Ladbergen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ N , 7 ° 44 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Muenster | |
| Circle : | Steinfurt | |
| Height : | 50 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 52.35 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 6688 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 128 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 49549 | |
| Primaries : | 05485, 05484 | |
| License plate : | ST, BF, TE | |
| Community key : | 05 5 66 032 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LDB | |
| Community structure: | The village (center) and the farming communities Hölter, Wester and Overbeck | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Jahnstrasse 5 49549 Ladbergen |
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| Mayor : | Udo Decker-König (independent) | |
| Location of the municipality of Ladbergen in the Steinfurt district | ||
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Ladbergen ( Low German Ladbiärgen ) is a municipality in the Tecklenburger Land region ( Steinfurt district ) in the northern part of North Rhine-Westphalia .
With 6694 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015) Ladbergen is one of the smallest communities in the district. Around 700 other people have registered their second residence here - mainly due to the camping facilities.
geography
The municipality of Ladbergen is located in the Tecklenburger Land between the two large cities of Münster and Osnabrück , which are each about 25 kilometers away. The Autobahn 1 with the Ladbergen junction and the federal road 475 run through the municipality . The western boundary of the municipality is the Dortmund-Ems Canal with the Ladbergen canal port. The international airport Münster / Osnabrück (FMO) in Greven-Hüttrup is located on the border . Contrary to what the "-bergen" part of the name suggests, the place has no designated elevations, but is on a relatively uniform level approx. 50 m above sea level. Ladbergen is traversed by the Ladbergener Aa , which flows into the Ladberger Mühlenbach .
Neighboring communities
The municipality borders on a total of six cities and municipalities. The other north-south Tecklenburger rural communities are Tecklenburg, Lengerich and Lienen. The neighboring communities Saerbeck, Greven and Ostbevern (Warendorf district) are already in the Münsterland.
 Saerbeck 8 km |
 Tecklenburg 11 km |
_COA.svg){kind=small} Lengerich 10 km |
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 Lienen 16 km |
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 Greven 10 km |
 Ostbevern 13 km |
history
Ladbergen is first mentioned in a document from the Freckenhorst monastery in 950 (as "Hlacbergon"). Based on grave finds, however, it is assumed that the area of the municipality of Ladbergen was already settled in the Bronze Age.
In 1149 the community became an independent parish , initially assigned to the Münster diocese and later to the Osnabrück diocese . Politically, the parish is part of the county of Tecklenburg .
In 1246 the Ladbergen Association of Cities was founded in Ladbergen by representatives of the cities of Münster , Osnabrück , Minden , Coesfeld and Herford . This is a forerunner of other city federations and the Hanseatic League in Westphalia.
Around 1400 the western parts of the community are lost to the diocese of Münster. Around 1533, Count Konrad von Tecklenburg introduced the Reformation . As a result, the population of Ladbergen is practically exclusively of Protestant denomination until after the Second World War .
Since it is geographically located between Münster and Osnabrück, Ladbergen may have played a certain role as a transit station for the negotiators when the Peace of Westphalia was concluded in 1648.
In 1707 Ladbergen and the entire county of Tecklenburg became part of the Kingdom of Prussia , after 1816 it belonged to the district of Münster and was later assigned to the district of Tecklenburg . In 1855 it loses its political self-government and forms an official association with Brochterbeck .
The place was particularly badly bombed during World War II. It has been proven that the most bombs per square meter fell in Ladbergen in the former German Reich. The aim was to destroy the Dortmund-Ems Canal at the point where the Mühlenbach passes through. However, this did not succeed, so that Ladbergen was spared from leaking water. Nevertheless, Ladberger were killed in the bombing raids.
With effect from October 1, 1949, the municipality of Ladbergen became independent again. She left the Tecklenburg district association, to which she had belonged since 1907, and formed an office-free municipality with its own administration.
On January 1, 1975, Ladbergen is enlarged to include parts of Saerbeck and Greven and reclassified from the dissolved Tecklenburg district to the newly established Steinfurt district .
coat of arms
Blazon : "Under a red shield head with two golden bees, in the silver field three (2: 1) red water lily leaves."
The two bees point to Ladbergen's location in a heather and moorland landscape where beekeeping was widespread for centuries. According to a document, Ladberg farmers had to pay honey to the Freckenhorst monastery as early as 950. The three water lily leaves symbolize that Ladbergen was once part of the county of Tecklenburg . They come from the former Tecklenburg county coat of arms.
Coat of arms of the municipality of Ladbergen
Tecklenburger county coat of arms
particularities
Also due to the geological specifics (e.g. agriculturally poorly usable soil) and the historical development as a Protestant fringe community in the Tecklenburger Land (the inhabitants of the three neighboring communities in the Münsterland Ostbevern , Greven and Saerbeck were originally almost without exception Catholic, the population of the other three neighboring communities Tecklenburg , Lengerich and Lienen , together with the Ladbergers, have been almost completely evangelical because they belonged to the county of Tecklenburg since the 16th century.
- Ladbergen had the largest emigration quota in Germany in the 19th century: around 37% of the town's population emigrated in the 19th century.
- Many original Ladberg families have names that only existed or still exist in Ladbergen - these include Rahmeier, Wiethölter, Schoppenhorst, Wibbeler and others.
- Up until the 1930s, “Ladberger Platt”, a variant of Low German Platt, was spoken almost exclusively in Ladbergen. Today most of the inhabitants still understand this original dialect, but mostly only the older ones can speak it.
- Since the founding of the Federal Republic and its communal independence in 1949, Ladbergen has been one of the "strongholds" of political liberalism in the Münster districts and throughout Germany.
religion
Protestant church
The church of the Protestant parish was built in 1853. It is located in the center of the village on the market square. The baptismal font in the Evangelical Church of Ladbergen (a large shell) was given to the Ladbergen parish by the missionary Heinrich Sundermann.
Catholic Church
After the Second World War, Catholics returned to Ladbergen through displaced persons from Silesia. First they were guests with their church services in the Protestant parish hall, then a makeshift church made of wood was built in 1961, before the newly built St. Christophorus Church with community center (and the previously built Christophorus kindergarten) on Waldseestrasse was inaugurated in 1980. For the anniversary of the Kirchweih in October 2005, two more newly cast bells were added to the existing bell. At that time a book was published on the history of the community with the title “Not made of stones, but made of people”. Almost all of the artistic equipment in the St. Christophorus Church was created by the doctor and sculptor Egon Lichte from Coesfeld. Today the St. Christophorus parish together with the Catholic parishes in Lengerich, Lienen and Tecklenburg form the parish of Seliger Niels Stensen.
Denomination
| Religious affiliation of the inhabitants of Ladbergen
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| year | Residents | evangelical | Roman Catholic | other |
| 1895 | 2064 | 2060 | 4th | - |
| 1931 | 2507 | 2498 | 9 | - |
| 1939 | 2762 | 2715 | 35 | 12 |
| 1950 | 3607 | 3256 | 325 | 26th |
| 1958 | 3622 | 3302 | 282 | 38 |
| 1970 | 4278 | 3744 | 477 | 57 |
| 1974 | 5265 | 4085 | 1058 | 122 |
| 1980 | 6295 | 4507 | 1559 | 229 |
| 1988 | 6175 | 4291 | 1538 | 346 |
The table shows the geographical location of Ladbergen in the largely evangelical Tecklenburger Land, opposite the Catholic Münsterland. Today more than two thirds of the population of Ladbergen are Protestant and a quarter are Catholic.
politics
In the local elections on August 30, 2009, the previous building authority manager Udo Decker-König (independent) was with 40.2% in front of the external candidate Sven Pastoors (FDP) with 31.5% and the previous deputy of the mayor Ingo Kielmann (SPD) 28.3% elected full-time mayor of the municipality. In October 2009, Udo Decker-König replaced the previous incumbent, Wolfgang Menebröcker (non-party). With a total of 5,771 eligible voters, the turnout of 72.4% was very clearly above the state average of NRW with 52.4%. On May 25, 2014, he was re-elected with 78.7%.
Municipal council
The local election on May 25, 2014 led to the following distribution of seats in the local council (22 seats plus the mayor's seat = 23 seats):
mayor
Udo Decker-König (independent) was elected mayor in August 2009. His predecessor was Wolfgang Menebröcker, who was no longer a candidate. Decker-König was re-elected in 2014.
Community partnerships
With the founding of Ladbergen emigrants daughter church New Knoxville in the state of Ohio of the United States Ladbergen a close partnership. In New Knoxville, the typical Ladberger Platt is still spoken today by the elderly.
Since the American descendants of former Ladberg families showed great interest in their own genealogy, many private, more or less reliable genealogical works were created after the Second World War. When Neil Armstrong , whose ancestors came from Ladbergen, was the first person to set foot on the moon in 1969, many Ladbergers also began to be interested in their American "relatives". Today many long-established Ladberger families can prove their relatives - not only to Neil Armstrong.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until about the middle of the 20th century, Ladbergen and its residents traditionally lived from agriculture, which, due to the local poor sandy soils, only brought higher yields after the introduction of artificial fertilizers . After the Second World War, smaller commercial and industrial companies (cabinet makers, carpet factories, confectionery shops) were settled. More recently, attempts have also been made to strengthen tourism as an economic factor (campsites, holiday apartments). Due to the convenient location, a number of forwarding and logistics companies as well as other small and medium-sized companies have settled on the outskirts and in the industrial areas in the last two decades.
The municipality of Ladbergen has a relatively low level of unemployment due to its relatively well-managed structural change and its central location between the regional centers of Münster and Osnabrück and the medium-sized centers Greven and Lengerich. As a result of increased trade tax revenue in recent years, the municipality's budget has a comparatively low level of debt with the aim of continuously reducing debt. In the last few decades Ladbergen has developed from a predominantly agricultural village into an attractive and very active community with a high quality of life and many opportunities for its citizens and guests in a convenient location near the Teutoburg Forest.
traffic
In addition to Autobahn 1 , to which Ladbergen is connected with direct access and exit, the federal road 475 crosses the municipality. The Dortmund Ems channel forms on its way from Dortmund for EMS (in Meppen) Ladbergen (western) community to limit Greven. Münster / Osnabrück Airport (FMO) is located on the border of the municipality in Greven, as a link to national and international regions.
In Ladbergen there is a regular bus service to Lengerich and Münster. There is also a taxi bus from Ladbergen to Kattenvenne station with a train connection to Osnabrück. Furthermore, an express bus to Osnabrück stops at the roundabout in the Ladberg town center.
Gastronomy and hotels
There are a large number of catering establishments in Ladbergen. In addition to the two campsites, Ladbergen also has around 150 hotel room beds.
power supply
In 2005 Ladbergen received three wind turbines on the outskirts. Together with the two biogas plants that went into operation in 2006, the municipality is - purely mathematically - self-sufficient in electricity. Another, quite large biogas plant is being built on the site of the oil mill at Ladbergen's canal port; this plant should produce a multiple of the energy required by Ladbergen.
Public facilities
hospital
Ladbergen does not have its own hospital. The closest acute hospital is the Helios Klinik in nearby Lengerich.
youth Center
The Ladbergen youth center at the new Rottsporthalle has existed since the 1980s and offers young people the opportunity to meet and engage in joint activities five days a week.
Community library
The community library has a selection of around 12,000 titles. In addition to books, these also include CDs and cassettes. Since the focus is on children's and youth literature, this area alone comprises 5,169 titles. In 2009, 27,343 loans were recorded. She has € 5,000 a year for new purchases and material costs.
Senior room
In the former book and magazine shop owned by “Aunt Anna” Oelrich, there is now what is known as the senior's room. Many older Ladbergers spend their free time here doing handicrafts, playing cards and chatting. The local holding cell - the Ladberg prison - used to be housed in one room of the very small building.
Kindergartens
For a community with almost 6,500 inhabitants, Ladbergen has a relatively good range of kindergartens and day-care centers. To be mentioned here:
- the Protestant sun and star kindergartens,
- the catholic kindergarten,
- the DRK kindergarten,
- the day care center Spielkiste Ladbergen e. V.
- and a toddler group in the local prewar school.
Culture and sights
Museums and theaters
Local museum
The local history museum is run and maintained by the local local history association on a local farm (Jasper-Hildebrand). The steel bells that were dismantled from the Protestant church in 2005 can also be seen there in a newly built bell cage. You can also find out more about life in Ladbergen there.
Attractions
King's cheek
Königs Backes = Königs Backhaus is the oldest building in Ladbergen, built in 1624. The small house was restored by the local history association and can be found in the Hölter farm, on the König farm. Here you have the opportunity to look over the shoulder of the baker while he is baking the bread.
Grain mill Erpenbeck
The Erpenbeck grain mill is an architectural monument. It is located on part of the Erpenbeck estate . The mill is an oil, boke and chicory mill completed in 1840, the restoration of which was completed in 1991. The visit is generally possible as part of a grinding demonstration. During the milling demonstration, the miller explains not only the technical details of the mill, but also its history.
Sauerkraut Monument
In 1910, a memorial stone was erected in Kattmanns Kamp at the point where Ladbergen's soldiers were sent off to the garrison in Warendorf for the campaign against France in 1870. A stop was made at the municipal boundary. Here the solemn farewell took place. The pastor read a passage from the Bible and added a word of encouragement and admonition to it. Then they sang a chorale together and shook hands. Today the moment is still recorded: God with us, July 21, 1870 at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Waldsee and Buddenkuhle
In addition to bathing in both lakes, Waldsee and Buddenkuhle also offer a campsite for short and long-term campers. Various recreational sports are also offered there. Tennis, bacon board (a variant of tennis with a wooden board with a handle or cutting board from the kitchen) as well as football on adjacent "football fields" should be mentioned here. Recreational divers can also be seen regularly at both lakes.
music
Orchestra and choirs
In 1874 the singing society "Unity" was founded, from which today's "MGV Sangeslust", a men's choir, emerged. The youth singing group was founded in 1966 by the teacher Hermann König from the school choir of the Ladberg elementary school. There is also the mixed choir “Melodize Plus”, which performs modern pop music. The Protestant church choir and the Protestant trombone choir enrich the church events. In 1980 the “Singgemeinschaft der Ladberger Landfrauen” emerged from the rural women's association. Furthermore, the Musikverein Ladbergen entertains with orchestral music at concerts or at shooting festivals and other community events.
Buildings and parks
The peace park
The so-called "Peace Park" is located between the former secondary school in the Ladbergen community, which is now used as the town hall and kindergarten, and the senior citizens' home on the other side of the Mühlenbach. Not large, but lovingly laid out, some walking paths lead past peat cutters and wet nurses. Peat cutters and wet nurses were common earning opportunities for poor Ladbergers in earlier centuries. In their honor and in memory, the Ladbergen community placed bronze cast sculptures in the Peace Park.
Sports
societies
Handball and gymnastics
The TSV Ladbergen 1921 e. V. (handball and gymnastics) is the oldest and, with over 1,200 club members, the largest sports club in Ladbergen. In 1944, the TSV women's team reached the final round of the German handball championship and took 3rd place. In the 1988/89 season, the first men's team of TSV North Westphalian handball runners-up.
Soccer
In June 1971, football enthusiasts Ladberger founded the football club FC Waldschänke (today SG Hölter), because up to this point there was no organized club football in the village.
Initially, the game was played on a meadow on today's Bundesstraße 475, later the game was moved to today's square on Münsterweg. The senior team plays in the Ibbenbüren city league.
In 1975 VfL Ladbergen was founded, which participates in the DFB's games with senior, women's and youth teams. The club is based in the open-air sports facility on Königsbrücke.
Table tennis
The TTC Ladbergen from 1961 offers table tennis enthusiasts many opportunities to prove their skills.
Judo
In 1974 the judo community Ladbergen 1974 e. V. founded, which can now boast some remarkable sporting successes, including top placements in national and international tournaments as well as a 5th place in the Judo European Championships of the U17.
horse riding
In 1948, some equestrian enthusiasts from Ladberg met each other and founded the Zucht-, Reit- und Fahrverein Ladbergen e. V., who today has his domicile with its own riding hall and riding arena on Schulenburger Weg.
Shooting clubs
There are shooting clubs in the farmers' associations
- Hölter (Schützenverein Ladbergen-Hölter eV 1920)
- Wester
- and Overbeck (Schützenverein Ladbergen-Overbeck e.V. 1930)
with their respective shooting groups.
Sports and exercise facilities
gym
In addition to the "old" or "Jahnsporthalle", which was handed over to the sporting Ladberger in 1965, there is the modern "Rottsporthalle", a double hall from 1980. The latter is useful for the local elementary school for physical education and offers the handball teams of TSV Ladbergen an attractive home setting.
Shooting ranges
- In the basement of the “Rottsporthalle” there is a small-bore shooting range with a computer-controlled electronic “Meyton Shootmaster” system. The Rottsporthalle shooting range is used by the rifle clubs Wester and Overbeck, the shooting department at TSV Ladbergen and the soldiers' comradeship.
- The shooting range of the Ladbergen-Hölter shooting club is on Hölterschen Münsterweg.
Sports fields
In the immediate vicinity of the Ladbergen Community Primary School there is a grass sports field with a short-distance running track and jumping pit, which is mainly used for school sports. But it is also freely available to other parishioners.
VfL Ladbergen mainly uses the modern "sports facility at the Königsbrücke", which is located at the southern end of Ladbergen. The football-loving Ladbergers fight for titles and honors on an artificial turf pitch and a well-tended grass pitch. Three changing houses with modern showers, a beach volleyball court, a playground for the little ones and a training field complete the value of this facility. SG Hölter maintains a soccer field on Münsterweg. At the two bathing lakes in Ladberg (Waldsee and Buddenkuhle) there are more or less well-kept soccer fields.
Tennis courts and indoor tennis courts
The tennis department of TSV Ladbergen is also in the immediate vicinity of the Ladbergen Community Primary School. Tennis enthusiasts can improve their skills and compete on several tennis courts. Tennis and bacon board courts (ash and asphalt) are available at the two lakes in Ladberg (Waldsee and Buddenkuhle). There is a tennis hall with three courts on Lönsweg.
Riding arenas
Since 1977 a riding arena on the Schulenburger Weg has been available to the members of the Ladberger riding club. The new riding arena - also on Schulenburger Weg, but only 1.5 kilometers from the town center - was built in 2004 and operated by the equestrian club itself. Another private riding arena is on Westerweg (Tegelmann riding center).
Golf course
In April 2006, about 2 kilometers from the town center, the Ladbergen golf course, which is open all year round and is accessible to everyone, was put into operation. In 2007 this was expanded to a 9-hole course and the Ladbergen Golf Club was founded.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- A great-grandfather of Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) (the first man on the moon) came from Ladbergen. The farmer Friedrich Wilhelm Kötter was born in Ladbergen on August 22, 1846 and secretly emigrated to the USA on August 30, 1865 to avoid military service.
- The missionary Heinrich Sundermann (1849–1919) also comes from Ladbergen . Heinrich Sundermann worked as a missionary for the Rhenish Mission Society on Nias , an island in the Dutch East Indies , today's Indonesia , since 1875 . He spent 35 years on the almost 5000 km² island west of Sumatra and intensively researched the Niassic language. He translated the New Testament into the Niassic language. In 1892 this, his work, was first printed in Amsterdam .
- Hermann Lenhartz (1854–1910), who was born in Ladbergen, made a name for himself primarily through numerous medical writings as well as treatment methods and diets, some of which are still practiced today. He was the son of Pastor Gustav Lenhartz, the builder of the new Ladberg Church.
Citizen of Ladbergen
- Hans-Dieterippenhauer (* 1943), former soccer coach, lived in Ladbergen.
Picture gallery
Mühlenbach Peace Park
town hall
literature
- Helmut Schönrock: Ladbergen. In: Cities and municipalities in Westphalia. Volume 1: The Steinfurt district. Aschendorff, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-402-06270-4 .
- In 1950, Friedrich Saatkamp wrote the first local chronicle for the millennium of the Ladbergen community with the title: "1000 Years of Ladbergen". In 1975 the local history association and the municipality of Ladbergen decided to reissue. For the 150th anniversary of the subsidiary New Knoxville (1986), an English translation of the 2nd edition prepared by Dean R. Hoge was published. The 3rd edition appeared in 1989. Every new edition was updated.
- In 1992, Heinz Stork published the first edition of the book “Land un Lüe” (“Land and People”). In 2001, the second edition of the very popular Heimat Reading followed in a revised and updated form.
- The first (community) archive report by Willi Untiet was published in 1993, “With Guth und Blut own” , which describes rural life in Ladbergen before 1900.
- Hans Berlemann published the second (community) archive report in 1995, “Emigrants of the Ladbergen Community” from 1830 to 1930.
- In 1996 Willi Untiet published the book "Use Platt" . It is primarily a dictionary of the Ladberger Platt, but it is enriched with many photos, stories, poems, idioms and puzzles.
- In 1999 the Heimatverein published the book "Our Churches - Our Pastors" for the 850th anniversary of the founding of the independent parish in Ladbergen .
- For the 1050th anniversary of the municipality of Ladbergen in 2000, the municipality of Ladbergen published a booklet written by Gustav Altevogt with the title Blickpunkte Ladberger Geschichte .
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Ladbergen
- Ladbergen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Jürgen Karl W. Berns: Propter communem utilitatem. Studies on the alliance policy of the Westphalian cities in the late Middle Ages. Düsseldorf 1991, pp. 24-28. (= Studia humaniora. Volume 16)
- ^ Willi Riegert: Home under bombs: The air war in the Steinfurt area and in Münster and Osnabrück 1939-1945. Laumann Druck, 2003, ISBN 3-89960-235-8 .
- ^ Official Journal of the Government in Münster, 1949, Item 8, p. 79. Retrieved on August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
- ↑ Stefan Eismann: Church building money for bell "wasted". Ladbergener aroused the anger of Baron von Vincke in 1842 . In: Our circle. Yearbook for the Steinfurt district , vol. 24. (2011), pp. 148–151, here p. 151.
- ↑ http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Ladbergen
- ↑ http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Amt_Ladbergen
- ^ Friedrich Saatkamp: Ladbergen. From the past and present of the 1000-year-old Westphalian village. 3. Edition. Ladbergen 1989, p. 333. (1975, DNB 810488248 )
- ↑ 2014 election results
- ↑ 2009 election results
- ↑ ladbergen.de
- ↑ A paradise for bookworms ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Westfälische Nachrichten of February 15, 2010.
- ↑ Sauerkraut Monument
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Peace Park in LWL-GeodatenKultur
- ↑ golf-ladbergen.de
- ^ 2. Archive report of the municipality of Ladbergen by Hans Berlemann, 1995.
- ↑ Our district 1990 yearbook for the Steinfurt district, ISBN 3-926619-11-2
- ^ Heinrich Sundermann: The island of Nias and the mission there, Rheinische Missionsschriften Nr. 125, Verlag des Missionshauses, Barmen 1905
- ^ [1] Westfälische Nachrichten, accessed on January 7, 2019
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