain town Lüdenscheid. 1951, p. 172 ff.
- ^ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of April 7, 2011: "Heedfeld-Süd" industrial area in Lüdenscheid
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of April 7, 2011: "Zum Timberg" industrial park in Lüdenscheid
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of April 7, 2011: "Wibschla" industrial area in Lüdenscheid
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of April 27, 2010: The Rosmart business park should be open to everyone
- ↑ a b Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of March 2, 2013: No investor in sight yet
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of July 27, 2012: Craft business builds on Rosmart
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of February 2, 2013: More truck spaces on the A45 in 2013
- ^ Map with motorway plans (part 09) from January 1, 1976 from autobahn-online.de
- ↑ Article from the Süderländer Tageblatt of February 13, 2011: A motorway through the Versetal
- ^ Map with motorway plans (part 05) from January 1, 1976 from autobahn-online.de
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- ↑ Closing the gap on the railway line to Lüdenscheid. http://www.come-on.de , December 10, 2017, accessed on December 11, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH: VRS: reactivation of the Meinerzhagen - Lüdenscheid - Bruges railway line closes the gap in the network. Retrieved December 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Article from the Westfälische Rundschau from January 29, 2013: Railway - Trains should go to Lüdenscheid
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of February 2, 2013: Fields give way to roads
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of March 30, 2013: Utopian idea
- ↑ Article from the Westfälische Rundschau from August 1, 2011: Sauerfeld - The end of an eternal construction site
- ↑ The Kerksighalle A building with history
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- ^ Schools in Lüdenscheid
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of May 12, 2011: "University building for up to 600 students"
- ↑ Article from the Westfälische Rundschau of November 29, 2008: "Study places: Universities of applied sciences: Lüdenscheid wins, Dortmund loses" ( Memento from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Article from the Westfälische Rundschau from March 14, 2012: University of Applied Sciences - the heart of the think tank beats
- ↑ Article from the Westfälische Rundschau from August 29, 2013: University - FH is considering expansion
- ↑ German Institute for Applied Lighting Technology
- ↑ Article from the Westfälische Rundschau from August 16, 2010: Railway station area - DIAL buys 5000 square meters of building land
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of July 13, 2011: Great interest in DIAL laying the foundation stone
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 7, 2013: DIAL new building related: "Like an organism"
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of March 28, 2010: The center should be in operation by the end of the year
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of October 26, 2012: Tool making institute between theory and practice
- ↑ Homepage of the Tool Making Institute Südwestfalen GmbH - WI SWF
- ↑ a b Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 16, 2015: "Land invests in the future of plastics"
- ^ WDR interview with Richard David Precht . Archived from the original on June 27, 2009. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
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