Sundern (Sauerland)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ N , 8 ° 0 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Hochsauerlandkreis | |
| Height : | 265 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 193.27 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 27,725 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 143 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 59846, 59831 | |
| Primaries : | 02933, 02934, 02935, 02393, 02395, 02724 | |
| License plate : | HSK | |
| Community key : | 05 9 58 044 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SNN | |
| City structure: | 16 localities | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 1 59846 Sundern (Sauerland) |
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| Mayor : | Ralph Brodel ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Sundern (Sauerland) in the Hochsauerland district | ||
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Sundern (Sauerland) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis .
geography
Geographical location
The Sunderns area lies on the northern slope of the slate mountains on the right bank of the Rhine . The rivers Röhr and Sorpe flow through the urban area . The recreation area around the Sorpesee is located in the west of Sundern . The city is framed by mountains that are mostly over 500 meters high . In the south, the highest point is the 648 m high Schomberg . A large part of the urban area lies in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park .
Neighboring communities
In the north of Sundern lies the city of Arnsberg , in the northeast Sundern borders on the city of Meschede , in the southeast lies the municipality Eslohe . The municipality of Finnentrop ( Olpe district ) borders to the south . Sundern borders the town of Plettenberg in the southwest and the town of Balve and the town of Neuenrade in the west .
City structure
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history
Some districts of today's city of Sundern were first mentioned in connection with the establishment of the church organization by the Archdiocese of Cologne . There was an important court association in Endorf, founded at the beginning of the 10th century and belonging to the Meschede Monastery. The Arnsberg counts also had considerable possessions in Seidfeld, Amecke or Hennighausen, which were first mentioned in 1165. In the phase of regional development in the county of Arnsberg, the freedoms Stockum (976), Hagen (1296), Sundern (before 1310) and Langscheid (1307) were established. After the county passed to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia, Allendorf (1407) even received city rights . While the towns of Allendorf, Sundern, Hagen, Hachen and Langscheid were members of the city curia in the state parliaments of the duchy , the barons of Wrede ( Amecke ) and von Plettenberg ( Stockum ) were represented in the knight's curia from the Sundern area .
In the Middle Ages Sundern raised the claim to membership of the Hanseatic League , which, however, always remained controversial. In the early modern period, the area of today's city of Sundern was a center of mining and iron smelting. Remnants of the early mining industry can still be found in the so-called Hermannszeche in the Allendorf district and the former lead mine "Churfürst Ernst" in Bönkhausen. With industrialization, these sources of income largely collapsed. In parts of what is now the urban area, there was a regrarianization and strong emigration . With the construction of the Neheim-Hüsten – Sundern small railway , also known as the Röhrtalbahn, a new economic boom began in the last decades of the 19th century, based on the metal-based finished goods production.
On September 15, 2011, the city council of Sundern unanimously approved a socio-ethical rehabilitation for the victims of the witch trials .
Religions
In 2015, the Islamic Cultural Association Sundern opened a mosque in Sundern .
Incorporations
The city of Sundern was created on January 1st, 1975 through the merger (and often against the resistance) of the previously independent communities Allendorf (Sauerland), Altenhellefeld, Amecke (Sorpesee), Endorf, Enkhausen, Estinghausen, Hachen, Hagen, Hellefeld, Herblinghausen, Hövel, Langscheid (Sorpesee), Linnepe, Meinkenbracht, Stemel, Stockum, Sundern ( Sauerland ), Westenfeld and Wildewiese. The legal basis at that time was the so-called Sauerland / Paderborn Act , Section 1, Section 6.
Development of the population
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Population figures (municipality of Sundern, without incorporations) 1858–1974
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Population (1987: May 25th, from 1995 on December 31st) :
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politics
City council
In 2015, two council members resigned from the CDU parliamentary group and have been non-parliamentary since. Since March 1, 2016, the city council has included the new “Citizens for Sundern” parliamentary group with three council members. The new parliamentary group was formed from members of the WISU parliamentary group. This results in the following distribution of seats in the city council:
| Political party | Seats |
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| CDU | 16 |
| SPD | 9 |
| FDP | 4th |
| Green | 3 |
| left | 1 |
| We are Sundern | 2 |
| Citizen for Sundern | 3 |
| Non-attached | 2 |
City Directors
After the Second World War , in accordance with the North German Council Constitution, North Rhine-Westphalia had a full-time city director as head of administration and an honorary mayor. From 1994 until the local elections in 1999 at the latest, this dual leadership was abolished in the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia and the function of city director was merged with that of mayor. In Sundern this was implemented with the new municipal code for the 1999 municipal elections. Since then there has been a directly elected mayor in Sundern.
- 1975–1994 Hermann Willeke (born October 19, 1929; † September 27, 2017)
- 1994–1999 Friedhelm Wolf (born July 6, 1946)
mayor
- 1969–1999 Franz Josef Tigges (born April 14, 1933; † April 4, 2001)
- 1999–2009 Friedhelm Wolf (born July 6, 1946), full-time mayor of the city ( CDU )
- 2009-2015 Detlef Lins (CDU)
- since 2015 Ralph Brodel (SPD, Greens, Left, FDP, WISU)
Town twinning
- Schirgiswalde in Saxony , since 1990
- Benet in France , since 1977
- Torfou (Maine-et-Loire) in France , since 1990 with the district of Hachen
- Calopezzati in Calabria (Italy), since 2009
coat of arms
Blazon : In silver a growing golden nimbly John Evangelist in blue robe and with golden hair, holding a golden chalice in his right hand, above which a blue serpent hovers.
Description: After the municipal reorganization, the city council decided to introduce a new coat of arms. The coat of arms drawn in the Arnsberg coat of arms collection and kept until 1956 without official approval was decided. The evangelist John with the attributes chalice and snake is the patron saint of Sundern and patron saint of the parish church. Official approval took place on June 26, 1978.
Culture and sights
Museums
- The old grain distillery local history museum is located in the city center .
- The Heinrich-Lübke-Haus is located in the district of Enkhausen.
- The “Alte Schmitte” local history and hunting museum is at home in Endorf. Among other things, there is a small visitor mine and the scientific legacy of the folklorist Dr. Maria Roerig.
- There is a small mining museum in the district of Hagen. Tours of the galleries can also be booked there.
Buildings
About five kilometers south-east of the Endorf district, the Brunnen monastery, which was abandoned in the middle of the 19th century, is located in the middle of the forest, with a small church that is well worth seeing and a spring that is considered medicinal. The founder of the monastery was the Cologne Elector Clemens August. The organ from the mid-18th century, which can still be heard in concerts today, is particularly famous. In the church there is a service on Sundays, which mainly attracts people from the surrounding areas of the city of Sundern and the community of Eslohe. The monastery building itself is used today by the Catholic Young Community . Up until the 1960s there was a one-class elementary school, a so-called " dwarf school ", with classes 1 to 8, which were all taught together by a single teacher. It was visited by students from Brenschede and Röhrenspring. Both places belonged to the former political community of Endorf.
The Catholic parish church of St. John is a neo-Gothic building.
Between Linnepe and Endorf are the remains of a hill fort from the 10th century, the Güllene Ring , on the Dümberg (576 m) .
In Endorf there is also the Strackenhof , probably the oldest stone house still standing in the entire Sauerland region of Cologne . The building threatened to be demolished. An interest group was founded and was able to prevent the demolition. The restoration of the building began in 2009 with funding, including from a special federal program for monuments. On September 12, 2010, the Open Monument Day, parts of the Strackenhof could be visited.
Stockum's landmark is the crooked church tower of the Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius from the 11th century with the Romanesque cross and the Romanesque font from the 12th century.
The castle Hachenburg is the ruins of a hilltop castle, which was built in 1000 on a mountain height in the district Hachenburg.
Also noteworthy is the baroque church in the Allendorf district (around 1725), with an organ from the late 18th century. Late Gothic tabernacle on the tower floor. Monumental, green-marbled high altar (around 1750)
On the Schomberg in Wildewiese, a 60-meter-high cell phone tower was built in 2005/2006, which has a viewing platform at a height of 30 meters that offers a comprehensive panoramic view of almost the entire Sauerland.
Natural monuments
- The Sorpesee , one of the most beautiful reservoirs in the Sauerland, is actually not a natural monument, but an artifact or landscape structure.
- Natural monument coral limestone outcrop north of Endorfer Mühle
Nature reserves
For the urban area, with the exception of the settlement areas and planned building areas, a Sundern landscape plan was first adopted in 1993 by the district council of the Hochsauerlandkreis. In 2019, the redesign of the Sundern landscape plan became legally binding. In 1993, 46 nature reserves with an area of 203 hectares were designated. During the reorganization, 64 NSG were identified and numerous NSG enlarged. As a result, the area of the NSG increased to 928 hectares in 2019. The huge increase was due in particular to the large-scale forest NSG that was first identified. In 1993 the largest forest NSG was the Niederwald Recklinghausen nature reserve with 25.2 hectares, in 2019 it was the Langscheider Mark nature reserve with 148.1 hectares. Seven of the NSG identified in 1993 were omitted in the new LP.
Economy and Infrastructure
The processing of iron in the hammer above Sondern (above Sondern = above Sunderns) can be traced back to the foundation of the hammer mill in 1768. In 1850 this hammer mill was converted into a paper mill. In addition to agriculture and forestry, mining and smelting was an important industry in the area of today's city of Sundern from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century.
The commercial structure of the city is made up of small and medium-sized companies. The metalworking industry, the manufacture of lights and the production of paper and cardboard predominate. The Severin company (production of electrical, household and kitchen appliances) is one of the largest local companies. The co-owners of Severin, Severin and Rudolf Schulte, were also about 9% shareholders of the airline Air Berlin ; until its IPO in May 2006, they even owned 25% of the company. Lübke & Vogt produces technical molded parts made of rubber elastomers and is one of the largest employers with around 320 employees (as of 2019). Lübke & Vogt is the world market leader for small technical molded rubber articles in large series for all industrial areas of application and a so-called hidden champion . Other important companies are the corrugated cardboard factory Tillmann, the household goods factory Schulte-Ufer , bicycle accessories manufacturer SKS Germany and the fittings manufacturer Franz Miederhoff OHG. Capristo Automotive manufactures sports exhaust systems for sports cars.
The manufacturing sector is mainly concentrated along the Röhr between the districts of Sundern, Stemel and Hachen. While the manufacturing sector was overrepresented in the commercial structure with a 70 percent share, the importance of trade and services has increased significantly in recent years. Tourism is also of great importance, especially around the Sorpesee .
traffic
Sundern is mainly accessed by country, district and local roads. Federal roads run across the city. There is no direct connection to a federal motorway. There is a rail connection via the route to Neheim-Hüsten with a transition to the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway . However, there is only a very sparse service through isolated freight and special trains. The re-establishment of the SPNV is included in the local transport plan of the ZVN and has been registered for the reorganization of the public transport requirement plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Several reports have shown that hourly operation after upgrading the infrastructure is possible and makes economic sense. In public transport, Sundern is connected to the Neheim-Hüsten train station and Neheim city center via an express bus line and a regional bus line. Another regional bus line connects Sundern with Arnsberg. In addition, there are other bus routes to the surrounding areas.
From 1955 to 2006 there was the Sundern-Seidfeld glider airfield near the village of Seidfeld.
media
Until recently there were branches of the regional newspapers Westfälische Rundschau and Westfalenpost in Sundern . However, both papers still have editorial offices in the city. In addition to a few advertising papers, Dorfinfo.de is a local, private online service.
education
In Sundern there is a school center, which since August 2008 has included a community secondary school (after the two secondary schools were merged), the secondary school (founded in 1925 as a rectorate school) and the grammar school founded in 1970. In the primary sector there are a total of nine primary schools in the city center and the surrounding villages. There is also a special school for people with learning disabilities.
The education center Sorpesee of the Hochsauerlandkreis in the district of Langscheid is of supra-local importance .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The honorary citizens of the city of Sundern and its former parishes:
- Josef Schulte (municipality of Stemel)
- Werner Schulte (born April 3, 1940, Recklinghausen)
- Joseph Evers (1894–1975) (Freedom Hachen)
- Augustinus Brechting, dean (freedom Hachen)
- Clemens Schulte (Freedom Hachen)
- Johannes Sauer (City of Allendorf)
- Franz Schmitz-Schnieders (Freedom Sundern)
- Johannes Scheffer-Hoppenhöfer (Freedom Sundern)
- Josef Brumberg (Freedom Sundern)
- Theodor Horn (Freedom Sundern)
- Sister Haberilla (Freedom Sundern)
- Sister Kunibalda (City of Allendorf)
- Heinrich Lübke (born October 14, 1894 in Enkhausen; † April 6, 1972 in Bonn), Federal President (Freedom Sundern)
- Franz-Josef Tigges (born April 14, 1933 in Sundern; † April 4, 2001), 1969 to 1999 Mayor of Sundern (City of Sundern)
- Franz Müntefering (born January 16, 1940 in Neheim), grew up in Sundern, SPD politician, Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs and Vice Chancellor until 2007, Federal Chairman of the SPD from October 2008 to November 2009
- Ferdinand Tillmann (born June 27, 1932 in Sundern), former district administrator of the Arnsberg district and member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1994
- Johannes Dröge (born March 25, 1931), sculptor
Honorary ring bearer
- Hermann Willeke (born October 19, 1929 in Hagen; † September 27, 2017 in Arnsberg), started his administrative training at the Sundern office in 1948; most recently from 1975 to 1994 City Director of the City of Sundern
sons and daughters of the town
- Johannes Franz Becker (born December 18, 1689 in the Meinkenbracht district; † January 21, 1777), Roman Catholic priest and mining entrepreneur
- Josef Bergenthal (painter) (* 1821 or 1827 in Sundern; † 1887 in Philadelphia ) was a painter who emigrated to the USA in 1863.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke (born August 25, 1887 in the Enkhausen district; † October 16, 1954 in Augaard ), brother of Heinrich Lübke, politician (CDU), was initially captain, then farmer, and from 1951 to 1954 Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein .
- Heinrich Lübke (born October 14, 1894 in the Enkhausen district; † April 6, 1972 in Bonn ), politician ( CDU ), member of the Prussian state parliament ( center ) from 1931 to 1933, food and agriculture minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (1947–1952 ), Member of the German Bundestag 1949/50 and then again from 1953, since 1953 Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Federal President from 1959 to 1969.
- Alphons Biermann (1906–1977), sculptor
- Rudolf Kaiser (* 1927 in the Meinkenbracht district) Professor of English and Indian researcher
- Erhard Ahmann (born May 21, 1941 - December 14, 2005), soccer player and coach
- Hans-Werner Bierhoff (* 1948), psychologist and university professor
- Berthold Tillmann (born March 6, 1950), politician and from 1999 to 2009 mayor of the city of Münster
- Hermann-Josef Schmalor (* 1951), librarian
- Dieter Korn (* 1958), geologist and paleontologist
- Alfons Kaiser , Meinkenbracht (* 1965), head of "Germany and the World" at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Personalities who have worked in the city
- Hans-Georg Walther (1916–2010), painter and photographer
- Franz Müntefering (born January 16, 1940 in Neheim ), member of the German Bundestag since 1975, Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia (1992–1995), Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing (1998–1999) , Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, General Secretary and Group Chairman, Chairman of the SPD (2004–2005), Vice Chancellor of the Grand Coalition and Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs (2005–2007), from March 2004 to November 2005 and from October 2008 to November 2009 party leader of the SPD
- Werner Pieper (* 1948) in Meschede , author and publisher
- Hans-Werner Ehrenberg (born August 30, 1952), politician, teacher in Sundern from 1980 to 2012, member of the German Bundestag from 2012 to 2013
literature
- Sundern / Sauerland - A picture report . 112 S. Self-published by the municipality of Sundern, 1964
- Maria Rörig: Endorf - history of a rural community in the Sauerland . 368 p. (Contributions to the history of the city of Sundern, Volume 3, Sundern 1981)
- Paul Dick: History of Brunnen Monastery - A contribution to Sauerland local history . 25 p. Endorf 1925
- Ferdinand Wagener: Kloster Brunnen in history and narration . 179 p., 29 illustrations, Th. Ruhrmann Verlag, Hüsten 1929
- Ferdinand Wagener / Magdalena Padberg : Kloster Brunnen . 170 p., With num. Illustrations, Grobbel-Verlag Fredeburg 1979
- Werner Pieper : The 13 lives of Heinrich Lübke . Werner Pieper & The Grüne Kraft, Löhrbach im Odenwald 2004
- Michael Schmitt: The Sunderner Heimatkrippe . Sundern 2005, ISBN 3-00-017434-6
- Werner Neuhaus, Dr. Hubert Schmidt, Michael Schmitt & Berthold Schröder: 700 Years Sundern - Freedom and Church - Vol. I Contributions to the historical and political development . Druckhaus Hölken, Sundern 2010, without ISBN
Web links
- Official website of the city of Sundern
- Documents from the Sundern City Archives / Digital Westphalian Document Database (DWUD)
- Sundern in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 )
- ^ History of the Röhrtalbahn. Accessed on April 21, 2019.
- ↑ We feel at home here Sauerlandkurier from March 30, 2015
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 331 .
- ↑ Council election May 25, 2014 City of Sundern (Sauerland), overall result
- ^ [1] Report in the Westfalenpost from September 4, 2009
- ↑ § 2 of the main statutes of the city of Sundern ( 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.
- ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Kommunale Wappen des Herzogtums Westfalen, Arnsberg 1986, p. 66 ISBN 3-87793-017-4
- ↑ / IG Strackenhof e. V. ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2013 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.
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Rescue in the penultimate minute. High grants and a committed association. LWL awards Sundener Hof from 1634 as monument of the month. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
- ^ German Foundation for Monument Protection: Open Monument Day, 2010 program, p. 46. Accessed online on April 21, 2011.
- ↑ Martin Lindner: New establishment of the landscape plan Sundern legally binding. Irrgeister 36, 2019: 17-22
- ↑ Hubert Schmidt: The hammer "above Sundern " (above Sundern ) In: City of Sundern: Chronicle of pre-industrial ore mining and metal extraction in the Sundern area. Sundern 1996: 156-198
- ^ City of Sundern: Chronicle of pre-industrial ore mining and metal extraction in the Sundern area. Sundern 1996
- ↑ https://www.automobilwoche.de/article/99999999/MARKTPLATZ/399999851/luebke--vogt-gmbh--co-kg
- ↑ https://www.blickpunkt-arnsberg-sundern-meschede.de/luebke-vogt-feiert-50-jaehriges-firmenjubilaeum/
- ^ Report in the Westfalenpost dated June 26, 2009: Ferdi Tillmann appointed honorary citizen. Accessed October 31, 2017.
- ^ Report in the Westfalenpost from November 7, 2016: Honorary citizen Johannes Dröge is a loyal lateral thinker.Retrieved on October 31, 2018.
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