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City of Luebbecke
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 86 m
Area : 9.58 km²
Residents : 1360  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 142 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 32312
Area code : 05741
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Location of Obermehnen in Lübbecke

Obermehnen is a place in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Minden-Lübbecke district . The village belongs administratively to the city of Lübbecke and has the status of a locality according to the main statute of the city. Obermehnen has 1360 inhabitants and is around 9.6 km² in size. With around 137 inhabitants per km², Obermehnen has the lowest population density of all Lübbeck districts, u. a. also because around 4.3 km², i.e. 45 percent, of the area consists of the uninhabited mountain forest of the Wiehengebirge. This makes Obermehnen the most densely wooded district of Lübbeck.

geography

The place is located in the southwest of the urban area on the northern slope of the Wiehengebirge in Lübbecker Lößland , whereby the southern part of the village extends relatively far into the mountains and is therefore already part of this natural area.

Land use and settlements in the district
The topography of Obermehnens

Until the municipal reform, which came into force on January 1, 1973, Obermehnen was a peasantry and belonged to the former municipality of Blasheim and the Preussisch Oldendorf office. Therefore Obermehnen has in a certain way gained autonomy through the regional reform, since it is now an "equal" district next to Blasheim.

Today the closed village settlement runs on both sides of the Bergstrasse, starting from the confluence with the B65, all houses and areas south of the federal road thus formally belong to Obermehnen, although in general awareness these are still part of Blasheim (such as the Blasheimer Markt ), uphill to the south to the Wiehengebirge. The lower part up to about the line is Untermehnen mentioned. The core area of ​​Obermehnens, i. H. the settlement in the very south, is also, z. B. on street signs or city maps, Obermehnen-Dorf . The settlements of Mehner Masch in the west and Vierlinden in the east lie apart . In the far west, Obermehnen "inherited" the Obernfelde estate as part of the community reform , which previously belonged to the Blasheim community but was not part of the Obermehnen farming community. Ecclesiastically, Obermehnen belongs to the parish of Blasheim (with the exception of Gut Obernfelde, which is part of Lübbecke).

Place name

Originally the village was only called Mehnen . The new name Obermehnen should distinguish it from the originally eponymous place 17 kilometers away, which is now called Niedermehnen (today a district of Stemwede ), and not, as one might assume, Obermehnen from Untermehnen, the lower part of Mehnens near Blasheim. The name Mehnen is probably related to mene or mana , the basic meaning of which is "clearing" and is related to words like common , common and community .

Attractions

At the Babilonie , a 255 meter high mountain, lies the same cultural monument, a Wallburg .

The former border between the Principality of Minden and the County of Ravensberg ran through the area of ​​the Obermehnen farming community . Between 1614 and 1648 this border was at times an external border of Prussia . An old border post, the so-called Prussian post and a memorial stone on the Preußeneck remind of this historical fact.

In the east of the district, north of the Vierlinden settlement, lies the Finkenburg / Finkenmoor nature reserve .

  • View of parts of the village. In the background the Limberg, which belongs to the city of Preußisch Oldendorf

  • The Prussian Post in Obermehnen

  • The Obermehner maypole is not far from the Prussian pole

Personalities

  • Eberhard Werner , artist (landscape painter) lived and died in Obermehnen near Lübbecke

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ measured with TIM-online
  2. ^ 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. 325 .
  3. ↑ Blasheim community (ed.): 1000 years Blasheim community, Blasheim, Minden 1969, p. 12.

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