Lennestadt

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Arnsberg
Circle :	Olpe
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	135.59 km 2
Residents:	25,308 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	187 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57368
Primaries :	02721, 02723, 02725, 02972
License plate :	OE
Community key :	05 9 66 020
City structure:	43 districts
City administration address :	Thomas- More -Platz 1 57368 Lennestadt
Website :	www.lennestadt.de
Mayor :	Stefan Hundt ( CDU )
Location of the city of Lennestadt in the Olpe district

Lennestadt is a medium-sized town in the Olpe district in the Sauerland . It was founded on July 1, 1969 as part of the municipal reorganization and thus became the legal successor to the dissolved office of Bilstein . The most populous municipality in this district comprises a total of 43 districts.

The first traces of settlement in the region go back to the early La Tène period . After the first railway line opened in 1861, it underwent a radical structural change . The metal processing industry was able to establish itself in the area of ​​today's city of Lennestadt and the mining industry also benefited from the railway line. Over 50% of employees still work in the manufacturing industry. Tourism is also of great economic importance.

geography

Lenne in Lennestadt-Gleierbrück

View from the highest mountain in Lennestadt, the Härdler (756 m), to the north

Lennestadt is located in the middle of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park and is traversed by the Lenne , a tributary of the Ruhr , from east to north-west. In addition to the Hundem , which flows into the Lenne from the left in the Altenhundem district, the Elspebach and Veischede are other larger tributaries that flow into the Lenne in Grevenbrück.

The Lennestadt area lies between 51 ° 03 'and 51 ° 12' north latitude and between 7 ° 58 'and 8 ° 15' east longitude. The largest extension in northeast-southwest direction is about 19 km, in east-west direction about 20 km.

The highest point is the Härdler near Milchenbach at 756 meters above sea ​​level , the lowest at 239 meters is the Lenne on the border with the neighboring community of Finnentrop.

Neighboring communities

Lennestadt borders in the north on the communities of Finnentrop and Eslohe ( Hochsauerlandkreis ), in the east on the cities Schmallenberg (Hochsauerlandkreis) and Bad Berleburg ( district Siegen-Wittgenstein ), in the south on the community Kirchhundem and in the west on the cities Olpe and Attendorn .

Land use

View of Altenhundem, the largest district of Lennestadt

At the end of 2015, the urban area of ​​Lennestadt had an area of ​​135.59 km². The proportion of the forest is 65.8%. 19.9% ​​are used for agriculture. The remainder is distributed over traffic areas (5.9%), building areas including the associated open and business areas (6.5%), sports and recreational areas (0.7%) and 1.3% unspecified areas. The high proportion of forest area in the area of ​​the city of Lennestadt is not unusual in the Sauerland.

Share of usage of the urban area
Agriculture			26.98 km²
Forest			89.18 km²
Building and open space			8.81 km²
traffic			7.98 km²
Sport and recreation			0.90 km²
Other use			1.74 km²

geology

The Sauerland and thus also the area of ​​the city of Lennestadt is part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . Most of the rocks found in the municipality were formed 400 to 335 million years ago during the Lower Devonian to Lower Carbons , when the whole area was covered by a shallow sea. The most common rocks are slate , calcareous siltstones , fine-grain sandstones , greywacke and mainly silicified limestone and claystones . During the sedimentation of the Paleozoic rocks, hydrothermal ore solutions penetrated the sediments and led to the formation of stratified lead - zinc ore deposits of the SEDEX type , as mined in Meggen and Halberbracht . In the Upper Carboniferous , about 350 to 300 million years ago, the area was covered by the Variscan mountain formation . The previously horizontally deposited rock layers were folded and partly pushed over . From a structural geological point of view, a large part of the deposits in the municipality today form the Meggener Mulde . In the period that followed, the Variscan mountains were increasingly leveled into a hull area . The hills of the Sauerland were created by the uplift of the Rhenish Slate Mountains, especially in the Tertiary and Quaternary , the most recent age in the history of the earth, which began around 2.6 million years ago and continues to the present day. The brooks in the newly created landscape dug deep into the mountains (see also Sauerland ). This can be seen, for example, from the course of the Lenne , on the slopes of which terrace levels were formed.

Numerous caves were able to form in the mass limestone of the Upper Middle Devon, for example in the area of ​​the districts of Sporke and Hespecke . In Sporke, the monarch's cave is currently being renatured .

In 2011, a palm-sized fossil of a mussel was discovered in the district of Meggen . According to an assessment by the LWL Museum für Naturkunde , it is a so-called sculpture stone core from the Devonian period that is around 400 million years old. The fossil was removed from the surrounding rock on November 22, 2011 and brought to the LWL Museum for further analysis.

City structure

Districts of Lennestadt

The city of Lennestadt has 43 districts and was created through the municipal territorial reform of the Olpe district on July 1, 1969 from the previously independent municipalities of Elspe , Grevenbrück , Kirchveischede , Oedingen , Saalhausen and Altenhundem from the municipality of Kirchhundem . Milchenbach from the municipality of Lenne was added by the regional reform in 1975 . In both regional reforms, municipal boundaries were changed and individual locations were assigned to neighboring municipalities.

The reorganization had become particularly necessary because the structures of individual communities could no longer be reconciled with the strong growth of the economy and companies. Due to further settlements, some places had already moved closer together. In difficult political processes, Altenhundem was determined to be the central location and focus of urban development planning.

Despite the centralization of administrative facilities, the old places were able to retain their independence, to which special local development plans contributed.

The following localities belong to the urban area of ​​Lennestadt:

Altenhundem Altenvalbert Bilstein Bonzel Bonzeler hammer Brenschede Bruchhausen Burbecke hermitage Elspe Elsperhusen

Ernestus Germania hut Gleierbrück Grevenbrück Hach Half done Hilmecke House House Valbert Hengstebeck Hespecke Kickenbach

Kirchveischede Long egg Maumke Meggen Melbecke Milchenbach Neukamp Oberelspe Obermelbecke Obervalbert Oedingen

Oedingerberg (formerly mountains) Oedingermühle Saalhausen Schmellenberg Spork Stopper Störmecke Theta Dry bridge Weissenstein

climate

The area of ​​the city of Lennestadt is in the temperate climate zone . The average maximum temperatures in July / August reach just over 21 ° C; the lowest temperatures in January and February averaged −2.7 and -3.6 ° C, respectively. Further monthly and annual averages can be found in the table:

Climate Lennestadt (280 m) monthly averages Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.1 4.2 7.7 12.5 16.6 19.4 21.4 21.1 17.0 12.6 7.4 3.5 O 12.2 Min. Temperature (° C) -2.7 -3.6 -1.1 1.2 4.3 7.1 9.4 8.9 5.3 2.1 0.6 -1.8 O 2.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 68 85 74 42 43 45 62 47 57 65 69 78 Σ 735 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1 3 3 5 6th 6th 6th 6th 5 4th 2 1 O 4th T e m p e r a t u r 3.1 -2.7 4.2 -3.6 7.7 -1.1 12.5 1.2 16.6 4.3 19.4 7.1 21.4 9.4 21.1 8.9 17.0 5.3 12.6 2.1 7.4 0.6 3.5 -1.8 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec N i e d e r s c h l a g 68 85 74 42 43 45 62 47 57 65 69 78   Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source: Temperatures / precipitation and sunny days:

On individual days in midsummer temperatures of just over 30 ° C are measured, while in winter they can occasionally drop to around −20 ° C.

history

See also: Articles of the 43 districts.

Early and Middle Ages

Hill grave Elspe Am Maar (age approx. 4000 years)

Wall system on the Hofkühl

Early history trails and castles in the southern Sauerland; the Römerweg is shown in green

The local press reported in July 2016 about a highly regarded archaeological find in the area of ​​the Lenne, near the district of Trockenbrück . It is a stone core (scientific name Levallois core ), from which stone fragments for the manufacture of tools (weapon points, etc.) were cut. Experts from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association dated the find to the last Ice Age (around 80 to 40,000 years ago). Since this type of stone processing is known from the Neanderthals living at the time , the find serves as the first evidence of the residence of these prehistoric people in the Lennestadt area and also in the Olpe / Südsauerland district.

Clues for settlements of collectors and hunters arise for the period between the Neolithic and the early Bronze Age . In the spring of 1972, the writer and officers discovered the Landesdenkmalamt Munster Hannes cloth in the nature reserve Melbecke and Rübenkamp a hillside grave , whose age is estimated according to a plaque on about 4000 years. Other finds of this type are found near Hespecke and near Elspe (Auf dem Maar area). The graves have not been archaeologically examined, but their quality as barrows is believed to be safe.

Lasting traces of a settlement of today's urban area in the wall castles on the Hofkühl near Kirchveischede and the Weilenscheid near Elspe go back to the 5th century BC. BC, to the early La Tène period. The Wallburg on the Weilenscheid has an oval length of 225 and a width of 75 meters. Finds such as brooches for traditional costumes and arm ring fragments can be traced back to the period from around 480 to 320 BC. Assign. A rare find on the ridge of the Weilenscheid is a fragment of a hollow hump ring with plastic ornamentation in a spiral shape on the hump.

The Hofkühl ramparts are around 80 meters long and 60 meters wide. A more precise time allocation within the La Tène time is not possible.

Evidence of early settlement can also be found in recent excavations on the Oedingerberg . Finds support the assumption that a Frankish castle stood there before the Oedingen monastery existed. A Carolingian sword belt fitting found dates to the first third of the 9th century (800 to 835).

For Elspe and Oedingen there are the oldest written documents in the city. The places were first mentioned in the year 1000 in a document that Emperor Otto III. to confirm the founding of the Oedingen Monastery . For the following centuries there is evidence mainly from Bilstein , Amt Bilstein and Bilstein Castle .

The prehistoric highways Römerweg and Heidenstraße led through the urban area . The Roman path from Bonn to the Brilon plateaus grazed the districts of Bilstein, Grevenbrück , Trockenbrück , Elspe, Oberelspe and Oedingen. Heidenstrasse stretched from Leipzig to Bonn and ran along the same route in the Grevenbrück / Elspe area. For the routes, see also the route of Heidenstrasse .

Bilstein Castle

Court house in Kirchveischede built in 1784

Veischedetalbahn passenger car

Lookout tower on the Hohe Bracht

In the 12th century, Förde Castle, also known as Peperburg , became the seat of the nobles of Gevore. You were the owner of the count's power in the area of ​​today's South Sauerland. Between 1220 and 1225 they moved their seat to Bilstein Castle, which was built above the Veischede valley. From then on they called themselves Edelherren von Bilstein . In 1365, after the death of the last childless nobleman of Bilstein, rule passed to the Count of the Mark.

Modern times

In 1445 the Archbishop of Cologne conquered the castle and together with the Land Bilstein it was incorporated into the Duchy of Westphalia , which until 1802 belonged to the Electorate of Cologne . Up until 1555 there was a frequent change in the Drostenamt during the Electoral Cologne period , the respective owner performing government duties for the sovereign. This is also due to the fact that the electors procured new sources of money by pledging offices, for example to finance wars. At the beginning of 1556, the Drosten office fell to Friedrich von Fürstenberg and remained with the Fürstenberg house (Waterlappe-Herdringen line) until 1802.

After a brief affiliation with Hessen-Darmstadt, Bilstein became the seat of the newly created district of Bilstein in 1817, one year after the state passed to Prussia. As early as 1819, however, the district headquarters went to Olpe due to the more convenient location in terms of traffic . In this circle, the Bilstein office was created in 1843/44 , to which the communities Kirchveischede, Rahrbach, Förde (today Grevenbrück) and Elspe belonged.

The expansion of the traffic routes in the area of ​​today's city of Lennestadt took place particularly in the first half of the 19th century. In the years 1825 to 1827, the Koblenz-Mindener Chaussee (see also Bundesstraße 55 ) in the Olpe - Bilstein - Elspe section was expanded as a modern road and opened to traffic on January 1, 1828. In the 1840s, the Lennetal road from Altena via Grevenbrück, Altenhundem, Welschen Ennest to Krombach and the provincial road from Altenhundem to Schmallenberg were opened .

From an economic point of view, the opening of the first railway line in the Sauerland, the so-called Ruhr-Sieg line from Hagen via Altenhundem to Siegen, was of particular importance in 1861 . In 1887 the branch line was opened up the Lenne to Schmallenberg , and in 1914 the line to Erndtebrück . Altenhundem had thus become an important rail hub.

The community of Bilstein pushed for a connection to the Grevenbrück train station, six kilometers away, at an early stage. This happened with the first trackless, electrically operated passenger train between Grevenbrück, Bilstein and Kirchveischede, known as Veischedetalbahn , in the years 1904 to 1916. The carriage-like motor vehicles and the two to three trailers each had 14 seats and standing places. The motor of the railcar was connected to the electrical overhead line via special pantograph rods and enabled a cruising speed of 18 km / h. Due to the turmoil of the war and the lack of material, operations were closed in 1916. In 1921, a motorized postal line was set up for passenger transport. In the period from 1903 to 1908, the Grevenbrücker Kalkwerke, founded in 1902, also used an electrically operated, trackless transport system . It led from the quarry (exit towards Finnentrop) over the Lennebrücke (shared route with the Veischedetalbahn) to Grevenbrück station. At the end of 1908, the conversion of the trackless transport line to rail traffic was ordered.

From the 16th to the 18th century, agriculture was followed by trade in ore, iron products and charcoal. Around 1800 there were seven hammer mills along the Lenne between Saalhausen and Maumke, plus two at the Veischede and one at Altenhundem. The Maumker Hammer and the Kickenbacher Hammer are particularly well-known from this period . In 1912 the upper ditch of the former Kickenbacher Hammer was converted into a generator system for generating electricity.

With the opening of the railway lines, mining developed in Halberbracht , Meggen and Maumke , although it was abandoned in 1992.

The fact that a number of medium-sized companies in electrical engineering and metalworking and processing had emerged in other parts of Lennestadt had a stabilizing effect on employment opportunities.

In the course of the construction of the railway lines and the development of mining and industry, more and more Protestant Christians settled in the Lennestadt area, so that the construction of the Protestant church in Altenhundem began in 1867.

The immigration, but also the concerns of companies and skilled workers, required an expansion of the school system. In the years 1888 and 1911 rectorate schools were set up in Förde (today Grevenbrück) and Altenhundem, but they did not accept girls until 1925 and 1921 respectively. This type of school prepared for attending grammar school (at that time in Olpe or Attendorn), a commercial profession or a job in administration. From 1901 girls could learn housekeeping in the rural housekeeping school in Elspe.

The construction of the observation tower on the Hohen Bracht in 1929/30 was of great importance for tourism in the Lennestadt area . The opening ceremony on October 12, 1930 was the first outside broadcast of West German Broadcasting. The Hohe Bracht is the destination of many hikers and, because of its altitude, is also suitable for winter sports.

In addition to the construction of the observation tower, the construction of the access road to Hohen Bracht and the connecting road Bilstein - Altenhundem were among the important employment measures in the economic hardship from 1926 to 1928. A listed rectangular sandstone stele on Hohe-Bracht-Straße in Bilstein commemorates this ( see also the list of architectural monuments in Lennestadt Monument No. 9).

time of the nationalsocialism

It is noteworthy that in the Reichstag election on March 5, 1933 in the Olpe district with 14.3% of the votes , the NSDAP received the lowest value in the German Reich (43.9%). By far the strongest force remained the Center Party with a share of the vote of 69.1% (see also Sauerland # National Socialism and World War II ). This result is a particularly impressive example of voting behavior in many Catholic areas.

After the seizure of power at the end of January 1933, the National Socialists immediately had a massive influence on public life. In the context of conformity measures in 1934 a party member from Altenhundem was appointed head of the district civil servant. In the same year, two respected members of the center, District Administrator Wening and Employment Office Director Schrage, were relieved and replaced by party members. The office of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany and the Volksverlags GmbH in Altenhundem was closed. This meant that the most important local instrument of Catholic workers' and popular education was no longer functional. In Altenhundem two streets were renamed: During the Nazi era, the Am Wimberg street was called Horst-Wesselstraße and the Hundemstraße was called Adolf-Hitler-Straße .

The town of Oedingen , which belongs to Lennestadt , made it clear how strongly the National Socialists determined public life. First they pushed back the influence of Catholic associations, converted Catholic schools into state institutions and banned church life from the public. In the Oedinger parish chronicle it is noted under July 1, 1933 that the parish priest's phone was blocked. Four NSDAP officials in uniform declared the young men’s association, the German youth force and the people’s association dissolved. In 1934 the parish was obliged to lease the youth home to the Hitler Youth and the Association of German Girls . Against the will of many people from Oedingen, the Catholic denominational school was dissolved on April 1, 1943 and the state community school was introduced.

In 1938, on Corpus Christi Day, church colors were no longer allowed to be used for decoration and no corresponding flags and pennants were displayed. Many residents felt that most of the church bells were confiscated in April 1942 as a particularly depressing sign of the struggle against Christianity. Under the pretext of war events, the National Socialists also forced the churches to celebrate the festive days of Ascension and Corpus Christi , which actually fall on Thursdays , on the following Sunday and to restrict the Corpus Christi procession to the cemetery.

Although the Catholic holidays of the Three Kings and the Conception of Mary were official holidays, the rulers ordered school attendance on these days, which many Oedingen parents opposed: On January 6, 1939, 60 school children were missing, and a year later even 119 school children were missing. The parents' punishments did not take place or were withdrawn; in a larger group it was possible to defy orders. Similar forms of non-adaptation to the Nazi regime also existed in other parts of today's urban area. It turned out that the National Socialist attempt to destroy the binding forces of the Catholic rural milieu and to take over families, schools, associations and educational work faced great difficulties in implementation. The extensive study by Arnold Klein shows, however, that large parts of the population left the local Nazi leaders more and more the reins of public action every year.

A total of 16 murder victims of the National Socialist dictatorship are to be mourned in the districts of Altenhundem, Elspe, Grevenbrück, Bilstein and Altenvalbert. For the fate of the Jews from the area of ​​today's Lennestadt see the section Jews .

Memorial stone on the Soviet Cemetery of Honor in Maumke

Forced laborers from Eastern Europe were used in particular in the mining of the Sachtleben AG company. For the period between 1939 and 1945 several forced labor camps are occupied for the area of ​​today's city of Lennestadt: Altenhundem (Tobüren company 100 people, railway depot 150 people), Elspe (Schützenhalle 70 people), Halberbracht (2 camps of the Sachtleben AG company 140 people ), Meggen (Sachtleben AG 1300 people, Eickert camp 250 people), Maumke (Sachtleben AG 1200 people), Grevenbrück (shooting hall 260 people) and Langenei (Carlshütte factory 50 people). The number of people who died of malnutrition and exhaustion is unknown. The graves of forced laborers were in Kirchveischede (13 individual graves, 1 mass grave), Elspe (48 individual graves, 2 mass graves) and Grevenbrück (109 individual graves). 98 forced laborers of Russian origin are buried in the cemetery of the East Labor Camp in Maumke. In the Museum of the City of Lennestadt , as part of the work exhibition Shadows of War - War Experiences of the People in the Lennestadt Villages 1939–1945, letters from surviving forced laborers from the years 2000 and 2001 are shown, who asked the city for certificates of their forced labor at the time to receive compensation from the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” .

On March 30, 1945, General of the Infantry Gustav-Adolf von Zangen , commander of the German 15th Army , and his staff were in Altenhundem for a day . There he met with Field Marshal Walter Model , the commander of Army Group B . Zangen was given supreme command over the eastern half of the Ruhr basin that was just closing . From April 1, 1945, the urban area of ​​Lennestadt was part of the Ruhr basin that was enclosed by Allied troops. Troops of the US Army occupied the city between the 9th and 12th of April. According to a documentation of the exhibition Shadow of War , 981 German soldiers were killed in fighting in the area of ​​today's city in 1945.

Only recently, through a contribution in the local voices from the Olpe district, it became known that many expectant mothers from the embattled Ruhr area gave birth to their children in the Bilstein district between 1943 and 1945. The births were funded and organized by the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization . According to the registry office of the city of Lennestadt, the number of these births to foreign mothers in the period from June 8, 1943 to May 1, 1945 totaled 760, with the evacuated mothers primarily from the cities of Dortmund, Bochum, Wanne-Eickel and Hagen . Suitable facilities were located in various pensions in the village.

The narrator Josefa Berens-Totenohl, known in the Sauerland, lived and worked in the district of Gleierbrück from 1925 until her death in 1969 . More recent publications undoubtedly prove their active support of the Nazi regime and thus triggered a street name debate in several places. As a result, the City Council of Lennestadt decided in March 2014 to rename all street names reminiscent of Josefa Berens-Totenohl to Gleierbrück.

Also according to new knowledge, the local politician Herbert Evers (1902–1968) was more involved in misconduct during the Nazi era than previously assumed. In particular, he is also charged with participating in the deportation of people to concentration camps . In the council meeting on March 22, 2017, the city of Lennestadt posthumously revoked the honorary citizenship granted to him in 1938.

Follow-up period and territorial reform

Three erected Nike Hercules missiles in the launch area of ​​the 1st battery of Air Defense Missile Battalion 22, 1980

Aerial photo of the Sauerland barracks 2002

From 1962 to 2002 the Sauerland barracks near Oedingen was the base of the German Air Force for FlaRak units. Until 1990 the 1st battery of the anti-aircraft missile battalion 22 was stationed in the barracks. From 1990 it was replaced by the 5th battery of the anti-aircraft missile battalion 21 . From 1963 to 1987 US soldiers of the 52nd United States Army Artillery Detachment were also housed in the barracks. Separated from the barracks was the launch area with the rockets and the fire control area for catching enemy aircraft and guiding your own rockets. In the launch area were rockets of the Nike Ajax type from 1962 to 1967 and of the Nike Hercules type from 1962 to 1988 . Up to nine Nike Hercules missiles carried nuclear warheads of 2 or 40 kilotons from 1963 to 1987 ; the 40 kiloton warheads were replaced by 20 kiloton warheads in the 1970s. The nuclear warheads were designed for surface-to-air use against enemy aircraft and for surface-to-surface use against enemy ground forces up to a distance of 180 kilometers. The US Army was in control of the nuclear warheads . The presence of nuclear warheads, internally designated as special ammunition by the Bundeswehr, was secret and was not publicly confirmed by the Bundeswehr. From 1987 to 2002, the unit was armed with Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, a ground-based medium-range anti-aircraft missile system designed to defend against aircraft, cruise missiles and tactical medium-range ballistic missiles.

As part of the municipal reorganization in the Sauerland (see Olpe Law ), the Bilstein office was dissolved on June 30, 1969. In this area, the city of Lennestadt was re-established as the legal successor. The administrative headquarters of the new city fell to Altenhundem , where the newly built town hall was moved into in 1984. In the former Grevenbrück administrative building, which served as the provisional administrative center until 1984, is now the Lennestadt City Museum with library and city archive.

Before the regional reform, there was no place called Lennestadt in the new urban area . The main statute of the city of Lennestadt contains the following note in § 1 on naming: “The city of Lennestadt has existed since July 1, 1969 (law on the reorganization of the district of Olpe of July 18, 1969 GV NW p. 286). It was created through the merger of the former communities of Elspe, Grevenbrück, Kirchveischede, Oedingen, Saalhausen and the incorporation of parts of the community of Kirchhundem and Lenne (localities Altenhundem, Langenei, Kickenbach and Milchenbach) ”. Section 3 regulates the division of the urban area into localities: "Within the urban area, the previous localities with their historical names are retained".

Extensive consultations preceded the restructuring measures. There were political conflicts during the reorganization. As a result, the decisions for the re-establishment of the city of Lennestadt and for the administrative location Altenhundem (deviating from the formation of opinion at the municipal level) were made by the higher-level authorities of the state or district government. The result of the municipal reorganization was later assessed positively. Supported by local development plans, the old towns have been able to retain their independence, and sufficient jobs have been created; small and medium-sized businesses emerged.

With more than 25,000 permanent residents, Lennestadt is officially one of the medium-sized cities in the district . According to § 4 of the municipal code for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, it can thus be used for additional tasks in addition to the general tasks of self-administration by law or ordinance.

In the years 1969 to 1990, all structures in the center of Altenhundem were demolished and replaced by new buildings to create a new administrative and business center. Further structural measures were the establishment of the Am Wigey industrial park from 1980 and another from 1994 on the former site of the railway depot. In 2008/09 the station and the access to the platforms were renovated.

The Lennestadt District Court goes back to the Bilstein District Court, which was relocated to Förde (today Grevenbrück) as early as 1879.

As one of the first hospices of this type in Germany, the St.-Elisabeth-Hospiz e.V. was founded in 1991 by representatives of the social and health services and the churches. V. established. The employees of the hospice accompany terminally ill people regardless of their religious affiliation and, together with therapists, doctors and pastors, ensure the best possible quality of life until the end of their lives.

Necessary structural improvement measures were also carried out in Meggen in the years after the regional reform, such as the dismantling of the former mining site of the Sachtleben company and the establishment of new businesses, in particular the "Sauerland pyramids". In Grevenbrück, the site of the former Kruse chemical works was redeveloped in 2001/02 with the settlement of new companies, as well as the renovation of the station building and the underpass for the level crossing for road traffic in 2008/09.

The history of the districts belonging to Lennestadt can be seen in the listed buildings. The Bilstein Castle for the events in the Middle Ages, the Sicilia mine for the mining era in Meggen, Maumke and Halberbracht and the many half-timbered houses in Bilstein, Kirchveischede and Saalhausen for the art of half-timbered construction, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Incorporations

The city of Lennestadt was founded on July 1, 1969 as the legal successor to the Bilstein office. It consists of 43 individual locations from the previously independent communities of Elspe, Grevenbrück, Kirchveische, Oedingen ( Meschede district ) and Saalhausen as well as parts of the communities of Helden and Kirchhundem. On January 1, 1975, Milchenbach, until then a district of the municipality of Lenne , was reclassified to Lennestadt.

population

Population development

Development of the population of the city of Lennestadt from the founding year 1969:

Accordingly, while the population of Lennestadt initially remained largely constant from its founding in 1969, it rose to 28,084 inhabitants in the 1990s (2003) and has since then (following the general trend) slightly declined (end of 2019: 25,308 inhabitants) .

Structure of the local residents

Population structure Lennestadt

place	Residents	difference	Number of foreigners	Foreigners share	Youth up to 18 years	Seniors over 65 years
	June 30, 2020	as of June 30, 2018	June 30, 2020		June 30, 2020	June 30, 2020
Altenhundem	4281	-65	528	12.3%	16.6%	21.7%
Altenvalbert	101	- 1	2	2.0%	13.9%	12.9%
Bilstein	1043	-41	78	7.5%	14.3%	21.9%
Bonzel	405	+11	21st	5.2%	21.5%	16.1%
Bonzellerhammer	11	-4	2	18.2%	0.0%	45.5%
Brenschede	67	-2	3	4.5%	10.5%	26.9%
Bruchhausen	29	-1	3	10.3%	20.7%	3.5%
Burbecke	89	-4	2	2.3%	14.6%	18.0%
hermitage	5	0	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Elsmecke	3	0	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Elspe	2809	-92	168	6.0%	16.1%	23.2%
Elsperhusen	4th	0	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Ernestus	10	0	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Germania hut	41	-1	0	0.0%	7.3%	31.7%
Gleierbrück	163	+6	7th	4.3%	15.9%	20.9%
Grevenbrück	3673	+42	402	10.9%	18.0%	17.0%
Hach	26th	+1	0	0.0%	15.4%	15.4%
Half done	1019	+14	45	4.4%	19.8%	18.5%
Hengstebeck	-	-	-	-	-	-
Hespecke	38	-1	0	0.0%	10.5%	10.5%
Hilmecke House	4th	-2	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Kickenbach	504	-6	18th	3.6%	14.1%	19.8%
Kirchveischede	923	+5	58	6.3%	17.6%	19.4%
Long egg	726	-48	40	5.5%	14.5%	25.6%
Maumke	2162	-4	329	15.2%	20.6%	18.7%
Meggen	2934	+9	506	17.3%	17.7%	19.7%
Melbecke	82	-1	2	2.4%	30.5%	17.1%
Milchenbach	185	+12	13	7.0%	14.1%	17.8%
Neukamp	18th	+3	2	11.1%	16.7%	0.0%
Oberelspe	766	+6	32	4.2%	19.1%	16.6%
Obervalbert	58	-1	0	0.0%	25.9%	22.4%
Oedingen	1036	-59	56	5.4%	18.1%	19.0%
Oedingerberg	42	+4	0	0.0%	11.9%	26.2%
Oedingermühle	30th	-1	0	0.0%	6.7%	23.3%
Saalhausen	1760	-32	69	3.9%	16.7%	20.1%
Schmellenberg	18th	+2	0	0.0%	27.8%	22.2%
Spork	183	-9	1	0.6%	19.7%	16.4%
Stopper	15th	+0	0	0.0%	38.5%	6.7%
Störmecke	26th	+3	3	11.5%	13.0%	30.8%
Theta	215	-14	18th	8.4%	19.2%	19.5%
Dry bridge	245	-22	19th	7.8%	16.5%	20.8%
House Valbert	4th	0	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Weissenstein	13	-3	0	0.0%	0.0%	38.5%
Total:	25766	-296	2427	9.4%	20.0%	17.4%

The above information is based on data provided by the city of Lennestadt on the population development and the age structure in the individual districts (as of June 30, 2020)

As of June 30, 2020, the downward trend in the number of inhabitants from 296 to 25766 inhabitants continued. The proportion of foreign residents rose by 0.25 percentage points to 9.4% compared with the end of June 2018. Comparatively higher proportions of foreigners are found in the localities (apart from a few smaller towns with less than 50 inhabitants) Altenhundem (12.3%) and Grevenbrück (10.9%) as well as the former mining villages Maumke (15.2%) and Meggen (17.3% ) on. In earlier years, mining brought about the influx of guest worker families.

Regarding the age structure of the residents as of June 30, 2020 (apart from a few very small towns) the higher proportions of over 65-year-olds in the towns of Altenhundem (21.7%), Bilstein (21.9%), Elspe (23, 2%), Brenschede (26.9%), Gleierbrück (20.9%), Kickenbach (19.8%), Kirchveischede (19.4%), Langenei (25.6%), Meggen (19.7% ), Obervalbert (22.4%), Oedingen (19.0%), Saalhausen (20.1%), Theten (19.5%) and Trockenbrück (20.8%) (average city of Lennestadt: 17, 4% on June 30, 2020). The number of places with a higher proportion of senior citizens on track has increased significantly in recent years.

The villages of Bonzel (21.5%), Maumke (20.6%), Melbecke (30.5%) and Obervalbert (25.9%) have a higher proportion of younger residents up to the age of 18 (average city of Lennestadt: 20, 0% on June 30, 2020)

Religions

Proportions of denominations

St. Jakobus Elspe

The following distribution of denominations results for the city area in 2013:

Of the approximately 27,100 inhabitants (as of the end of June 2013), a clear majority of 72.8% profess the Catholic Church , and 10.2% are Protestant . The other religious communities have a share of 0.4%; 16.6% of the population gave no information on religion.

Denominations in Lennestadt
Catholic			19,746
evangelical			2,753
other			107
not specified			4,500
Status: June 2013

The Islamic population is not recorded separately, but its share can be determined more precisely by the religious affiliation of the pupils in general schools. According to the data collected on October 15, 2019, 15.1% (560) of a total of 3,705 students in Lennestadt belonged to Islam (66.4% were Catholic, 9.2% Protestant, 1.9% of other denominations and 7.4 % without denomination).

Catholic Church

From the beginning of Christianization in the late 8th century until the 19th century, the area of ​​southern Westphalia and thus also today's city was part of the Archdiocese of Cologne until it was assigned to the Archdiocese of Paderborn from 1821/23 .

Visible signs of the strong influence of the Catholic Church are 12 local parish churches and 18 chapels in smaller districts and a large number of field crosses and crossroads in the landscape. A total of 7 parish churches and 8 chapels are under monument protection.

The shortage of priests, which has also been observed in the Lennestadt area for years, led to the establishment of pastoral associations from 1998 onwards . The twelve parishes in Lennestadt belong to the following associations: Parishes in Altenhundem, Langenei and Saalhausen to the pastoral association Lennetal, parishes in Elspe, Oberelspe and Oedingen to the pastoral association Oene-Elspe-Tal, parishes in Grevenbrück, Bilstein and Kirchveischede to the pastoral association Veischedetal, parishes in the pastoral association Veischedgen , Maumke and Halberbracht to the pastoral network Meggen-Maumke-Halberbracht. With the introduction of the Lennestadt pastoral area, pastoral care will be further centralized from 2013. The aforementioned pastoral associations remain areas within the pastoral space with their own parish offices.

In addition to the parishes, the friars of the Maria Königin monastery are active in pastoral care. Public services are held regularly in the monastery church in Altenhundem, and friars support the parishes in various parts of the city of Lennestadt. Difficulties arise from the age of the religious currently still living in the monastery. On October 1, 2015, the Teutonic Order Province of Missionaries of the Holy Family will officially close the monastery or mission house.

Of the 15 kindergartens in the city , 9 are under Catholic management, which reflects the church's influence.

Protestant church

Evangelical Church in Altenhundem

Maria Königin monastery church from the point of view of Altenhundem ( Bundesstraße 236 )

The area of ​​today's city of Lennestadt and almost the entire parish of Kirchhundem was assigned to the Evangelical parish of Attendorn with its few Protestant Christians in 1849 . The pastors from Attendorn and Hilchenbach were responsible for pastoral care .

With the construction of the Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn , Protestant railway and business families from the Siegerland and Hesse also came to the eastern part of the Olpe district. In 1857 there were already 200 Protestant Christians living in Meggen and the surrounding area, so that the founding of the church association, later the parish of Grevenbrück-Meggen, became necessary. The actual birthday of the parish is March 15, 1858, when a rented prayer room was inaugurated for regular church services and Bible studies . In 1861 the parish Grevenbrück-Meggen became a branch of Plettenberg with its own presbytery .

Since the number of Protestant Christians rose to 700 by 1863, it was decided to build a church on the outskirts of Altenhundem (towards Meggen). The foundation stone was laid on June 29, 1867, and the consecration took place a year later. In 1874, the Grevenbrück-Meggen parish became independent. It existed until 1927, when the Protestant parishes of Lennestadt-Kirchhundem and Grevenbrück emerged. The church built on the outskirts of Altenhundem, to which the Protestant cemetery is attached, is now part of the Protestant parish of Lennestadt-Kirchhundem. The listed building in the neo-Romanesque style was completely renovated in 1956.

After the Second World War, numerous Protestant families found a new home in Grevenbrück, which is why a new Protestant church was built there in 1965.

The Protestant parishes in Lennestadt have the difficult task of looking after relatively few church members over a large area.

The four Protestant parishes of Attendorn, Finnentrop, Grevenbrück and Lennestadt-Kirchhundem are working in a structure committee with a merger to concentrate administration. The association is scheduled for January 2020, subject to the approval of superordinate bodies.

See also: Altenhundem # religion and Grevenbrück # religion .

Muslims

Mosque in Meggen (August 2018)

The first Muslims came to Lennestadt from 1960 , mostly guest workers from Turkey. Religious life takes place in the Yesil mosque in Meggen, where the mosque association of the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB) has its seat. The mosque association was founded in 1982 and had 295 members in 2011. The foundation stone for a new mosque was laid in May 2015 .; the shell of the new mosque was completed in early November 2016. The new Yesil Mosque was opened on May 11, 2018. The Alevi cultural center in the district of Olpe is located in the Maumke district .

Jews

Jewish cemetery in Langenei

The first isolated references to the residence of Jews in the Olpe district come from the years 1451, 1568 and 1574. Increased immigration began in the 19th century, but the Jews in the Olpe district were not organized as a group, which the Prussian state did not want was. The Löwenstein family with ten children lived in Oedingen from around 1800 to 1850; a prayer house was also mentioned there in 1826. The Aron Neubauer family lived in Langenei from 1822 to 1854, where there was also a Jewish burial site , which was also used by Altenhundem Jews until 1930.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the immigration of Jews increased significantly, aided by the economic boom. The focus was on the places Olpe and Attendorn. With a few exceptions, they were largely denied integration into social life.

At the time of seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 and Altenhundem Elspe total of 26 Jewish citizens, including the families Neuhaus, winter and the siblings Neheimer lived. In the Nazi regime, the situation for Jews here also worsened. The Winter siblings in Altenhundem were also affected by the call to boycott Jewish shops . In the years 1936/37, the first emigration of Jews from the district area can be proven due to the increasingly unbearable repression. Erna Winter from Altenhundem emigrated to Luxembourg in 1936 and later presumably to Argentina. In 1936 or 1937 Adelheid Neuhaus emigrated from Altenhundem to New York. Her younger brother Fritz followed in 1938. During the November pogroms in 1938, Aron and Otto Neuhaus were arrested in Altenhundem. The other Jewish residents died or emigrated in the 1930s.

As a result of the Nazi tyranny, Jewish life in Lennestadt has been extinguished to this day. In 1994 the former Jewish cemetery in Langenei was renovated on the initiative of the village community. The memorial stone bears the inscription “Our Jewish fellow citizens rest here in consecrated earth”. As part of the Stolpersteine ​​campaign , 13 victims from these families and three euthanasia victims were remembered in 2008 by putting up memorial stones.

See also : List of stumbling blocks in Lennestadt

politics

Local election 2014

Turnout: 49.2% (2009: 50.6%)

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10.9%

7.1%

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SPD

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UWG

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Gains and losses

compared to 2009

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UWG

Otherwise.

The Lennestädter administrative center with the town hall is in the district Altenhundem.

City council

Four parties are currently represented in the city council. In the local elections in 2009 and 2014, the parties and groups won the following voting shares and number of seats on the city council. The turnout in 2014 was 49.2%.

Result of the local election on May 25, 2014

Political party	be right	± to 2009	Seats	± to 2009
CDU	50.6%	−9.0% p	20th	-3
SPD	30.5%	+ 2.4% p	11	-
GREEN	10.9%	−0.2% p	4th	-
UWG	7.1%	+ 7.1% p	3	+3
Others	0.9%	−0.3% p	-	-
Turnout 49.2% (−1.4% p)

Results of the state and federal elections

In the last state and federal elections, the parties in Lennestadt received the following votes (second votes):

Political party	Bundestag election 2013	Bundestag election 2017	State election 2012	State election 2017
CDU	47.7%	42.5%	37.7%	43.8%
SPD	31.3%	26.0%	37.6%	30.0%
FDP	4.5%	12.4%	6.6%	10.8%
The green	4.2%	4.0%	6.8%	3.8%
The left	4.3%	4.3%	1.6%	2.4%
AfD	3.9%	8.0%	-	5.8%
Pirates	-	-	6.2%	0.8%
Others	4.1%	2.8%	3.5%	2.6%

mayor

Until 1997, the office of the head of administration in Lennestadt was, as everywhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, city ​​director . The mayors were voluntary until 1997 and mainly had representative tasks.

Erwin Krollmann from the CDU was city director from 1969 to 1989, and from July 1969 to November 1969 he was entrusted with performing the tasks. From 1989 to 1997 Franz-Josef Kaufmann was City Director of the SPD.

Heinrich Hanfland from the CDU was from July 1969 to November 1969 the person responsible for performing the duties of the council chairman . From December 1969 to 1983 Josef Beckmann from the CDU was the first elected mayor of Lennestadt. The Bürgermeister-Beckmann-Platz is named after him. From 1983 to 1989 Wilhelm Soemer was mayor of the CDU, from 1989 to 1997 Hubert Nies (CDU) and from 1997 to 2009 Alfons Heimes (CDU). In 2009, Stefan Hundt from the CDU, elected with 72.9% of the vote , followed, Hundt was re-elected with 67.9% in the local elections on May 25, 2014.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city of Lennestadt was awarded on December 31, 1971 with the description "Three green poles in gold covered by a blue sloping beam, in the upper left corner a silver rose placed on the third pole". The gold and green bars in the background were taken from the coat of arms of the Bilstein office. The sloping wave stands for the river Lenne, after which the city is named, the rose comes from the village of Oedingen.

City patron

In 1995 the city council decided to appoint Thomas More as city patron. Since 2001, the city has been awarding the Thomas More Prize to citizens “who have been guided in their actions by the convictions of their conscience and have become role models for the benefit of others and our society regardless of possible personal disadvantages through courage and moral courage . "

Town twinning

The city of Lennestadt entered into a partnership with the city of Otwock in Poland in 1992 . In May 2006, as a sign of solidarity, the municipalities organized a bicycle tour with 32 participants from Lennestadt via Berlin and Warsaw to Otwock.

Culture and sights

Elspe Festival

Elspe Festival site

→ Main article : Elspe Festival

Elspe Festival has been the official name for the Karl May Festival , which takes place in the Elspe district since 1989 and around which various shows are grouped. From 1976 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1986, Pierre Brice, known as a film actor in the role of Winnetou , was a guest at the Games.

theatre

Sports hall of the Anne Frank School in Meggen

The Kulturgemeinde Hundem-Lenne eV , founded in 1946, offers a cultural program in the 480 seat theater of the city of Lennestadt in the pedagogical center (PZ) in the building of the Anne Frank secondary school in Meggen. The program includes drama, cabaret, musicals, concerts as well as children's and youth theater. Of the 38 events, 16 can be booked as a total subscription or 2 different subscription series with 8 events.

movie theater

There has been a cinema in Altenhundem since 1916 - with interruptions. The house, now known as Lichtspielhaus Lennestadt , is the only one in the district, along with a multiplex cinema in the district town of Olpe. It has three halls. The state Film- und Medienstiftung NRW honored the cinema operators with two program awards in 2015 for the good concepts in the selection of German and European films as well as suitable films for children and young people.

Museums

Lennestadt City Museum

Siciliaschacht mining museum

The Lennestadt City Museum is located in Grevenbrück, and the building also houses the city's local and regional library and the city archive. Since 1998, operates Förderverein mountain monuments Lennestadt the mining museum Siciliaschacht in Meggen , reminiscent of the mining tradition of the place.

In the house of the guest Saalhausen the city maintains for the deceased in 1969, writer and painter Josefa Berens-Totenohl the Josefa-Berens-room with a collection of their works and estate objects u. a. In the course of the upcoming renaming of the street names in Gleierbrück , which remind of the writer , the Josefa-Berens-Stube was closed to visitors at the beginning of 2014. A new concept is being developed for the use of the living room.

music

The Lennestadt-Kirchhundem Music School for children and young people is a municipal music school of the Kirchhundem community and the city of Lennestadt as the school authority. The music school offers in particular all common wind, string, percussion, keyboard and plucked instruments; Singing lessons; Early education / basic training for four to six year olds; Music garden for children from 18 months, music teaching and ear training. About 800 students are currently attending the music school. Classes take place in the primary schools in Lennestadt and Kirchhundem.

For further activities in instrumental music, the offer ranges from traditional music associations and drum corps to initiatives such as the Collegium Musicum chamber orchestra, founded in 1974, and the Junge Philharmonie Lennestadt e. V. The Junge Philharmonie was founded in 2002 with the aim of giving young, talented amateur musicians the opportunity to make music together with professional musicians. The association can also offer adults who have already learned an instrument an incentive for new tasks in a home orchestra. The repertoire of the Junge Philharmonie is broad and ranges from classic to modern.

Fans of current music will find in the concert series of the youth center OT in Grevenbrück and in the Rockade Festiwoll of the youth club Kirchveischede e. V. a wide range of offers.

Musical highlights are the hospice concerts in favor of the St. Elisabeth hospice , a care facility for the seriously ill. So far, the association Hospiz zur Heiligen Elisbeth has succeeded year after year in presenting the big bands and orchestras of the national and international military music scene to its sponsors and patrons, whereby the Sauerlandhalle in Altenhundem was usually filled to the last seat.

The choir scene has also become more diverse in recent decades. In addition to the long-established male and church choirs, a number of choirs for women, children and young people with a wide range of singing styles have established themselves. For example, the pop and gospel choir Just for Fun with singers from the neighboring towns of Attendorn and Finnentrop, the Grevenbrück youth choir with various subgroups and the Young Voices children's and youth choir in Oberelspe. Traditional choirs also have to struggle with young talent problems in Lennestadt. In 2019 alone, the men's choirs in Grevenbrück and Maumke and the mixed choir Concordia Grevenbrück gave up their club activities. The number of choirs in the city area decreased to 19 with 724 singers.

Buildings

Grevenbrück station in Tudor Gothic style (view March 2014 after renovation)

New village square Gellestadt in Elspe

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Lennestadt

In addition to the museums mentioned, well-known buildings are Bilstein Castle , the Mälo war memorial in Grevenbrück , the Hohe Bracht observation tower , the train station in Altenhundem , the train station building in Grevenbrück, several half-timbered houses typical of the region , especially in Kirchveischede , the Lintloe fountain in Oedingen (see main article Valbert House ) and the wayside shrine Madonna der Straße on Bundesstraße 55 near Oedingen . The Sauerland pyramids, which have received multiple awards for their innovative construction, are located in Meggen . Another building worth seeing is the new village square on the Gellestatt in Elspe . The facility was completed in June 2014 and presented to the public at a ceremony on May 18, 2014. Essential features are step-free access from the center of the village to the higher parish church, a small stage covered with a canvas and a fountain with sculptures and benches on the upper plateau (see also under Elspe # Sights )

14 churches and 18 chapels, which characterize the townscape, occupy a special position among the buildings worth seeing. 7 parish churches and 8 chapels are under monument protection. These include the Catholic parish church of St. Agatha in Altenhundem in neo-Gothic style, the Protestant church in Altenhundem in the neo-Romanesque style, the Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus in Grevenbrück in the neo-Gothic style, the Romanesque Catholic parish church of St. Jacobus in Elspe , the Catholic parish church of St. Servatius in Kirchveischede in the early Gothic style, the Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomew in Meggen with a neo-Romanesque west tower and the Catholic parish church of St. Burchard in Oedingen with a Romanesque tower and classicist nave and the Catholic parish church of St. Jodokus in Saalhausen in a neo-Romanesque style.

The 18 chapel buildings mostly have a single nave construction with a small eight-sided roof turret such as B. the chapels in Altenvalbert and Melbecke.

Protected areas of nature

Nature reserve beech and quarry forests near Einsiedelei and Apollmicke

Melbeck Valley in the area of ​​the nature reserve Melbeck Valley and Rübenkamp

In the city there are two areas designated as European protected areas ( FFH areas ). These are the FFH areas beech and quarry forests near Einsiedelei and Apollmicke (295.8 ha) and beech forests, limestone semi-arid grasslands and rocks south of Finnentrop (220 ha). Partial areas of the FFH area lime beech forests, limestone semi-arid grasslands and rocks south of Finnentrop are located in the urban areas of Finnentrop and Attendorn. In the city there are nine designated nature reserves (NSG) Breiter Hagen (9.7 ha, also FFH area and outside the landscape plan area ), Wilhelmshöhe (9 ha, also FFH area), Härdler (22.4 ha), Melbecke and Rübenkamp (68.4 ha, also FFH area), Rümperholz (56.1 ha), Rennacken (6.3 ha), Bärenloch (20.7 ha), Wunderwäldchen (0.3 ha, NSG outside the landscape plan area), Beech and quarry forests near Einsiedelei and Apollmicke (295.8 ha, NSG outside the landscape plan area) and Bilstein / Rosenberg (135 ha, also FFH area and NSG outside the landscape plan area). Four of the nature reserves are predominantly covered with old beech forests and two others are partially covered.

There are four natural monuments in Lennestadt . These are the Gleierfelsen (0.51 ha), the Rinsleyfelsen (1.36 ha), the quarry near Sporke (0.19 ha) and the sycamore on the road between Melbecke and Obermelbecke . In the urban area there are also four protected landscape components (LB) from 0.47 ha to 6.79 ha in size. These are three former quarries and a Märzenbech deposit .

The entire urban area is part of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . A large part of it had also been designated as a landscape protection area since it was founded in the 1960s . The landscape plan Elsper Senke-Lennebergland has been in existence for the eastern part of the city since November 30, 2006 . There, areas outside of the built-up districts and the scope of a development plan are designated as landscape protection areas, provided that there is no higher protection status such as a nature reserve. There are two landscape protection areas in the landscape plan area. These include the conservation area Elsper Valley Lenneberg land type A and the conservation area Elsper Valley Lenneberg land type B . Landscape protection area type A, stands for general landscape protection , while type B stands for special landscape protection: protection of characteristic meadow valleys . In the type A landscape protection area, the erection of buildings and first afforestation, including the creation of new Christmas tree cultures, are prohibited. In type B there is also a ban on converting grassland and fallow grassland. The type B landscape protection area consists of several sub-areas, while the type A landscape protection area forms a coherent area in which all other protected areas and the built-up areas are located within the planning area. Outside the landscape plan area, parts of the urban area are part of the Olpe landscape protection area designated by the Arnsberg district government on December 8, 2004 , which comprises large parts of the district area outside of landscape plan areas. 3039 hectares of the landscape protection area Kreis Olpe lie in the city area. The regulations are almost identical to those of the nature reserve type A.

In the urban area there are also numerous biotopes protected because of their rarity, such as springs and rocks. Because of their rarity, they are under protection regardless of the protection categories mentioned above.

In addition to other bird species, the large birds black stork , gray heron , goshawk , red kite , eagle owl and common raven occur in Lennestadt .

Soil monuments

Reconstruction of the Weilenscheid ramparts

Reconstruction of the Peperburg

→ See also: List of ground monuments in Lennestadt

There are twelve listed ground monuments in the urban area. They are mainly assigned to the categories of ramparts, burial mounds and sunken paths. There are also remains of castle and monastery ruins.

The ramparts were refuges for a larger group of people. It can be assumed that there were extensive settlements as early as the centuries before the birth of Christ. More details on the well-known hill fortifications can be found in the articles Wallanlage Weilenscheid bei Elspe, Wallburg Kahle , Wallanlage Hofkühl and Hoher Lehnberg # Wallburg Hoher Lehnberg .

The burial mounds are primarily a burial custom in the later part of the Neolithic Age. They are therefore witnesses to the settlement of this area in pre-Christian times. The grave mounds in Hirtenberg near Grevenbrück and the grave mound in Rübenkamp near Elspe are known.

Hollow roads are remnants of older roads that can be seen in the terrain as depressions of different depths. Its beginnings cannot be precisely determined, but it is assumed that there were important highways as early as the early Middle Ages. They are particularly preserved in forest areas. These channels were created by constantly driving on unpaved roads. The permanent ground monuments are archaeological sources, the possible evaluation of which can lead to further knowledge, such as the type and extent of the medieval network of paths. Examples are the ravines near Obervalbert and Mondschein near Sporke .

In Grevenbrück, first mentioned in a document in 1395, there was a bridge over the Lenne next to a customs house in the Middle Ages. Six important medieval long-distance connections met there and first crossed the Lenne via a ford and later via a bridge. They were the Heidenstrasse , a medieval military and trade route between Cologne and Kassel / Leipzig, the Römerweg , a prehistoric old street between Bonn and Paderborn, also called Nutscheidstraße, and an old street between Siegen and Soest that ran parallel to the Kriegerweg . The transition was secured by the nearby Peperburg , built in the 13th century, and Heidenstrasse, presumably by the older Weilenscheid ramparts. The current street names Heerweg bei Lomke and Kölner Straße in Grevenbrück refer to these old highways.

Remarkable ground monuments are also the Peperburg castle ruins and the ruins of the monastery, castle and manor house in Oedingen.

Parks

Kurpark Saalhausen View of the concert pavilion with adjacent pond and island

Sculptures in the Lenneauen near Theten

In the Saalhausen district , which is recognized as a climatic health resort , there is a spa park that can be reached from the main street and several parking lots. It can be used for short walks or longer circular hikes, also by wheelchair users. Groups of seats in the well-tended green spaces with a variety of trees and shrubs and a pond invite you to linger. The spa park was embellished by the “talVital in Saalhausen” project implemented in 2015 (part of the “Lenneschiene” funding program). As part of this measure, new adventure points were created over 1.6 kilometers along the Lenne. The area around the music pavilion was also redesigned by expanding the adjacent pond and creating an island.

Also Bilstein , which does not have more status as a health resort, has a small park.

At the beginning of June 2011, the Oedingen village community put a newly designed amusement park into operation on the Fabris Wiese site . It has a size of approx. 6000 m² and is a playable landscape with a natural stream, pond, tree house, campfire site, fountain and cable car.

In the summer of 2015, a small sculpture park was created in the Lenneauen at the end of the district of Theten . The group of figures “Lennestrand” was created by the Essen sculptor Roger Löcherbach. Each of the figures is carved from a single log. The material and expression of the figures fit harmoniously into the surroundings. The project was financially supported by a foundation of a local credit institute.

Stumbling blocks (memorials)

Example stumbling block for Mathilde Köhler

At the end of April 2008, the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig laid a total of 15 stumbling blocks in the districts of Altenhundem, Elspe, Altenvalbert and Grevenbrück in memory of the murdered victims of the National Socialist dictatorship. Another stone was laid in June 2009 in the district of Bilstein. The stones are located in front of the last place of residence of the victims and are included in this list .

The eight memorial stones in Altenhundem opposite the Hundem-Lenne-Center remind of the Artur Winter and Aron Neuhaus families. In Elspe five stones were placed in front of Geschwister-Neheimer-Platz in memory of the members of the Neheimer family. The euthanasia victims Günther Tigges and Mathilde Köhler are commemorated in Grevenbrück and Altenvalbert. The stone in Bilstein in the street in the Schnettmecke serves as a reminder of the murder of Franz Peters.

The city of Lennestadt has sponsored the Stolpersteine ​​campaign , along with other public institutions .

The 16 stumbling blocks mentioned are used to commemorate 13 murder victims of the persecution of Jews and 3 fellow citizens killed as part of the euthanasia program .

After the pogrom night in November 1938, the five Jewish Neheimer siblings fled Elspe to their sister in Mons in Belgium. From there, after the occupation by German troops in 1942, they were deported to the east and murdered. Mathilde Köhler grew up as a student in Altenvalbert before she became mentally ill and a stay in a mental institution became necessary. Eventually she was transferred to the Nazi killing center at Hadamar and killed there in 1943; intestinal disease was given as the cause of death. Franz Peters from Bilstein was also initially admitted to a sanatorium in 1937 because of an epilepsy disease. From there, he was also taken to the Hadamar Killing Center on July 17, 1943, where he was presumably murdered on the same day. His death was due to pneumonia.

Regular events

The regular events include the shooting festivals , which are celebrated every year in all major districts. In addition, a multi-day city festival takes place in Altenhundem every year in August, since 2005 together with the Sauerland Street Musician Festival. In the districts Meggen, Grevenbrück, Saalhausen and Bilstein local lead carnival associations annually on Shrove Monday as the main event a Rosenmontagszug by. The parade of the Grevenbrück Carnival Club on Violet Tuesday is known nationwide.

Sports

In the districts over 50 sports, hiking and leisure clubs offer opportunities for physical activity and relaxation. In addition to the traditional sports of soccer, handball, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, cycling and skiing, there are also offers in the areas of air sports , motor sports, karate, taekwondo and dancing.

Between 2004 and 2007, a number of new artificial turf pitches were created for the approx. 15 soccer clubs with their senior, youth, women and girls' teams. A total of eleven artificial turf pitches and one natural turf pitch (in Trockenbrück) are available to the people of Lennestadt. To promote athletics, the sports field in Grevenbrück was equipped with a 400-meter circular running track, a high jump, a long jump and a pole vault facility. Gyms are available for indoor sports in eleven districts. In addition to swimming and sauna times, the Lenne Therme indoor pool in Meggen also offers courses in aqua fitness and water aerobics. Some secondary schools and the disabled sports community train there. The villages of Elspe and Grevenbrück have their own teaching pools for schools. In Bilstein and Saalhausen, with the help of citizens' initiatives, the old outdoor pools were modernized and reopened as attractive natural outdoor pools. In Saalhausen mountain bikers and road riders will find a suitable environment with many exercise and competition opportunities.

Around Hohe Bracht and Halberbracht there are numerous groomed trails and lifts for skiing in winter . These winter sports facilities have been part of the Sauerland winter sports arena, which was founded at the time, since 2003 .

On the Dolberg in Saalhausen, the Kreis Olpe hang gliding club has a flight area for hang gliders and paragliders .

Economy and Infrastructure

Hensel's headquarters in Altenhundem

The premises of the Egon Grosshaus company in Bonzellerhammer

Economic structure

The structural change after the opening of the Hagen – Altenhundem – Siegen railway line has led to a strong expansion of the metalworking industry in the Lennestadt area. Of the employees subject to social insurance contributions in the area of ​​the city of Lennestadt (9,527 people on June 30, 2017), a comparatively high proportion of 51.8 percent is in the manufacturing industry, including manufacturing companies. The average state of North Rhine-Westphalia is 26.9 percent. The employment situation in Lennestadt contributes to the fact that the unemployment rate in the Olpe district of 3.6 percent at the end of September 2019 is relatively low compared to 7.1 percent in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Against the background of considerable purchasing power outflows, the Verein Stadtmarketing Lennestadt e.V. was founded in 2002 on the initiative of the retail trade with the support of the city of Lennestadt . V. founded. It consists of three executive board members, seven assessors and 182 members and sponsors. The implementation of a marketing concept developed with scientific support led within ten years to an increase in the purchasing power retention rate by almost 20 percentage points to 98 percent, so that nowadays hardly any purchasing power flows to other places. This development was influenced, among other things, by the introduction of a shopping bonus system (“treasure map”) and the redesign of the station area in Altenhundem with the establishment of new shops. The positive situation of the retail trade in Lennestadt is currently also confirmed by the evaluation of the Siegen Chamber of Commerce and Industry on trade centrality . The index represents the ratio of retail sales to retail purchasing power (in each case per inhabitant). For 2018, Lennestadt's retail centrality is 107.5. This shows that on balance, purchasing power is still flowing into Lennestadt from abroad.

The founding of the Kalkwerke Grevenbrück in 1902 was of great economic importance for the Grevenbrück district. The companies Egon Grosshaus (automotive supplier, stamping and bending technology), H & R Spezialfedern , Hensel (electrical installation and distribution systems), and Tracto-Technik (special machines ) became particularly well known and bending technology) and Viega (sanitary and heating systems).

The areas of tourism and leisure activities such as hiking, cycling, farm holidays and others are also not insignificant. The places Saalhausen , Milchenbach , Langenei , Gleierbrück , Bilstein with Bilstein Castle and Elspe ( Elspe Festival ) should be emphasized . The Lausebuche near Oberelspe (for more details see Oberelspe # historical data and places ), the former quarry near the Peperburg near Grevenbrück and the Rinsleyfelsen near Saalhausen are among the selection of 43 places in South Westphalia that representatives of Sauerland tourism took part in in March 2019 International tourism exchange in Berlin as particularly popular hiking destinations (soul places) have been presented.

Public facilities

town hall

District Court

Main entrance to St. Josefs Hospital

Town hall and district court

The town hall of the newly formed town of Lennestadt, built in the 1970s after the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia, is located in Altenhundem ; the Lennestadt district court was established in the Grevenbrück district .

Local and regional history library / city archive

The library with around 3000 volumes contains monographs and journals on general history, local history, folklore, family, church, legal, social, art, technical and economic history. Most of the books can be borrowed free of charge for four weeks. The Lennestadt City Archives are the central municipal office for all questions about Lennestadt's city history. As a memory of the city of Lennestadt , it contains documents that are important for the history of the city and that go back to the 19th century and can be viewed and evaluated by the citizens.

St. Josefs Hospital Altenhundem

The St. Josefs Hospital with a capacity of around 190 beds belongs together with the St. Martinus Hospital in Olpe to the Katholische Hospitalgesellschaft Südwestfalen GmbH in Olpe. There are also three joint competence centers (breast, intestinal and vascular centers) in cooperation with external specialist clinics.

traffic

Transportation

Renovated station building Altenhundem

Lennestadt is located with the train stations Lennestadt-Altenhundem , Lennestadt-Grevenbrück and Lennestadt-Meggen on the Ruhr-Sieg route from Hagen to Siegen .

Until 1944 there was still a railway connection to Erndtebrück with the Altenhundem – Birkelbach railway line , but its bridges were blown up by retreating German armed forces during the war . Some of the tunnel sections have been preserved. The route to Wenholthausen was served until the mid-1960s. At that time Altenhundem was considered a railway village .

Two trolleybus lines used to run from Grevenbrück station , including the Grevenbrück lime railway to the quarry, which was operated from 1903 to 1907, and the Veischedetalbahn to Kirchveischede , which was in operation from 1904 to 1916.

VWS and BRS bus routes run to Kirchhundem, Olpe, Hilchenbach, Finnentrop, Schmallenberg, Meschede and Attendorn.

The joint initiative Busse & Bahnen NRW has chosen the station in Altenhundem as the hiking station of the year 2012 . The station, which was renovated in 2007/08, emerged as the winner from over 100 suggestions from rail and hiking enthusiasts. The criteria were a good connection to the well-tended, signposted hiking trails and the restaurants. As the first train station in South Westphalia, Altenhundem train station received another award from the Verkehrsclub Deutschland as a customer-friendly train station in 2013 .

Private transport

The federal highways 55 , 236 and 517 run through the city. The next motorway junction is about 15 km from Grevenbrück in Olpe on the A 4 / A 45 motorways .

While the B 55 coming from Meschede further south connects the districts of Oedingen, Oberelspe, Elspe, Grevenbrück, Bonzel, Bilstein and Kirchveische, the B 236 runs after crossing the Lenne near Grevenbrück via Kickenbach, Langenei and Saalhausen in the direction of Schmallenberg.

Bicycle traffic

Lennestadt is connected to the NRW cycling network and is also on the Lenneroute , which leads from the Lenne spring on the Kahler Asten to the mouth of the Lenne on the Hohensyburg . A further expansion of the cycle path network took place with the commissioning of the Sauerland cycle ring . The circular route is 84 km long and leads from Finnentrop via Eslohe , Schmallenberg and Lennestadt-Altenhundem back to Finnentrop. Since the route mostly follows old railway lines, the occasional inclines remain moderate. The section leading through the Lennestadt area from Störmecke via Saalhausen, Langenei and Kickenbach to Altenhundem runs close to the B 236.

The 24 km long cycle path around the Veischedetal runs in a section near the B 55 from Grevenbrück via Bonzel and Bilstein to Kirchveischede.

In the course of road construction measures, the inner-city cycle path network of Lennestadt has also been expanded in recent years. The routes from Oedingen via Oberelspe and Elspe to Trockenbrück and from there turning along the Lenne to Meggen and Altenhundem are marked cycle paths with the exception of small gaps.

air traffic

There are no airfields in the urban area of ​​Lennestadt . The closest landing options for flights according to visual flight rules are the special airfields Attendorn-Finnentrop and Schmallenberg-Rennefeld , the nearest airport is Siegerland Airport , which is around 40 kilometers (as the crow flies ) to the south .

LenneSchiene project

Newly designed market square in Altenhundem as part of the regional event

As part of the Regionale 2013 Südwestfalen funding program, Lennestadt and seven other municipalities that are linked by the course of the Lenne and the railway (including Iserlohn , Altena , Finnentrop and Schmallenberg ) are participating in the LenneSchiene project . The problems that have arisen from the interaction between river and rail, landscape, town, industry and traffic are still visible in many places. The aim is to let the Lenne-Schiene become a living axis again and thus to increase the quality of life of the citizens. The LenneSchiene project of the eight municipalities was launched in July 2010 in a joint council meeting. Of the total of 84 measures, 13 are to be implemented by 2013. For the area of ​​the city of Lennestadt, there are gardens in the area of ​​the Sauerland pyramids in the Meggen district, the redesign of the market square in Altenhundem and the creation of a vital park in Saalhausen. The projects in Lennestadt were completed at the end of September 2017; further details can be found in the articles on the districts mentioned.

Integrated municipal development concept

In recent years the living conditions in the districts of the city of Lennestadt have been affected. This can be seen in structural changes in the areas of retail, agriculture, banks and savings banks, schools, churches and medical care and the like. a. The city of Lennestadt will therefore face a variety of challenges in the coming years to improve the quality of life. As part of an integrated municipal development concept , an inventory analysis is initially planned. This is used to develop a model with a definition of project ideas that are to be implemented in a third phase. The residents will be involved in the planning process, which should be completed in November / December 2018, through the use of questionnaires.

media

The Westfalenpost and the Westfälische Rundschau each have a local editorial office in Lennestadt and appear there as daily newspapers. Furthermore, the advertising papers Sauerlandkurier and Sauerländer Wochenanzeiger appear on Wednesdays and Sundays .

Lennestadt belongs to the editorial area of ​​the Siegen studio of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). News from the South Sauerland region is broadcast on WDR 2 and in local time ( WDR television ).

education

Lennestadt high school

The Maria Königin monastery and grammar school is located near the Hohe Bracht . A grammar school was attached to the monastery with church, which was built between 1957 and 1959.

In mid-October 2016 there were 11 schools in Lennestadt, of which (number of students in brackets) five primary schools (914), one special school (134), one secondary school (138), two secondary schools (621) and two grammar schools (1594). These are the grammar school of the city of Lennestadt and the privately run monastery and grammar school Maria Königin . There is also a branch of the Olpe district vocational college.

The Volkshochschule in the district of Olpe has a branch in Lennestadt for adult education .

From the 2014/15 school year, a joint secondary school will be set up by the city of Lennestadt and the municipality of Kirchhundem. The new secondary school replaces the previous secondary schools in Meggen and Kirchhundem and the Realschule Meggen; these are broken down by year. The data from the secondary school are not yet included in the aforementioned number of pupils.

Personalities

→ Main article: List of personalities of the city of Lennestadt

Personalities as diverse as Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte , the ministerial director and initiator of the Hohe Bracht observation tower Wilhelm Arnoldi , the politician Johannes Becker and the miner and activist Adolf Hennecke were born in the city of Lennestadt or its communities . The writer Josefa Berens-Totenohl and the painter Hermann Broermann worked and lived in the city area . Paul Tigges received honorary citizenship .

literature

• Günther Becker, Hans Mieles: Bilstein Land, Burg und Ort, contributions to the history of the Lennestadt area and the former rule of Bilstein - Festival book for the 750th anniversary of Bilstein Castle . Ed .: Lennestadt. 1975.
• Arnold Klein: Catholic milieu and National Socialism (=  series of publications of the Olpe district, No. 24 ). Wins 1994.
• Günther Becker u. a .: In Lennestadt . 1995, ISBN 3-930624-04-4 .
• Otto Höffer, Ralf Breer: Churches and chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchhundem . 1999.
• Working group 1000 years Oedingen e. V. (Ed.): One thousand years of monastery and village Oedingen, chronicle of the place . Hachenburg, 2000.
• District of Olpe (Ed.): Landscape plan Elsper Senke - Lennebergland. No. 2 . 2006.
• City Marketing Lennestadt e. V. (Ed.): Lennestadt - A place to live . 2008.
• City of Lennestadt (Ed.): Town hall report - special edition 40 years of Lennestadt . 3. Edition. 2009.

Web links

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

• Website of the city of Lennestadt
• Lennestadt in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ AG Mueller: The sedimentary-exhalative Meggen Zn-Pb sulfide and barite deposit, Germany: Geology and plate-tectonic setting. Slide presentation and explantory notes. Society Applied to Mineral Deposits web page, Mineral deposits archive, 2005.
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6. ↑ 400 million years old - Ancient mussels discovered and recovered in Meggen. In: Sauerland courier for Lennestadt, Kirchhundem and the surrounding area. November 30, 2011.
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33. ^ Arnold Klein: Catholic milieu and National Socialism. Siegen 1994, p. 699.
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36. ↑ cf. the contribution by Uli Rauchheld Bilsteiner Roots - The Heller maternity home of the NSV , in: Südsauerland, Heimatstimmen aus dem Kreis Olpe, episode 264 (3/2016), pp. 276, 277.
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43. ↑ the main statute is published on the website Lennestadt.de, query on October 1, 2012 under the heading local law
44. ^ Paul Reuber: Spatial Political Conflicts - Geographical Conflict Research Using the Example of Community Area Reforms . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07605-0 , p. 152.
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46. ↑ see also: A parliamentarian from the very beginning - Gustav Reuter remembers. ibid p. 105 ff.
47. ↑ the current version of the municipal code of North Rhine-Westphalia is available on the Lennestadt.de website under the heading Local law
48. ↑ s. also: Lennestadt-Rathausreport, 3rd edition. August 2009, pp. 2, 3 and 9
49. ↑ s. Lennestadt. A place to live. Publisher Stadtmarketing Lennestadt e. V., Lennestadt 2008, p. 63.
50. ↑ s. Lennestadt-Rathausreport, ibid p. 13, 22
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54. ↑ Information provided by the city of Lennestadt (citizens' office).
55. ↑ determined from information from the State Statistical Office for Information and Technology NRW, Division 513 (Education)
56. ↑ Information from: Otto Höffer, Ralf Breer: Churches and chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchhundem. Attendorn 1999, pp. 62-124.
57. ↑ for more details see website: pastoralerraumlennestadt.wordpress.com
58. ^ Farewell to the Fathers , in: SWA Siegerland Wochenanzeiger, issue of August 26, 2015
59. ↑ Information from the Lennestadt city administration on the Internet (lennestadt.de), access to the list of kindergartens on October 20, 2019.
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102. ↑ cf. Also contribution A journey to oneself, Westfalenpost, newspaper for the district of Olpe, issue of March 6, 2019
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107. ↑ s. also Stefan Hundt, in the inter-municipal association, economic report of the Siegen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, edition 9/2011, p. 50 ff.
108. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt on the integrated municipal development concept [5] , Internet query on April 7, 2018
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