Coesfeld-Lette
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City of Coesfeld
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| Height : | 77 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 5170 |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 |
| Postal code : | 48653 |
| Area code : | 02546 |
 Coesfeld-Lette
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Lette is a district of the district town of Coesfeld in the Münsterland with around 5170 inhabitants (as of 2012).
geography
Lette lies in the west of the Westphalian Bay and in the north of the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland Nature Park .
At the north-eastern border, the foothills of the Baumberge begin with forests, some of which are very old (Roruper wood). In the southwest are the former, now cultivated Letter Brook moorland and the High Fens. The slight elevations that extend from north to south (ash) have been cultivated land since earlier times and are cut through by the Bühlbach near the village center.
The place is on the federal highway 474 . The Dülmen motorway junction of Autobahn 43 is about four kilometers away. Lette has a stop at the Westmünsterlandbahn . The nearest train station is in Coesfeld.
history
History until 1945
Lette was first mentioned in writing around 890 in the Urban of the Benedictine Abbey of Essen-Werden. At this time, Letter farmers paid taxes in kind to the monastery of St. Liudger, but most Letterans were obliged to pay taxes to the Lord of Lette (knight seat Lette / moated castle).
The owners of the small Münsterland moated castle with main and outer bailey, chapel and extensive system of forts, the Lords of Lette and their successors, were also hereditary judges of the Letter Mark. The moated castle had extensive forest and land holdings, and the majority of the Letter population was liable to pay taxes to the owners.
The remains of the moated castle later had to give way to the construction of the Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede railway.
Christian life came into being with the erection of the first church building. Because, as in many other churches in the area, there is no founding document, there is no reliable information. Probably the first small church was built on the property of the Lords of Lette. Around 1175 Luidolf von Lette was Ministerial of the Bishop of Münster. The then Bishop Hermann II (1173–1202) promoted the founding of new churches and raised z. B. Coesfeld to the city in 1197. This assumption also speaks for the fact that in the choir of the Letter Church for centuries patronage seats had to be kept ready for the respective owners of the knight seat Lette. In addition, as the archaeological church excavations show, they were given preferential graves within the church. According to canon law, the supervision of the Letter Church (archdeacon) was given to the provost of the Varlar monastery. Pastoral duties were taken over by the fathers from the Varlar monastery as well as minorites, capuchins and preachers. They were replaced by secular priests after 1661, and these resided in the Letter rectory.
In 1919 the old church ("Piepenprüöcker") was demolished and a new church building was erected elsewhere in line with the population growth. Today the new Johanneskirche in the neo-Romanesque, classical style dominates the townscape.
With the construction of the Johanness School in 1934 and the Cardinal von Galen School in 1968, the old school buildings lost their function. The former school building on Bahnhofsallee was partially gutted and converted into a local museum in half-timbered style. It also houses the branch office of the Coesfeld city administration. The Cardinal von Galen School now occupies the site of the former knight's seat of Lette.
While the village survived the First World War without damage, air bombing destroyed many people and buildings during the Second World War. The war damage has now been repaired and many Letteraner built their new buildings in the characteristic half-timbered construction.
History from 1945
On January 1, 1975, the previously independent municipality of Lette was incorporated into the district town of Coesfeld.
In 1992 a shallow grave of the funnel beaker culture was discovered in the Wesselingstrasse / Coesfelder Strasse, in which essentially 20 broken, mostly well-decorated ceramics from the Stone Age (around 3400–2850 BC) were recovered. These are exhibited in the local museum of the village.
Monument to the Lette barracks camp
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The listed barrack camp in Coesfeld-Lette was built in 1933 as an SA sports school. It served the "military sport" and ideological training of SA men from Germany and Austria. In 1935 the Reich Labor Service (RAD) took over the barracks and expanded it into the “RAD Troop Leader School No. 8” in the German Reich with a capacity of around 200 people.
Immediately after the Allied invasion at the end of the war, freed foreign forced laborers from Poland and Russia were housed in the barrack camp in Lette from April 1945 before they were returned to their home countries.
From May 1, 1946 to the end of September 1946, the Coesfeld district used the barracks, which had been poorly restored, as a transit camp for the eastern expellees arriving in groups in the district, increasing the occupancy to 450 people. Thousands must have passed through the camp, because in 1951 around 11,000 displaced people lived in the Coesfeld district and made up 14.8% of the total population.
From October 1946, the Coesfeld district set up the camp as a special nursing home for people displaced from the East; In 1950 it was named "Heidehof". In 1950, the “Heidefriedhof” was laid out in the vicinity and contains 119 graves of displaced persons. For around 400 old people from the areas east of Oder and Neisse, the “Heidehof” became the last stop in their lives. When the home was closed at the end of August 1960, the last residents moved to the Heilig-Geist-Stift in Dülmen.
The area of the barracks camp subsequently housed the central warehouse of the air raid aid service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, from 1970 the central workshop of the disaster control, which was closed in 1998.
The barracks camp has been a listed building since 1993. In 2003 it was sold into private hands.
An initiative group of expellees from the county of Glatz (Silesia) is planning in cooperation with the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Lette e. V. to set up a memorial with a place of learning in a part of the listed barrack camp Lette. [outdated]
The sponsoring association “Denkmal Barackenlager Lette eV” was founded on August 22, 2013.
politics
When the independent municipality of Lette was incorporated into the district town of Coesfeld in 1975, a district committee was set up.
District Committee
The district committee is to be heard before a decision is made in the council or in the decision-making committees on matters that particularly affect the interests of the district (Lette). In this context, he can act in an advisory capacity and make recommendations to the council or decision-making committees. This applies in particular to the following matters:
a) Maintaining and equipping schools and public facilities in the district, such as sports fields, old people's homes, cemeteries, libraries and similar social and cultural institutions whose importance does not go beyond the district;
b) Maintenance of the townscape and design of the green and park areas, the importance of which does not extend beyond the district;
c) The determination of the sequence of work for the renovation and expansion as well as for the maintenance and repair of streets, paths and squares of district importance including street lighting, insofar as it is not a matter of the duty to maintain safety;
d) Supervision and support of local clubs, associations and other associations in the district;
e) Events of homeland care and customs in the district;
f) Information, documentation and representation in matters relating to the district;
g) Planning issues in the Lette district.
In appropriate cases, the mayor is entitled to instruct the chairman of the district committee to perform representative tasks and obligations.
The district committee consists of 14 full members. After the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the seats are divided between the individual parties as follows:
| CDU | SPD | Pro Coesfeld | FDP | Green | |
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| 2014 | 8 seats | 2 seats | 2 seats | 1 seat | 1 seat |
These seats are supplemented by advisory members:
CDU: 2nd
SPD: 1
AfC / family: 1
coat of arms
Blazon : "Latticed on a silver background with three interwoven red bars." The coat of arms is borrowed from the knight family of the Lords of Merfeld .
Landmark
As a replacement for the water mill, the landlord Anton Hülskamp built a windmill on the Horst-Esch in 1813. In 1820 he sold the mill to the farmer Johann Wilhelm Baumeister, who leased it 22 years later to the miller Johann Rütter. In 1891 the mill became the property of the Rütter family, which has not changed to this day.
Today the old mill is a listed building. With its wings it reaches more than 25 meters high. It belongs to the type of cap or tower windmill. With this type of mill, the entire substructure (tower) is fixed and only the cap is turned into the wind.
In the past, the Letter windmill was covered with 20,000 wooden shingles. When it was restored in the years 1967–1969, only the canopy was covered with wooden shingles, while the fuselage received support formwork.
The windmill is a historical attraction because the huge wings are reminiscent of a time when the millers in the area used the wind power to grind the grain. Since the interior is still completely in place, the mill clearly shows how it worked back then.
The windmill can be visited by arrangement and prior registration.
sport and freetime
In addition to a modern sports field with artificial turf in the southwest of the village, Lette also has a gym and a swimming pool at the Kardinal-von-Galen School. Other attractions are:
- Lette train station
- Letter mill
- Heidefriedhof (Lette)
- Heimathaus Lette with local museum
- Glass museum
- Herding old farm
- Jansburg (more earth wall than castle)
Shooting festivals
There are three shooting clubs in Lette. The Allgemeine Schützenverein Lette eV organizes the largest shooting festival on the third weekend in July and is next to the sports club (DJK Vorwärts Lette eV) the club with the largest number of members in Lette. Two more shooting festivals are organized by the Herteler Schützenverein e. V. (weekend after Pentecost) and the Letter Berger Schützenverein e. V. (Ascension Day).
other events
Every year, among other things, the potato market takes place in autumn and an Advent hustle and bustle on the weekend before Christmas. Other recurring events are the "Letter Lenz" as a spring festival and the wine festival.
Partnerships
There is a partnership with the municipality of Plerguer (France) .
Berthold Kolacki, a member of the DJK Vorwärts Lette sports club, made contact with the TA Rennes sports club while studying in France in 1964. In 1966 the sports club DJK Vorwärts Lette invited the local sports club ESSM Plerguer to visit Lette. In 1968, on the occasion of the 45th foundation festival of the DJK Vorwärts, Lette Mayor Romé and the Mayor of Letteran Josef Schulze Herding sealed the partnership by exchanging certificates. In the following years, the two-year rhythm of reciprocal visits developed.
In 2018 the 50th anniversary of the partnership will take place. [outdated]
Personalities
- Kurt Werner Ernsting (born November 6, 1929 - † December 7, 2011 ), German entrepreneur and patron . He founded the textile company Ernsting’s family .
- Lars A. Fischinger (* 1974 in Coesfeld-Lette), non-fiction author from the fields of pre-astronautics, UFOs, puzzles of archeology, para-science and Christian mysticism
literature
- Jürgen Gafrey: A shallow grave of the funnel cup culture in Coesfeld-Lette In: A country makes history Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia. Cologne 1995 ISBN 3-8053-1801-4 pp. 188-190
Web links
- www.lette.de
- Lette in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) In: www.lette.de. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History of Latvia. (No longer available online.) In: www.heimatverein-lette.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History of Latvia. (No longer available online.) In: www.heimatverein-lette.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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. 313 .
- ^ Gerold Wilken: History - Monument Barackenlager Lette eV (No longer available online.) In: www.barackenlager-lette.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ (VR 7112)
- ↑ District Committee. (No longer available online.) In: www.lette.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ elements websolutions: City of Coesfeld. In: City of Coesfeld. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
- ↑ History in Lette ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mill. In: www.heimatverein-lette.de. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Torsten Capelle: Wall castles in Westphalia-Lippe. Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2010, ISSN 0939-4745 , p. 19. No. XXVII ( Early Castles in Westphalia special volume 1 ); Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
