Neesen

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Neesen
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 47 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.35 km²
Residents : 2274  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 679 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 32457
Area code : 0571
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Location of Neesen in Porta Westfalica
View from Kaiser Wilhelm Monument to Neesen on the right bank of the Weser

Neesen is a district of the town of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district in the East Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia . It has 2274 inhabitants and is located on the right bank of the Weser between Porta Westfalica and the district town of Minden .

history

Neesen was a small farming village that used to be called Nisinun, which means something like "wet" or "water". It was on the only street on the right bank of the Weser between Minden and the Weser Mountains . In this swampy area this road ran directly on the bank and offered the possibility to build a ship mill next to a raft place .

In 1818 there were 278 inhabitants, after which the village flourished thanks to the connection to the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , the associated land sales and the quarries in the Weser Mountains. In 1911 the population had risen to 2,074. Representative mansions were built, eight of which are now listed.

concentration camp

Between September 1944 and April 1945 there was a concentration camp in the Neesen community that was subordinate to the Neuengamme concentration camp . The warehouse was built on the site of today's Weber concrete works. The company Klöckner Flugmotorenbau GmbH, evacuated from Holland because of the threatening situation at the front, was housed there under the code name of the company Bense & Co. BMW aircraft engines (type BMW 801 ) and had them repaired by concentration camp inmates. The approximately 500 prisoners came from the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, Holland, Greece, Yugoslavia and Denmark. About 300 of them had come from Auschwitz in December 1944 . On April 1, 1945, the concentration camp was evacuated because of the close proximity of the Allies and the prisoners were transported to other camps in freight cars.

See also: Jakobsberg (Porta Westfalica)

Incorporation

On January 1, 1973 Neesen was incorporated into the new city of Porta Westfalica with 2613 inhabitants who lived in an area of ​​3.35 km 2 . An uninhabited area of ​​1.73 km 2 moved to Minden . Initially, the city of Minden had on 27./29. September 1971 a territory change agreement was concluded, according to which a larger part of the community should be incorporated into Minden. This contract was then no longer taken into account by the legislature.

economy

Established businesses

Milling and the traditionally associated mill construction are represented in Neesen . The company CHRISTIAN VAHRENHORST Porta Mühle, which emerged from the same, can be found at the old windmill . And in the village there is still the Baumgarten mill building establishment or its successor.

One of the best-known medium-sized companies in Neesen is Bernstein AG . The company settled there at the beginning of the 1950s, but then set up other locations in the region. The administration of Bernstein AG is now based in Porta Westfalica Hausberge. The production of mechanical limit and safety switches with around 120 employees is located in Neesen at the former founding site.

societies

Neesen sports ground, 1967

sports clubs

The TuS Porta Westfalica emerged in 1976 from the merger of TuS Nammen with the SV Porta Neesen . Other sports clubs are the Sportschützenverein Neesen eV, the Tennis-Sport-Club Porta eV and the TV Jahn Neesen von 1892 eV

Other clubs

Other associations are Aquarius Motorbootverein Neesen / Lerbeck eV, the Neesen Riding Club and the Neesen Garden Friends Association. There is the Neesen Citizen Battalion in the rifle division. Responsible for the music are the Edelweiß Neesen Mixed Choir, the Harmonia Club "Melodia" and the Neesen-Lerbeck eV men's choir

traffic

Neesen was made accessible by the Chaussee from Minden via Lerbeck to Hausberge , which today still bears trees on the banks of the road construction that is adapted to the natural conditions (height profile, tree growth) . Here are the first perverse public transport and put a link on the right bank of the Weser between the North German Plain to the Weser ford Minden and the Weserbergland is through the bottleneck Porta Westfalica. The Cologne Minden railway cuts through the village without stopping, but there are some sidings and signal boxes to to organize the old branching traffic over the Green Bridge Neesen , a railway bridge to Dützen to the iron ore mine . The branch line of the railway is no longer used today. The railway bridge over the Weser falls into disrepair. There are always considerations to create a bike path here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SV Porta Westfalica - districts. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ City of Porta Westfalica, Neesen
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 118 .
  4. ^ City of Minden (Hrsg.): Minden, witnesses and testimonials of its urban development. 1979, p. 117.
  5. ^ Karl Brandt: Neesen in Stories and Pictures 2003. Röbke Druck, Minden, 2003.

literature

  • Karl Brandt: Neesen in Stories and Pictures 2003 . Röbke Druck, Minden 2003.
  • Rainer Fröbe: Destruction through work? Concentration camp prisoners in armaments factories at Porta Westfalica in the last months of the Second World War. In: Meynert, Joachim, Klönne, Arno: Repressed history. Persecution and extermination in East Westphalia 1933–1945. Bielefeld 1986. ss. 251-264
  • Reinhold Blanke-Bohne: The underground relocation of armaments factories and the satellite camps of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Porta Westfalica near Minden. Diploma thesis, University of Bremen, 1984. ss. 67-70, 162-169

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