Schwarzenmoor

The title of this article is ambiguous. Schwarzenmoor is also called a part of the municipality of Oberndorf (Oste)

Schwarzenmoor City of Herford Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	60–238 m above sea level NN
Area :	14.74 km²
Residents :	1632  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	111 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32049
Area code :	05221
Location of Schwarzenmoor in Herford

Schwarzenmoor is the 1500 hectare north-eastern district of the city of Herford , the district town of the Herford district in North Rhine-Westphalia . On December 31, 2015, it had 1632 inhabitants.

Neighboring communities

In the northeast, Schwarzenmoor borders the city of Löhne , in the east lies the Exter district of the city of Vlotho . The Neustädter Feldmark of the city ​​of Herford is located south of Schwarzenmoor, while the Herford district of Falkendiek is located in the northwest . An exclave is the part of "Klein Schwarzenmoor", which lies between the Old Town Feldmark of the city of Herford and Bad Salzuflen ( Lippe district ).

history

Hilligenböke memorial stone

Schwarzenmoor was first mentioned after 1300. It belonged to the Vlotho district as part of the Exter peasantry until 1811, when it came to the canton of Herford. Until December 31, 1968 Schwarzenmoor belonged to the office of Herford-Hiddenhausen in the Herford district . On January 1, 1969, it was incorporated into the then independent city of Herford, which in turn was incorporated into the Herford district.

At the corner of Alte Heerstraße / Hilligenböke there is a memorial for Saint Lebuin , who, according to legend , is said to have bravely preached the Gospel at the old Saxon tribal meeting in Marklo in 772 . This brought the Saxons against him, they wanted to kill him. The beech is said to have stood here, opening to protect the fleeing Lebuin and hiding him. A new beech next to the memorial stone was last planted in 2006 after the tree planted by a farmer in 1934 was destroyed in a thunderstorm.

landscape

Eggeberg (middle) and Dornberg (right)

Schwarzenmoor is largely agricultural. There are also some nature reserves there. Elevations are the 240 m high Dornberg (the highest elevation in the city of Herford), the Egge (233 m) and the Hamscheberg . On the Stuckenberg standing Herford Bismarck Tower .

Horses

In Schwarzenmoor there are several riding stables, the riding club “von Derfflinger” founded in 1925 with 50 competition horses, the riding community “Dornberger Heide” eV with a competition area, outdoor facilities and riding arena and a private horse boarding facility for 30 horses.

traffic

Streets

The federal motorway 2 runs for a length of about two kilometers through the east of Schwarzenmoor. There is also the only motorway junction in Herford city area, junction 30 “Herford Ost”. Junction 29 “Herford / Bad Salzuflen” is in the area of ​​the city of Bad Salzuflen .

In the north of Schwarzenmoor, the federal highway 61 runs for about two kilometers through the district. The city of Herford is connected to the motorway via Vlothoer Straße.

Herford motorway maintenance depot

The highway maintenance Herford was taken in 1965 at the Vlothoer road near the motorway junction Herford East into operation. It looks after 77 kilometers of the A 2 from the Bielefeld motorway junction to the state border with Lower Saxony at Porta Westfalica-Kleinenbremen and the A 30 from Bad Oeynhausen to the Lower Saxony state border at Bruchmühlen . In addition, 4.4 kilometers of federal highway 66 in the area of ​​the Bielefeld-Ost junction are maintained. Within these sections there are 318 bridges and traffic sign carriers, two motorway service stations , five parking spaces with toilets and 49 rain retention basins . The tasks of the 24 employees (at the end of 2014) include, in addition to monitoring the lanes including the hard shoulder, mowing and cleaning work, collecting rubbish, caring for trees, winter service , securing construction sites and accident sites as well as repairing accident damage. Between two and nine employees in winter are on call at all times.

The Herford autobahn maintenance department is subordinate to the North Rhine-Westphalian road construction administration , the State Office for Road Construction NRW , and the Hamm autobahn branch .

Volunteer firefighter

The recognition of a fire brigade on a voluntary basis in Schwarzenmoor with its then 25 members is dated September 29, 1902. The later Schwarzenmoor fire fighting group of the volunteer fire brigade emerged from it, which today belongs to the Herford-Nord fire fighting train with the Herford-Mitte fire-fighting train.

societies

The sports club SG 08 Falkendiek has had its clubhouse in the former school since 1973. For more information on the Falkendiek sports community, see here .

The association “Historische Feuerwehr Schwarzenmoor e. V. "

On the south-western slope of the Stuckenberg near the Steinmeyer forest restaurant, the forest kindergarten “Unterm Blätterdach” was opened by an association in July 2013.

Transmitter and wind turbine

In 1949 the Herford transmitter was built on the harrow .

Due to the altitude and the good wind conditions, the first Herford wind turbine was inaugurated in 1991 near the Herford Ost motorway junction by the then Elektrizitätswerke Minden-Ravensberg (EMR) ; it is still in operation today.

Thomas Church

The Protestant parish hall, built in 1931 on Senderstraße, was rededicated to St. Thomas Church in 1962. The simple building has no tower. The bells are located in a relatively large roof turret .

On the altar there is a brass-stamped essay on which a foot-washing scene is depicted. To the left of the altar is the bronze font dating from 1979. The font rests on four fish. The knob on the lid is shaped like a dove.

Until 1965, the St. Thomas Church belonged to the Marien parish of Berg Abbey . Then it formed the Markus parish together with the Markuskirche on Landsberger Straße. Today it is part of the Emmaus community together with the Christ Church on Glazer Strasse and the Markus Church. The Trinity Church in Falkendiek, which also belongs to it, was deconstructed on December 28, 2009.

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  Thomas Church

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  Thomas Church

graveyards

The Schwarzenmoor / Falkendiek cemetery of the ev.-luth is located on Mindener Strasse. Marienkirche parish Stiftberg.

The Schwarzenmoor animal cemetery has existed near the motorway junction since 1995. There are currently 800 grave sites for small animals on an area of ​​2500 m².

literature

• Pape, Rainer, Marklo and the Heeresfurt in the Saxon Wars, in: Herford Yearbook 24 (1988), pp. 121–135.

Web links

Commons : Denkmal Hilligenböke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

1. ^ City of Herford: Numbers, data, facts
2. ^ Karl Grossmann, History of the Office Vlotho 1246 - 1963
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 74 .
4. ↑ KAH (Herford Municipal Archives), journal number 5651 IP