Steinheim (Westphalia)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '  N , 9 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	Höxter
Height :	141 m above sea level NHN
Area :	75.69 km 2
Residents:	12,528 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	166 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	32839
Primaries :	05233, 05238, 05284
License plate :	HX, WAR
Community key :	05 7 62 032
City structure:	9 boroughs
City administration address :	Marktstrasse 2 32839 Steinheim
Website :	www.steinheim.de
Mayor :	Carsten Torke ( CDU )
Location of the town of Steinheim in the Höxter district

Steinheim, Catholic parish church in the street

Steinheim (historically also Stenhem , Steynhem , Steinheimb or Stenheym ) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) and belongs to the Höxter district . Steinheim forms a middle center in the Steinheimer Börde, one of the main landscapes of the former duchy of Paderborn . This landscape was called Wethi - Weizengau - in Saxon times. The city lies in the hilly foreland of the Egge Mountains .

geography

Geographical location

Steinheim is located in the upper Weserbergland in the middle of the Eggegebirge nature park and the southern Teutoburg Forest . The most important flowing water is the Emmer , which is dammed in Schieder to the Schiedersee and flows south of Hameln into the Weser . Steinheim is located in the middle of the Steinheimer Börde, a round intramontane basin about 15 km in diameter. Most of the basin is 120 to 200 m high. Only the 240 m high Stoppelberg protrudes as a landmark of the Steinheimer Börde that can be seen from afar.

geology

Geothermal map of Steinheim

The area of ​​the city of Steinheim is roughly the same as the Steinheim Basin (not to be confused with the Steinheim Basin in Baden-Württemberg, which was created by a meteorite impact ). It is an undulating basin landscape that is bordered by mountain ranges. Towards the southwest, towards the Egge Mountains, there are several mountain ridges running in parallel. The bedrock is essentially made up of clay , marl , limestone and sandstone from the Middle Ages , primarily from the Triassic , Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous . These sedimentary rocks are between one and 1.5 km thick. In the course of the earth's history, they were raised and broken down into numerous saddles , hollows , ditches and clumps .

Ancient rocks ( Devonian , Carboniferous and Permian ) can be found in the deeper subsurface. Loose rocks from the Ice Age , i.e. gravel , sand and loess , have leveled large areas of the Steinheim Basin.

Limestones , sandstones and marl stones of the lower and upper shell limestone , as well as sections of the Keuper and the Lower Cretaceous, are the most important aquifers. In some cases, however, the groundwater is severely salty due to the solution of gypsum and rock salt in the deeper subsoil, so that it cannot be used as drinking water. There is a mineral water deposit in the layers of the middle red sandstone near Vinsebeck.

In the north-east of the urban area, fertile parabrown soils consisting of silty loam to loamy silt dominate, which are used intensively for agriculture. Solid rocks of the Keuper ( Triassic ) often come to the surface on ridges on erosion areas . In these areas brown soils , partially ( Pseudogley brown earths ) occur. To the southwest, loamy-clayey brown earths, sometimes also rendzinen , occur on the shell limestone and rocks of the upper Buntsandstein . In the west, the urban area has a small portion of the ridge of the Eggegebirge, there are nutrient poor Sandstones brown earth podsole and pseudogleye). Therefore these areas are only used for forestry. Grassland locations can be found in stream valleys, as gleye or brown floodplain soils predominate.

The Steinheim area is less suitable in some locations, otherwise good to very good, for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see also the adjacent map).

Expansion of the urban area

The urban area of ​​Steinheim covers an area of ​​75.68 km². The largest extension in north-south direction is about 14.6 km, in east-west direction about 15.4 km.

Area according to type of use	Agricultural schafts- area	Forest area	Building, open and operational space	Traffic area	Surface of water	Sports and green space	other use
Area in km²	47.29	16.99	6.00	4.34	0.63	0.39	0.06
Share of total area	62.5%	22.4%	7.9%	5.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%

Neighboring communities

	Schieder-Schwalenberg
Horn-Bad Meinberg		Never home
	Bad Driburg

Neighboring communities of Steinheim are in the east and southeast the city of Nieheim , in the south the city of Bad Driburg (both in the district of Höxter ), as well as in the west and northwest the city of Horn-Bad Meinberg and in the north the city of Schieder-Schwalenberg (both in the district of Lippe ) .

City structure

According to Section 3 (1) of its main statute, the city of Steinheim is divided into the following nine city districts, which before 1970 were independent municipalities in the Steinheim district or, in the case of Grevenhagen, in the Detmold district :

District	Residents	Outline of Steinheim
Bergheim	1,001
Oak wood	0.241
Grevenhagen	0.216
Hawthorn	0.097
Ottenhausen	0.479
Rolfzen	0.383
Sandebeck	0.861
Steinheim	8,143
Vinsebeck	1,193
total	12,6140

The population figures are given according to information from the city of Steinheim and as of December 31, 2019.

climate

The area of ​​the city of Steinheim is in the temperate climatic zone . The average maximum temperatures reach around 22 ° C in July / August; the lowest temperatures averaged around −2 ° C in January and February. Further monthly and annual averages can be found in the table:

Climate Steinheim monthly averages Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.5 3.0 7.3 13.0 16.4 19.5 21.8 21.1 17.4 12.4 7.3 2.8 O 12.1 Min. Temperature (° C) −2.0 −2.1 0 3.3 6.5 9.6 11.8 11.6 8.1 5.0 2.8 −1.4 O 4.5 Source:

On individual days in midsummer temperatures of just over 30 ° C are measured, while in winter they can occasionally drop to around −20 ° C.

See also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

history

Capitals and cities of the Principality of Paderborn until 1802/03 (as of 1789):
Paderborn , Warburg , Brakel , Borgentreich | Beverungen , Borgholz , Bredenborn , Büren , Driburg , Dringenberg , Gehrden , Calenberg , Kleinenberg , Lichtenau , Lippspringe , Lügde , Nieheim , Peckelsheim , Salzkotten , Steinheim , Vörden , Willebadessen , Wünnenberg

antiquity

Finds show that the Steinheim Basin was settled as early as the Neolithic, 6000 years ago. Arable farming began early on in the fertile soils. The area was inhabited by the Germanic Cherusci tribe at the time of the birth of Christ. Their outstanding military leader was Arminius, who destroyed three Roman legions in a battle in the year 9 and thus stopped the occupation of Germania by the Romans.

middle Ages

Around 600, Saxon tribes from northern Germany invaded the native area and took possession of it. Almost 200 years later, the Frankish king Charlemagne pursued Christianization and infused the country with Franconian new settlers. Steinheim was one of the primordial cells of the mission that originated in Würzburg. Steinheim is mentioned for the first time around 970 in the donations of goods from the Corvey monastery . The prince-bishop granted Steinheim town charter in 1275. From the 14th century, the territory of the prince-bishopric of Paderborn ( Hochstift ) was formed in the Holy Roman Empire , and from the 16th century it became part of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire .

Modern times

Development into the "furniture city"

"Plague tablet" from 1618 (grave slab of the seven children of the mayor)

Steinheim has been thrown back in its development several times in the course of history, for example by the plague, fires and the Thirty Years War . In 1618 375 people died. There is evidence that 230 people perished from the plague in 1636 and 1637. There were probably many more. However, they were not recorded in the parish books. In 1637, the then mayor of Homissen and the city council set Rochus Day as a city holiday (on August 16) and took the Rochus vow. Since then, the city has been spared further plague epidemics. In 1971 the Steinheim City Council decided to sponsor a sick village for leprosy and tuberculosis sufferers in Kalemie in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Since then, collections for this sick village have been carried out every year on the St. Rochus town holiday in Steinheim. The Aachen sculptor Hubert Löneke made the sculpture St. Rochus helps a sick person in 1983 , donated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the savings and loan fund eG Steinheim (since July 15, 2011, Vereinigte Volksbank eG ).

Steinheim has belonged to the secular rule of the Diocese of Paderborn , originally in the Duchy of Saxony , since it was founded . After the Congress of Vienna, the city finally fell to Prussia, after it was assigned to the Kingdom of Westphalia founded by Napoleon from 1806 to 1813 .

Until the middle of the 19th century, the inhabitants lived as so-called arable citizens mainly from agriculture and handicrafts. Around 1900 there were in Steinheim, in addition to 138 agricultural workers and 70 day laborers, 194 craftsmen, including 65 shoemakers, 36 linen weavers and 33 tailors.

Around the middle of the 19th century, a significant structural change began, in which the agricultural town developed into a small industrial town. The Steinheim furniture industry gained special importance far beyond the borders of Steinheim. Many important factories have emerged from the reservoir of apprentices and journeymen of the Anton Spilker carpenter's workshop founded in 1864 . This development was promoted by the city's construction of its own power station at the beginning of the 20th century and by the growing need for furniture in the newly emerging industrial conurbations, particularly on the Rhine and Ruhr. The Hanover – Altenbeken railway line established in the years 1868–1873 with a stop in Steinheim also had a positive impact on the economic area of ​​Steinheim. In 1903 the "Steinheimer Möbelfabrik" began with the industrial production of furniture. In the period that followed, 12 factories and 50 smaller furniture businesses were established.

Persecution of the Jews during the Nazi era

The Jewish community in Steinheim had achieved a certain importance and reputation in society. In 1847 the Prussian state ordered the establishment of synagogue districts by law. Steinheim formed its own synagogue district with a total of seven surrounding villages. The Steinheim synagogue was inaugurated on August 1st, 1884 with great sympathy from the population; by 1880 the membership of the Jewish community had risen to 137 people. During the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was desecrated and destroyed on November 10, 1938. In 1933 59 people of the Jewish faith were still living in Steinheim, 22 of whom were still able to emigrate. The rest were deported . Five people survived the Holocaust .

Steinheim Jewish Cemetery (partial view)

A memorial of the Jewish community in Steinheim that is still visible today is the Jewish cemetery on Detmolder Strasse. 170 graves can be seen on the 2250 m² site. The oldest grave dates from 1846. Well-known Jews buried here include the grain merchant Siegfried Hochheimer (1871–1913), father of the writer Albert Hochheimer (1900–1976), and the grain merchant Julius Weil (1852–1919), who in 1900 was the rifle king of the citizen rifle in Steinheim. The last to be buried was in 1979 in the Jewish cemetery in Steinheim. The city of Steinheim is responsible for maintaining the listed cemetery.

The Cologne artist Gunter Demnig laid a total of 7 stumbling blocks in 2014 on behalf of the city of Steinheim in memory of the murdered victims of the National Socialist dictatorship, the sisters Fanny and Elise Löwendorf and the members of the Carl and Marta Herzfeld family (well-known textile company), their son Kurt and his wife Martha and son Denny. The stones are located in front of the last residence of the victims, namely Detmolder Straße 4 and Marktstraße 13. For a further 21 former Jewish citizens, 21 stones are set in Steinheim, 7 in the Bergheim district , 2 in Vinsebeck and 1 stone in Ottenhausen .

Post-war years

There were no significant combat operations in Steinheim during the war. From 1945 to 1949 Steinheim was part of the British zone of occupation , from 1946 state governed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1949 also by the Federal Republic of Germany . After the end of the war, Steinheim experienced a high level of immigration of refugees and displaced persons. In 1948, around 11,000 people lived in what is now the city, of which around 31% were due to the war. Triggered by the population development, the furniture industry also continued to expand. In the course of the upswing, there were also new foundations in other or related sectors such as furniture retail and wholesale, veneer and chipboard plants, body and vehicle construction.

Housing had to be created for the growing population. In 1949 the first housing estates were built on the outskirts of the city. In 1958/1959, the further expansion of the settlement on Schorrberg, which had already started in 1936, was of particular importance. Another construction phase began in 1962. Today there are 1030 citizens of Steinheim on Schorrberg (as of August 2012).

Since the municipal reorganization in 1970, today's town of Steinheim has consisted of the former Steinheim (Westphalia) office , to which the former Lippe municipality of Grevenhagen was assigned. At the same time Kempenfeldrom was removed and incorporated into the Lippe town of Horn-Bad Meinberg. Today's core town with the medieval town center corresponds to the former town of Steinheim.

In order to improve the infrastructure, a school and sports center was built in the north of the city center with a gymnasium with sports facilities and a secondary school. which includes a theater and concert hall. A recreation and sports center was developed in the south with athletics facilities, an outdoor swimming pool, indoor tennis center, tennis courts and a town hall that was rebuilt and enlarged in 1987. The St. Rochus Hospital (location of the Weser-Egge Clinic) and the St. Rochus Senior Citizens' Home, which belong to the Catholic Hospital Association Weser-Egge, are in the immediate vicinity .

From around the mid-1970s, a structural change began in Steinheim, which within around 20 to 30 years brought the furniture industry, which shaped the economic life of Steinheim, to a standstill. The result was the loss of approx. 1000 jobs within 20 years after 1985. The main cause was a change in the way of living, which was associated with an extensive loss of demand for high-quality period furniture . In addition, there were cheap offers from Eastern Bloc countries and the use of other materials and the like. a. in the area of ​​office furniture.

In order to combat the problems that have arisen, which have resulted in the loss of jobs, vacancies in shops and abandoned industrial sites, there is a catalog of measures within the framework of the “Urban Redevelopment West” project, which can also fall back on public funding. Various projects have been carried out since the beginning of 2000, in particular the establishment of a furniture museum in the premises of the former Günther furniture factory, the establishment of a health center through the conversion and renovation of the former Strato furniture factory, the construction of apartments and the opening of a supermarket on the premises of the Friedrich Schwertfeger factory, foundation a logistics center on the renovated site of the Schieder-Möbel factory and reopening of the renovated train station with an attached hotel and Greek restaurant.

Religions

The majority of the population of Steinheim is Catholic , as in the entire area of ​​the former Hochstift Paderborn .

In Steinheim there is a Protestant parish as well as the Catholic parishes of St. Marien in the city center and St. Dionysius in the district of Sandebeck.

The following distribution of denominations results for the area of ​​the city as of April 21, 2015:

Of the approximately 12,800 inhabitants, a majority of 56.1% (7,195) profess the Catholic Church , 20.5% (2,628) are Protestant . The other religious communities have a share of 2.3% (302); 21.1% (2,702) of the population gave no information on religion.

Denominations in Steinheim
Catholic			7.195
evangelical			2,628
other			302
not specified			2,702
As of April 21, 2015

The Islamic population is not recorded separately, but its share can be estimated from the religious affiliation of the pupils in general schools. According to the last data collected for the school year 2011/12, 6.7% (127) of a total of 1,909 students in Steinheim belonged to Islam; 46.7% were Catholic and 33.7% Protestant. The comparatively higher proportion of 33.7% of Protestant students compared to the city population results from the fact that students from the neighboring, primarily Protestant places such as u. a. Visit Billerbeck, Belle, Wöbbel and Lothe schools in Steinheim.

Incorporations

According to the "Law for the reorganization of the district of Höxter" of December 2, 1969, the communities Bergheim, Hagedorn, Ottenhausen, Rolfzen, Sandebeck, Vinsebeck, Vordereichholz and the old town of Steinheim from the dissolved office of Steinheim and the community of Grevenhagen became an exclave of the district Detmold , merged to form the city of Steinheim on January 1, 1970. This law also makes the city part of the Höxter district. The Steinheim office was dissolved.

Outsourcing

On January 1, 1964, a 140 hectare area of ​​the community was ceded to the new community of Vordereichholz .

Population development

With 172 inhabitants per km², the urban area of ​​Steinheim is the most densely populated municipality in the Höxter district after the city of Höxter. The following overview shows the population of the city of Steinheim by area. The figures are census results up to 1970 and official updates from the State Statistical Office from 1975 onwards . The figures for 1975, 1980 and 1985 are estimated values, the figures from 1990 onwards based on the results of the 1987 census. The figures for 1837 relate to the “civilian population”, from 1861 to the “local population”, from 1925 to the resident population and from 1987 on the “population at the place of the main residence”.

Population development in Steinheim since 1837 (lower line: respective territorial status, upper line: current territorial status)

Steinheim according to the territorial status at that time

year Residents 1837 1 1,946 1861 1 2,284 1867 1 2,267 1871 1 2,351 1880 1 2,573 1885 1 2,660 1900 1 3,038

year Residents 1910 1 3,255 1925 1 3,582 1939 1 3,983 1950 1 5,551 1961 1 6.117 19690 6,720

Steinheim according to today's territorial status

year Residents 1950 1 10,561 1961 1 10,785 19690 11,571 1970 1 11,834 19740 12,218 19750 12,124 19800 12,119 19850 12,014 1987 1 12,132

year Residents 1990 12,609 1995 13,296 2000 13,981 2005 13,733 2007 13,548 2011 13,044 2012 12,936 2013 12,872 2014 12,838

¹  census result

politics

City council

The following table shows the composition of the city ​​council and the local election results since 1975:

	2014		2009		2004		1999		1994		1989		1984		1979		1975
Political party	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%
CDU	11	40.9	10	38.3	12	45.10	15th	57.38	16	47.23	16	47.41	14th	43.24	16	48.42	18th	55.33
SPD	08th	30.7	07th	26.1	06th	24.86	07th	25.89	10	31.74	12	35.53	10	29.22	09	27.75	10	29.30
UWG 1	05	19.1	05	21.7	05	20.17	02	07.77	02	06.56	03	10.42	07th	20.25	04th	11.96	05	15.37
GREEN	02	09.3	02	07.7	03	09.87	01	05.31	05	14.47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
FDP	-	-	02	06.2	-	-	01	03.65	-	-	02	06.64	02	07.29	04th	11.87	-	-
Total 2	26th	100	26th	100	26th	100	26th	100	33	100	33	100	33	100	33	100	33	100

¹ Independent community of voters
² without taking into account rounding differences

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  Allocation of seats in the Council since 2009

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  For comparison: the distribution of seats in the Council from 2004 to 2009

There has been a child and youth parliament in Steinheim since 2004 . It is largely independent and organizes both regionally and internationally (at EU level) projects and activities relevant to young people. The "JuPa" is officially an organ of the city administration and is led by three equal speakers (board of directors).

mayor

Mayor of Steinheim is Carsten Torke (CDU). He was first elected on September 13, 2015 with 53.2% of the valid votes. His predecessor Joachim Franzke no longer stood for election.

badges and flags

Blazon : “In silver, a red city wall with a golden gate, crowned by three round tin towers, the middle of which is double-tinned.” The flag is green and silver (white) striped lengthways with the city coat of arms shifted to a pole. The banner is green and silver (white) striped lengthways with the city arms above the center.

Town twinning

Steinheim has twin cities within the European Union . These are Haukipudas in Finland , Busko-Zdrój in Poland , Szigetszentmiklós in Hungary and Specchia in Italy . These cities meet annually for the Town Twinning Conference, which takes place in a different city each year. The Town Twinning Conference took place in Steinheim from August 31 to September 2, 2006. It was held for the fourth time after Specchia, Szigetszentmiklós and Busko-Zdrój.

There is also a school partnership with Szigetszentmiklós . The Steinheim grammar school offers student exchange programs to Szigetszentmiklós every year . A return visit by Hungarians concludes the annual exchange. In addition, student exchanges with the city of Marquise (France) are carried out at irregular intervals. In addition, there is a decades-long partnership with Kalemie ( DR Congo ).

Culture and sights

Downtown from above

theatre

The city of Steinheim does not have a theater. However, the auditorium in the school center is set up in such a way that it can also be used for theater and concert events and has 598 seats in the auditorium.

Museums

• The economic development of Steinheim is closely linked to furniture production. Therefore, the furniture museum was opened in 2002.
• There is a small fire department museum in the district of Hagedorn.
• There has been a doll museum in Höxterstrasse since 2017.

music

Six choir communities, two hunting horn groups and four marching bands are organized in the city. Three general music associations and the Steinheim music school complete the offer. There is also the annual music festival “Rock at School” of the Steinheim High School (since 2002), as well as “Folk for Friends” and “Still Reaching for Darkness” by the Young Culture Steinheim Association .

Buildings

View of Steinheim with the parish church of St. Marien Steinheim

• Catholic parish church of St. Marien .
• The Kump , the symbol of the city, is a 7 m wide and 2.90 m deep round fountain in the heart of the city center. It was built in 1855 and fed by the first Steinheim aqueduct from a higher spring outside the city. Until 1933 it served as an extinguishing water storage tank, service water and drinking water withdrawal point.
• The town hall , built in 1835, is a simple two-storey plastered building in late classicist forms.
• The Steinheim Evangelical Church was created in several steps. The church tower with a slate-covered dome was built on a brick building in 1897/99 according to the design of the master builder Karl Siebold from Bethel near Bielefeld . In the 20th century, the nave had to be rebuilt in an enlarged form for reasons of space.
• The Catholic rectory is a two-story half-timbered building with a half-hip roof and was built in 1729.
• The so-called Paradieshof (Detmolder Str. 24) was formerly the seat of the episcopal rent master. It was built in 1729 as a mighty four-column building with a half-hip roof and a hallway door. Renovated from 1995–1996, the building has been run by the Klabautermann e. V. used as a kindergarten, day care center and after-school care center. In the outbuildings on the border to the old town, remains of the medieval city wall are built in.
• The nearby Rentmeisterhaus (Detmolder Str. 28) presents itself as a late baroque, seven-axis plastered building (half-timbered) with a central projectile and a mansard roof. It was built in 1767. The original front door from the time it was built was retained.
• In the inner city, only a few older residential buildings have survived after the urban redevelopment carried out in the 1970s and 1980s . As a rule, these were simple, gable- front half-timbered hall houses , almost all of which were built after the devastating city fire of 1729. Rochusstrasse 22 , a half-timbered hallway house from 1729, has been particularly well preserved .
• A longer section of the street Hinter der Mauer was preserved from the city ​​wall , which was built from 1280 onwards . Part of it was built into the farm buildings of the Paradieshof.
• The moated castle Vinsebeck , built between 1717 and 1720, is one of the most beautiful baroque castle complexes in Westphalia. The unique Baroque creation from 1720 stands on a square island, which is surrounded by a 17 m wide, water-filled moat.

The moated castle in the district of Vinsebeck

• The romantic Thienhausen Castle was built in 1609 by Tönnis Wolf von Haxthausen . The castle, located in the valley of the Holmbach, is an impressive jewel of the Weser Renaissance. Its south gable is adorned with a valuable sculpture - a crowned Madonna and Child. A square stair tower has been drawn into the inner corner of the two-wing complex; the end of the outer angle is formed by a corner tower with a conical roof. Friedrich Wilhelm Weber lived in Thienhausen Castle for 20 years and wrote his well-known verse epic “Dreizehnlinden” here, and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was often a guest of the von Haxthausen family.

The moated castle in the Rolfzen district

See also : List of architectural monuments in Steinheim (Westphalia)

Parks

The Breitenhaupt park is privately owned and not open to the public, about 2.5  hectares in size. Originally laid out around 1870 and expanded in 1919, the park consists of a large lawn area in the area of ​​a former graves island , which is divided by paths, seating areas and a chapel , and a lawn in front of the manor house and an avenue-lined driveway.

The Vinsebeck Castle Park is a privately owned area of ​​around 2 hectares that is accessible by appointment. A baroque garden was mentioned for the first time in 1718. It was transformed into a landscape garden in the second half of the 19th century. Since the late 1960s, the baroque appearance has been largely restored.

Natural monuments

In the district of Sandebeck there is not only Germany's northernmost volcano, but certainly also one of the smallest. Its basalt passage is only 10 meters wide and 300 meters deep. The Sandebeck volcano is between 7 and 14 million years old and, strictly speaking, a volcanic embryo volcanic rock , as it got stuck in the earth's crust. The basalt quarry of the Sandebeck volcano has been under nature protection since 1974. The mineral fountains and springs in the region also owe their existence to the volcanic phenomena that produced the volcano of Sandebeck.

Sports

There are seven tennis clubs and nine general sports clubs in Steinheim. Other clubs offer badminton, basketball, fishing and handball. There is also a model flying club and an air sports club. There is also a DLRG local group in Steinheim.

Regular events

The Steinheim Rose Monday procession is the largest and oldest in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region . Every year in early summer the Steinheimer Schützenfest is held ; the Steinheimer Musik- und Schlemmertage take place annually at the end of April / beginning of May.

View of the pedestrian zone on the occasion of the gourmet days 2011

Furthermore, a big autumn fair, the "Reiner-Reineccius-Markt", has been held every year since 2007.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Steinheim station

Station in Steinheim / Westphalia after the modernization

Steinheim is connected to the Ostwestfalenstraße ( B 252 ) running in north-south direction , which connects to the north with the B 1 (towards Paderborn and the Ruhr area ) and the federal motorway 2 (towards Hanover ) and to the south with the A 44 Dortmund - Kassel connects. There is also a direct connection to the B 239 .

Steinheim station is on the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line . It is served every hour by the S-Bahn line S 5 Paderborn - Hameln - Hannover Hbf - Hannover Airport . In 2016, Steinheim was named " Station of the Year ". There is also the stop in Sandebeck on the RB 72 (Herford – Himmighausen) , from where there are hourly connections to Detmold and Herford as well as Altenbeken and Paderborn . There are regional bus connections to Höxter (via Marienmünster - Vörden ), Nieheim (with a connection to Brakel ), Bad Meinberg (with a connection to Detmold ) and to Schieder-Schwalenberg and Wöbbel .

A local bus connects the districts of Ottenhausen , Vinsebeck , Bergheim and Sandebeck with the city. The urban area belongs to the Paderborn-Höxter public transport network . In the direction of NRW , the regional network tariffs ("Hochstift tariff", "Der Sechser") and the NRW tariff apply . Since there is no special S-Bahn tariff, the Lower Saxony tariff is used after Hanover .

Steinheim is on the European cycle path R1 and the regional cycle paths R51 and R53.

media

At daily newspapers appearing Neue Westfälische and Westfalen-Blatt , they report, six days a week on local events. The cover of both newspapers is obtained from the main editorial offices in Bielefeld . In addition, the magazine Die Warte for the districts of Paderborn and Höxter appears quarterly in the Hochstift Paderborn and the Corveyer Land , with articles on regional history, literature and art.

Steinheim belongs to the reporting area of ​​the regional studio Bielefeld of the WDR . In the area of ​​the former Hochstift Paderborn , to which Steinheim also belonged, there has been the radio station Radio Hochstift since 1991, which deals in particular with regional topics and has a higher share of listeners compared to the national broadcasters (e.g. WDR).

Public facilities

With the St. Rochus Hospital, Steinheim has had high-performance medical care close to home since 1858. The supply area extends over the northern part of the Höxter district and the southeastern part of the Lippe district . The hospital with 100 beds is part of the Weser-Egge Clinic, which is part of the Weser-Egge Catholic Hospital Association . The main departments are acute geriatrics and internal medicine. The St. Rochus Hospital is also an emergency doctor location . A support association has been campaigning for the needs of the hospital and local emergency care since 2001

• Steinheim volunteer fire brigade .

education

The city offers all types of schools with the exception of a comprehensive school. In 2007, the city's schools with 140 teachers taught a total of 2,265 students, 29.4% of them at the three primary schools, 8.3% at the Hauptschule and 23.8% at the Realschule, 34.5% at the Gymnasium, and 4.0% at the special school. The secondary school in Steinheim was closed with the start of the school holidays in 2011 and the special school with the start of the school holidays in 2016. The main school building was demolished in 2013 and is designated as a construction area close to the center. The building of the special school is being converted into a cultural center.

Steinheim also has several kindergartens and day-care centers , a library and a music school.

The Volkshochschule Bad Driburg - Brakel - Nieheim - Steinheim offers an educational program for young people and adults after completing an initial phase of education .

The closest universities are in Detmold (20 km), Lemgo (25 km) and Höxter (26 km) of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and the University of Paderborn (38 km).

economy

The economy in the urban area of ​​Steinheim was shaped for decades by furniture manufacturing companies. The shrinking process that began around the mid-1970s and brought furniture production in Steinheim to a complete standstill over a period of around 20 to 30 years still poses problems for the city of Steinheim today, which it addresses with the help of the “Conversion West” program solve seeks. A list of the companies located in Steinheim currently shows a fairly balanced industry structure. There are well-known industrial companies u. a. in the fields of wood-based materials, truck vehicle industry, lighting systems, brick industry, plastic products, machine and tool construction.

Of the 3770 employees subject to social security contributions (as of June 30, 2017), 33.5% are in the manufacturing sector, 33.1% in the trade, restaurants and transport sector and 32.5% in the service sector. As of June 30, 2017, the employees included 2,060 so-called inbound commuters from other communities. However, the number of people commuting to work abroad is significantly higher at 3,497.

The disposable income per inhabitant of Steinheim was determined to be 20,530 euros for 2016. It was thus below the average of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia of 21,614 euros.

The body manufacturer Spier in Bergheim and the chipboard factory of the Kronospan company in Sandebeck are among the largest employers in Steinheim.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Hubert Schulte (1927–2011)
• Heinz Becker, businessman

sons and daughters of the town

• Hermann Tulichius (approx. 1486–1540), theologian, pedagogue and reformer
• Reiner Reineccius (1541–1595), historian
• Heinrich Menne (1541–1621), preacher on Bornholm, senior pastor and senior in Lübeck
• Wilhelm Anton von der Lippe (1763–1823), Catholic priest and canon in the Principality of Münster, born on Gut Wintrup
• Karl Freiherr von Boeselager (1848–1890), Jesuit priest and professor of history at the University of Bombay
• Bruno Donath (1870–1929), physicist
• Johannes Hillebrand (1874–1931), auxiliary bishop
• Bernd von Kanne (1884–1967), politician and Reich Commissioner for Dairy and Fat Management
• Albert Hochheimer (1900–1976), writer
• Wilhelm Hanebal (1905–1982), sculptor
• Anne Steinwart (* 1945), German writer
• Heinz Werner Schneider (1947–2006), scene restaurateur, filmmaker, painter
• Franz Walter (* 1956), political scientist
• Stephan Myschik (* 1975), engineer and professor
• Sven Deutschmanek (* 1976), art and antiques dealer
• Femke Soetenga (* 1980), musical actress
• Kathy Weber (* 1980), presenter
• André Kropp (* 1984), handball player
• Linda Stahl (* 1985), track and field athlete
• Ensar Baykan (* 1992), football player

Other personalities

• Norbert Wolff (* 1962), theologian and church historian
• Jürgen Jasperneite (* 1964), engineer and professor
• Christian Waldhoff (* 1965), lawyer and professor
• Oliver Beerhenke (* 1970), comedian and television presenter

Since 2008 the city has been awarding the Reiner-Reineccius Medal to “lateral thinkers and pioneers” against the spirit of the times.

literature

• Heinz Schäfers: Vinsebeck: Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-7954-5609-2 .

Web links

Commons : Steinheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the city of Steinheim
• Steinheim in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Geological Service North Rhine-Westphalia, Geoscientific Community Description Steinheim ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Geological Service NRW: Using geothermal energy - Geothermal study provides planning basis ( Memento from September 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 369 kB)
4. ^ ^{A b} State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia : Municipal profile Steinheim, city. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .  (PDF), p. 3
5. ↑ Main statute of the city of Steinheim of November 15, 1999 in the version of the 7th amendment statute of February 18, 2013
6. ↑ Numbers and facts , on steinheim.de, accessed on March 12, 2020
7. ↑ Historical weather Steinheim, NW , queried on April 24, 2015
8. ↑ Steinheim, Stadt ( Memento from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), p. 74.
9. ^ History of the city of Steinheim ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ Synagogue Steinheim: Dealing with the historical legacy , on lwl.org
11. ^ Johannes Waldhoff: Gravestones and cemeteries in Steinheim . In: Bürgerstiftung Steinheim (ed.): Communications from the culture committee of the city of Steinheim . Issue 60, July 2011, p. 12-15 .
12. ↑ Article Stolpersteine , in: Heimatverein Steinheim eV (Ed.): Steinheimer Kalender 2015 (annual booklet 2014), p. 77.
13. ↑ Steinheim, Stadt ( Memento from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), pp. 74, 75
14. ↑ John Waldhoff: The Schorrberg . In: Heimatverein Steinheim eV (Hrsg.): Steinheimer Calendar 2013 (Annual Issue 2012, No. 36) . S. 67 ff .
15. ↑ Steinheim, Stadt ( Memento from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), pp. 76, 77.
16. ↑ Urban development concept of the city of Steinheim as a basis for the implementation of urban redevelopment measures in accordance with § 171a BauGB , s. also p. 23ff.
17. ↑ Stadtumbau West , on steinheim.de
18. ↑ Information provided by the city of Steinheim (Citizens' Office).
19. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Students at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation. ( Memento of June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; p. 100).
20. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .
21. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Citizens Service: Law on the reorganization of the Höxter district (PDF; 10.0 MB)
22. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Höxter district of December 2, 1969 , onrecht.nrw.de
23. ↑ 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 .
24. ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05762032
25. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Local elections
26. ↑ Final result for: Steinheim, Stadt (762032) , on wahlresults.nrw
27. ↑ Steinheim Furniture Museum
28. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Gutspark Breitenhaupt in LWL-GeodatenKultur
29. ↑ Gut Breitenhaupt, history. In: gut-breitenhaupt.de. Ann-Cathrine von Kanne, Marie-Beatrice von Kanne, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
30. ^ Vinsebeck Castle Park
31. ^ Station of the year: Stralsund and Steinheim win. August 22, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2016 . 
32. ^ VHS Driburg
33. ^ Economic structure , on steinheim.de
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