Exter (Vlotho)

External City of Vlotho Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 48 ″  E
Height :	118  (99-256)  m
Area :	20.46 km²
Residents :	2788  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	136 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32602
Area code :	05228
Location of Exter in Vlotho

Exter is part of the East Westphalian town of Vlotho in the Herford district . Exter has 2788 inhabitants (as of December 1, 2018) and is located in the west of Vlotho. Until 1968 Exter was an independent municipality in the Amt Vlotho .

location

Exter borders the city of Löhne in the north, the Vlotho district of Valdorf in the east, the Wüsten district of the Lippe town of Bad Salzuflen in the south and the Schwarzenmoor district of Herford in the west . Exter owes its nickname mountain village to its location in the foothills of the Lippe mountain range . The highest point is found on the lying in Solterwisch Steinegge with 255.5 m above sea level, the lowest with 99.6 m at the Hagenmühle of the salts. The Exterbach, which rises in the Dornberger Heide / Arnholz area, flows through Exter, and in the village it flows into the salts that arise in Solterwisch . Solterwisch was an independent peasantry until the middle of the 19th century and was part of Exter.

history

View from the outside from the north - in the background the Lippe desert

Düstersiek farm in Exter, formerly Pieper No. 4, one of the oldest farms in town

Exter is mentioned as Exterde for the first time in an inventory of the Herford monastery from the 12th century. The origin is not entirely clear. The core location in the valley of the Exterbach was the reason for the colloquial name Kuhleneckster , which was also used for clearer allocation in the place.

The two farms Limberg and Harde, which belonged to Herford Abbey, were located in Exter; they were lent to the Knights of Exterde and the Knights of Westphalia. The name of the later small train station Hagenmühle goes back to the mill of the old Hardenhof , a name that arose through blurring . After the secularization (1803) the new owners got into debt and had to sell. Both farms were acquired by the Borgholzhausen economist Brune around 1816. The latter in turn split up this property, and the sale resulted in new farm positions (Limberg = eight, Harde = eighteen).

As a further connection to Herford Abbey, the Knights of Arnholte were enfeoffed with most of the courts between Herford and Exter. The family name Arnhölter and the field name Arnholz still remind of them. A Johann von Arnholte was first named in 1232, at the end of the 15th century the family with the last member, the pleban (pastor) Johann von Arnholte, died out.

Exter was assigned to the Amt Vlotho. This had developed from the imperial direct rule of Vlotho and after the extinction of the Lords of Vlotho fell to the House of Jülich-Berg. The Ravensberger Urbar of 1556, a comprehensive directory via population, belonging, taxes, etc. of the county is to remove that Exter with the Bauerschaften Solterwisch and Schwarzenmoor was assigned to the advocacy Vlotho. In the comprehensive reorganization under Napoleonic rule, Schwarzenmoor was added to the canton of Herford.

In the province of Westphalia founded in 1815, Exter and Solterwisch belonged to the administrative district of Vlotho in the Herford district. As part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia , the two farmers Exter and Solterwisch were combined to form the political community of Exter in 1843.

On January 1, 1969, the municipality of Exter became the western district of Vlotho . As of October 1, 2017, the district of Exter had 2814 inhabitants.

religion

The Evangelical Church of Exter , the first Evangelical motorway church in Germany

The population is predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran, the proportion of Roman Catholic believers is largely due to the influx of refugees after the Second World War .

Ecclesiastically, Exter and Solterwisch belonged to the parish on Herford's Berg monastery until 1666. In that year the Great Elector approved the establishment of his own community with his own church. In 1951 the dilapidated nave was replaced, the tower remained. In 1959 the Evangelical Church in Exter was consecrated as the first Protestant motorway church in Germany. It can be reached via the A2 exit No. 31 Vlotho-West . In 2019 the Vlotho parishes of Exter and Bonneberg merged to form the "Parish Exter Bonneberg" due to the ever-decreasing number of members, whereby the other services are to take place alternately in the existing church buildings.

The Catholic faithful were initially able to use the Protestant village church in Exter for their services, from 1950 onwards a makeshift church in the valley of the Exterbach was available to them. Their new, half-timbered, masonry-style St. Hedwig Church on the K12 in the direction of Kalletal-Hohenhausen was consecrated in 1978. St. Hedwig Exter has belonged to the parish Heilig Kreuz in Vlotho since 1983 and thus to the pastoral association Löhne-Vlotho.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Exter there are several farms on a full-time basis. The salt that arises in Solterwisch enabled water mills to operate well into the 1960s.

The old parish of Exter was one of the poorest in the Synod of Vlotho in the 19th century, which allows conclusions to be drawn about the yields of agriculture at the time. In 1903 the Herford small railway brought a powerful connection to the Vlothoer Hafen and the neighboring towns of Bad Salzuflen and Herford. This supported the development of several woodworking craft businesses (individual pieces of furniture, half-timbered, coffin joinery, etc.) into industrial businesses with series production. The last company closed at the beginning of the 1990s with the Pecher company (kitchen furniture). Pecher in particular had sales markets as far as the Ruhr area during the Gelsenkirchen Baroque period . With the end of the Pecher company, the Herford furniture manufacturer Nitsche took over the building, expanded the industrial plant and continued to produce small furniture. In 2011 the historic buildings were destroyed to the ground by a major fire, and in 2013 a modern new building was erected on the site. However, production was not resumed, the company went bankrupt, the property changed hands at the beginning of 2018, and today there is a logistics center here.

After the Second World War, several residential areas arose in the then independent community, in which mainly refugees settled. During this time, the industrial area Industriestraße / Im Meisenfeld was also created, in which numerous industrial companies of various sizes settled. It is the second largest in the city of Vlotho. A production plant of the Austrian company Alpla is also located here .

Further residential areas were added from the 1980s. The youngest, new, closed residential area in the town center, “Johanne-Stelzer-Straße”, was built in 2000. The name goes back to Johanne Stelzer, who worked as a midwife in the town after the Second World War. In general, it is more common in such cases to name streets after mostly historically known personalities.

On the former site of the Herford small railway (Wallenbrück-Spenge-Enger-Herford-Bad Salzuflen-Exter-Valdorf-Vlotho), which ran through Exter until 1962, is the bus turning point , around which various service companies can be found as local suppliers, which is also for the Area of ​​Detmolder Straße in the direction of A2 connection 31 ( Vlotho-West) applies, which was called Exter until February 2015 .

traffic

Around the center of the village, the L778 and K12 intersect in the direct directions Bad Oeynhausen , Vlotho-Stadt, Bad Salzuflen and Herford (starting clockwise in the north). Local public transport with transfer options to Vlotho-Stadt and Herford is offered via the bus turning point at this main intersection.

The A2 running through the middle of the district leads over the Finnebach, Exter and Steinegge viaducts . The A2 junction Herford-Ost is located near the Finnebach valley bridge (in the neighboring Schwarzenmoor district of Herford) and the A2 connection Vlotho-West at the Exter valley bridge with a reference to the motorway church . The latter is also only a few hundred meters away from the above-mentioned intersection.

Education

It is not known exactly when there has been a school offer in Exter; the year is given to a teacher named Johann Heinrich Puls as the successor to a Jobst Wilhelm Schele. The elementary school next to the church was relocated a few hundred meters away in 1964 on the newly created sports field with a gym in the center of the village. As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian school reform of 1968, it was rededicated as a primary school. The Evangelical Primary School Exter is an Evangelical Lutheran denominational school and was one of the first to offer an open full day in 2006 in the city of Vlotho . Since 2008 it has been run as a branch of the Uffelner elementary school. Secondary schools are attended in Vlotho ( secondary school , grammar school) and Herford (comprehensive school, grammar school).

The family center "Villa Kunterbunt" with U3 supervision, which is connected to the primary school in terms of building technology and is certified in 2007, is the successor to the kindergarten founded in 1973, which is still supported by Protestants.

Clubs (selection)

Windmill Exter on the German Milling Day 2009

In 1905 the Exter Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded.

The activities of the 80 year old riding and driving club “von Bismarck” Exter e. V. have contributed to the joke name Reiterdorf Exter , which is common in the Herford district , the club has organized numerous tournaments of national importance in its history.

The SGEE (Sportgemeinschaft Einigkeit Exter e.V.) has been organizing the annual Exter Triathlon since 1989 with the disciplines swimming, cycling and running. With mostly 400 to 500 participants from the surrounding area, it is of far-reaching importance.

The football club FC Exter von 1947 e. V. , which emerged from what was then SGEE.

The association Windmühle Exter e. V. looks after the Exter windmill , built in 1850 near the Steinegge, as an excursion destination for near tourism. In the Herford district , it is one of two fully functional windmills with grinding operations, with the exterschen only using wind energy.

The Rot Weiß Exter eV tennis club uses a sports and training facility on Industriestrasse .

The Exter history workshop has been documenting local and regional history with various media since 1989.

There are two golf clubs in the village, the Golf Club Exter (9-hole course) near the A2 connection Herford-Ost and the Golf Club Herford (9-hole course) at the Exter windmill.

Attractions

Wittekindstein in Exter

The windmill , which was built in Exter-Solterwisch in 1850, is a listed building and after a long renovation phase is open again for local tourism. In July 2009 the first civil wedding took place here. The mill site was completed in 2014 with a bakery, coach house and half-timbered multi-purpose building.

The Wittekindstein, which is also a listed building, can be found on Wittekindstrasse , a sandstone carved in the shape of a chair. According to legend, Charlemagne and Wittekind should have shook hands in conciliatory terms over him. It was probably erected at the end of the 16th century and provided with the house mark of the Herford family of lay judges, from which we can conclude that it is an old court stone from the end of the Middle Ages.

In May 2014, the local working group on village development opened the “Exter Tour”, which leads through the town on two circular hiking trails with a total of 31 stations at distinctive points. In June 2016, this local offer was supplemented with the “Exter Tour for Children”. With pedagogical participation, 14 stations of the “big” exterior tour were combined in the town center, which can be explored with fun and games.

literature

• Walter and Wilhelm Gröne: Church in Exter 1666–1966 , Exter 1966, without ISBN.
• Karl Grossmann: History of the Office Vlotho 1246–1963 , Vlotho 1963, without ISBN.
• History workshop Exter: Chronicle of Exter , written down in 1854 by Pastor Carl Heinrich Christian Lohmeyer, 1997, without ISBN.
• History workshop Exter: Collective series contributions to local history published since 1994 , ISSN  1619-7828

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Figures - Data - Facts: Population. In: Vlotho. December 31, 2018, accessed April 10, 2020 . 
2. ^ Carl Heinrich Christian Lohmeyer, Exter and his surroundings, written down in 1854 , handwriting.
3. ^ Entry on Arnholt in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
4. ↑ Statistical-topographical overview of the government district of Minden 1821. In: Digital Collections ULB Münster. P. 38 ff , accessed on March 3, 2014 . 
5. ^ Official Journal of the Minden Government: Constitution of the offices and their communities in the Herford district. Retrieved February 2, 2014 . 
6. ↑ vlotho.de: City portrait - locality Exter
7. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 75 .
8. ^ City of Vlotho: Numbers, data, facts. Retrieved May 21, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt , Bielefeld, regional edition “Vlothoer Zeitung” of March 8, 2018, p. 9 Logistics company opens second location in the former furniture factory: Knefelkamp has bought Nitsche
10. ^ Stephanie Brink, Stephanie Greco: 40 years of Kindergarten Exter ; Contributions to local history SD-11; History workshop Exter, 2013; ISSN  1619-7828

Web links

Commons : Exter (Vlotho)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• History workshop Exter