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Lüde is a redirect to this article. For further meanings see also Lüdde and Von Lüde .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '  N , 9 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	lip
Height :	105 m above sea level NHN
Area :	88.64 km 2
Residents:	9390 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	106 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	32676
Primaries :	05281, 05283
License plate :	LIP
Community key :	05 7 66 052
City structure:	10 localities
City administration address :	Am Markt 1 32676 Lügde
Website :	www.luegde.de
Mayor :	Heinrich Josef Reker (independent)
Location of the city of Lügde in the Lippe district

View of Lügde from the Osterberg

Lügde  [ local pronunciation: ˈlʏçtʰə ] ( Low German : Lüde ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Lippe district . It is located in the Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge nature park . Since July 24, 2012, Lügde has officially been called the City of Easter Wheels .

geography

Geographical location

Lügde is located in the Weser Uplands east of the Emmer running through the valley , which rises in the Langeland district of the city of Bad Driburg and flows into the Weser in Emmerthal . Further west are the Egge Mountains , northwest the Teutoburg Forest and further east the Weser flows. One of the highest mountains in the Weser Uplands, the Köterberg at 496  m, belongs to the large community of Lügde . The lowest point in the urban area is 98  m .

geology

Geothermal productivity of the urban area

In the municipality, the Lipper Bergland consists predominantly of clay marl , limestone and sandstones from the Middle Ages . These sedimentary rocks are between 1 and 1.5 km thick. In the course of the earth's history they were lifted out and pushed together to form saddles and hollows in the course of mountain-building processes . In the southern parts of the city there are also nests and ditches . Under these layers are the rocks of the ancient world , especially from Devonian , Carboniferous and Permian . Loose rocks from the Ice Age ( gravel , sand and loess ) are found above the bedrock in the sometimes wide valley plains of the Emmer and its tributaries.

The fissured limestone and clay marl stones of the shell limestone and units of the Keuper are good aquifers . Occasionally, groundwater is salinized and mineralized by dissolving rock salt and gypsum in the deeper subsoil .

In the urban area, stones and earth are mined for use in the production of gravel and gravel.

Brown earth and pseudogley brown earth have developed on the rocks of the Muschelalk and Keuper, some of which are used for forestry and some for arable farming. In smaller areas in the northern part of the urban area on knolls there are also transitions to shallow, stony rendzinen . In the wide-span valleys and lower slopes , the solid rocks are covered by Ice Age loess . As a result, fertile parabrown soils have formed from silty loam .

Mainly in the southern part of the urban area there are occurrences of silt-rich, waterlogged pseudogleyen. Gleye are predominant in the stream lowlands ; they are used as grassland. Forestry use takes place on the mountain ranges and in locations covered with pseudogley, otherwise there is intensive arable use, especially on the high-yield loess loam soils.

Lügde is consistently well to very well suited for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of a geothermal probe and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see the adjacent map).

Expansion and use of the urban area

The city, classified as a "large rural community", extends over an area of ​​88.62 km². The municipal area has a maximum extension in east-west direction of approx. 11 km and in north-south direction of approx. 14 km.

Area according to type of use	Agricultural schafts- area	Forest area	Building, open and operational space	Traffic area	Surface of water	Sports and green space	other use
Area in km²	44.25	33.85	4.31	4.25	0.61	1.15	0.18
Share of total area	49.93%	38.20%	4.86%	4.80%	0.69%	1.30%	0.20%

Neighboring communities

The town of Bad Pyrmont ( district of Hameln-Pyrmont ) and the municipality of Vahlbruch and the Flecken Polle ( joint municipality of Polle , district of Holzminden ), all of Lower Saxony , the cities of Höxter and Marienmünster ( district of Höxter ) and Schieder-Schwalenberg border Lügde, starting in the north in a clockwise direction and Blomberg ( Lippe district ), all of North Rhine-Westphalia.

City structure

Emmer in Lügde

According to § 3 para. 1 of its main articles of association, the city Lügde in the following ten towns, the independent before 1970 communities in the divided county Detmold or in the office Luegde in Höxter were. The boundaries of the localities coincide with those of the formerly independent municipalities.

Locality	coat of arms	Residents 1	Districts of Lügde
Elbrinxen		1284
Falkenhagen		380
Harzberg		87
Lobster		428
Köterberg		84
Lie		5976
Sneeze		464
Rischenau		1190
Sabbenhausen		957
Wörderfeld		370

¹ The population figures (main and secondary residences) are based on updates by the residents' registration office of the city of Lügde as of December 31, 2007.

climate

Precipitation diagram Schieder-Schwalenberg

Lügde belongs to the moderate climate zone of Central Europe and lies in the area of ​​the subatlantic maritime climate . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic and the summers are moderately warm. The annual mean temperature is between approx. 7 and 9.5 ° C, depending on the altitude.

Due to the location in the sub-Atlantic maritime climate, a humid climate prevails all year round with relatively evenly distributed rainfall. The German Weather Service has been operating a fully automatic weather station in Lügde-Paenbruch since October 11, 2000, which is 10 km south and approx. 150 meters above the city in the Rischenau- Biesterfeld district. Only around 600 m away, in Marienmünster- Langenkamp, ​​a part-time air conditioning station had already been operated at a comparable altitude from December 1989 to July 1996. At the same time, automatic registrations of the DWD station on the Köterberg took place until October 11, 2000 .

At the Bad Pyrmont precipitation station, 3 km north of Lügde, 833.1 mm of precipitation falls annually, at the climate station in Schieder 10 km to the south-west it is 867.6 mm.

Climate Lügde-Paenbruch (258 m), period 2007 - 2017 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.0 4.1 8.6 13.9 17.3 20.2 22.5 22.0 17.8 12.6 7.6 4.1 O 12.9 Min. Temperature (° C) -1.6 -1.1 0.9 3.7 7.0 10.1 12.2 11.7 9.1 5.8 3.0 -0.1 O 5.1 Temperature (° C) 0.9 1.6 4.7 8.9 12.4 15.3 17.4 16.9 13.4 9.1 5.4 2.1 O 9 Precipitation ( mm ) 85.5 56.2 54.9 35.0 74.4 71.3 90.6 83.1 68.9 69.7 78.6 76.8 Σ 845 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.3 2.1 4.1 5.8 6.2 6.5 6.3 5.9 4.4 3.0 1.4 0.9 O 4th Rainy days ( d ) 20th 17th 15th 12 16 15th 18th 17th 15th 17th 19th 21st Σ 202 Source: SKlima.de database, long-term mean values ​​DWD

For the climate in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region , to which the city belongs, see also the article Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe .

history

Capitals and cities of the Principality of Paderborn until 1802/03 (as of 1789):
Paderborn , Warburg , Brakel , Borgentreich | Beverungen , Borgholz , Bredenborn , Büren , Driburg , Dringenberg , Gehrden , Calenberg , Kleinenberg , Lichtenau , Lippspringe , Lügde , Nieheim , Peckelsheim , Salzkotten , Steinheim , Vörden , Willebadessen , Wünnenberg

Middle Ages and City Foundation

Lügde was first mentioned in a document in 784 in the Franconian Reichsannalen , when Charlemagne celebrated his first Christmas party here in what was then the Duchy of Saxony , namely in Villa Liuhidi near the Skidrioburg , which is now known as Herlingsburg . The settlement probably originated around or in the first century AD and was located north of today's city center in Ollenlüderfeld , between today's Lügde and Bad Pyrmont -Holzhausen. Legend has it that a church was built on the place where Charlemagne stayed overnight, and today's Kilian 's Church was built in its place in the 12th century . It is more likely, however, that there was a small church on the site as early as 784, which was used by Charlemagne to celebrate Christmas mass (ahd. "Matutina") there. This (wooden) church is believed to have been built on a previous Thingplatz around 775, at the time of the first Saxon Wars , which explains the location of the church outside the settlement area of Villa Liuhidi .

There are several theories for the origin of the city name, originally Liuhidi or Liuhith . One possibility is that it was a hallway that was populated with many people . Liu , possibly also Low German Lüe , means people . This is achieved by the so-called Poeta Saxo with Liudi supported named inhabitants. Another possibility is that the city name means light , whereupon the large number of places with the initial syllable Lug indicate. The first mention in 784 as Liuhidi , however, also allows an origin of ahd. Luhhen (pronounced: “lüchen”) = to wash (cf. Latin luere = to wash). For Liuhidi , the meaning “settlement at the washing area / bathing area” arises. This interpretation appears plausible in view of a healing spring used in the past. It is well known that Charlemagne preferred places with healing springs during his stays, such as B. Aachen, Paderborn, Wiesbaden.

An early documentary mention of the "Lugete" mansion with two outbuildings comes from the Busdorf document from May 25, 1036, when the Paderborn Bishop Meinwerk donated the tithe of this mansion to the newly founded Busdorf Monastery in Paderborn .

Based on a coin minted in Lügde in 1195 by Count Gottschalk I of Pyrmont , it can be assumed that town charter already existed at that time. However, there are no more founding documents. However, it is certain that the city charter was granted in 1246 at the latest, as the town plan, which is still in its original form today, and the fortifications, such as the town wall, moat and defense towers, were created during this time. In addition, Lügde had a market and a city council with a seal.

Lügde represents a planned city foundation by the Pyrmont Counts and has the typical three-street system with a main axis and two side streets. These branch off at an acute angle from the main road in the south, follow it parallel and end in a cross-street connection in the north.

In the late Middle Ages, Lügde was the capital of the County of Pyrmont and the seat of the counts of the same name. The location of the castle within the city walls is unknown today. Lügde repeatedly became the plaything of foreign interests. In 1255 the Counts of Waldeck and Pyrmont had to cede half of Lügdes to the Archbishop of Cologne , an event that is also made clear in the city's coat of arms.

Hylliger Born, Thirty Years War and Paderborn Exclave

Lügde around 1670

Prince-Bishop Ferdinand von Paderborn around 1670

In the middle of the 16th century, the fairy tale about the Hylligen Born , whose water is supposed to cure every ailment , spread. People came to the Lügde area in droves not only from Germany, but from all over Europe, because the place Pyrmont did not yet exist. Lügde and the surrounding villages could not accommodate the crowds, so that thousands had to spend the night in the forest or in the open field.

In 1583 the residents of Lügdes converted to the Reformation . However, changing influences in the Thirty Years' War forced them to give up the Lutheran creed and return to the Catholic faith in 1624 after violent disputes. At the end of the war, a third of the city was destroyed and the population completely impoverished.

On March 14, 1668, Prince-Bishop Ferdinand von Fürstenberg and the Counts of Waldeck agreed on the disputed ownership of the County of Pyrmont after more than 174 years. The counts received the Pyrmonter Brunnen and the neighboring villages. The best-known representative of the Counts of Waldeck, Georg Friedrich zu Waldeck (1620–1692), then had the source stream thrown, planted the four-row avenue of lime trees, which later became famous, and founded Bad Pyrmont . The Principality of Paderborn received the city of Lügde, whose residents protested unsuccessfully and which became a Catholic enclave in the middle of a Protestant area. During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), Lügde was badly damaged by troops moving through and billeting and was on the verge of economic ruin.

Fire disasters and floods

Jérôme and Katharina as King and Queen of the Kingdom of Westphalia

Over the centuries Lügde has been hit by many fire and flood disasters. In the period from the 15th to the 18th century alone, there were nineteen city fires in the densely built-up old town, two of which almost completely cremated the city. Every citizen was obliged to have a leather bucket for extinguishing water. The extinguishing water was drawn from the Emmer and around 120 wells. Until a flood protection system was created in the 2000s, the citizens of Lügdes lived in constant danger of being flooded by the Emmer; the last time in the city center was in 1946, and in the adjacent development areas last in 1998.

The major fire of 1797 almost completely destroyed the place. The conflagration began in the south-west of the city at what is now the local history museum and destroyed 243 of the 315 houses within a few hours. Over 200 houses were rebuilt in the same style over the next three years.

On June 6, 1802, the city was occupied by Prussian troops, then belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia and was assigned to the Höxter district. During the French occupation from 1806 to 1813, Lügde belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia under King Jérôme . After the end of Napoleon's reign , the city fell back to Prussia.

Industrial age and empire

Most of the residents of Lügde were so-called arable citizens and until the end of the 18th century lived to a large extent from agriculture. The rest of them made their living by trade and handicrafts. The economic situation only improved in the middle of the 19th century, when industrial cigar production developed and the city became a center for tobacco processing. Nevertheless, many people, especially the Jewish merchants who had lived in Lügde since the 16th century, but also craftsmen and farmers' sons, no longer saw a future and emigrated to America and South Africa.

The Hanover – Altenbeken railway line was opened in 1875, the tracks of which run right next to Kilian's Church. Initially Bad Pyrmont and Lügde had a common train station until Lügde got its own station in 1892.

During the First World War (1914-1918) 82 liars were killed and 14 went missing.

Weimar Republic and National Socialism

Start of an Easter bike in Lügde

After the First World War, the number of inhabitants increased continuously, and the city soon grew beyond its previous limits and the so-called Neustadt was created . In the 20th century, Lügde also benefited economically from the steady upward development of the neighboring town of Bad Pyrmont.

Because of their Christian worldview, many lying citizens had problems with National Socialism . In 1933, the National Socialists became aware of the Osterräderlauf. They wanted to abuse it for their own purposes and dechristianize it. As a result, a ten-meter-high white wooden cross was erected as a protest by courageous citizens at the point where the Easter wheels drained.

Several air strikes on the railway line during World War II caused considerable damage to Kilian's Church and some residential buildings. In 1943 Lügde had to take in 253 evacuated women and children from Essen, for whom makeshift homes were built. In that war, 114 liars died and twelve were missing.

On the evening of April 4, 1945 around 6 p.m., a hastily convened court martial met in Lügde , made up of several German officers and Major General Otto Goerbig as chairman and prosecutor. The charges against the mayor of Lemgo, Wilhelm Gräfer , were treason, and after a brief hearing, Gräfer was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out the next morning in Bodenwerder .

On April 5, 1945, American tanks coming from Eschenbruch rolled into the valley to Lügde. Right at the entrance to the village, the vehicles were shot at by an SS unit that had taken up position at Kilian's Church and in the cemetery. The Americans called for artillery support, in the course of which four houses and three barns were set on fire. While the bombardment was still in progress, some of the Lügder citizens climbed the tower of the St. Marien town church and hoisted the white flag . At around 3 p.m. the tanks drove into the city without resistance, which was completely occupied by the Americans by evening.

Post-war period and today's situation

On February 8, 1946, the city was flooded again by floods from the Emmer, which were 1.80 meters high in the streets. In 300 houses, all the rooms in the basement were uninhabitable. In the same year 336 refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions came to Lügde. In 1951 the city of Lügde merged with the neighboring village of Harzberg to form the administrative unit of Amt Lügde . As part of the municipal reorganization , the Lügde office was spun off from the Höxter district on December 31, 1969, at the will of the population, and assigned to the Detmold district at that time . At the same time, nine other localities were incorporated into the new city of Lügde. After the Second World War, numerous medium-sized companies, including in particular companies in the electrical industry, settled here. A major employer in Lügdes and market leader in Europe is the manufacturer of enamelled copper wire. In 1992 the tobacco processing companies closed and other companies gave up. So the previously important wood and furniture industry, some companies in the food industry and several construction companies disappeared.

In the old town there was a considerable traffic load with 13,000 vehicles passing through every day. Numerous owners gave up their houses on Mittleren Strasse, so that more than 20 houses were uninhabited there. Several shops were empty and the population was declining. From 6,133 residents in the old town in 2005, the number had fallen to 5,884 by 2008. After long planning and discussions, the city council and administration decided at the end of the 1980s to stop this development by building a bypass. The main part of the construction project is the Emmerauentunnel in order to preserve the image of the old town. The completion of the bypass road was planned for the end of 2009, but was finally opened in October 2010.

As part of an integrated development concept for the revitalization of the historic city center of Lügdes , an Emmeraue with leisure facilities is to be built next to the bypass road. In the old town, the thoroughfare is to be redesigned, the retail trade is to be revitalized and the old buildings are to be renovated.

Lies in the media

→ Main article : Lügde abuse case

From January 30, 2019, Lügde was a nationwide topic in the media for a long time after the sexual abuse of at least 31 children on a campsite in the Elbrinxen district became known. There were suspicions of around 1,000 individual acts within around 10 years and the production of child pornographic material.

Incorporations

In the course of the community reform in the districts of Höxter and Detmold , the city of Lügde merged on January 1, 1970 with the Harzberg community from the Lügde district (Höxter district) and the eight communities of Elbrinxen, Falkenhagen, Hummersen, Köterberg, Niese, Rischenau, Sabbenhausen and Wörderfeld from the Detmold district to form the new town of Lügde, which was incorporated into the Detmold district. The Detmold and Lemgo districts later formed the new Lippe district.

With effect from October 1, 1971, due to a law on the 1st State Treaty between the State of Lower Saxony and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on changes to the common border, areas of the Lower Saxony municipality of Baarsen (today district of Bad Pyrmont) were incorporated into the city of Lügde and the district Assigned to Sabbenhausen.

Outsourcing

On April 1, 1922, Lügde ceded an area of ​​20 hectares to the neighboring town of Bad Pyrmont .

Population development

The following overview shows the population of the city of Lügde according to the respective territorial status. Changes to the territorial status resulted from the transfer of an approximately 0.2 km² inhabited area to the municipality of Pyrmont on April 1, 1922 and the merger of the city of Lügde with nine surrounding municipalities on January 1, 1970. The figures are up to 1970 and 1987 census results and from 1975 official updates of the State Statistical Office , the figures for 1975, 1980 and 1985 being estimated values ​​and the figures from 1990 updates based on the results of the 1987 census. The data relate to 1864 on the "customs clearance population", from 1867 on the "local population" and from 1925 on the resident population .

Population development of Lügde from 1818 to 2018 according to the tables opposite

Lügde according to the territorial status at that time

year Residents 1818 2.023 1831 1,908 1837 2,043 1843 2,069 1849 2.175 1852 2,252 1858 2,230 1861 (December 3) 2,274 1867 (December 3) 2,266 1871 (December 1) 2,340 1880 (December 1) 2.411 1885 (December 1) 2,398

year Residents 1895 (December 1) 2,598 1900 (December 1) 2,624 1905 (December 1) 2,703 1910 (December 1) 2,805 1925 (June 16) 2,901 1933 (June 16) 3,167 1939 (May 17) 3,194 1950 (Sep 13) 4,588 1961 (June 6) 4,740 1969 (Dec. 31) 5,905

Lügde according to the current territorial status

year Residents 1969 (Dec. 31) 10,815 1970 (May 27) 10,591 1974 (June 30) 11,120 1975 (Dec. 31) 11.005 1980 (Dec. 31) 11,023 1985 (Dec. 31) 10,884 1987 (May 25) 10,691 1990 (Dec. 31) 11,248

year Residents 1995 (Dec. 31) 12.003 2000 (Dec. 31) 11,718 2005 (Dec. 31) 11.094 2010 (December 31) 10,400 2011 (Dec. 31) 10,224 2012 (Dec. 31) 9,990 2014 (Dec. 31) 10,035 2018 (Dec. 31) 9,448

politics

Lügde belongs to the Lippe II state electoral district , in which Jürgen Berghahn (SPD) was elected as a direct candidate in the 2017 state elections . At the federal level, Lügde belongs to the federal constituency Höxter - Lippe II (137), in which Christian Haase (CDU) was elected as a direct candidate in 2017 .

City council

City council election 2014

in percent

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

44.3

31.8

19.0

4.9

CDU

SPD

FWG

FDP

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

+4.3

+1.3

-4.8

-1.0

CDU

SPD

FWG

FDP

Allocation of seats in the
Lügder city council in 2014

    

A total of 26 seats

• SPD : 8
• FWG : 5
• FDP : 1
• CDU : 12

The City Council has for the local elections currently from May 25, 2014 26 members. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the local election results since 1975:

	2014		2009		2004		1999		1994		1989		1984		1979		1975
Political party	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%
CDU	12	44.3	10	39.75	10	39.23	11	42.54	11	34.36	15th	45.56	16	47.75	17th	50.07	16	49.65
SPD	8th	31.8	8th	30.51	7th	26.37	8th	31.71	12	35.33	14th	42.94	13	39.59	13	40.09	13	38.09
FWG 1	5	19.0	6th	23.80	5	23.47	5	18.43	8th	23.57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
FDP	1	4.9	2	5.94	2	7.43	1	4.19	2	6.74	4th	11.51	4th	12.65	3	9.84	4th	12.32
Green	-	-	-	-	1	3.50	1	3.12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total 2	26th	100	26th	100	26th	100	26th	100	33	100	33	100	33	100	33	100	33	100
voter turnout	56.3		55.43		60.50		61.10		83.26		69.18		71.52		76.13		86.98

¹ Free community of voters
² without taking into account rounding differences

mayor

Mayor of Lügde is Heinrich Josef Reker (non-party), who was elected mayor with 89.05% in the election on August 30, 2009 as a joint candidate of the CDU and SPD without competitors.

Coat of arms, banner and flag

Description of the coat of arms :
In the split shield in front in silver (white) above a red five-petalled rose with a golden (yellow) slug a red anchor cross, behind in blue a silver key with the beard on the right and above. (Main statute § 2)

Meaning:
The red anchor cross is that of the county of Waldeck-Pyrmont , to which Lügde belonged until 1668, the silver key that of the Archbishopric of Cologne . The red, five-petalled Lippe rose was added in 1971 after several Lippe parishes were incorporated into the city of Lügde in 1970, while at the same time Lügde was incorporated into the Detmold district.

Banner:
striped lengthways in blue and red with the city's coat of arms above the center.

Flag:
striped lengthways in blue and red with the city's coat of arms shifted from the center to the pole.

Town twinning

The town twinning with Angermünde was concluded on July 6, 1990 in Angermünde and on August 11, 1990 in Lügde by the mayors Wolf-Hugo Just and Bernd Arens. The aim of the partnership is mutual support. Furthermore, the meeting of the citizens of the two cities is to be promoted and the cooperation of the municipal institutions, the social organizations, clubs and associations and the industrial and craft enterprises are to be strengthened.

Religions

The first church built in Lügde was Kilian's Church , which was built from 780 to 784 outside the city walls. It is consecrated to the Irish Bishop Kilian .

After the Reformation had been introduced in Lippe in 1538 by a resolution of the state parliament in Cappel, the Liars finally also adopted the new creed in 1583. In the course of the Counter-Reformation , however, the auxiliary bishop in Paderborn Johannes Pelcking succeeded in persuading the Christians in Lügde and Höxter to return to the Catholic Church in 1624. After the agreement with the Count of Waldeck about the property of the County of Pyrmont, the Bishop of Paderborn received the city of Lügde in 1668, whose residents protested unsuccessfully.

In 1853, for the first time since 1624, an evangelical church service was held in Lügde and in 1864 the small Evangelical Lutheran congregation built the St. John's Church , which was given a tower in 1902. After the Second World War, the number of Protestant Christians grew due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions.

The districts that were incorporated in the 1970s are - with the exception of Harzberg - evangelical-reformed, which reversed the majority in today's city in favor of the evangelical church.

There has been no Jewish community in Lügde since the time of National Socialism . The listed Jewish cemetery still reminds of them today .

An indication of the current distribution of religions can be the denomination of the students. According to this, 48.4% of the students in the 2006/2007 school year are Protestant, 35.4% Catholic and 4.3% Islamic. 4.2% said they belonged to another religion and 7.7% had no denomination. In total, the information from 1,212 students was evaluated.

Today there are two Evangelical Reformed parishes in Lügde , namely one in Elbrinxen and one in Falkenhagen (Falkenhagen Monastery ), a Roman Catholic parish each in Lügde and Falkenhagen, an Evangelical Lutheran parish , the Evangelical Free Church in Lügde, a Baptist - Brethren Congregation and a Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association .

Culture and sights

theatre

Lügde does not have its own theater. Nevertheless, plays by the Elbrinx village stage have been staged in the Elbrinx market barn since 2003. The amateur actors have been appearing in restaurants since 1985 and later in the barn.

The Detmold State Theater and the Bielefeld Theater in the area are available for further offers .

Museums

The museum is located in a 1799-built four-column - timbered house and takes the visitor through the history of Lügde. In addition to the building itself, a former farm bourgeois house of the type of a Low German hall house , you can see an Easter wheel and depictions of bobbin lace making and cigar making .

Another museum is located in the Paradiesmühle restaurant in Rischenau, where the old mill is on display.

music

In Lügde there are two hunting horn corps , two trombone choirs , two musicians' trains as well as a wind orchestra, fanfare train, flute group and a harmonica club. Three parishes maintain their own church choir. There are also three women's choirs, four men's choirs, two mixed choir communities and a children's and youth choir.

The offer is supplemented by the "Music School of the Large Community of Lügde".

Buildings

Historic town center with city ​​wall and Kleiner Emmer

Main thoroughfare in the historic town center (2009)

In the area of ​​the municipality of Lügde there are the remains of two former weir systems. West of Lügde below the Herlingsburg lies the so-called Bomhof , a ring wall whose function and age are not yet known exactly. To the east of Lügde are the small remains of Schildberg Castle , a small aristocratic castle probably built in the 11th or 12th century. Large areas of the castle area are today destroyed by quarries.

The construction of today's old town took place in the middle of the 12th century. The street layout and the wall surrounding the city ​​center as well as two defense towers have been preserved from this period. The development within the city walls was built after the last city fire in 1797. It is mainly about half-timbered hall houses . The old town is one of the best preserved historical city centers in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Church of St. Kilian is a Romanesque cruciform vaulted basilica south of the city. The groin vaults are modeled on the monastery church in Lippoldsberg . The cube capitals, of which only a few have survived in Westphalia, are worth seeing. The church served as a burial place for Count Moritz von Pyrmont , who was the last of the Schwalenberg family to be buried in the church.

After the old parish church in the city burned down in 1797, the new St. Mary's Church was built at the end of the 19th century . The construction costs of 164,283 marks were to ² / ₃ of the city and to ¹ / ₃ allocated to the parish. Stones from the old church were used for the church tower. In the right upper aisle there is a crucifixion group in the so-called cross altar, which comes from a folding altar from 1520. The group originally stood in Kilian's Church. The panels of the Way of the Cross from 1877 come from the previous building that had burned down.

The Evangelical Church in Elbrinxen dates from the 12th century . The Romanesque church tower was built as a defense tower at the same time . The church and tower were renovated around 1620 and 1969. Inside there is a pulpit from 1562 that was in Horn until 1699 . In front of the church is a 1,000-year-old linden tree with a trunk circumference of twelve meters.

The Cistercian monastery Falkenhagen was founded in 1247 when the Bruchhagen monastery was moved there. Until 1604, when the monastery was finally closed, it belonged to a total of four orders . In the Thirty Years' War parts were destroyed the monastery. Today the former monastery church with cloister , the chapter house , the refectory and the dormitory are preserved. The latter was built in 1509 and is considered the oldest dated half-timbered house in Lippe .

Former Franciscan monastery

In 1734 a Franciscan monastery was founded in Lügde and built from 1749. In 1752 the monastery buildings could be moved into and the construction of the church began. In 1812 the monastery was closed by Jérôme Bonaparte . In 1859 the Catholic parish bought the building. With financial help from the city, a hospital was initially set up here, and the church served as a storage facility. In 1958 the hospital was converted into an old people's home, which existed until 1970. It was then used as a parish and youth home for the St. Marien community. Today a kindergarten and a day care center for the elderly are housed here. The rooms are also used for cultural events.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Lügde

Parks

There are two designated parks in the city, both of which are open to the public. The gardens at Falkenhagen Abbey are around two hectares in size. The historical gardens are largely in the state they were in at the time they were used by the monastery. The Wallanlage Lügde is a promenade that leads almost completely around the old town of Lügde. It also includes parts of the medieval city wall, including two defense towers. In addition, there has been the Emmerauenpark in front of the gates of Lügder's old town since 2011 , which was created as part of the construction of the bypass road. The park invites you to go for a walk, relax, do sports and attend events.

Natural monuments and protected areas

Wittekindlinde in Elbrinxen

Wittekind linden tree

In the churchyard of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Elbrinxen stands the "1000-year-old linden tree ", also known as the Wittekind linden tree . The linden tree has a trunk circumference of 12 m and a crown diameter of 30 m with a total height of 35 m. This makes it one of the largest trees in Lippe and one of the oldest still existing linden trees in Germany.

Friedhofslinde Lügde

In Lügde, at the cemetery of St. Kilian's Church, on the Kirchberg south of the city, there is another listed old and beautiful linden tree. This summer linden tree has a chest height circumference of 7.16 m (2016) and a height of 27 m.

Protected areas

There are five nature reserves in Lügde, all of which lie within the urban area. These are the Winzenberg (about 19.4  ha in size), the Schildberg (around 122.8 ha in size), the Bierberg (around 31.6 ha in size) and the Ilsenbach area (around 43.2 ha in size). One of two nature reserves, which are also called Emmertal , is also completely within the urban area, it is about 393 hectares in size.

Lügde also has a share in three other nature reserves, namely the Schwalenberg Forest (approx. 2,924.6 hectares), the forests near Blomberg (approx. 1,168 hectares) and the second Emmertal area (approx. 82 hectares).

Sports

There are nine sports clubs in Lügde that offer popular sports. There are also three tennis clubs, a disabled sports group, a DLRG local group, a handball club (which is run as HSG Lügde-Bad Pyrmont together with Bad Pyrmont), a gymnastics group, a judo club, a motorsport club, a riding club. and driving club, a dance group, a football club, the TUS WE Lügde, which currently plays in the district league A, and together with Bad Pyrmont an air sports community.

Culinary specialties

In Lügde and throughout the Lipperland, the typical Lippe specialties are the Lippische Pickert , the Lipper Schütze or kale and Pinkel (also with cabbage or Brägenwurst), whereby the kale is often called the Lippische Palme in the region .

Easter wheel race

Exhibited Easter bike in Lügde

Departure of a burning wheel in the direction of Lügde

Lügde describes itself as the city of Easter wheels . This is based on an old and still practiced custom of letting burning oak wheels stuffed with straw, previously soaked with water, roll down one of the surrounding mountains at Easter . In the 18th century there were several attempts to ban this practice. This was the case in 1743 by the vicar von Wiedenbrück and in 1781 by the Paderborn prince-bishop Wilhelm Anton . Since the construction of the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line in 1872, the six wheels have only come down from the Osterberg and no longer from the Kirchberg opposite .

Today the Dechenverein Lügde, which is committed to the maintenance of customs, is the organizer. Every year six oak wheels with a diameter of around 1.7 m and a weight of around 270 kg are rolled down the Osterberg. A new wooden wheel is always made and given an inscription as a dedication. Days before the event, the bikes are first watered in the Emmer . For the event, they are driven up the mountain mentioned and stuffed there with around 120 kg of straw .

Economy and Infrastructure

Lügde is part of the Integrated Rural Development Concept Südlippe , a network of the communities Blomberg , Horn-Bad Meinberg , Lügde, Schieder-Schwalenberg and Schlangen .

traffic

The state roads 614 and 946 connect Lügde with Blomberg and Barntrup . Bad Pyrmont can be reached via Landesstraße 429 .

Station building

The Lügde stop is on the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line . It is served every hour, every two hours on Sundays and public holidays, from the S-Bahn line 5 Paderborn - Hameln - Hannover Hbf - Hannover Airport .

The surrounding towns can be reached by regional buses . There is regular regular service to Bad Pyrmont, Schieder-Schwalenberg, Blomberg and Lemgo (there is a rail connection in the direction of Bielefeld ). On weekends in summer there is a tourist line in the direction of Detmold to the tourist locations Externsteine , Hermannsdenkmal , Adlerwarte Berlebeck .

The urban area belongs to the tariff association " Westfalentarif " ( OWL Verkehr GmbH ). In the direction of North Rhine-Westphalia, all tariff offers of the NRW tariff also apply . Since there is no special S-Bahn tariff, the Lower Saxony tariff is used in the direction of Hanover . In the regional buses, however, NRW tariffs apply to Bad Pyrmont. Although the Lower Saxony tariff applies to Paderborn, the Lower Saxony ticket can only be used from Bad Pyrmont.

The Hameln-Pyrmont airfield for gliders , microlights , motor gliders and sport aircraft up to 2,000 kg is about 8 km away .

media

The only local daily newspaper in the Lippe district is the Lippische Landes-Zeitung . At the end of 2003 the Lippische Rundschau was discontinued. In addition, there is also coverage of Lügde in the "Pyrmonter Nachrichten", the local edition of the Deister and Weser newspaper in the neighboring Hameln-Pyrmont district.

Lügde belongs to the reporting area of ​​the regional studio Bielefeld of the WDR and Radio Lippe , which it covers in the reporting as local radio.

Public facilities

The volunteer fire brigade in Lügde is divided into six fire fighting groups and two fire engines. In addition, there is a youth fire brigade to promote young talent.

The city's waterworks obtain its water from ten boreholes and two spring taps. The plant maintains 124 km of pipelines with which the 3,098 households are supplied. In addition, 4,090 m³ of water can be stored in 14 elevated tanks. The city's annual consumption is around 522,000 m³ (all data: as of 2001).

The municipality operates the wastewater treatment plants in Elbrinxen and Rischenau. The former sewage treatment plant in Niese was converted into a pumping station and pumps the wastewater to the plant in Rischenau. The wastewater of the core city is treated in the joint sewage treatment plant with Bad Pyrmont .

The Catholic parish operates a library on the ground floor of the former Franciscan monastery in Lügde.

education

In addition to the St. Marien Community Primary School in Lügde, the city also has a primary school in Rischenau and the Johannes Gigas school center with a secondary school and the secondary school founded in the early 1990s.

In 2007, the city's general schools with 69 teachers taught a total of 1,162 pupils, 42% of them in elementary schools, 17% in secondary schools and 41% in secondary schools.

Adult education tasks are performed by the Lippe Ost adult education center, a special-purpose association based in Schieder-Schwalenberg to which the city of Lügde belongs.

There are five kindergartens in Lügde for early childhood education. Three are in municipal sponsorship, one sponsored by the AWO and one sponsored by the Catholic parish.

Companies

Lügde is characterized by an extremely medium-sized and diversified economic structure, large companies are not based. The most important branch of the economy in absolute figures is the manufacturing industry , in this sector 29.4% of the employees subject to social insurance work in Lügde. However, this is almost five percent less than the average for the Lippe district. Relatively the most important are trade , in which 25.5% of employees work (district average 13.6%), and the construction industry , in which 15.5% of employees work (district average 5.5%). A notable company is Schwering & Hasse Elektrodraht GmbH , a major manufacturer of enamelled copper wire with an annual output of around 50,000 tons .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Johannes Gigas (1582–1637), cartographer
• Hermann Korb (1656–1735), Baroque builder, born in Niese
• Johann Püllenberg (1790–1856), philosopher and Catholic theologian
• Josef Seiler (1823–1877), poet, composer and organist
• Otto Günnewich (1902–1942), Catholic priest and Nazi victim
• Heinrich Drake (1903–1994), sculptor, born in Ratsiek
• Norbert Kamp (1927–1999), historian, President of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, born in Niese
• Heinrich Festing (* 1930), Catholic theologian, born in Ratsiek

Other personalities

• The Jesuit Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1591–1635) edited the Cautio Criminalis in the Falkenhagen monastery (published anonymously in Rinteln in 1631).
• Eva von Buttlar (1670–1721), sectarian
• Vicar Otto Günnewich , born in Lügde, was interned in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941 for carrying out a procession and killed in the Hartheim killing center in 1942 .
• Georg von Schleinitz (1834–1910): The imperial German vice admiral, baron, marine and South Sea explorer and circumnavigator with the SMS Gazelle from 1874–1876 spent the last years of his life on Gut Hohenborn near Lügde and was buried in its cemetery.
• Vladimir Simović (* 1973), non-fiction author, lives and works in Lügde.
• Felix Platte (* 1996), professional footballer, grew up in Sabbenhausen.

literature

• Wilhelm Engelbert Giefers : On the history of the city of Lügde . In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity . 9, 3rd episode. Münster 1871, p. 139-192 .
• Edmund Schlieker: From the history of the city of Lügde . Josefs-Druckerei, Bigge / Ruhr 1950.
• Heinrich Horstmann: Lügde, city of the Easter fire wheels . Ed .: City of Lügde. Berges printing works, Hamm 1970.
• Edmund Schlieker, revised and continued by Josef Friese: From the history of the city of Lügde . 1983, ISBN 3-924394-00-8 .
• Willy Gerking: The medieval settlements of the large community of Lügde. A historical-archaeological study on desert research . In: Lippisches Landesmuseum (ed.): Writings of the Lippisches Landesmuseum . tape 2 . Detmold 1986.
• Reinhard Oldemeier: Anniversary commemoration in honor of Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld SJ 1591–1635 . Ed .: City of Lügde. Lügde 1991.
• Fritz Verdenhalven (edit.): Citizen register of the city of Lügde from 1726 to 1858 . In: Natural science and historical association for the land of Lippe / Lippischer Heimatbund (Hrsg.): Lippische Geschistorquellen . tape 20 . Detmold 1992, ISBN 3-923384-11-4 .
• Reinhard Oldemeier: In memoriam Johannes Gigas (doctor of medicine and mathematics, cartographer and astronomer) 1582–1637 . Ed .: City of Lügde. Lügde 1992.
• Willy Gerking: Urban archeology in Lügde . Ed .: City of Lügde. Lügde 2000, ISBN 3-00-006255-6 .
• Manfred Willeke: Lügde . Sutton, Erfurt 2000, ISBN 3-89702-220-6 (old views and archive images).
• Willy Gerking: Cigars from Lügde. On the history of the tobacco industry in Lügde. Lügde, 2002.
• Willy Gerking: From the cigar to the enamelled copper wire. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of Schwering & Hasse Elektrodraht GmbH & Co. KG. , Lügde, 2008.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Lügde  - sources and full texts

• Web presence of the city of Lügde
• Document requests from the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia on the city of Lügde / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
• Easter wheel race
• Dechenverein Lügde as the organizer of the Easter bike race
• Archiv-Willeke Archive for local history and family history in Lügde and the old county of Pyrmont
• Lügde in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
• House inscriptions in Lügde
• Illustration of the city of Lügde and its surroundings from 1715

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1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .   ( Help on this )
2. ↑ Federal Statistical Office - Area changes from January 1 to December 31, 2012
3. ↑ Geological Service NRW: Geoscientific community descriptions NRW. Lügde ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
5. ↑ ^{a b} State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia : Municipal profile Lügde ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} City of Lügde: Main statute of the city of Lügde in the version of May 28, 2014. (PDF; 340 kB) Accessed on January 18, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Statistical information on Lügde
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9. ↑ http://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/klimadatendeutschland/mittelwerte/nieder_6190_akt_html.html?view=nasPublication&nn=16102
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11. ^ Gerhard Köbler (1993): Old High German Dictionary. S. 320. Jörg Riecke (1996): The weak "jan" verbs of Old High German: an attempt at structuring. P. 577f.
12. ↑ Roland Linde: Courtyards and families in Westphalia and Lippe, The Asemissen District Meierhof and the Barkhausen Office. A court and family story from the border area between Lippe and Ravensberg. Books on Demand, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8311-3666-7 , p. 20 online
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14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} From the Lügder story ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2015 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. 
15. ^ Christian Kuhnke: Lippe Lexikon , keyword: Lügde. Boken Verlag, Detmold 2000, ISBN 3-935454-00-7 .
16. ↑ Heinz Meyer: At that time - The Second World War between the Teutoburg Forest Weser and Leine. Verlag KW Schütz KG, Preußisch Oldendorf 1980, ISBN 3-87725-094-7 , p. 181f.
17. ↑ Erich Knittel: Home chronicle of the Lippe district. Archive for German Heimatpflege GmbH, Cologne 1978, pp. 346–348.
18. ↑ ^{a b} Willy Gerking: Charlemagne in Lügde. In Heimatland Lippe May / June 2009, p. 152.
19. ↑ Lügde urban development plan (PDF; 1.6 MB)
20. ↑ Abuse on the campsite in Lügde began more than ten years ago in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on February 26, 2019
21. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 106 .
22. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 260 .
23. ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05766052
24. ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
25. ^ Results of City Council Lügde 2014
26. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Students at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation
27. ↑ Information about the Elbrinx village stage
28. ^ Friedrich Hohenschwert : "Prehistoric and early historical fortifications in Lippe". Lippe Studies, Vol. 4, Landesverband Lippe (Ed.). Münster 1978. ISBN 3-921428-21-1 , pp. 162-165.
29. ^ Entry on Schildberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
30. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Gardens at Falkenhagen Abbey in LWL Geodata Culture
31. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Wall system Lügde in LWL-GeodatenKultur
32. ↑ Information about the Emmerauenpark
33. ↑ "Linde at St. Kilian's Church in Lügde" in the tree register at www.baumkunde.de
34. ^ Lügde in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved February 5, 2017
35. ↑ HSG Lügde-Bad Pyrmont ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.