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Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Osnabrück
Height :	113 m above sea level NHN
Area :	103.3 km 2
Residents:	15,738 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	152 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49152
Area code :	05472
License plate :	OS , BSB, MEL, WTL
Community key :	03 4 59 003
LOCODE :	DE BES
Community structure:	17 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Lindenstrasse 41/43 ; 49152 Bad Essen
Website :	www.badessen.de
Mayor :	Timo Natemeyer (independent)
Location of the municipality of Bad Essen in the district of Osnabrück

View from the Wiehengebirge over Bad Essen with the Protestant St. Nikolai Church to the Stemweder Berg

Bad Essen is a municipality in the east of the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony . Bad Essen, with its historic town center, is located on the German Half-timbered Road and in the TERRA.vita nature and geopark .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Bad Essen is located at the transition from the low mountain ranges to the North German lowlands . The Wiehengebirge covers roughly the southern third of the municipality and reaches 211 m above sea level. NN its greatest height on the Schwarzen Brink in the district of Lintorf. The highest point in Bad Essen, however, is 215 m above sea level. NN on an arable land in the north of Büscherheide. The middle part of the community is flat, an average of 50 m above sea level. NN and belongs to the natural area of the Lübbecker Loessland . The north of the municipality already belongs to the Rahden-Diepenauer Geest . The Hunte flows through Bad Essen from south to north and crosses the Mittelland Canal in the Wittlage district , which crosses the municipality in a west-east direction.

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Bad Essen borders - in a clockwise direction, starting in the north - with the following cities and municipalities: Stemwede , Preußisch Oldendorf (both districts of Minden-Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia ), Melle , Bissendorf , Ostercappeln and Bohmte .

Community structure

The municipality is divided into 17 localities :

A peculiarity arises for the approx. 160 inhabitants of the village Büscherheide, which belongs to the North Rhine-Westphalian Prussian Oldendorf , where the pupils go to school. The Evangelical Church of Westphalia and the Archdiocese of Paderborn, which is mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia, are also responsible for churchgoers , as Büscherheide belongs to the parish of the Prussian Oldendorfer district of Börninghausen. In view of this situation, efforts are being made in the district to be incorporated into Preußisch Oldendorf.

history

Village street around 1900

Development of the place and changing rulers

(Bad) Essen was first mentioned in a document in 1075. The parishes of Barkhausen, Essen and Lintorf were founded around this time.

In 1309, the construction of Wittlage Castle began to secure the ownership claims of the Bishop of Osnabrück over the area.

Through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 and the transition from the Hochstift Osnabrück to the Principality of Osnabrück, Essen came to the Electorate of Hanover . In 1806 there was another change of authority, one now belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia . In the following year, 1807, they became Westphalian, the current municipality now belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia under Jérôme Bonaparte , the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte . In 1811 the area came under the sovereignty of Napoleonic France, and the canton of Essen in the Arrondissement of Osnabrück was created . After the end of the French era, Essen came back to Hanover together with the Principality of Osnabrück, only to become Prussian in 1866 as a result of the German War .

Economic and infrastructure development

Art school in Bad Essen train station

Railway construction

In 1899, the groundbreaking ceremony for the standard gauge railway line of the Wittlager Kreisbahn was carried out in Bad Essen . The first section led from Bohmte via Bad Essen to the Holzhausen-Heddinghausen train station and was inaugurated in 1900. With nine train stations and bus stops, the municipal area was connected to an important infrastructure, which brought about an economic upswing for the area and also made local public transport considerably easier.

Mittelland Canal in Bad Essen

Construction of the Mittelland Canal

A decision of April 1, 1905 approved the construction of the western section of the Mittelland Canal between Bergeshövede (connection to the Dortmund-Ems Canal ) and Hanover , after the Prussian House of Representatives initially rejected the construction in 1903. This first section of the canal also runs through Bad Essen and divides the municipality into a northern and southern half. Around 90 hectares of land were used in the community for the construction .

Health resort and tourism

Bad Essen has officially been allowed to bear the title of bath since 1902 . The main reason for this honor is a brine source 800 m below the surface as the basis of the spa operation. Their salinity is higher than that of the Dead Sea .

Cittàslow project

Bad Essen applied for membership in the Cittàslow movement in the 2010s . The movement started in Orvieto (Italy) in 1999 . In analogy to the slow food movement, it is about preventing the " Americanization " of cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants. Supporting and emphasizing cultural diversity and the own and special values of the city and its surroundings are central Cittàslow goals. In keeping with the name of the movement, Cittàslow cities are particularly concerned with decelerating the pace of life for those who live in them or who linger in them .

In 2015, Bad Essen was awarded the Lower Saxony Future Prize by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs for the project design "Bad Essen will be Cittàslow!" Shortly thereafter, Bad Essen was unanimously accepted into the network as the 14th Cittàslow city in Germany with effect from February 8, 2016 .

Incorporations

Today's municipality of Bad Essen was formed by a municipal reform that came into force on July 1, 1972, from the municipalities of Bad Essen, Barkhausen, Brockhausen, Büscherheide, Dahlinghausen, Eielstädt, Harpenfeld, Heithöfen, Hördinghausen, Hüsede, Linne, Lintorf, Lockhausen, Rabber, Wehrendorf, Wimmer and Wittlage formed. The Wittlage district at that time was dissolved. The newly created community of Bad Essen has since been part of the Osnabrück district . The district of Wittlage was until then one of the few German districts whose seat was in a municipality without city rights.

Population development

Population development in Bad Essen since 1987

The following overview shows the population of Bad Essen in each area and on December 31st.

The numbers are updates by the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony based on the census of May 9, 2011 .

The data from 1961 (June 6) and 1970 (May 27) are the census results including the places that were incorporated on July 1, 1972.

Number of inhabitants
year	1961	1970	1987	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2011	2014	2015	2017	2018
Residents	11,066	11,529	12,051	12,967	14,876	15,480	15,778	15,612	15,592	15.101	15,263	15,449	15,645

Population development of the individual localities


Locality	Residents to 1.12.2019	Residents 1.1.1981
Bad food	3,246	2,798
Barkhausen	393	358
Brockhausen	352	373
Büscherheide	161	223
Dahlinghausen	517	459
Eielstädt	1,281	721
Harpenfeld	794	526
Heithöfen	191	185
Hördinghausen	373	310
Hüsede	695	718
Linne	440	488
Lintorf	1,897	1.101
Lockhausen	816	561
Rabber	973	930
Wehrendorf	1,552	1,262
Whimper	1,128	807
Wittlage	1,614	835
Total:	16,423	12,655

Place name, origin

Old names: Essene, Esne, Defessene. The dry and sandy location of the place indicates that the place name, like Esebeck, Esbeck, Asse bei Wolfenbüttel, Assel, Assapa, Asbach and the Kahle Asten in the Sauerland, belongs to a root with the meaning "dry", which in "Esse "" Fireplace "and" ashes "are suspected.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Bad Essen consists of 32 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. The 32 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor Timo Natemeyer (independent) is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The following table shows the local election results since 1996.

Council of the municipality of Bad Essen: election results and municipal councils
	CDU		SPD		GREEN		FDP		Others		total		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%		%		%		%
1996-2001	61.40	20th	31.00	10	6.00	1	1.60	0		-	100	31	72.40
2001-2006	59.60	20th	32.60	10	4.40	1	3.40	1		-	100	32	64.30
2006-2011	61.70	20th	30.20	10	4.80	1	3.30	1		-	100	32	59.10
2011-2016	57.46	18th	32.61	11	8.91	3	1.02	0		-	100	32	57.37
2016-2021	52.94	17th	34.57	11	7.64	2	2.71	1	2.15	1	100	32	58.88
Percentages rounded. Sources: State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, District Osnabrück. In the case of different information in the sources mentioned, the data from the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology were used, as they are generally more plausible.

mayor

town hall

The full-time mayor of Bad Essen is Timo Natemeyer (non-party). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was elected with 55.8% of the vote. His rival candidate Frank Hünefeld (CDU) received 44.2%. The turnout was 55.3%. Natemeyer began his tenure on November 1, 2014.

Former mayors:

2001-2014 Günter Harmeyer (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Bad Essen shows a tinned red shield head with three nicks in silver and an eight-blade blue mill wheel above a blue wave shield base. Since Bad Essen used to belong to the Wittlage office, the battlements shield head is intended to express the relationship to Wittlage Castle. The concept of water belonging to the "bath" is represented by the waves in the base of the shield. The water mill wheel is the figure of the old coat of arms that Bad Essen had before it was merged with sixteen neighboring communities in 1972. The colors red and silver are taken from the coat of arms of the former principality of Osnabrück and his office Wittlage. The design of the coat of arms was made in 1975 by the Osnabrück heraldist Hans Heinrich Reclam.

Community partnerships

Small house on the church square

Bad Essen maintains partnerships with the French Bolbec and the Polish Wałcz (Deutsch Krone) .

State Garden Show Lower Saxony 2010

Sole and spa park in 2011; in the background the “SoleArena”, a small graduation tower, built in 2010

Culture and sights

State Garden Show 2010

From April 23 to October 17, 2010 the 4th Lower Saxony State Garden Show took place in Bad Essen . The decision was made on March 31, 2009, around a year before the start of the State Garden Show, as the city of Wiesmoor had originally been awarded the contract for the show, but withdrew its application at short notice.

Despite the short preparation time, the state horticultural show in Bad Essen was a success. Around 500,000 guests, 100,000 more than originally planned, attended the State Garden Show.

One of the two core areas of the State Horticultural Show was the Ippenburg Palace Park . In the years before the State Garden Show, the park was the scene of several land areas and has remained so to this day.

The state horticultural show left a newly designed brine and spa park in the second core area on the southern edge of the town center of Bad Essen. To date are in this

the “SoleArena”, a mini graduation tower that is fed from the million year old brine spring below Bad Essen; the brine is misted and trickled into the arena;
and the sky terrace, a 300 square meter terrace on the edge of the forest to the brine and spa gardens

preserved. The latter can be used for open-air events.

Museums

On Castle Hünnefeld a private museum on the history of the castle and its inhabitants is operated.

In the auditorium of the secondary and secondary school, technical devices from the past centuries, which belong to the forerunners of modern information technology, are on display for viewing and, by arrangement, for trying out. The topic is "Mobile phones and CO - how we used to find out more".

Natural monument

Dinosaur tracks in Barkhausen

In the district of Barkhausen you can see the 150 million year old dinosaur tracks from Barkhausen in an old quarry , the tracks come from the Elephantopoides barkhausensis and Megalosauropus teutonicus , which belong to the dinosaurs of the Jura . The DiVa Walk is interesting for tourists.

Buildings

The historic town center of Bad Essen with its numerous neat half-timbered buildings and especially the picturesque church square with the St. Nikolai Church in the center is worth seeing . The Hünnefelder Totenhaus , which was the burial place of the von dem Busche-Hünnefeld family from 1752 to 1850, is also located on the church square . Above the entrance there is an inscription from 1752. The former weir store, the small house, dates from 1663 . The weir storage facility was built on two floors in half-timbered construction and later added another storey. Today it is part of a catering business.

At the southern exit of Bad Essen is the historic watermill , which is also the symbol of Bad Essen and adorns the municipal coat of arms. The mill is still functional today and is occasionally used for grinding demonstrations.

Hünnefeld Castle, first mentioned in 1146, is located north of the Mittelland Canal between the districts of Harpenfeld and Wehrendorf . The current mansion dates from the 17th century, the beautiful pigeon tower from 1710. The castle has its own museum on the family history of the Hünnefeld family.

Ippenburg Castle is located in the Lockhausen district not far from Hünnefeld Castle . Count Wilhelm von dem Bussche had the beautiful castle built in the neo-Gothic style from 1862 to 1867. Garden exhibitions are held annually at Ippenburg Castle.

The Wittlage Abbey Castle is located in the Wittlage district. It was built in 1310 at the instigation of the Bishop of Osnabrück and served as security against the County of Ravensberg and the Bishop of Minden . The tower and the gate entrance are still preserved from the original castle complex.

On the ridge of the Wiehengebirge stands the Sun Tin Tower, from which you can enjoy a beautiful view of the north German lowlands and over the forests of the Wiehengebirge.

St. Nikolai Church free-standing on the church square (view from NE)
Church square with a row of houses that characterizes the town
Row of houses on the church square
Watermill
Meyerhof
Farm houses
Ippenburg Castle
Hünnefeld Castle

Regular events

Dragon boat races during the harbor festival

Early summer garden festival in Ippenburg Castle Park

On May 1st, the open day at the local sports airfield in Bohmte / Bad Essen with a car and trade show.
In spring the Monte-Saurus Mountain Bike Tour takes place, a three-day mountain bike tour in the Wiehen Mountains for sporty mountain bikers
Garden festivals take place in the park of Schloss Ippenburg from Corpus Christi and the end of September.
In June the Hünnefelder Court Festival takes place at Hünnefeld Castle .
Every year in July there is an open-air operetta performance on the Bad Essen church square.
At the end of July, the Bad Essen districts compete against each other in a dragon boat race on the Mittelland Canal as part of the harbor festival.
The blossom and harvest festival takes place on the second weekend in August in the Hüsede district.
On the last weekend in August, the historic market is held in the center of Bad Essen.
Christmas markets in Bad Essen (first Advent) and Lintorf (second Advent)
Furthermore, there are shooting festivals, May festivals and village festivals spread over the year in the various districts.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Homann , margarine and delicatessen

Grégoire-Besson GmbH , tillage equipment for agriculture

Kesseböhmer metal goods , wire goods for the kitchen and goods display

Schnitker , construction company

media

The Wittlager Kreisblatt , a regional edition of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, is based in Bad Essen . The joint local section for Bad Essen and the two neighboring communities Bohmte and Ostercappeln is produced in Bad Essen . There is also a regional magazine, the Linden- (oak, chestnut) leaf . It is distributed in Bad Essen (linden), Ostercappeln (chestnut) and Bohmte (oak). It regularly displays the festivities in the region and informs readers about local politics.

Educational institutions

Day nursery in Bad Essen and Wittlage
Kindergartens in Bad Essen, Brockhausen, Lintorf, Wehrendorf and Wittlage
Primary schools in the districts of Bad Essen, Lintorf and Wehrendorf
High school in Bad Essen
High school in Bad Essen
District Music School
Art school
Volkshochschule Osnabrück Land, Bad Essen branch

Health facilities

Paracelsus Berghofklinik, Essenerberg - treatment of addiction disorders
Paracelsus-Wiehengebirgsklinik, Hüsede - Psychosomatic specialist clinic for the inpatient treatment of alcohol and drug dependent patients with the simultaneous inclusion of orthopedic indications
Paracelsus-Wittekindklinik, Essenerberg - treatment of psychosomatic illnesses
Dr. Becker Klinikgesellschaft, Bad Essen - Vitalis residential park
Dr. Becker Clinic Society, Bad Essen - Dr. Becker Neurocenter Lower Saxony

traffic

Road traffic

The federal road B 65 crosses the municipality of Bad Essen in a west-east direction. The A 1 , A 30 and A 33 federal motorways are approx. 20 km from the municipality.

Marina Bad Essen

Water and shipping traffic

The Mittelland Canal crosses the community from west to east. The ports of Bad Essen are located in Bad Essen, Wehrendorf and Lockhausen.

Rail transport

Since 1900 the Wittlager Kreisbahn (today: Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Osnabrück ) has been traveling on a railway line that runs from west to east through the municipality. The route originally ran from Damme to Holzhausen-Heddinghausen. Today it is only passable between Bohmte and Preußisch Oldendorf . The route is still occasionally used by trains of the Minden Museum Railway and for freight traffic. However, a resumption of passenger traffic on the old route of the Wittlager Kreisbahn has long been considered. There is a connection to the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway line via Bohmte station . The next ICE stop is Osnabrück main station .

Air traffic

There is an airfield between Bad Essen and Bohmte that is used for motorized and glider flights. The nearest international airport is Münster / Osnabrück Airport in Greven .

Bus transport

The Bad Essen bus transport is provided by the Osnabrück Transport Association. There are lines to the neighboring communities and to Osnabrück. At the weekend there is a night bus connection to Osnabrück. The X276 line runs every hour from Bad Essen via Ostercappeln, Belm to (and from) Osnabrück and in the other direction to Pr. Oldendorf. There are also some bus connections to (and from) Osnabrück via Schledehausen with the 373 lines. There are hourly connections to Bohmte and Venne via the Leckermühle stop, which is located in the Herringhausen district of the neighboring municipality of Bohmte and can be reached by buses to Osnabrück. There are also direct connections from Bad Essen to Bohmte, Venne and Hunteburg, especially for school transport. There are also individual bus connections to and Melle. The "Willi-Bus" has been available in Bad Essen since summer 2018; this is an offer from the VLO in Bohmte . It runs every two hours and connects Bad Essen with the villages of Hüsede and Barkhausen. It has to be reserved by phone.

Sons and daughters of the church

Otto Hugo (1878–1942), politician ( DVP ), member of the National Assembly 1919 and of the Reichstag 1920–1933
Helmuth Hörstmann (1909–1993), physician and Lord Mayor of Celle
Günter Knefelkamp (1927–2017), politician and member of the state parliament, was born in Barkhausen
Manfred Hugo (* 1942), lawyer and district administrator of the Osnabrück district
Bernd Ulrich Hucker (* 1944), historian and university professor
Ernst Baltrusch (* 1956), ancient historian

literature

Working group local history and folk life in Bad Essen and VHS Osnabrücker Land (Ed.): Bad Essen - history and stories. Kölle print 2010
Wolfgang Huge: Bad Essen. Sutton Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-86680-046-5
Wolfgang Huge: Bad Essen. Heilbad am Wiehengebirge. BOD 2013 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-8482-4111-8 .
Wolfgang Huge: Bad Essen. Pictures in the mirror of time. BOD 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5947-5
Wolfgang Huge: Bad Essen 25 years ago. Photo documentation of the town center renovation 1985–1999. BOD 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-3066-2
Anselm Jaenicke, Michael Brackmann: Bad Essen. Worth seeing - worth living. Rasch publishing house
Premke, Wübbeler, Richter, Bulthaup: Bad Essen - Levern and the Mittelland Canal. In pictures, poems and stories. Rasch publishing house
Walter Komber: Hüsede - Pictures from the Past Working Group Hüseder Chronik, 1993

Web links

Commons : Bad Essen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Bad Essen - Travel Guide

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

↑ Website Bad Essen

^ Health resorts: Bad Essen . rehakliniken.de

↑ ^a ^b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 260 .

↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, population update ( 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.@1@ 2
^ Eckhard Grönemeyer: Population statistics in comparison and retrospect. In: www.clva.de. Central's rural association archive, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
^ Eckhard Grönemeyer: Population statistics in comparison and retrospect. In: www.clva.de. Centrales Rural Association Archive, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 .
^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 6, 2014
^ 1 seat for Alliance C - Christians for Germany
↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, Table 5000311
↑ Landkreis Osnabrück, official final results of the district election on September 9, 2001 ( Memento from May 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 528 kB)
^ The local elections for the district of Osnabrück on September 11, 2011 (also includes 2006 results). (PDF; 8.0 MB) Landkreis Osnabrück, p. 50, column municipal elections , accessed on March 6, 2016 .

^ The local elections for the district of Osnabrück on September 11, 2016 (also includes 2011 results). (PDF; 16.26 MB) Landkreis Osnabrück, p. 48, column municipal elections , accessed on September 30, 2016 .

↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony ( memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 8, 2014

↑ Andreas Schnabel: Praise for the mayor : Deserved for Bad Essen. NOZ, October 30, 2014; accessed on March 26, 2020.

↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery: State Garden Show comes to Bad Essen http://www.stk.niedersachsen.de/master/C54658388_L20_D0_I484.html

↑ http://www.badessen.de/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=148&type=&menuid=30&topmenu=30

↑ 4th Lower Saxony State Garden Show - a success! (PDF; 153 kB), accessed on October 14, 2012

↑ Lower Saxony State Horticultural Show Bad Essen - The Heavenly Terrace , accessed on October 14, 2012

↑ Dr. Becker Clinic Group: Dr. Becker group of companies - A family company moves the health market

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] Website Bad Essen

[3] Health resorts: Bad Essen . rehakliniken.de

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-4] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 260 .