Reelsen

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Reelsen
City of Bad Driburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 226 m
Area : 7.52 km²
Residents : 789  (Dec. 2016)
Population density : 105 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 33014
Area code : 05253
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Location of Reelsen in Bad Driburg
Reelsen, view from the east
St. Martinus Church

Reelsen in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany is now a district of the town of Bad Driburg , Höxter in Detmold .

geography

Wooden bridge over the Aa south of Reelsen

Reelsen is located at about 220 m above sea level about 3 km north of Bad Driburg and is still surrounded by the villages of Alhausen , Bad Hermannsborn , Bembüren , Merlsheim and Langeland . In terms of nature , Reelsen already belongs to the Sandebecker Hügelland in the eastern Egge foothills of the Lower Saxony mountainous region . In the east of Reelsen, the stream Aa flows past the village, which flows into the Nethe at Brakel . Reelsen is located at the eastern foot of the Eggegebirge and is in a clockwise direction from Reelsener Berg (260 m), Hoppenberg (350 m), Nackenberg (300 m), Rusterberg (260 m), Kreuzberg (297 m), Kampe-Schöneberg (292 m) , Meeberg (325 m) and Kronenücken (292 m) included.

history

Stone Age finds such as two Neolithic axes and barrows from the Bronze Age in the Reelsen area and the surrounding area prove that the area has been inhabited for 7,000 years.

Reelsen is mentioned for the first time in 1197 in a document from three knights from the vicinity of Peckelsheim as part of the crusades .

From 1861 to 1864 the railway was built by Reelsen, at the same time the Reelsener tunnel was broken and the road cut across the Reelsener Berg with the Reelsener Kreuz was created. In 1908 the road over the 427 m high Rehberg to Altenbeken was completed near Langeland . In the same year Reelsen got a water pipe and in 1923 there was electric light for the first time.

On January 1, 1970 Reelsen was incorporated into the city of Bad Driburg. In 1997 there was a big 800th anniversary celebration.

Population development

year Residents
1354 approx. 120
1840 300
1875 376
1900 407
1914 411
1923 450
1930 460
1939 488
year Residents
1950 676
1961 608
1968 662
1980 739
1990 746
1996 832
2000 800
2007 861
year Residents
2008 831
2009 842
2010 830
2011 823
2012 777
2016 789

2016.

traffic

The Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway runs past Reelsen . The Reelsen stop on Bembürener Weg, created in 1905, was only served until 1983. The next train station is in Bad Driburg, the next long-distance train station is the Altenbeken train station about 8 km away . The regional bus route 576 connects Reelsen every hour on weekdays with Bad Driburg and the district of Sandebeck in the city of Steinheim with individual connections to Steinheim. Individual trips on line 575 ( Nieheim - Bad Driburg) also lead via Reelsen.

Reelsen is on the L954 to Detmold . The next trunk road is the B64 between Paderborn and Höxter , motorway connections are 30 km west of the A33 - Paderborn / center and 35 km south of the A44 - Diemelstadt. The nearest airport is Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport, around 45 km away .

church

The local Catholic Church of St. Martinus Reelsen belongs to the parish of the Assumption of Mary, Pömbsen of the Bad Driburg Pastoral Association. St. Martinus was consecrated on July 2, 1911.

education

  • The location of the community elementary school Pömbsen-Reelsen in Reelsen was given up in the second half of 2009 and relocated to Pömbsen. The next elementary school is now in Bad Driburg.
  • After the renovation and expansion of the old school building, the day care center "Löwenzahn" was opened there in 2009. The institution is run by the city of Bad Driburg; all-day childcare is also offered.

Club life

  • Catholic women's community Reelsen
  • Rifle Brotherhood "St. Martinus Reelsen 1681 “eV with shooting sports group
  • Heimatverein Reelsen eV with theater group Reelsen
  • Brass band Reelsen eV
  • Youth training orchestra Reelsen eV
  • Sports club Blau-Weiß Reelsen eV
  • Volunteer firefighter
  • Riding and driving club, vaulting St. Martin Reelsen

Attractions

Annual events

  • Spring concert of the brass band (approx. 3 weeks before Easter)
  • Shooting festival of the St. Martinus shooting brotherhood two weeks after Pentecost
  • Theater performance of the Reelser theater group in the Schützenhalle in November
  • Sports breakfast on May 1st.
  • Sports festival in July
  • Nicholas disco party on the Saturday after Nicholas

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A brief outline of Reelsen's history.
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 108 .
  3. ↑ 800 years Reelsen - Festschrift for the local anniversary, 1997
  4. ↑ a b c cf. Horst Thiel: Population of Reelsen.
  5. ↑ https://www.kreis-hoexter.de/unser-kreis/portrait/zahlen-daten-ffekten/m_3801
  6. ↑ Pastoral Association Bad Driburg
  7. ↑ Dorothea Worm-Hellwig: 100 Years St. Martinus Church Reelsen 1911-2011 . Egeling, Bad Driburg 2011. , p. 23
  8. ↑ bad-driburg.de: Kita Reelsen , accessed on February 26, 2016.