Lichtenau (Westphalia)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ' N , 8 ° 54' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Paderborn | |
| Height : | 300 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 192.57 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 10,570 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 55 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 33162-33165 | |
| Primaries : | 05295, 05292 , 05647 , 05259 , 02994 | |
| License plate : | PB, BÜR | |
| Community key : | 05 7 74 028 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LIT | |
| City structure: | 15 districts | |
City administration address : |
Lange Str. 39 33165 Lichtenau |
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| Mayor : | Josef Hartmann ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Lichtenau in the Paderborn district | ||
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Lichtenau is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It is located in the Bürener Land and belongs to the Paderborn district .
geography
Geographical location
Lichtenau is located in the south of the Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge nature park . Most of the urban area belongs to the Paderborn plateau , with its Soratfeld sub-area north of the city and the eastern edge of the Egge Mountains . The Altenau tributary Sauer flows through it .
The lowest point of the urban area is about 172 m above sea level. NN near Henglarn , the highest is the snow fields mountain with 428 m above sea level. NN 1 km northwest of the urban desert Blankenrode . The mean height of the entire urban area is about 205 m above sea level. NN .
geology
The underground of the urban area consists primarily of limestone and marlstone from the Upper Cretaceous . They cover sandstone from the Lower Cretaceous . In the west, the chalky rocks are used to build the Paderborn plateau , which is slightly inclined to the west. Since the rocks are of different hardness, a layered landscape with the typical dry valleys and sinkholes has formed as a result of weathering . Precipitation seeps away very quickly in the fissured limestone and partially loosens the rock in the deeper subsoil. The resulting cavities break down, causing sinkholes. Layers of red sandstone came to the surface near Kleinenberg at the beginning of the Middle Ages . In the Egge Mountains , the rocks were displaced by mountain-forming processes and broken down into lumber . Occasionally boulders or loess can be found above the solid rock as deposits from the Ice Age .
The gently undulating plateau in the area of Lichtenau is called “Soratfeld”, or arid field , and is - as the name suggests - poor in surface water. The streams that arise in the fissured sandstones of the Egge Mountains, namely the Ellerbach , the Schmittwasser and the Sauer , often dry up again after a short run, and not only in summer. The water sinks into the karst limestone of the Upper Cretaceous , continues its way underground and reappears in the karst springs of Borchen and Paderborn after two to three days. Most of the municipalities in the city obtain their drinking water from the sandstones of the Lower Cretaceous via the Kleinenberg and Herbram-Buchlieth waterworks . For Husen, Atteln and Henglarn, drinking water is supplied from the limestones of the Upper Cretaceous through the Blindeborn waterworks . In Blankenrode, the drinking water is pumped from a 123 m deep borehole made of rocks from the middle red sandstone .
The rich deposits of stones and earth, especially the various sandstone and limestone, marl-lime and marl-limestone deposits, were formerly used for building houses and barns, for building roads and paths and as bulk material; however, it is currently not being used. Until 1927, the Bleikuhlen Galmei opencast mine south of Blankenrode was mined. An estimated 15,000 t of zinc reserves are still available, but these are no longer of economic importance.
On the layered landscape in the west of the urban area, medium-sized brown soils with frequent admixture of loess in the topsoil have developed over a large area . Despite their moderate risk of drought, they are largely used for arable farming. On steep slopes or knolls, where the limestone reaches almost to the surface, shallow, stony rendzines have formed, occasionally also deep, silt-rich brown soils and parabrown soils . Colluvia of eroded humus soil have accumulated in the dry valleys , while in the non-dry valleys of the Altenau and its tributaries, gleyes have formed that are used as grassland. In the north-east of the urban area, deep, base-poor brown soils made of silty loam and Podsol brown soils predominate, which are used for forestry (Neuenheerse State Forest). The southeast shows a small-scale alternation of different solid rock and surface layers with different soils. Beaches and partly protected standing fens (see nature reserves).
Lichtenau is largely suitable and very well suited at high altitudes for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating . Isolated locations are not suitable (see the adjacent map).
Expansion and use of the municipal area
The community, classified as a "large rural community", covers an area of 192.17 km². The largest share of the area is forest and agricultural area with a total of approx. 91.8%. The largest extension in north-south direction is approx. 19.1 km, in east-west direction approx. 19.6 km.
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Agricultural area |
Forest area |
Building, open and operational space |
Traffic area |
Surface of water |
Sports and green space |
other use |
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| Area in km² | 95.03 | 81.47 | 5.13 | 7.97 | 1.31 | 1.05 | 0.26 |
| Share of total area | 49.44% | 42.38% | 2.67% | 4.15% | 0.68% | 0.55% | 0.14% |
Neighboring communities
Starting in the east and clockwise, the cities of Bad Driburg , Willebadessen and Warburg ( district of Höxter ), the city of Bad Wünnenberg , the municipality of Borchen , the city of Paderborn and the municipality of Altenbeken ( district of Paderborn ) border Lichtenau .
City structure
Inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016):
| District | population | male | Female | Area (in km²) |
Population density (in U / km²) |
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| Woodlice | 462 | 237 | 225 | 10.88 | 42.46 | |
| Atteln | 1,458 | 745 | 713 | 15.44 | 94.43 | |
| Blankenrode | 154 | 83 | 71 | 10.29 | 14.96 | |
| Dalheim | 160 | 84 | 76 | 13.17 | 12.16 | |
| Ebbinghausen | 266 | 128 | 138 | 4.41 | 60.32 | |
| Cornerstone home | 476 | 242 | 234 | 9.73 | 48.92 | |
| Hook mountain | 207 | 100 | 107 | 8.06 | 25.68 | |
| Henglarn | 1,040 | 521 | 519 | 11.33 | 91.79 | |
| Herbram | 957 | 502 | 455 | 16.28 | 58.78 | |
| Herbram Forest | 176 | 101 | 75 | 0.33 | 533.33 | |
| Holtheim | 919 | 477 | 442 | 15.85 | 57.98 | |
| Cough | 1,083 | 548 | 535 | 15.13 | 71.58 | |
| Iggenhausen | 218 | 112 | 106 | 4.88 | 44.67 | |
| Kleinenberg | 1,336 | 660 | 676 | 23.85 | 56.02 | |
| Lichtenau | 2,652 | 1,351 | 1,301 | 32.54 | 81.50 | |
| Total: | 11,555 | 5,879 | 5,800 | 192.17 | 60.13 |
The content of the table above is based on information provided by the city of Lichtenau, which may differ from those of the state statistical office .
climate
Lichtenau belongs to the moderate climate zone of Central Europe and lies in the area of the sub-Atlantic maritime climate . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic and the summers are moderately warm. The annual mean temperature is 7–8 ° C, with considerable mesoclimatic differences occurring depending on the highly structured relief . For the climate in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region , to which Lichtenau belongs, see also the article Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe .
Due to the location in the sub-Atlantic maritime climate, a humid climate prevails all year round with relatively evenly distributed rainfall. Mesoclimatic differences are also clearly noticeable with regard to precipitation. For example, at the Blankenrode measuring station, which is only 9 km south of Lichtenau-Ort , there is significantly less rainfall in July than in Lichtenau-Ort.
Precipitation diagram Lichtenau-Ort
Precipitation diagram Lichtenau-Blankenrode
history
General
| Capitals and cities of the Principality of Paderborn until 1802/03 (as of 1789): |
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| Paderborn , Warburg , Brakel , Borgentreich | Beverungen , Borgholz , Bredenborn , Büren , Driburg , Dringenberg , Gehrden , Calenberg , Kleinenberg , Lichtenau , Lippspringe , Lügde , Nieheim , Peckelsheim , Salzkotten , Steinheim , Vörden , Willebadessen , Wünnenberg |
The city of Lichtenau has belonged to the secular rule of the German diocese Paderborn , originally in the duchy of Saxony , since it was founded . The parish church , which is still in use today, was built in 1273 . It was probably started as early as 1233. On February 5, 1326, the city of Lichtenau with the now incorporated city of Kleinenberg and the medieval city of Blankenrode (today desolate in what is now the district of the same name - see Blankenrode urban desert ) was first mentioned (Lechtenauwe). These cities were built by the Paderborn diocese to secure sovereignty against the county of Waldeck . From the 14th century, the territory of the prince-bishopric of Paderborn ( Hochstift ) was formed in the Holy Roman Empire , and from the 16th century it became part of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire . The city was first mentioned in connection with late medieval unrest and feuds. When the parish of Kerkdorf , 1 km to the north, was destroyed, the patronage of St. Kilian was transferred to the parish church of Lichtenau. Lichtenau residents who emigrated to the area of the Teutonic Order founded the village of Lichtenau (today Lechowo) in Warmia in 1326 , today part of Pieniężno (German flour sack ). The people of the area increasingly settled around the newly fortified episcopal castle Lichtenau . The city was besieged unsuccessfully in the Bengel feud in 1394 but was set on fire. The place did not always offer protection. During the Paderborn crisis , Lichtenau had to capitulate to the opponents of the Paderborn bishop in the Stiftsfehde 1411-15. In 1474 Count Otto IV von Waldeck overpowered Lichtenau. A number of citizens have been killed or taken into captivity. It was the beginning of a longer Paderborn-Waldeck conflict.
With the castle, Lichtenau was one of the sovereign bases of the prince-bishop, the office building . In 1492, however, Simon III pledged . the castle for a century to the Lords of Westphalia . Prince-Bishop Dietrich Adolf (1650–1661) redeemed the pledge. The castle was the seat of the Drosten of the Lichtenau office . The noble Drost was no longer resident in the castle in the late period of the prince-bishopric. Rather, a bourgeois public servant took care of the state tax revenue and organized the police and judiciary.
In May 1545 the city burned down to the office building. During the Thirty Years' War the town was set on fire by Hesse-Kassel soldiers in 1633 and 1642 . Regular looting alternated with famine. In 1636 the plague raged in the city. Times of peace were also times of need: in 1692, 1721 and 1745 major city fires had broken out. In 1721 even the Paderborn estates had to help rebuild the almost completely destroyed city.
Lichtenau was hard hit by the Seven Years' War . Both Allies and French troops allied with the monastery marched through the city, pillaging. Lichtenau and the surrounding area were also hit hard by billeting.
On December 12, 1792, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed in the former high-prince's post office in Paderborn (demolished in the 1950s).
In 1802/03 the bishopric was occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia ; the administrative facilities of the new principality of Paderborn were initially retained.
Lichtenau already had a Jewish community in the time of the prince-bishop. A synagogue was built for the 75 Jews (1800) in 1805.
1806 Lichtenau became part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . On the night of October 31 to November 1, 1806, King Louis Bonaparte camped with around 30,000 soldiers near Lichtenau, during which the city was robbed and looted. In 1809 the two city gates were torn down. From 1815 Lichtenau belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1871 it was part of the German Empire . In the years 1831, 1842, 1885 and 1903 further fire disasters occurred.
Prussia beat Lichtenau to the district of Büren and cut the city off from "grown, cultural, historical, geographical and economic conditions".
Shortly before the end of the Second World War , SS troops fired grenades at Lichtenau, as the Lichtenau population slipped bread to Polish and French prisoners of war who had been transported through the town by the SS and refused to hand over items such as bicycles. Shrapnel killed three people and damaged several houses. The Americans marched into Lichtenau on March 31, 1945. 1945–1949 Lichtenau was part of the British occupation zone and from 1946 belongs to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Flood
After the villages on the Sauer, such as Lichtenau, were often affected by floods - especially in 1965 - the flood retention basin Sudheim (1978–1980) was built a little above Lichtenau on the Saueroberlauf and the flood retention basin Ebbinghausen (1974–1976) far below the city center.
Religions
Due to its affiliation to the former Paderborn Monastery, the majority of the population in Lichtenau was and is traditionally Catholic . The Catholic parish church (later St. Kilian) built under Bishop Simon I in 1273 is still the most important parish in the city.
The Reformation, which was introduced almost nationwide in the 16th century, is unlikely to have had any effect on the population of the “village-town”, unlike the landed gentry. The confessionalization under Prince-Bishop Dietrich IV also made Lichtenau entirely Catholic for the next few centuries. A small Jewish community with 75 members in 1800 was more important than the Protestants, who lived at most temporarily during the prince-bishop's time. The small Jewish community of Lichtenau was also expelled and murdered by National Socialist Germany during the Shoah .
With the Prussian rule in the 19th century, more and more Protestants came to the city. In 1840 Protestant services were celebrated in Lichtenau Castle, and in 1853/54 the Evangelical Church was built in Lichtenau as one of the first in the Paderborn region. The basic Catholic orientation of the city has remained until today. In the 20th century, new religious communities came to the city. The incorporation of the surrounding villages has increased the Catholic portion again.
In the 2006/2007 school year, 20.9% of the students at the Lichtenau elementary school were Protestant, 71.9% Catholic and 1.9% Islamic as religious affiliations. 1.5% said they belonged to another religion and 3.9% had no denomination.
Incorporations
The city of Lichtenau was made up of the municipalities of Asseln, Atteln, Blankenrode on January 1, 1975 by the law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the Sauerland / Paderborn area ( Sauerland / Paderborn law ) of November 5, 1974 (GV NRW p , Dalheim, Ebbinghausen, Grundsteinheim, Hakenberg, Henglarn, Herbram, Holtheim, Husen and Iggenhausen as well as the cities of Kleinenberg and Lichtenau.
Population development
As of 1975, the figures are official updates from the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia, Statistics Division . The figures from 1975 to 1985 are estimated values, the figure for 1987 is a census result and the figures from 1990 onwards are based on the results of this census. The information relates to the resident population up to and including 1984 and from 1985 to the population at the place of the main residence .
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politics
City council
The city council currently consists of 26 members. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the local election results since 1975:
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| Political party | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % |
| CDU | 14th | 54.77 | 18th | 56.40 | 21st | 67.62 | 22nd | 70.26 | 21st | 61.54 | 20th | 57.95 | 23 | 69.21 | 24 | 71.92 | n / a | 70.37 |
| SPD | 8th | 31.49 | 8th | 24.90 | 7th | 22.67 | 8th | 25.05 | 10 | 30.20 | 11 | 33.13 | 10 | 30.79 | 9 | 26.71 | n / a | 20.78 |
| Green | 2 | 7.69 | 3 | 8.09 | 2 | 5.20 | 2 | 4.69 | 2 | 6.25 | 2 | 5.87 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| FDP | 2 | 6.05 | 3 | 10.62 | 2 | 4.87 | - | - | 0 | 2.01 | 0 | 3.04 | - | - | 0 | 1.38 | 0 | 0.55 |
| Others | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | n / a | 8.30 |
| Total 2 | 26th | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 32 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | 33 | 100 | n / a | 100 |
| voter turnout | 62.44 | 63.53 | 69.03 | 70.03 | 87.13 | 75.53 | 72.68 | 77.50 | 97.67 | |||||||||
mayor
In the election on May 25, 2014, the SPD candidate Josef Hartmann prevailed 56.66% against the incumbent mayor Dieter Merschjohann (CDU) in the first ballot. Its predecessor was chosen in 2009 with 59.13%. Karl-Heinz Wange (CDU) held office from 2004 to 2009, winning the election with 67.39% against the candidates from the SPD and the Greens. Before that, Manfred Müller was mayor. He was confirmed in office in 1999 with 79.1% of the valid votes and has been full-time mayor since then. Before that, he had been honorary mayor since 1992.
Coat of arms, banner and flag
The city of Lichtenau (Westphalia) was granted the right to use a coat of arms, banner and flag in a certificate from the District President in Detmold dated July 19, 1976.
- Blazon : In blue over a cloverleaf-shaped archway in a silver (white) heraldic lily , a wide silver (white) tower with red peaked roof and silver (white) rotgedeckten corner towers; on both sides a rising silver (white) tin wall, surmounted by a silver (white) lower tin tower.
- Banner : From blue and white in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms above the center.
- Flag : From blue and white in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms shifted from the center to the pole.
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The old town seal is similar to the coat of arms, but in the archway there is a growing Mother of God with a child, with stars at her head. The representation of Mary was later replaced by a cross. The local coat of arms from 1908 shows a tinned, golden city wall on a red shield, above a wide central tower with a blue pointed roof and two smaller tinned side towers; in the wall an open clover leaf arch, inside a floating golden cross in red. After the local government reform, the original seal was taken up, the mother of God was simply symbolized by the heraldic lily.
Town twinning
Lichtenau has maintained a partnership relationship with Mayet in the French Sarthe department since September 29, 1985 . The partnership was desired by the French and the first contacts were made when the French visited Lichtenau. Today, a separate partnership committee organizes two visits and student exchanges at the Lichtenauer Realschule and the grammar school in Mayet.
Since February 27, 1993 Lichtenau has had a partnership with the community of Rangsdorf in Brandenburg .
On October 14, 1996, a partnership document was signed with the Polish municipality of Pieniężno (flour sack). The goals of the partnership are cooperation and exchange in a wide variety of areas, such as science and education, culture, tourism and sport, as well as ecology and social issues. There are regular student exchanges and joint exhibitions. Artists from both cities visit each other and information exchanges are organized.
Culture and sights
theatre
Amateur theater plays are occasionally performed in the Schützenhalle. The closest theaters are the Paderborn Theater - Westfälische Kammerspiele , the Bielefeld Theater and the Detmold State Theater .
Museums
The first museum for monastery culture in Europe was opened on May 22, 2007 after extensive renovation and restoration of the former Augustinian monastery in Dalheim . It bears the name "LWL Museum for Monastery Culture". There is also the Lichtenau local history and natural history museum in the town's meeting place.
music
In Lichtenau there are five marching bands and four music clubs in the districts. There is also a drum corps, a music band, a music ensemble, a wind orchestra, a hunting horn group and the Eggegebirgskapelle. In the vocal area there are two church choirs, a mixed choir and an all-women choir.
Buildings
The Catholic parish church of St. Kilian with west tower and flat closed choir was probably built from 1323 onwards. The interior of the Gothic hall church is spanned by a ribbed vault supported by round pillars. The south portal of 1670, which is provided with the coat of arms of the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, goes back to a renovation in 1670. The furnishings include the alabaster high altar donated in 1624 and the organ front from 1754. The altar painting is marked with 1749.
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The rectangular four-storey tower house of Lichtenau Castle probably dates back to the 14th century. It was renovated in 1710 and expanded inside in 1853. Comparable tower castles can be found in Beverungen and near Marienmünster . Remains of the city fortifications have been preserved not far from the castle . At the northwest corner of the city fortifications, part of the city fortification can still be seen with the Elkenturm , of which the painting Lichtenau by Carl Ferdinand Fabritius from 1665 also shows the western gate.
In the district of the same name is the Dalheim Monastery , a former Augustinian canon monastery. The monastery was founded in 1429 and shaped the Paderborn region until secularization in 1803 . Some farm buildings were demolished or converted into stables; other buildings were newly constructed. In 1838 the late medieval baroque core of the complex burned out and was later rebuilt in a simplified form. In 1979 the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe acquired the facility and converted it into the Museum of Monastery Culture.
The Spieker in Atteln was built in 1588 and measures 9 m × 8 m in area. However, the Spieker was never used as a warehouse, but as a Vogts- or Amtshaus.
The St. Achatius (Atteln) was completed in 1712. Inside the church there is an altar from 1761 and a steel Madonna, also from the 18th century. The bishops Peter and Augustine can be found in the church; both are stone figures that originally come from Dalheim Monastery. In 1900 the church tower was renewed and the church was extended by a yoke .
Seven stone chamber tombs have been preserved in the Altenau valley from the Neolithic Age . Two of them are in Atteln and Henglarn. One of the graves has been restored and archaeologically processed. It has been restored to its original dimensions and design and contains skeletons.
The town of Blankenrode was established in the 13th century (today it is desolate in what is now the district of the same name - see Blankenrode town desert ). It lies on the border between the Principality of Paderborn and the County of Waldeck and was intended to secure the sphere of influence of Bishop Simon I of Paderborn and the Abbot of Corvey against the Counts of Waldeck.
When the parish church of St. Margarethe was rebuilt in Henglarn in 1903, the church tower of the previous building was integrated. The base of the tower is said to have been built in the 12th century.
The Vienenburg stables to the northwest of Henglarn date from the 14th century . The remnants of the Marschallsburg wall southwest of Holtheim can also be classified as belonging to the late Middle Ages .
According to the vernacular, there was an apparition of an image of the Mother of God in Kleinenberg, so that a place of pilgrimage was created here and a wooden chapel was built. In 1742 it was replaced by a baroque chapel. The old miraculous image around 1400 shows the helper from the small mountain and was taken over into the high altar. The chapel bears many inscriptions that refer in particular to wars.
Parks
There are two designated parks in the city, both of which are open to the public. The Kleinenberg pilgrimage complex is around one hectare in size, the garden of the Dalheim monastery complex is around 8.5 hectares.
Natural monuments
- Lush oak near Dalheim Monastery with a chest height of 6.71 m (2014).
Nature reserves
There are five nature reserves in Lichtenau, all of which lie within the urban area. These are the Sauer Valley (about 926.7 hectares ), the donkey bed (about 99.6 hectares), the nature reserve Black fraction (about 31 ha), the Sauerbachtal Bülheim (about 49.5 ha) and the nature reserve Marschallshagen and Nonnenholz with the upper Altenau valley (approx. 1,945.4 ha). In addition, Lichtenau has a share in the Bleikuhlen and Waschebachtal areas (approx. 1.84 hectares) and Schwarzbachtal (approx. 221 hectares).
With a total size of around 3,275 hectares of nature reserves in the city, more than 17% of the city area is protected. This is a very high value in a nationwide comparison.
Sports
In Lichtenau there are nine general sports clubs, six fishing clubs, three tennis clubs, three riding clubs, two local DLRG groups and a folk dance group. Most are organized in the Lichtenau City Sports Association.
The city maintains an outdoor pool in Lichtenau, next to the sports field, and a natural pool in Atteln.
Regular events
In the summer of every year, a series of events of supraregional importance takes place in Dalheim Monastery. In addition, shooting festivals take place in all parts of the city.
The fishing festival of the Lichtenau sport fishing club takes place in August. Regional and national fish specialties are offered.
The Wildschütz Klostermann Market is held in Lichtenau every two years at the beginning of October . Products, information and culinary delights from the fields of nature, forest, game, agriculture and renewable energies are on offer. In addition, the Wildschütz Klostermann run of VfL Lichtenau takes place every year.
The Advent market takes place in December .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The place Lichtenau is on the federal highway 68 , on which in the northwest Paderborn and in the southeast Scherfede near Warburg can be reached. The L 817 leads in a south-westerly direction to the A 44 and in the north-east towards Bad Driburg.
Regional buses from BahnBus Hochstift GmbH run regularly to Paderborn , while express buses from Paderborn continue to Warburg . Night buses run from Paderborn to Lichtenau on weekends and before selected public holidays. Local buses connect the districts with each other. Lichtenau is part of the Paderborn-Höxter local transport network ("Hochstift tariff").
The closest train stations are Paderborn Hbf (approx. 20 km away), Altenbeken (approx. 14 km away) and Warburg (approx. 24 km away).
The nearest commercial airport is Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport , around 28 km away.
The urban area is part of the 210 km long Westphalia hiking trail that leads from Hattingen to Altenbeken.
media
The Neue Westfälische and the Westfalen-Blatt are published as daily newspapers from Monday to Saturday . Both newspapers get their coat from their respective editorial offices in Bielefeld. They report in the local section from Lichtenau and the surrounding communities. In addition, the journal Die Warte for the districts of Paderborn and Höxter appears quarterly in the Hochstift Paderborn , with articles on regional history, literature and art. In addition, Die 15 and Rundblick Stadt Lichtenau appear monthly . Both print media report exclusively on Lichtenau and the city districts.
Lichtenau belongs to the reporting area of the regional studio Bielefeld of the WDR . Furthermore, the city belongs to the broadcasting area of Radio Hochstift .
Public facilities
On January 1, 2009, the city outsourced its water and sewage treatment plant to Stadtwerke Lichtenau .
The Lichtenau volunteer fire brigade maintains its own fire fighting groups in all parts of the village. A youth fire brigade is being set up at the city level.
education
The city offers two primary schools in Lichtenau and one in Atteln, as well as a secondary and secondary school in Lichtenau. There is no grammar school in Lichtenau; the facilities in Paderborn, Büren and Bad Driburg-Neuenheerse must be visited here.
In 2007, a total of 1176 pupils were taught at the city's schools with 68 teachers, 46.3% of them in elementary schools, 15.4% in Hauptschule and 38.3% in Realschule.
The city supports seven municipal kindergartens for early childhood education.
A branch of the Adult Education Center Paderborn has existed for adult education in Lichtenau since 1977.
Established businesses
In Lichtenau, companies from the IT, furniture, construction and metal industries are primarily represented. There are also medium-sized craft and trading companies.
The Lichtenau Technology Center was opened in 2005. The business and start-up center focuses on renewable energies and offers support to young companies in particular.
sons and daughters of the town
- Werner Adolph von Haxthausen (1744–1823), Paderborn Drost Prince-Bishop in the Lichtenau office
- Nikolaus Hesse (1794–1868), member of the Prussian National Assembly and participant in the Battle of Waterloo
- Friedrich Simon Archenhold (1861–1939), co-founder of the Archenhold observatory named after him in Berlin-Treptow. In Lichtenau, the Archenhold secondary school and a street are named after the astronomer.
- August Dissen (1875–1933), Mayor of Warburg
- Franz Bohner (1889-1954), politician ( Center Party ), MdR , MdB , MdL ( Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- Heinrich Boehner (Pater Philoteus), OFM, philosophy historian and botanist * February 17, 1901 in Lichtenau (Westphalia), † May 22, 1955 in St. Bonaventure (NY, USA)
- Ulrich Eichelmann (* 1961), nature conservationist and filmmaker born in Atteln
- Manfred Müller (* 1961), politician ( CDU ) and district administrator of the Paderborn district
See also
literature
- Heinrich Schoppmeyer: Westphalian City Atlas , Volume II, 9 part volume. On behalf of the Historical Commission for Westphalia and with the support of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, ed. by Heinz Stoob † and Wilfried Ehbrecht. City map Lichtenau. Dortmund / Altenbeken 1981, ISBN 3-89115-352-X .
- Helmut Winzen: Lichtenau . In: Josef Drewes (Ed.): The Hochstift Paderborn: Portrait of a region . 2nd Edition. Paderborn 1997, p. 127-146 .
- Ingrid Walder (photographer), Achim Walder (author, editor, photographer): Sights in Paderborn and the surrounding area: With description of the places: Paderborn, Altenbeken, Bad Lippspringe, Borchen, Büren, Delbrück, Hövelhof, Lichtenau, Salzkotten and Wünnenberg . Ed .: Achim Walder. 1st edition. Walder-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936575-21-7 , pp. 121 .
- Heinrich Karl Hillebrand: Family life in Lichtenau / Westphalia . 1st edition. Sutton-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89702-878-4 , p. 126 .
- Heinrich Karl Hillebrand: The arable town of Lichtenau / Westphalia . Sutton-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89702-302-4 , pp. 128 .
Web links
- City of Lichtenau
- Lichtenau in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Geoscientific community descriptions NRW. Lichtenau ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
- ↑ a b State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia: Municipal profile Lichtenau ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Geographical Commission for Westphalia (ed.): Geographisch-Landeskundlicher Atlas von Westfalen, Topic X Administration and Administration, double sheet state and municipal administrative structure. Münster 1990. Cf. Gerhard Henkel : History and geography of the Büren district. Paderborn 1974, p. 101 f. and card insert.
- ^ City of Lichtenau: Population, data, statistics
- ^ Geographical Commission for Westphalia (ed.): Geographisch-Landeskundlicher Atlas von Westfalen, Topic X Administration and Administration, double sheet state and municipal administrative structure. Munster 1990.
- ↑ Helmut Winzen: Lichtenau. In: Josef Drewes (Ed.): The Hochstift Paderborn: Portrait of a region. 2nd Edition. Paderborn 1997, p. 146.
- ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Students at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation.
- ^ 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. 320 f .
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia, Statistics division: State database North Rhine-Westphalia
- ^ Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW: Special series on the 1987 population census in North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 1.1: Population, private households and employed persons . Düsseldorf 1989, p. 110.
- ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05774028
- ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Kleinenberg pilgrimage site in LWL GeodataKultur
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Dalheim monastery complex in LWL-GeodatenKultur
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
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