Theesen

Theesen City of Bielefeld Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	128  (84-135)  m
Area :	4.9 km²
Residents :	4062  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	829 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	33739
Primaries :	05206, 0521
Location of Theesen in Bielefeld

Theesen is a district of the independent city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia . The district belongs to the Jöllenbeck district . His motto is: "Close to the city in the country".

geography

The city of Bielefeld is not further subdivided into administrative or political units below the ten districts . Districts in Bielefeld are therefore only informal sub-areas, the delimitation of which mostly relates to the area of ​​an old community. For statistical purposes, however, Bielefeld is divided into 72 “statistical districts”. The old community of Theesen roughly corresponds to the statistical district of Theesen, which today roughly defines the boundaries of the informal district of Theesen.

Theesen lies on the southern edge of the Ravensberg hill country . The Ravensberger Hügelland owes its gently undulating surface shape to a layer of loess clay no more than a meter thick from the Vistula Cold Age, which rests on impermeable Lias and Keupertones . The notch valleys caused by streams and spring rivulets have been redesigned since the Middle Ages by Wiskenmaker into wider trough and box valleys, so-called sieves , more accessible for pasture purposes . Sieke also shape the landscape for Theesen.

A smaller piece of forest in comparison to the arable land, the Köcker wood, can be found in the west of Theesen. The loess loam layer there was not sufficient for intensive agriculture. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a brickworks at the Schröder (formerly Kralemann) farm at the end of the street “Im Teilholz”, in which the Liaston there was processed into bricks.

The center of Theesen is six kilometers north of Bielefeld city center and three kilometers south of Jöllenbeck. Theesen borders the Bielefeld districts of Vilsendorf , Schildesche , Babenhausen and Jöllenbeck . The Johannisbach forms the southern border of the district . The border to Vilsendorf in the east is formed by the Moorbach and to Babenhausen in the west by the Beckendorfer Mühlenbach and the Johannisbach.

history

Theesen was first mentioned in 1151 as Tihedengusen . Name interpretation: Ti-heden-gusen : Ti = "Thing", "place of assembly"; - hede (n) = "Heide"; - gusen = dialect - chusen = - "to house". Tihedengusen: "Place on the Tiheide". Urn finds from 1970 on the sports field indicate early settlement in the Iron Age (800 to 300 BC). Around 1200 nine farms are mentioned in a document, four of which are in Drubbel , the former town center, and five are individual farms. Most of the farms are still in their original location today. For centuries, the Theesen peasantry had around 150 to 200 inhabitants who lived on the income from agriculture . Flax has also been grown as a raw material for linen production for personal use since the Middle Ages . Since the middle of the 17th century, homeworkers also worked for sales. Many Kotten still show through several windows lying next to each other that flax was used in them.

Theesen has been part of the Schildesche bailiwick in the county of Ravensberg since the Middle Ages . From 1807 Theesen first belonged to the Bielefeld district of the Kingdom of Westphalia , which was ruled by Jérôme , Napoleon's brother. From February 1811 to October 1813 a state border ran through the middle of Theesen along the Johannisbach. The Obertheesen north of the Johannisbach belonged to the department of the Upper Ems of the French Empire , while the Untertheesen south of the Johannisbach remained with the Kingdom of Westphalia. These years were a disaster year for the linen trade and the manufacture of linen .

After the Napoleonic era , the reunified Theesen belonged to the Bielefeld district from 1816 and initially belonged to the Schildesche mayor's office , from which the Schildesche office was formed in 1843 . On August 1, 1930, Untertheesen, the southern part of the municipality of Theesen, was reclassified to Bielefeld. The community lost a considerable part of its inhabitants as a result. At the same time the Schildesche office was dissolved and the rest of the community came to the Jöllenbeck office .

As part of the municipal reorganization of the Bielefeld area , Theesen was incorporated into Bielefeld on January 1, 1973 and has since been part of the Jöllenbeck district.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1843	974
1864	864
1910	1513
1925	1551
1933	1288
1961	2226
1966	2169
1970	2227
1972	2384
2008	3936
2014	4024
2019	4062

Today, an above-average number of families with children live in Theesen, especially in single and two-family houses. The proportion of foreigners is well below the Bielefeld average.

religion

Theesen originally belonged to the Protestant parish Schildesche , and the deceased were buried in the local cemetery . It was not until 1939 that the cemetery in Theesen was built and inaugurated on the initiative of the teacher Eduard Sudbrack. Today the Protestant believers belong to the unified Evangelical - Lutheran Reconciliation Church Community Jöllenbeck, which was formed on October 1, 2016 by the union of the church communities Jöllenbeck, Theesen and Vilsendorf. The parish with its Church of the Resurrection is supported by a support association, which u. a. had the large hall of the community center renovated and is committed to the further development and financial support of the community. The Theesen Catholics belong to the parish of St. Johannes Baptist in Schildesche.

politics

Theesen coat of arms

coat of arms

On the occasion of the “850 years of Theesen” anniversary, a Theesen coat of arms was designed in 2001. In the lower part it shows the three Ravensberg rafters , which refer to Theesen's earlier affiliation to the County of Ravensberg, and in the upper part an angel and five scattered stars in the blue field. Angels and stars can be found on many arches of Ravensberg farms. The angel in the Theesen coat of arms goes back to the depiction of an angel on the archway of the house Theesen No. 27 (today Voltmannstrasse 236). This dates from 1789 and has been installed in the anteroom of the church since 2001.

District Representation

The Jöllenbeck district council is responsible for Theesen.

societies

Numerous cultural institutions and associations are active in Theesen. These include:

• FAKT - Friends and supporters of the Ev.-Luth. Resurrection Church Parish Theesen eV
• Children's choir "Theesener Spatzen"
• Theesen rural women's association
• Theesen flute ensemble
• Theesen association of pedigree poultry breeders
• Scout tribe Arminius
• Theesen volunteer fire department
• The youth fire brigade of Vilsendorf and Theesen
• Association "850 Years of Theesen" e. V.
• Ravensberger light landscapes
• Young crowd in the parish hall

Sports

VfL Theesen, founded in 1949, is the Theesen's sports club. The associated sports center has existed since 1972. This was followed by further extensions including the Biekra sports park with several seats and a covered seating and standing stand for 300 visitors.

The first soccer team played in the Westphalia League from 2014 to 2016 and is the club's figurehead. The youth department has more than 20 teams, including a girls' team, who play in the various leagues of the Westphalian leagues . The first teams in the AD-Juniors age group play in the highest Westphalian league, the C-Juniors play in the highest German division, the Regionalliga.

Every year at Whitsun, VfL Theesen organizes an international football B-Junior tournament. In recent years, in addition to two Bielefeld clubs, four teams from Bundesliga clubs and four foreign teams have participated. The B-junior national teams of Spain , Namibia and the USA have also been guests in Theesen.

VfL has a two- court tennis facility and a table tennis department that trains in the sports hall of the Theesen elementary school. In addition to the sports options mentioned, you can also choose from gymnastics , Nordic walking and other sports.

traffic

The most important roads are Jöllenbecker Strasse (L 783) towards Bielefeld Mitte and Jöllenbeck, Theesener Strasse and Horstheider Weg towards Schildesche and Telgenbrink towards Vilsendorf.

Four bus lines run through Theesen. On weekdays at least six buses run an hour in the direction of Babenhausen Süd and Jöllenbeck:

• Line 54 (Bielefeld -) Babenhausen-Süd - Theesen - Jöllenbeck - Enger (- Bünde)
• Line 55 Schildesche - Theesen - Jöllenbeck
• Line 56 (Bielefeld -) Babenhausen-Süd - Theesen - Jöllenbeck - Spenge
• Line 154 Babenhausen-Süd - Theesen - Jöllenbeck
• Night bus N2 Jahnplatz - Gellershagen - Theesen - Jöllenbeck - Theesen - Gellershagen - Jahnplatz

The tram line 3 should be extended from the current final stop Babenhausen-Süd to Homannsweg in Theesen. Extensive planning has already taken place, but an analysis of the profitability did not yield a positive result. According to the current status, the planning is therefore suspended, only the route has been kept free. Routes to Heepen, Hillegossen and Sennestadt have priority. Nevertheless, the local SPD campaigned in the local elections in 2009 to put the project into practice. In 2014, the plans were provisionally declared to be terminated and the route was revoked.

Two small railway lines of the Bielefeld district railways crossed Theesen from 1902 to 1956. Part of the route of the small railway line Bielefeld - Werther is still visible today as a road next to Westerfeldstrasse between Horstheider Weg and Jöllenbecker Strasse. Today a hiking trail leads from Schildesche over the Johannisbach to Theesen on the old embankment of the small railway line Bielefeld - Enger .

education

With the introduction of compulsory schooling in Prussia in 1717, the children from Theesen from 5 to 12 years of age (later 13 years of age) went to school in Schildesche. School attendance was irregular for decades because school fees had to be paid and the children had to help out in the fields and with their parents' household, especially in summer. From 1881 the children of Theesen attended the newly built school in Untertheesen. It was located near the current Babenhausen-Süd tram stop. Due to the growing number of the population, a new building was soon necessary. In 1909 the primary school in Obertheesen was moved into. Until 1968 the building served as the local elementary school. Now the building is part of the Theesen primary school .

In August 2009 the Theesen primary school had 11 teachers, a caretaker, two supervisors and the three employees of the open all-day school (OGS). The OGS building was built in 2007 on the schoolyard and has been offering lunch since then and is used for additional care. In addition, there is a school library, sanitary rooms, group rooms, relaxation areas and cloakrooms with property lockers in the OGS building.

literature

• Kai-Uwe von Hollen: Theesen. Development of the community from the 12th to the 20th century . Verlag für Druckgrafik, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-923830-25-4 .
• Gerhard Kallweit (Ed.): 850 years of Theesen. 1151-2001 . Gieselmann, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-923830-37-8 .
• Hans-Ulrich Spanka: 1918–2018. 100 years of the SPD in Theesen. A common story . Ed .: SPD local association Theesen. pixel desktop publishing, Bielefeld 2019.

Web links

• Theesen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Bruns (ed.): Westfalenlexikon 1832-1835 . (Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance). Westphalian State Office for Archive Maintenance, Münster 1978.
2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 286 .
3. ^ Law on the expansion of the Bielefeld district. (pdf; 7 kB) In: Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States. June 11, 1930, pp. 1, 2 , accessed on April 14, 2010 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 320 .
5. ↑ Seemann: Geographical-statistical-topographical overview of the administrative district of Minden. (pdf; 802 kB) 1843, pp. 52-57 , accessed on April 23, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Minden. (Digitized version) 1866, p. 12 , accessed on April 22, 2010 . 
7. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 . 
8. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bielefeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ^ Bielefeld district (ed.): 150 years Bielefeld district . 1966, p. 60 .
10. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 97 f .
11. ↑ Social performance report 2008. (pdf; 9.5 MB) City of Bielefeld, December 31, 2008, p. 186 , accessed on May 25, 2010 : "Population of the statistical district 558 Theesen" 
12. ↑ Theesen statistical district. City of Bielefeld Office for Demography and Statistics, accessed on October 13, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Data from the city of Bielefeld