Schwenningdorf

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Schwenningdorf
community Roedinghausen
Schwenningdorf coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 34 ″  E
Height : 95–190 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.45 km²
Residents : 2356
Population density : 316 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 32289
Area code : 05746
Bieren Bruchmühlen Ostkilver Rödinghausen Schwenningdorfmap
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Location of Schwenningdorf in Rödinghausen

Schwenningdorf is a district of the municipality of Rödinghausen in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1968 Schwenningdorf formed an independent municipality in the office of Rödinghausen. The place was first mentioned in 1088.

Geographical location

Physical map of Rödinghausen
The Johanneskirche of SELK
Church Community of Christians, current community center in Rödinghausen- Schwenningdorf
Fachhallenhaus in Schwenningdorf

The district of Schwenningdorf is located in the north of Rödinghausen on the slopes of the Wiehengebirge . The highest mountain is the Maschberg at 190  m above sea level. NN height. The deepest valley is the Große Aue valley at around 80  m above sea level. NN . Schwenningdorf has about 2356 inhabitants and an area of ​​7.449 km² (316 inhabitants per km²). The valley of Aue and its neighboring valleys Wehmerhorster Wiesental and the area Schierenbeke are under conservation .

history

When a women's monastery was founded in Herford around 820 under Ludwig the Pious , the then still tiny towns of Bieren and Rödinghausen were mentioned in the lift roll . Schwenningdorf was not mentioned in the lifting role, but was probably founded at that time and was initially called Swanekindorp after its founder "Swanekin" . Schwenningdorf was first mentioned in 1088.

Schwenningdorf has been part of the Rödinghausen community since January 1, 1969.

Population development

The following table shows the number of inhabitants Schwenningdorfs after the relevant territory up to the incorporation into the community Roedinghausen 1 January 1969. Changes in the region object resulted from the incorporations of populated areas of the municipality beers on March 4, 1898 (1895: 10 people) and 1 April 1932 (1925: 2 inhabitants). The numbers are census results . From 1871 and 1946, the figures relate to the local population and from 1925 to the resident population . Before 1871, the population figures were determined using inconsistent survey methods.

year Residents
1818  (Dec. 31) 800
1834  (Dec. 31) 789
1837  (Dec. 31) 814
1843  (Dec. 31) 902
1849  (December 3) 961
1852  (December 3) 1058
year Residents
1858  (Dec. 3) 1039
1867  (December 3) 1068
1871  (December 1) 1039
1885  (December 1) 1006
1895  (December 1) 994
1905  (December 1) 1211
year Residents
1925  (December 1) 1313
1933  (June 16) 1421
1939  (May 17) 1487
1946  (Oct. 29) 1816
1950  (Sep 13) 1919
1961  (June 6) 1853

Religious communities

In Schwenningdorf there is the Johannes congregation of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) and the congregation of Christians (member of the Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden ) with their own church building , only the former having a classic church building with a church tower, consecrated in 1854 . The Church of the Self-Employed Ev.-Luth. The community was completed in 1857 and the west tower and an extension were added in 1931.

politics

Until 1968 Schwenningdorf was an independent municipality in the office of Rödinghausen. The mayors of Schwenningdorf were:

  • until 1948: Ernst Steinmeier
  • 1948–1956: Heinrich Clamor
  • 1956–1968: Ernst Breitensträter

From 1969 the following local councilors headed the district :

  • 1969–1975: Ernst Breitensträter
  • 1975–1977: Heinrich Vogt
  • 1977–1979: Ernst Scherler
  • 1979-2004? Helmut Beinke
  • 2004– ?: Wilfried Niederbröker

Education, transport and economy

The Rödinghausen comprehensive school with a triple gymnasium is located in Schwenningdorf . In Schwenningdorf-Neue Mühle is one of the Rödinghauser train stations "Haltpunkt Mesch Neue Mühle". It is located at an old mill on the Ravensberger Bahn (KBS 386), on which the RB 71 Bielefeld - Herford - Bünde - Rahden runs every hour, every two hours on Sundays . On the border between Bieren and Schwenningdorf there is also the Bieren-Rödinghausen stop on the same train route and the same train connection. The municipality's largest industrial company, Häcker Küchen, is located in Schwenningdorf .

Personalities

  • Ingo Nentwig (1960–2016), German sinologist, ethnologist and university professor

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 75 .
  2. Municipal statistics of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: population development 1816–1871 . State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1966, p. 193
  3. Municipal statistics of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: population development 1871–1961 . State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1964, pp. 380–381