Rodenberg

This article covers the city in Lower Saxony; for other places with this name see Rodenberg (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '  N , 9 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Schaumburg
Joint municipality :	Rodenberg
Height :	69 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.6 km 2
Residents:	6596 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	423 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31552
Area code :	05723
License plate :	SHG, RI
Community key :	03 2 57 032
City structure:	2 districts
City administration address :	Amtsstrasse 5 31552 Rodenberg
Mayor :	Ralf Sassmann (WGR)
Location of the city of Rodenberg in the Schaumburg district

Depiction of Rodenberg Castle around 1520 during the Hildesheim collegiate feud , drawing by Johannes Krabbe from 1591

The Rodenberg town hall, former district court

Rodenberg is a town in the east of the Schaumburg district in Lower Saxony and belongs to the Rodenberg municipality , whose administrative seat it is.

geography

Geographical location

The city is located in the northern part of the Deister-Süntel valley between Deister , Süntel and Bückeberg . The B 442 in the east and the B 65 in the north delimit the urban area. The Rodenberger Aue and the Steinaue flow through the urban area. The name “Alte Rodenberg” rises to the west of the city.

City structure

The city is divided into the districts of Rodenberg and Algesdorf, which was independent until the regional reform in 1974. As early as 1834, the parish village of Grove was incorporated, which is now part of the Rodenberg district.

history

The Rodenberg area was already settled in prehistoric times, including by the Celts and Saxons. Some barrows in the area testify to this . The name Rodenberg refers to a hill in the west of the city, but the name is not a reference to the clearing, but to the color of the mountain - "red mountain".

The first documentary mention (as "Castrum Rodenbergum") comes from the year 930, when the predecessors of the Schaumburg counts built a castle or a defense tower here. It was allegedly located on the so-called "old Rodenberg" in the west of the town, although details are not known.

The Heisterburg in the Deister, which is assigned to Rodenberg, dates from 10/11. Century.

The few remains of the Rodenberg Castle were built as a moated castle by Count Adolf IV of Schaumburg between 1228 and 1240.

The current spelling "Rodenberg" was first used in 1632. Before that, the place name had changed several times over the years:

• 1317 "in castro Rodenberghe" (WUB IX, 1643, cf. 1644)
• 1320 "in Rodenberghe" (UB Kloster Rinteln, 91)
• 1376–1379 "to dem Redenberghen" (Wippermann, 403)
• 1441 "nostri castri Rodenberge" (Wippermann, 432)
• 1471 "dat Slot Rodenbergh" (Wippermann, 452c)
• 1518 "Rotenberg" (Wippermann, 488)
• 1561 "dath fleck Rodenberghe" (StABü L 1 No. 9717)
• 1586 "Rodenbergk" (UB Obernkirchen, 563)

In 1250 Rodenberg was elevated to the status of "Free Wickbold " (fortified and privileged settlement), and on April 4, 1615, it was granted city rights by Count Ernst zu Holstein and Schaumburg . In 1647 Rodenberg fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel , as the family of the Schaumburg counts had died out with the death of Count Otto V on November 15, 1640 . This was written down and established in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 .

The mineral spring discovered in 1718 was widely known. Saline and Gesundbrunnen in Rodenberg were generously funded before Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel built a bathhouse in Nenndorf near the sulfur springs in 1787.

On the evening of November 5th, 1859, a fire broke out in the large brewery in Rodenberg, which quickly spread. During the night burned down: the big brewery, the town hall, the Jewish community center, the big office and rent house, the office gate, the prison, the other buildings of the office yard, the whole domain yard with its numerous residential and farm buildings, barns, storehouses and stables, the castle with all buildings and towers (except for the surrounding walls) and 20 town houses in the city. Part of the palace complex was preserved (albeit burned out). In the following years, the still preserved walls of the castle complex were used as a "quarry" for the council cellar, the district court, the relocation of the domain, for work on the salt works and for work in Bad Nenndorf. When the demolition work was stopped, only the Ständehaus was left.

When Hesse fell to Prussia in 1866, the Rinteln district (so named 1866–1904) became Prussian. It was subordinated to the Province of Hessen-Nassau until it was incorporated into the Province of Hanover (also Prussian since 1866) as part of the administrative reform of 1932. The church administration followed suit, so that this part of Schaumburg - and thus also Rodenberg - belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . On the Catholic side, the change from the diocese of Fulda to the diocese of Hildesheim took place at the same time . In 1927 and 1928, Heimatspiele took place at the castle to mark the (belated) 300th anniversary of the town charter. In 1990, on July 8th, a large parade with historical elements took place to celebrate the 375th anniversary of the town charter. In 2015, the celebrations to celebrate the 400 years of city rights took place in April / May / October. The AK400 made this celebration possible.

Until December 31, 2004, Rodenberg belonged to the Hanover administrative district , which, like all the other administrative districts of Lower Saxony, was dissolved. In 1834, the neighboring church village of Grove to the north was united with Rodenberg. On March 1, 1974, Algesdorf was incorporated.

politics

City council

The council of the city of Rodenberg consists of 19 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 6001 and 7000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
Rodenberg flat share	34.28%	7th
CDU	27.79%	5
SPD	24.96%	5
GREEN	06.59%	1
FDP	03.88%	1
WE	01.81%	0
Individual applicants	00.66%	0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 60.44%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

Previous election results

	SPD	CDU	WGR (Voting Association Rodenberg)	AD (Active Democrats)	FDP	total
1996	8th	5	1	-	1	15 seats
2001	8th	8th	1	-	-	17 seats
2006	8th	6th	2	2	1	19 seats
2011	8th	6th	3	1	1	19 seats

mayor

Rodenberg's mayor has been Ralf Sassmann (Rodenberg voter association) since November 2011.

City Director

As City Manager George Hudalla was appointed for the current term of Rodenberger City Council.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city of Rodenberg shows in a red field, above a golden two mountains growing from the base of the shield, the long-toothed silver Schaumburger nettle leaf, without a shield shape, placed between the two mountain peaks.

City flag

The city of Rodenberg uses the colors "red - white - green" with the city coat of arms. The colors of the city are also "red - white - green".

Culture and sights

Museums

The Ratskeller in Lange Strasse

Windmill on the Rodenberg

Rodenberg Castle with the Ständehaus

Castle grounds as an open-air museum with fortifications (roundabout and bastion)

• Open-air museum on the grounds of Rodenberg Castle
• Local history museum on the grounds of Rodenberg Castle

archive

The archive of the city of Rodenberg is on deposit with the Rodenberg municipality in the Bückeburg State Archive .

Buildings

• Rodenberg Castle with the Ständehaus, ramparts and moats, remains of the bastion and round tower as well as built-on weirs. The local history museum and the open-air museum with restored fortifications are located within the former palace complex.
• Windmill on the Old Rodenberg, built in 1850, today the town's landmark. It was badly damaged in a fire on April 28, 2005, and the mill head was completely destroyed. The mill has been extensively restored through sponsors and funding and has been illuminated since March 2015.
• Heisterburg with Devil's Bridge in the Deister
• Hotel Stockholm, built in 1644 by Olaf Jansen, an invalid Swedish constable
• Ratskeller, built in 1863. At the location of the Ratskeller was the town hall, built in 1800, which was destroyed in a town fire in 1859.
• The St. Jacobi Church in the former Grove was built in the 1040th
• The Assumption Church was built in 1975 for the Catholic community, which had been using the historic Ständehaus as a church since 1950 .

See also : The list of architectural monuments in Rodenberg

Parks

• Citizens' park on the old Rodenberg
• Castle park behind / in the open-air museum

Regular events

• Citizen shooting festival
• Martini market
• May Festival
• Christmas Market

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

• outdoor pool
• Sports facility
• District sports hall

education

• Julius-Rodenberg-Schule, elementary school with a branch in Apelern
• IGS Rodenberg (emerged from secondary and secondary school)
• School on Deister, special school

traffic

The Lauenau and Bad Nenndorf junction of the A 2 are a few kilometers away. The federal highways 65 and 442 are nearby. The nearest train stations are on the Deisterbahn in the neighboring town of Bad Nenndorf and in the Bantorf district of the city of Barsinghausen . The public transport is ensured by the Schaumburger Verkehrs-Gesellschaft . In addition, a car call system can be used within the municipality.

economy

Oppermann Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG has its headquarters in Rodenberg, and its print shop handles print jobs for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Presse , among other things .

Personalities

• Hans Kinkeldey (around 1500), master brewer
• Friedrich Winecker († 1667), Lutheran theologian, university professor and author, pastor and court preacher
• Johann Philipp Kahler (1726–1792), Lutheran theologian, ancestor of Queen Silvia of Sweden
• Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann (1798–1876), banker
• Julius Rodenberg (1831–1914), journalist and writer

literature

• Franz Carl Theodor Piderit: History of the county of Schaumburg and the most important places in the same . Rinteln 1831, pp. 21, 36, 53.
• Adolf Mithoff: Chronicle of the city of Rodenberg from the oldest times to the present . Rodenberg 1912.
• Matthias Blazek : 100 years of the Rodenberg local fire department 1904–2004 . Rodenberg 2004.

Web links

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

• Homepage of the Samtgemeinde Rodenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ Hubert Höing: Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Bückeburg , Bückeburg 2004, p. 206.
3. ↑ Hubert Höing does not specify the exact time in the overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Bückeburg , Bückeburg 2004, p. 206: “Before 1315, Count Adolf V. zu Holstein-Schaumburg founded a moated castle in the lowlands Burned down in 1859; The seat of the Rodenberg office was located in the outer bailey. "
4. ↑ In detail about the fire: Blazek: 100 years Rodenberg local fire brigade. 2004, p. 18 f.
5. ↑ Cf. Mary of the Holy Rosary (Bad Nenndorf) .
6. ↑ In detail: Matthias Blazek: From the Landdrostey to the district government - The history of the district government of Hanover as reflected in the administrative reforms. Stuttgart 2004.
7. ^ 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. 192 .
8. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 31, 2017.
9. ↑ ^{a b} City of Rodenberg - overall results of the city council election 2016 , accessed on March 31, 2017.
10. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 31, 2017 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Main Statute of the City of Rodenberg , accessed on March 31, 2017.