Sprockhövel

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Coat of arms of the city of Sprockhövel
Sprockhövel
Map of Germany, position of the city Sprockhövel highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 7 ° 15 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Circle : Ennepe-Ruhr district
Height : 219 m above sea level NHN
Area : 47.94 km 2
Residents: 24,739 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 516 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 45549
Primaries : 02339, 02324, 0202
License plate : EN, WIT
Community key : 05 9 54 028
LOCODE : DE SPO
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Rathausplatz 4
45549 Sprockhövel
Website : www.sprockhoevel.de
Mayor : Ulrich Winkelmann (independent)
Location of the city of Sprockhövel in the Ennepe-Ruhr district
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Sprockhövel is a city in the southern Ruhr area , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Ennepe-Ruhr district . The city is considered a cradle of Ruhr mining .

geography

location

Sprockhövel is located in the Niederbergisch-Märkisch hill country on the southern edge of the Ruhr area . The place borders on the cities of Hattingen , Witten , Wetter (Ruhr) , Gevelsberg , Schwelm (all Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis) and Wuppertal . The entire urban area, with the exception of Haßlinghausen , belongs to the natural spatial unit of the Brandenburg ribbed land .

City structure

Districts of Sprockhövel
The Protestant Church in Niedersprockhövel .

According to § 1 of the main statute, Sprockhövel is divided into the following six districts, which were independent rural communities belonging to the state or part of such before the municipal reorganizations in 1960 and 1970. (Residents on December 31, 2012):

history

Haus Heine in the town center

Sprockhövel, which was first mentioned in a document around the year 1000 under the name Spurkinhuvelo , is assigned to the Westphalian- Mark region. The name is probably derived from the Latin spurca , which means something like "juniper", and the old German word huvele , which means "hill". Sprockhövel means something like "Juniper Hill".

Juniper hills can also be found in the old town coat of arms of the municipality, which showed three juniper bushes on three hills above a tunnel mouth hole. It was not until the municipal reform in 1970 that the current city coat of arms was created by combining the old Sprockhövel coat of arms with that of the former Haßlinghausen office. The tunnel mouth hole and the three hills were taken from the Sprockhövel coat of arms; the hazel branch comes from the Haßlinghausen office .

19th city festival in Niedersprockhövel. 2013
Development of the population from 1975 to 2006

For centuries, the Sprockhövel area formed the border with the Duchy of Berg , the Bergisches Land , whose cultural influences are still clearly recognizable today, both in the historical building fabric and in the spoken dialect.

Until the industrial coal mining, the Sprockhövel area was predominantly agricultural. There were also typical agricultural and craft businesses such as blacksmiths and locksmiths. From these companies and the know-how available there, numerous supply companies for mining developed with the beginning of industrialization (e.g. the companies Hausherr, Kraft, Düsterloh, Turmag and Hauhinco). With the decline of the Ruhr coal mining industry in the 1970s, these businesses slowly disappeared from the cityscape.

In addition to coal mining, commercial cloth weaving was of great economic importance , especially in rural areas of the city, in the so-called hill country . In addition to some industrial production facilities, there were numerous house knitting mills that produced ribbons for the textile industry in the nearby cities of Wuppertal and Velbert . A ribbon weaving museum in neighboring Hattingen is a reminder of this branch of industry.

Incorporations

The municipality of Sprockhövel was created on September 1, 1960 through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Nieder- and Obersprockhövel of the Blankenstein district . On January 1, 1970, it received town charter and through the incorporation of the previously independent communities of Gennebreck, Haßlinghausen and Hiddinghausen of the Haßlinghausen district and parts of the Bredenscheid-Stüter community of the Hattingen district, its present-day appearance. Since then, the administrative headquarters with the town hall has been in the Haßlinghausen district. In the district of Niedersprockhövel there is a branch office of the administration with a citizen's office in the former elementary school north on the church square.

politics

City council

After the last local election on May 25, 2014, the Sprockhövel City Council was composed as follows (in brackets the changes compared to the last legislative period):

  • SPD : 16 seats (+2)
  • CDU : 12 seats (+1)
  • GREEN : 5 seats (−1)
  • FDP : 3 seats
  • WfS (We for Sprockhövel): 2 seats (+2)
  • LEFT : 1 seat (± 0)
  • Pirate Party : 1 seat (+1)

Since the WfS transferred to the Pirate Party in the summer of 2016, the WfS has only one seat and the Pirate Party two. As a result, the WfS lost its status as a parliamentary group , and the Pirate Party gained parliamentary rights accordingly.

Mayor (since 1937)

from 1937 affiliation to the office of Blankenstein

  • Rudolf host 1937–1945
  • Hugo Niedmann 1945–1946
  • Heinrich Kemp (SPD) 1946–1952
  • Otto Hagemann (FDP) 1952–1953
  • Reinhard Bosselmann (FDP) 1953–1956
  • Heinrich Kemp (SPD) 1956–1960

from 1960 municipality Sprockhövel

  • Heinrich Kemp (SPD) 1960–1963
  • Walter Dörnemann 1963–1966
  • Heinz Scheffler (SPD) 1966–1969

from 1970 the city ​​of Sprockhövel was free of charge

Coat of arms, seal, flag and banner

The city of Sprockhövel was granted the right to use the coat of arms described below by a certificate from the District President Arnsberg dated February 21, 1973 (§ 2 of the main statute :)

" The coat of arms shows in gold (yellow) under a two-leafed green hazel branch with three red fruits a blue three-mountain with black, gold (yellow) bordered and with silver (white) hammer and mallet in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. "

The coat of arms of the city of Sprockhövel is a combination of the coat of arms of the former municipality of Sprockhövel and that of the former Haßlinghausen office, from which the city of Sprockhövel was formed in 1970. The hazel branch comes from the coat of arms of the former Haßlinghausen office and was created due to the (erroneous) derivation of the name Haßlinghausen from Hasel. The lower part comes from the older coat of arms of the municipality of Sprockhövel or Niedersprockhövel. The Dreiberg symbolizes the name Sprockhövel from the old Low German Huvel, Hövel for hill. The stylized tunnel mouth hole contains the tools of the old mining industry, mallets and irons, and points to the mining past of Sprockhövel.

Through the above-mentioned certificate, the city was also given the right to use the seal described below:

"The seal shows the city's coat of arms on the shield and the inscription" Stadt Sprockhövel "in the upper two thirds of the seal."

In a certificate dated July 7, 1980, the district president Arnsberg also granted the city of Sprockhövel the right to use a city flag and a city banner:

Description of the flag:
From yellow to blue to yellow in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, the city's coat of arms is in the middle of the blue strip.
Banner description:
From yellow to blue to yellow in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, striped lengthways, in the middle of the upper half of the blue strip of the city's coat of arms. "

Town twinning

  • 1981 twinning with the city of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe ( Yorkshire , England)
  • 1987 Friendship treaty with the city of Zaozhuang (approx. 2.8 million inhabitants) in Shandong Province, China
  • 1988 Friendship treaty with the city of Ciudad Darío in Nicaragua
  • 1995 Friendship treaty with the city of Lutterbach in Alsace, France
  • 2000 City partnership with the city of Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains, Germany

Economy and Infrastructure

Mining

Malakow tower of the former Alte Haase colliery

Sprockhövel is considered to be the cradle of Ruhr coal mining. Here underline the oldest seams of coal from the earth's surface and could be so degraded by the simplest means. The coal was extracted in the Herzkämper Mulde in the open pit and was initially a sideline for farmers and kötter in the region south of the Ruhr. In 1737, on July 18, the renovated mining regulations for the county of Mark were enacted and the Märkische Bergamt was founded in Bochum at the beginning of 1738 . The official regulation met with resistance from the local trades , who saw their customary rights endangered. The officially approved Stollen mines usually had a very small number of employees to - so the bill dealt Glückauf 17 in Gennebreck buddy , making it one next to mine frog with some nearly 20 man of the largest mines of the County of Mark.

In 1850 another resource was discovered with the coal iron stone and revitalized the stagnating colliery operation. From 1865 mining was subject to free competition and civil engineering began around 1890 . This reduced the importance of the Sprockhövel mining industry, as seams north of the Ruhr were more powerful and offered better mining opportunities. After the Second World War, in the wake of the energy shortage, coal mining flourished again briefly in Sprockhövel; In the mid-1950s, however, the final major colliery began in the region. The last large colliery in Sprockhövel was the Alte Haase colliery , which closed its gates in 1968 and ended a long mining tradition in this region.

Today, those interested can go on the trail of coal on several hiking trails that are historical mining . The nature trails lead to historical sites and representative exhibits of the Sprockhövel mining industry (see e.g. Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg ).

The massive reduction in capacity in German hard coal mining had an impact on the Sprockhövel-based mining machine manufacturers Hausherr & Söhne, G. Düsterloh GmbH, Hauhinco GmbH and Turmag GmbH, especially in the 1970s and 80s. The management tried to compensate for the slump in sales on the domestic market in export markets such as in the former CIS countries Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, as well as China in the Asian region. Despite a high quality and technological standard, the mining supplier companies remained trapped in a shrinking market. Product diversification was only promoted to a limited extent.

With the declaration “Our future: jobs for the region”, the chairmen of the works council addressed the public with the support of IG Metall Hattingen and asked their employers to take the initiative and work together to find ways out of the crisis. With "company employment plans" the basis for the "gradual detachment from mining" through product diversification should be created. Personnel measures should be managed in a socially acceptable way through “qualifying instead of dismissing”.

In order to flank the structural change in Sprockhövel, the trade union representatives with the help of the Institute for Work and Technology (IAT) Gelsenkirchen proposed to a “round table” with representatives of employers, the union and politics to set up a “development and innovation center for the Mining supplier companies in the Hattingen-Sprockhövel region ”. While the cities of Sprockhövel and Hattingen as well as the state of North Rhine-Westphalia supported the proposals, the competitive thinking on the employers' side prevented a common strategy to stabilize companies and secure jobs. The result was u. a. the closure of Turmag GmbH ordered by the Salzgitter Group and the bankruptcies of Hausherr & Söhne and G. Düsterloh GmbH.

Medical supplies

Sprockhövel does not have its own hospital. The medical care of the citizens is taken over by the Evangelical Hospital in the neighboring city of Hattingen and by the Helios Hospital in the district town of Schwelm. The rescue service is carried out by the German Red Cross.

safety

The fire protection and general assistance in the city of Sprockhövel is the volunteer fire department ensured. The city is divided into three extinguishing areas. To erase area I belong to the fire company Haßlinghausen and erase groups Hiddinghausen and Schmiedestraße, for extinguishing zone II of the fire company Niedersprockhövel and the fire squad Obersprockhövel. Extinguishing area III consists only of the Gennebreck fire fighting train . A total of 21 fire engines and a hose trailer are available to the volunteers to cope with the operations . The Sprockhövel fire department travels around 300 times a year to fight fires or provide technical assistance.

education

The IG Metall maintains in Sprockhövel with the IG Metall training center which claims to be currently the largest trade union education center in Germany.

traffic

Street

Three motorways (A 1, A 43, A 46) connect the city with the surrounding cities of Wuppertal, Essen , Bochum and Dortmund . The “Wuppertal-Nord” motorway junction, which connects the three federal motorways mentioned, is located in the urban area of ​​Sprockhövel . Furthermore, the former federal highway 51 (since January 1, 2010: Landesstraße 651) ran through the city from Hattingen to the Sprockhövel junction of the A 43 in Hammertal .

Rail transport

former Sprockhövel train station

On the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen railway line , which ran through Sprockhövel, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1979 and freight traffic in 1982. The route is used as a bike and hiking trail ( Von-Ruhr-zur-Ruhr-Radweg ).

The closest train stations are today for Niedersprockhövel Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte with the S 3 to Essen , Mülheim (Ruhr) and Oberhausen and for Haßlinghausen Gevelsberg-Kipp with the S 8 to Wuppertal , Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach or Hagen in the opposite direction.

Public transport

In addition, there are bus routes operated by the Ennepe-Ruhr transport company (VER for short) in Sprockhövel . These connect Sprockhövel with the neighboring communities of Wuppertal , the district town of Schwelm , Hattingen (Ruhr) , Gevelsberg and also Witten . The two SB lines 37 and 67 operate in Sprockhövel , providing fast connections to Bochum Hbf , Hattingen, Schwelm and Ennepetal (SB 37), and Wuppertal Hbf , Barmen , Heven and Bochum- Ruhr-Universität (SB 67). Both self-service lines serve the public transport hubs Niedersprockhövel Kirche and Haßlinghausen bus station .

Culture, religion and sights

Evangelical Church in Hasslinghausen
Catholic Church “St. Josef ”in Hasslinghausen

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , a majority of 48.1% of the population was Protestant , 20.3% Roman Catholic and 31.6% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has fallen since then and with around 43% the people who do not belong to a legally or corporately constituted religious community are a majority of the population. Currently (as of December 31, 2018) 38% of the residents are Protestant and 19% Catholic, the remaining 43% belong to other religions or are non-denominational.

Culture

The city's cultural life is bundled with the chairmen of the respective associations in the Sprockhövel city cultural ring. A noteworthy member is the Sprockhövel city and fire brigade band as the largest symphonic wind orchestra in the southern Ruhr area.

Sprockhövel also has its own city music school, which also offers various orchestras, chamber music ensembles and play groups. Some young people participated very successfully in the national competition Jugend musiziert .

gastronomy

In addition to some nationally known restaurants, Sprockhövel has little nightlife.

Sprockhövel in literature

In 1994 the illustrator Jamiri , who came from the neighboring town of Hattingen , published the comic The Black Hole . The hero of the work is Spacejamiri . He is the first person to fly into a black hole in his spaceship and asks himself whether the answer to all questions awaits at the other end, namely nirvana or even God. Instead, he ends up with a puzzled expression on his face at a rainy intersection with the place name sign “Sprockhövel”.

Sports

The TSG Sprockhövel maintains the most successful football department of the region: The first team plays in the Oberliga Westfalen . The SC Obersprockhövel qualified four times in a row between 1929 and 1932 for the German football championship of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association . Other clubs with football departments are Hiddinghauser FV e. V., TUS Hasslinghausen 07 e. V., VfL Gennebreck 1923 e. V. and Wilde 13 Sprockhövel 1992 e. V.

Honorary citizens and other personalities (in alphabetical order)

literature

Web links

Commons : Sprockhövel  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ a b c d Main statutes of the city of Sprockhövel (version of May 17, 2013) (PDF; 47 kB), last accessed on December 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 236 .
  4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 284 .
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 113 .
  6. ↑ sprockhoevel.de: [1]
  7. ↑ Michael Bosse: New faction "MiS / Pirates": Administration wants to appoint new committees . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . September 20, 2016 ( online [accessed December 22, 2016]).
  8. ↑ See TURMAG "David against Goliath", in: "Band der Solidarität", Resistance, Alternative Concepts, The IG Metall administration office Gevelsberg-Hattingen 1945–2010, VSA-Verlag Hamburg 2012, pp. 277–281
  9. ↑ Otto Koenig: Bankers lower their thumbs - Hausherr & Söhne GmbH in Sprockhövel. IG Metall Gevelsberg - Hattingen, October 20, 2016, accessed on October 15, 2017 .
  10. ^ City of Sprockhövel Religion , 2011 census
  11. ↑ City of Sprockhövel Annual Report 2018 , accessed on September 12, 2019
  12. ↑ Comic: SpaceJamiri in "The Black Hole" ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamiri.com