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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ' N , 7 ° 34' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Unna | |
| Height : | 120 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 56.23 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 46,195 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 822 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 58239 | |
| Area code : | 02304 | |
| License plate : | UN, LH, LÜN | |
| Community key : | 05 9 78 028 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SCE | |
City administration address : |
Rathausstrasse 31 58239 Schwerte |
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| Mayor : | Dimitrios Axourgos ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Schwerte in the Unna district | ||
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Schwerte is a middle district town in the Ruhr area , Unna district , in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .
geography
Geographical location
Schwerte is located southeast of Dortmund on the Ruhr in the eastern Ruhr area . The largely forested ridge in the north of the urban area is known as the Ardey Mountains . The city boundary between Schwerte and Dortmund runs here in the Schwerter Wald with the Freischütz excursion restaurant , a former forester's house. In the east of the city, not far from the Kreinberg settlement, which has been a listed building since 2001, is the small Gehrenbach reservoir . The Kreinberg and the Gehrenbach reservoirs border the former railway repair shop in Schwerte-Ost, where work was carried out until the late 1980s. The easternmost district of Schwertes is Geisecke . Westhofen is located in the very west, from where it is only a few kilometers to the Hengsteysee reservoir .
Geographically, the city of Schwerte is counted according to the current definition of the Ruhr area . The two districts of Ergste and Villigst located south of the Ruhr border Iserlohn and Hagen and are assigned to the Sauerland by geographers .
climate
The annual precipitation is 871 mm and is therefore rather high as it falls in the upper third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 74% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in July. In July there is 1.7 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 52% of the measuring stations.
City structure
The current urban area of Schwerte was formed in 1975 by the municipal territorial reform from the cities of Schwerte and Westhofen and the municipalities of Ergste , Geisecke , Villigst and Wandhofen . Parts of the neighboring communities of Holzen and Lichtendorf also came to Schwerte. There are also the residential areas Schwerte-Ost, Gänsewinkel and Schwerter Heide. These already belonged to the area of the city of Schwerte.
history
In 962 Schwerte was first mentioned as Suerte by Engelbert, abbot of Werden Abbey . 1096 is the peasantry as Ergste Argeste mentioned in a document. The oldest documents about the Reichshof Westhofen date from 1248.
In 1243 Schwerte fell to the County of Mark . 120 years later, a judge and a mayor are mentioned in Schwerte for the first time. Count Dietrich I von der Mark granted Schwerte the right to mint coins in 1391 and full town charter in 1397. The privilege to widen the fortification trenches and to collect tolls at the city gates followed in 1406. In 1419 the city joined the Hanseatic League .
In 1565, the Schwerter shift system was recorded for the first time, a kind of organized neighborhood help for a separate area within the city. The individual shifts were headed by shift supervisors, who gave an account of their work in the shift books. The oldest shift book (layer 8) preserved at the beginning of the 21st century dates from 1715.
After the death of the last Count von der Mark, Schwerte fell to the Electorate of Brandenburg in 1609 , which later became part of the Kingdom of Prussia . The linen weavers' guild was formed in 1652. At that time there are 68 masters who practice this craft on site. In 1701 the city issued its own school regulations. The doctor and pastor Friedrich Bährens carried out the first smallpox vaccination in Schwerte in 1799 . Due to the risk of fire, it is forbidden to build houses with thatched and shingle roofs in 1818.
The chemist Friedrich Theodor Fleitmann built a nickel works in 1869, where the first Imperial German nickel coins were minted in 1871 . In 1877 Fleitmann invented a process for deforming and welding nickel. The Schwerter Nickelhütte remained the most modern of its kind until the First World War . In 1902 it was renamed VDN.
On April 3 and 4, 1920, the city was occupied by communists during the Kapp Putsch . The district of Hörde was dissolved in 1929, the town of Schwerte and the Westhofen office were transferred to the Iserlohn district .
The Nazi takeover of power in 1933 was celebrated in Schwerte with a torchlight procession. When Adolf Hitler stopped in Schwerte four years later while he was passing through, he was frenetically celebrated by the population. The synagogue was devastated during the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938 .
The first incendiary bombs fell on swords in June 1940; the station was one of the main targets of the British Bomber Command in the Ruhr area.
The bombing and destruction of the Möhne Reservoir dam by British bombers in 1943 claimed more than 1,600 deaths when a huge tidal wave poured through the Ruhr valley and triggered a flood that had never been reached again . The heaviest air raid on Schwerte followed on May 31, 1944, when US bombers attacked the marshalling yard in Geisecke. Over 217 people were killed. On April 6, 1944, the Schwerte concentration camp was set up as a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp , the camp was located next to the railway repair shop, which opened in 1922, and was secured by an electric fence and permanently manned watch towers. The prisoners were brought to the railway repair shop through a breakthrough in the factory wall and forced to work there. Until the camp was closed in January 1945, there were up to 700 prisoners there; exact records do not exist. About 200 inmates were brought back to Buchenwald at this time. On April 12, 1945 US troops captured the city of Schwerte; At the beginning of June of the same year, the British took over the military government.
In the course of the municipal reorganization , which came into force on January 1, 1975, the old town of Schwerte / Ruhr and the town of Westhofen except for the Buchholz district and the municipalities of Ergste, Geisecke, Villigst and Wandhofen and parts of the municipalities of Holzen and Lichtendorf became new town of Schwerte merged. Schwerte was also spun off from the Iserlohn district and added to the Unna district.
The first successful referendum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia turned against the closure of the Elsebad, which the city decided in 1993 . In 1994 it paved the way for the pool to be reopened as the Elsetal public pool (1998).
In 1997 Schwerte celebrated its 600th anniversary in the city. Six years later the city was (again) a member of the Westphalian Hanseatic League. On June 11, 2006, the first public referendum on the sword with the question of “preservation of the leisure all-weather pool with all its water areas” was up for voting. A majority rejected the maintenance of the bath. However, the referendum was rejected because of insufficient voter turnout.
Due to financial difficulties, the city budget was not approved by the responsible district of Unna in May 2008. The result was a rigorous austerity program with an emergency budget. In February 2009, the city council of Schwerte decided to close the leisure all-weather pool, which had been in deficit for years. This decision was preceded by years of dispute across all parties in the city. The bath was closed on December 30, 2009.
Since April 2012, Schwerte has been allowed to carry the suffix “Hanseatic City on the Ruhr”, which has been on all entrance signs since June 26, 2012. In Lüneburg, Schwerte was accepted into the International Hanseatic League on June 30, 2012 as the 100th German city.
In January 2015, the city council decided despite criticism, u. a. by Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft to accommodate 21 asylum seekers in a barrack built after the end of the war on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Structural development
- 1359: Engelbert Sobbe, Burgmann zu Schwerte, donates the Hospital to the Holy Spirit.
- 1508: The St. Viktor Church is expanded to include the Gothic high choir, and the Golden Altar is erected in 1523.
- 1547: The foundation stone for the construction of the Old Town Hall is laid, which has housed the Ruhr Valley Museum since 1933 .
- 1796: The Jewish cemetery on the north wall is mentioned for the first time.
- 1801: A grain market is set up in the city .
- 1811: All connecting streets between the market and the city gates are paved.
- 1853: The Sparkasse zu Schwerte is founded.
- 1867: Schwerte receives a railway connection (route: Hagen – Unna).
- 1872: Layer 11 is founded (first new foundation outside the old city walls)
- 1914: The New Town Hall is completed.
- 1920: Construction of the Kreinberg settlement in Schwerte-Ost begins as a factory settlement for the workers of the newly built railway repair shop. Completion takes place in 1935.
- 1946: The newly built Ruhr Bridge is opened to traffic.
- 1961: The section of the Federal Motorway 1 between Hagen and Kamen is completed, so that Schwerte receives its motorway connection.
- 1996: The six-lane expansion of Federal Motorway 1 begins.
- 2002: The newly designed pedestrian zone is inaugurated.
- 2003: The community and cultural center in the former pipe works is completed.
Population development
- 1738: approx. 1,100 inhabitants
- 1900: approx. 12,000 inhabitants
- 1925: approx.17,000 inhabitants
- 1961: 24,516 inhabitants
- 1970: 24,054 inhabitants
- 1974: 24,390 inhabitants
- 1975: 44,576 inhabitants
- 1987: 48,344 inhabitants
- December 31, 2002: 50,606 inhabitants
- December 31, 2005: 49,730 inhabitants
- December 31, 2008: 48,797 inhabitants
- December 31, 2009: 48,523 inhabitants
- December 31, 2010: 48,259 inhabitants
- December 31, 2011: 46,518 inhabitants
- December 31, 2012: 46,376 inhabitants
- December 31, 2013: 46,198 inhabitants
- December 31, 2014: 46,270 inhabitants
- December 31, 2015: 46,321 inhabitants
- December 31, 2016: 46,754 inhabitants
- December 31, 2017: 46,641 inhabitants
The result of the census according to the 2011 census showed a population of 46,743, whereas the city of Schwerte had a population of 47,901, i.e. 1,158 more inhabitants. The city of Schwerte filed a lawsuit against the census with another five communities in the Unna district; the lawsuit is currently suspended (2017), the result remains to be seen.
politics
City council
The main political body of the city is the city council, which decides on the affairs of the municipality and principles of the city administration, which is led by the mayor.
After the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the 38 seats in the city council were distributed as follows:
| CDU | SPD | Green 1 | FDP | left | WfS 2 |
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| 14 seats (−1) | 14 seats (+1) | 5 seats (+1) | 1 seat (−1) | 2 seats (± 0) | 2 seats (± 0) |
1 Greens: 1984 and 1989: The Greens, from 1994: Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen 2 Voters' association for Schwerte
Referendum
The city is also known in the political arena for the first successful citizens' initiative in North Rhine-Westphalia. After the town of Schwerte closed the Elsebad , an open-air swimming pool in the Ergste district , at the turn of the year 1994/1995 a public petition was carried out, which led to the later reopening of the pool . It has been run on a voluntary basis since 1998, and its recent history as a so-called community pool is linked to committed citizen participation.
Results of the local elections from 1975
Only parties and voter communities that received at least 1.95 percent of the votes in the respective election are shown in the list.
| year | CDU | SPD | Green 1 | WfS | left | FDP | E.G |
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| 1975 | 40.3% | 51.1% | 6.7% | ||||
| 1979 2 | 39.2% | 52.0% | 6.4% | ||||
| 1984 | 36.0% | 48.8% | 11.5% | 3.4% | |||
| 1989 | 33.5% | 47.3% | 12.3% | 5.4% | |||
| 1994 | 39.5% | 40.0% | 12.1% | 3.2% | 5.1% | ||
| 1999 | 48.9% | 32.4% | 8.1% | 7.9% | 2.8% | ||
| 2004 | 42.0% | 35.1% | 10.9% | 7.9% | 4.1% | ||
| 2009 | 38.3% | 35.2% | 10.7% | 5.1% | 4.4% | 6.4% | |
| 2014 | 36.8% | 36.2% | 12.5% | 6.5% | 4.7% | 3.3% |
1 Greens: 1984 and 1989: Greens, from 1994: B'90 / Greens 2 1979: additionally: DU : 2.4%
mayor
On March 4, 2018, Dimitrios Axourgos (SPD) was elected mayor. The previous mayor was Heinrich Böckelühr (CDU) until October 15, 2017 , who announced his resignation on September 16, 2017 in order to become President of the NRW community examination institute. In the local elections on May 25, 2014, he was elected for the fourth time with 51.1 percent of the vote. In 1999 he succeeded Ursula Sobelat (SPD; † 2011), who was Mayor Schwertes from 1992 to 1999.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In red, two obliquely crossed fallen silver swords". It is therefore a talking coat of arms .
Town twinning
Sister cities of Schwerte are
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On IDAHOBIT 2020, the city suspended its partnership with the Polish city of Nowy Sącz after it declared itself an “LGBT-ideology-free” zone .
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Wuckenhof from the 16th century
- late Gothic town hall with arbor (now Ruhrtalmuseum )
- Pipe maintenance
- New town hall from 1914
- Saalbau Freischütz
Calvin house
The Calvin House was built as a town wine house in the 14th century. From 1656 it was used by the Reformed community as a “small church”. The building fell victim to an air raid in 1945. After being rebuilt in 1955, it now serves as a Protestant parish office that is being rebuilt and renovated.
Pannekaukenfrau
The monument to the Pannekaukenfrau on Cava-dei-Tirreni-Platz is reminiscent of a city legend with swords. During a famine, the swords are said to have had no choice but to grow potatoes on the poor soil. The sword women came up with the idea of grating the potatoes and frying them in oil. Invented were Pannekauken (now known as potato pancakes ). The Low German nickname of the city is derived from this legend: Pannekauken-Schweierte .
Marienkirche
The Catholic Church of St. Mary is a three-aisled basilica. It was built in 1903/1904 in neo-Romanesque style according to plans by the Paderborn cathedral master builder Franz Mündelein , after the previous building from 1862 on today's Hüsingstrasse became too small due to the population growth during industrialization . In 1964 an annex was added to the western side.
St. Viktor Church
The St. Viktor Church in its current appearance is a three-aisled Gothic hall church from the 15th century, the foundation of which goes back to the 11th century. Romanesque arch fragments made of greenish Soest sandstone from this period are still preserved on the northern outer wall. The church houses an Antwerp reredos from 1523, an only partially preserved altar of seven pains from 1518 and a crucifixion fresco from 1310, which is one of the earliest surviving wall paintings in Westphalia. The very good acoustics of the church should be emphasized: instruments and vocals are reproduced warm and particularly rich in overtones. On market days - Wednesdays and Saturdays - the church is open in the mornings and there is regular market music . Further concert events on many weekends testify to the rich musical life in the city. The real trademark of the St. Viktor Church, however, is its legendary tower with its leaning dome.
Economy and Infrastructure
The town of Schwerte has one of the higher average primary incomes per inhabitant in the Unna district. In a state comparison, it was ranked 99 among the 396 municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia in terms of average disposable income in 2016. This means that Schwerte is one of the higher-income municipalities in the state.
traffic
Schwerte can be reached by car via the A 1 (Saarbrücken – Lübeck, Schwerte junction) or A 45 (Hanau – Dortmund, Schwerte-Ergste junction). The A1 crosses the A45 at the Westhofener Kreuz .
The following federal (B) and state roads (L) run through Schwerte :
- The B 236 begins in Olfen as a junction from the B 235 . It crosses Selm , Lünen and Dortmund and leads in a north-south direction through Schwerte to Iserlohn- Letmathe. Your destination in the south is Münchhausen in Hessen .
- The L 648 begins on the L 672 in the Sommerberg district of Dortmund . It leads over Schwerte and Villigst to Iserlohn .
- The L 662 begins in Sölde on the L 821. Coming from the north via Sölderholz and Lichtendorf , it soon reaches its end on the L 673 east of the city center.
- The L 672 begins in the center of Dortmund . It leads over the Dortmund districts of Hörde , Benninghofen and Holzen to its end point on the L 673 in Westhofen.
- The L 673 begins immediately before the city limits in the Hagen area on the L 675. It runs north of the Ruhr via Westhofen and Schwerte in a west-east direction through Fröndenberg . After crossing Wickedes , it ends in the Enser district of Bremen on the B 516 .
- The L 675 comes from the direction of Hagen- Boele. It leads to its end point on the B 236 in the Ergste district.
- The L 676 begins in Villigst as a junction from the L 648. It leads over the Iserlohn district of Hennen to the B 233 west of this district.
- The L 677 begins at the L 821 opposite Dortmund Airport . It crosses Holzwickede in a north-south direction. Via Geisecke it finally reaches the L 676 in the Iserlohn district of Rheinen.
The Schwerte (Ruhr) station is a railway junction for both local rail passenger transport and freight transport with a marshalling yard . From here routes lead to Hagen , Dortmund , Hamm , Iserlohn and Warburg ( Upper Ruhr Valley Railway ). Long-distance trains do not currently stop in Schwerte. Historically, it was different in the 20th century. Due to the function at that time as a railway junction and location of a railway repair shop in Schwerte Ost, the city had an important function for the then German Federal Railroad . Therefore, in 2011, Deutsche Bahn AG followed an application from the city administration and the Association of Railway Friends in Schwerte and named an ICE under the name Schwerte . This year marks the 150th anniversary of the decision to connect Schwerte to the railway network. In 2014, “100 Years of the Schwerte Railway Repair Works” were celebrated with open days in Schwerte-Ost. The foundation stone for the plant had been laid a century earlier.
Bus transport
Until 2005, most of the regular bus traffic was carried out by the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG). After the withdrawal of the MVG for the timetable change on January 9, 2005, bus services are now mainly carried out by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Kreis Unna (VKU). The Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) operates on the bus routes from Iserlohn-Letmathe to Schwerte-Ergste, the Busverkehr Ruhr-Sieg (BRS) on the route from Schwerte to Iserlohn and the Busverkehr Rheinland (BVR) on the route from Schwerte to Hagen .
Three city bus routes (C31 – C33) connect the Schwerte train station with various parts of the city.
- Line C31 runs from Schwerte to Dortmund-Holzen
- Line C32 runs from Schwerte to Ergste
- The C33 line runs from Schwerte via Bergische Straße and back to the city center (ring line)
Two regional lines (R30, R50) connect Schwerte station with neighboring communities:
- The R30 line runs from Schwerte to Iserlohn
- The R50 line runs from Schwerte to Holzwickede
Two night bus lines (N31, N32) connect the Schwerte train station with peripheral parts of the city:
- The N31 line connects Schwerte with Geisecke
- The N32 line connects Schwerte with Ergste
A direct bus line (D86) connects Schwerte with other cities in the Unna district only in the morning:
- The D86 line connects Schwerte with Unna, Kamen, Bergkamen and Werne. The final stop there is Werne, Amazon
Finally, Schwerte has three taxi bus routes (T31, T38, T39) that connect Schwerte with some parts of the city and other cities as required (the trips must be booked 30 minutes before departure):
- The T31 line connects Schwerte with Heidestrasse
- The T38 line connects Schwerte with Dortmund-Sommerberg ( Schüren )
- The T39 line connects Schwerte with Dortmund-Sommerberg (Schüren)
Other lines (207, 208):
- Line 207 connects the Heideschule with Schwerte
- Line 208 connects Ergste with Schwerte
There are also other lines (430, 435, 594) that are operated by the Dortmund public utilities or by the Rhineland bus service :
- Line 430 connects Dortmund- Hörde with Schwerter Bahnhof
- Line 435 connects Dortmund-Hörde with the Schwerter Bahnhof
- Line 594 connects Hagen with Schwerter Bahnhof
Schwerte also has a collective call taxi (AST).
Public facilities
Schwerte is the seat of the local court responsible for the city of Schwerte . The Schwerte correctional facility is located in the Ergste district .
Established businesses
- Zapp AG
- Deutsche Nickel (240 employees)
- FH Papenmeier GmbH & Co. KG
- Foundry Walter Hundhausen GmbH (641 employees / 28 trainees)
- Diagram Halbach GmbH & Co. KG (300 employees)
- Hoesch Schwerter Profile GmbH (formerly Hoesch Hohenlimburg GmbH)
- Flowers cracks , headquarters
- JDTheile GmbH & Co. KG - production of chains and accessories, robotic (200 employees)
- Motip Dupli GmbH - lacquers and fillers ( Dupli-Color , prestolith etc.)
- ültje GmbH
- Sabo Electronics GmbH
- WDI bright steel
- Steel Service Center Hövelmann & Lueg GmbH (approx. 200 employees)
- RSA cutting systems GmbH
- Fisher Scientific GmbH
education
- The Villigst house is owned by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and is the seat of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e. V. Villigst as well as various regional church offices. Specialist conferences on pedagogical and theological training are offered here. The International Opera Academy is also located there.
- The Catholic Academy Schwerte (Kardinal-Jaeger-Haus) is a conference and training center sponsored by the Archdiocese of Paderborn .
- The Ruhrakademie im Haus Ruhr (Schwerte-Wandhofen), founded in 1985, is a private teaching institute for communication design , photo design , film / directing , computer animation , illustration and art.
- Ruhrtal- Gymnasium , member of the MINT-EC association (Association of Mathematical and Scientific Excellence Centers)
- Friedrich-Bährens-Gymnasium
- Schwerte comprehensive school
- Theodor Fleitmann Comprehensive School
- Two secondary schools (Realschule am Bohlgarten, Realschule am Stadtpark) are running out and will be closed.
- Seven elementary schools (Albert-Schweitzer-Schule, Friedrich-Kayser-Schule, Lenningskampschule, Reichshof-Grundschule Westhofen, Grundschule Villigst, Grundschule Ergste and Heideschule) complete the educational offer. Schwerte is one of the first cities in North Rhine-Westphalia to set up all-day care at all primary schools.
- Schwerte adult education center
- City library
- Ruhr Valley Museum
Culture
The art association Schwerte e. V. organized several extensive exhibitions every year by unknown and renowned artists such as Claus Bury , Emil Schumacher , Antoni Tàpies and Rosemarie Trockel . At the general meeting on February 25, 2016, the art association decided to dissolve it.
The international street theater and street animation festival “ World Theater of the Street ” takes place every year in August . It is one of the largest venues for international street theater in Europe with up to 20,000 visitors.
The non-profit, culture-promoting association Kunterbunt eV has existed in Schwerte since 1990 . This association with around 200 paying members has been an integral part of the city's cultural life since it was founded. In the basement of the Friedrich-Kayser-Schule on Eintrachtstraße, around thirty concerts with various musical styles - with a focus on rock, punk and hardcore - take place every year. Artists from all over the world make guest appearances in this cultural center, which bears the name "Rattenloch". In addition to bands from the USA, South America and all of Europe, there have been popular bands from the German underground on the stage in the school’s old teaching pool. Among other Boxhamsters , ... But Alive and Miles (band) .
In 1999, the author Michael Zeller lived in Schwerte as the official “city clerk” for six months; The result of this time was the work My beautiful place , in which everyday encounters are described. The work is kept entirely in verse.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
In alphabetic order
- Ursula Bach-Wild (1903–1987), artisan
- Dieter Behrenbeck (* 1936), internist
- Ralf Blank (* 1962), historian, museum and archive manager
- Mike Borrink (* 1975), music journalist
- Heinrich Böckelühr (* 1961), mayor
- Mauro Corradino (* 1970), moderator
- Dieter Dannenberg (* 1959), soccer player
- Jens Ewald (* 1983), canoeist
- Reinhard Fabisch (1950–2008), soccer player and coach
- Ralf Finke (* 1960), journalist
- Theodor Fleitmann (1828–1904), chemist and industrialist
- Johannes Goddaeus (1555–1632), legal scholar
- Wilhelm Herberholz (1881–1956), painter, graphic artist and university professor
- Jürgen Hidding (1925–2005), entrepreneur, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Ludwig Wilhelm Alexander von Hövel (1746–1829), Baden Minister of State
- Ruth Holzhausen (* 1959), volleyball player
- Detlef Kahlert (* 1962), archer
- Raimund Kamm (* 1952 in Lichtendorf, now Schwerte), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Wolfgang Kleff (* 1946), soccer player
- Nils Klems (* 1988), futsal player
- Albert Knülle (1878–1961), Schwerter local poet
- Julian Koch (* 1990), soccer player
- Heinrich Kockelke (1856–1934), Protestant clergyman and President of the Westphalian Provincial Synod
- Susanne Köster (* 1966), volleyball player and painter
- Simon Kowalewski (* 1981), member of the Berlin House of Representatives
- Kerstin Kramer (* 1977), actress
- Silvia Meiertöns (* 1955), volleyball player
- Walter Oberste (* 1933), German sprinter
- Violetta Oblinger-Peters (* 1977), Austrian canoeist
- Wolfgang Peters (* 1948), canoeist
- Matthias Potthoff (* 1987), ice hockey player
- Heinrich Rehkemper (1894–1949), opera and song interpreter and professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum
- Wilfried Reininghaus (* 1950), archivist and historian
- Carmen Rischer (* 1957), rhythmic gymnast
- Erwin Rösener (1902–1946), SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police
- Norbert W. Schlinkert (* 1964), writer and cultural scientist
- Stephan Schwingeler (* 1979), curator, art historian, media scientist
- Jürgen Sengera (* 1943), former CEO of WestLB
- Lasse Sobiech (* 1991), football player
- Josef Spiegel (1902–1983), local history researcher and museum director
- Ulrich Sporleder (1911–1944), Protestant theologian, pastor of the Confessing Church and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Johann-Dietrich Theile (1793–1873), company founder and entrepreneur
- Rosemarie Trockel (* 1952), painter and sculptor
- Gabriela Wolf (* 1960), marathon runner
- Hubert Ziegler (* 1948), diplomat
- Lars Zimmermann (* 1974), founder of the New Responsibility Foundation
- Werner van der Zyl (1902–1984), after emigration in 1938 Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in West London and Vice President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism
Other personalities
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bährens (1765–1833), councilor, pastor, educator, city councilor, natural scientist, polymath
- Tobias Esch (* 1970), archaeologist and museum director, grew up in Schwerte
- Sven-Ingo Koch (* 1974), composer, grew up in Schwerte
- Willy Kramp (1909–1986), writer
- Thomas Kroth (* 1959), former soccer player, lives in Schwerte
- Detlef Lewe (1939–2008), canoeist, European champion
- Wolfgang Paul (* 1940), soccer player, active at VfL Schwerte before moving to Borussia Dortmund
- Jörn Ratering (* 1984), author and actor in Tanzania, grew up in Schwerte
- Erich Schanko (1919–2005), national soccer player
- Franz Leopold Heinrich Engelbert Schütte (1804–1883), pastor and chronicler, honorary citizen of the city, namesake of the Leopold-Schütte-Weg
- Arne Steding (1981–2015), founder of schwatzgelb.de, grew up in Schwerte
- Heinz Ludger Uhlenküken (1928–2015), local politician and city director in Cologne
- Johannes Weinrich (* 1947), German terrorist, co-founder of the Revolutionary Cells, grew up in Schwerte and went to school there.
- Otto Wulff (* 1933), German politician, lives in Schwerte
literature
- Michael Zeller: My beautiful place. ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 2001.
- Swords reading book. Viktor-Verlag, Schwerte 1986.
- Friedhelm Mann: (Swords) Ergste. A village on the edge of the Lührwald forest. Iserlohn 1996.
- Karl Ewald: Around St. Viktor. Viktor-Verlag, Schwerte 1985.
- Lieselotte Nieland: The Reichshof (Schwerte) Westhofen in the Middle Ages. Inaugural dissertation. Dortmund 1953.
- Thomas Spohn: On the building history of the Schwerter (old) town hall. Swords 1993.
- Uwe Fuhrmann: Our swords 1960–1965. Wartberg Verlag, 2005.
- Albert Knülle: he was called the city poet von Schwerte. vwi Verlag, Herrsching 1994.
- Karl Ewald: Schwerte - market and city in the Middle Ages. Viktor-Verlag, Schwerte 1989.
- 600 years of city rights in Schwerte. Festschrift for the city anniversary. Swords 1997.
- Wilfried Reininghaus: The files of the sword judge (17th / 18th century). Stadtarchiv Schwerte inventory P (inventories of the non-state archives of Westphalia. NF vol. 12), Münster 1992.
- Swords say. Collected by Ulrike Berkenhoff, ed. from the swords upper class. Swords 1998.
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- Website of the city of Schwerte
- Schwerte in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
- Website of the railway friends Schwerte Information about the railway repair shop and Schwerte as a railway town
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Site at the former concentration camp branch: Schwerte is holding on to refugee accommodation , Spiegel Online from January 16, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2015
- ^ City of Schwerte: 2014 municipal council election, allocation of seats
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- ↑ Elective profile of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NW ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Election results 1999 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.6 MB)
- ↑ 2004 election results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.7 MB)
- ↑ Election results 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- ↑ Antenna Unna: Schwerte has voted. March 4, 2018, accessed March 4, 2018 .
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- ↑ ruhrnachrichten.de: Opera Academy prepares talents for professional careers. Retrieved July 28, 2012 .
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- ^ Ruhrnachrichten of February 27, 2016
- ↑ World Theater of the Street - Summer of Imagination. Retrieved August 23, 2012 .
- ↑ Website Verein Kunterbunt e. V.
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- ↑ 11 friends
- ↑ "The Terrorist from the Salon" , Der Tagesspiegel
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