Spradow

Spradow City of Bünde
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.48 km²
Residents :	4696  (Sep 30, 2009)
Population density :	628 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32257
Area code :	05223
Location of Spradow in Bünde

Spradow [ ʃpʁaːdoː ] is one of the twelve districts of the city of Bünde in the Herford district in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia . With around 4,700 inhabitants, Spradow is one of the three largest districts of the Bund after Bünde-Mitte and Ennigloh .

geography

Spradow is bounded in the north by the Bünder district of Dünne and the district of Klosterbauerschaft of the Kirchlengern community . In the east, the city boundary of Bündens with Kirchlengern and Quernheim also forms the district boundary of Spradow. To the south, the Else forms a natural border ( Elseaue ), on the southern bank of which Bünde-Mitte and Südlengern begin. Ennigloh adjoins the west of the district, bounded by the Gewinghauser Bach . From north to south, Spradow can be divided into the following subdivisions: Reinkenort, Knolle, Spradowerheide, Spradowerbach and Obrock (mostly to Kirchlengern).

In terms of nature, Spradow is a slightly sloping area, which is characterized by the hilly landscape typical of the Ravensberger Mulde and is mainly used for agriculture . In the north (due to the approaches of the Wiehengebirge ) Spradow reaches a height of around 110  m above sea level. NHN , while in the south (towards Elesaue ) the lowest point is around 60  m above sea level. NHN lies. Spradow is crossed by a few smaller streams, all of which flow into the Else. The largest of these streams is called Ostbach .

history

The village of Spradow was first mentioned in a document in 1151. Bishop Bernhard I of Paderborn confirms in a document that 64 estates, including Spradow, belong to the Herford nunnery on the mountain (Marienstift). The village is much older, however. The women's monastery was founded in 1011 by the abbess Godesti (Godesdiu) from the Herford abbey . To this end, she equipped the new subsidiary monastery with these 64 estates to secure the economic base. The village of Spradow must have existed as early as 1011, as it was part of the basic equipment of the monastery. The oldest settlement core of Spradow goes back to the old Saxon times (8th to 12th centuries). In the beginning there were a few irregular but spatially connected farmsteads (so-called drubbel ). They built on dry, flood-free ground, near a water point and on the lower slope of a loess-covered knoll, the so-called Esch , which formed the central field. In Spradow this is the area between Ostbach (Mühlenbach) and Eselsbach . During the Saxon Wars , the Meierhöfe were founded , which were intended to secure the administration of the country as military bases for the Franks. In Spradow the court of the clan elder was turned into a meierhof. A chapel was built right next to it.

The name of the place is in the document issued by Bishop Bernhard I. "Spredow". It is derived from the ancient Germanic words spraedan ( German “spread”, “spread”) and auwe (Germanic “ahwo”, German “flowing water”), so it can be translated as “spread out floodplain”. The w at the end of Spradow is a mute expansion sign and is not spoken, but rather extends the preceding o . The development is independent of the ending -ow in Slavic place and family names. The current spelling was standardized at the beginning of the 19th century , however , during the Nazi era , voices were raised to erase the “ Wendish ”-looking final w .

Spradow belonged territorially, together with the neighboring Dünne , to the bishopric of Minden since the Saxon time . Since the 16th century it was part of the Reineberg Office and in it the Vogtei Quernheim . Together with the entire bishopric (henceforth as the Principality of Minden ) it fell to the Elector of Brandenburg in the course of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and thus ultimately to Prussia . Until then, the border to the neighboring county of Ravensberg, west of Spradow and Dünne, ran right through what is now Bünde. This only became completely meaningless in 1719 with the joint administration of Minden and Ravensberg in the Prussian Minden-Ravensberg . The manorial rule in Spradow was mainly exercised by the Quernheim monastery and the abbey and monastery on the mountains of Herford, until serfdom ended in 1808 in the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoléon , to which Minden-Ravensberg also belonged. While the Spradow Church has always belonged to the Church in Bünde, Spradow was administered from Bünde for the first time in the Kingdom of Westphalia, namely in the canton and the Mairie Bünde . In 1811 Napoléon added it to the Département de l'Ems-Supérieur ( Oberemsdepartement ) and thus belonged to the French Empire until 1814 , which made the Spradower citizens of France. After the sovereignty (after the so-called " Wars of Liberation ") had passed back to Prussia, Minden-Ravensberg was incorporated into the new province of Westphalia . Spradow remained with Prussia, initially as a peasantry , from 1843 as a municipality in the Bünde office , and after the city of Bünde left the town in 1902 in the Ennigloh office. After the Second World War , which ended in Spradow on April 3, 1945 with the invasion of the 5th US Armored Division , Spradow came to the British occupation zone and in 1946 to the newly founded state of North Rhine-Westphalia . On January 1, 1969 Spradow was incorporated into Bünde as part of the municipal reorganization .

Facilities

The fire station center in Spradow

In Spradow there is an Evangelical Lutheran parish with an associated church ( Christ Church ). Not far from there is an ash sports field and a sports hall where the handball club HSG TuS / EK Spradow plays and trains.

The Spradower skyscraper

Furthermore, there has been a psychiatric day clinic in Spradow since 1983 ( see also Herford Clinic ), which provides day -care treatment for people with mental and suicidal crises as well as mental illnesses . Not far from there is the fire station Mitte , which is in the border area between Spradow and Dünne. On the one hand she is the main guard of the city of Bünde and on the other hand she is responsible for the inner city area and parts of Ennigloh. Again not far away is the so-called Spradower skyscraper , which is one of the tallest buildings in the area.

In the west of Kirchlengern and partly in the east of Spradow, the Kirchlengern-based Hettich Group built a new high-bay warehouse and logistics center from 2003 to 2006 . In connection with this, new traffic routes had to be created for the more intensive truck traffic, which led to a stronger connection between Spradow and the traffic network of federal highway 239 . In the course of time, the industrial area has grown further, so that it has a strong impact on the east of the district.

The only sewage treatment plant in Bünde is located in the Elseaue area . After the fire in a nearby farm that destroyed it, renovation and expansion of the facility began in 1996 and was completed in December 1997. The Löhne – Rheine railway runs right next to the sewage treatment plant . Despite the resulting noise and the distinctive odor caused by the agricultural use and the treatment plant that will Elseaue of walkers and cyclists widely used because there also runs a footpath that connects the frets and Kirchlengern and part of the Else-Werre cycle path is .

literature

• Rainer Schröer: 850 years of Spradow 1151–2001. Self-published, Bünde 2001 (PDF; 1.9 MB) .

Web links

• Internet presence of the Spradow 2000 eV association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Schröer: 850 years of Spradow. Bünde 2001, p. 33 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
2. Jump up ↑ Hans Nordsiek: Manorial and rural property in the Reineberg office . In: Mindener contributions . No. 11 . JCC Bruns, Minden, S. 257 ff .
3. ↑ Reiner Pape: "... until 5 past 12" - Herford war diary 1944/1945 . Bussesche Verlagshandlung, Herford, S. 197 ff .
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 73 .