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This article deals with the city of Verl in North Rhine-Westphalia; for further meanings see Verl (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '  N , 8 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	Gutersloh
Height :	92 m above sea level NHN
Area :	71.37 km 2
Residents:	25,318 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	355 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	33415
Area code :	05246
License plate :	GT
Community key :	05 7 54 044
City structure:	5 districts
City administration address :	Paderborner Strasse 5 33415 Verl
Website :	www.verl.de
Mayor :	Michael Esken ( CDU )
Location of the city of Verl in the Gütersloh district

View over the center of Verl in a south-easterly direction

The redesigned through-town thoroughfare of Verl opened in May 2016

Verl  [ fɛʁl ] is a city in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia , which is 15 kilometers south of Bielefeld . The city with around 26,000 inhabitants belongs to the East Westphalian district of Gütersloh in the Detmold administrative district .

The municipality of Verl was created in 1970 by merging several parts of the five municipalities of the Verl office . The settlement of today's urban area in the Westphalian Bay was first documented in writing in 1088. Verl was raised to the middle district town on January 1, 2010.

Due to its location directly on the Ölbach , Verl is often referred to as Ölbachstadt (prior to being named an Ölbachgemeinde ). It is known beyond the region for the Ostwestfalenhalle in the Kaunitz district . A hobby market has been held there every month since 1966, and it is one of the largest animal and flea markets in Germany.

geography

Geographical location

Verl is located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Ostwestfalen-Lippe ), south of the Teutoburg Forest in the south of the Gütersloh district in a triangle whose corners are the cities of Gütersloh (9.2  km away), Bielefeld (15.4 km) and Paderborn (25.1 km) form. The city belongs to the administrative district of Detmold.

The urban area is located in the large landscape of the north German lowlands , in the Eastern Sandmünsterland sub-area ( Ostmünsterland ) within the Westphalian Bay .

Verl is crossed by the Dalke , Menke , Öl , Senne , Furl and Wapelbach streams. Together with the respective tributaries, they provide drainage for the city. The Dalke has the Hassel and Strothbach as tributaries . The Landerbach and the Wapel of the Rodenbach flow to the Ölbach . Sennebach and Furlbach drain directly into the Ems , to which ultimately all Verler brooks and brook systems flow almost parallel in a north-east-south-west direction from the Teutoburg Forest. The largest lake in the city is the Verler See in the Sürenheide district.

In the east of the city lies the Holter Forest , the largest part of which, however, belongs to the city of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock . The highest point in the city is at 111  m above sea level. NN (St.-Heinrich-Straße), the lowest at 82  m above sea level. NN (Wiedenbrücker Strasse).

• Some losers waters
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  Dalke in the north of Verl

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  Landerbach in the district of Sende

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  Menkebach in the district of Sende

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  Ölbach with historic weir

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  Rodenbach in the Kaunitz district

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  Sennebach in the south of Verl

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  Weir in Wapelbach near the Gütersloh district of Kattenstroth

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  Verler See in the Sürenheide district

geology

Verler pastures and meadows

Geothermal map of Verl

The Münsterland Basin , to which Verl belongs geologically, is roughly the shape of a bowl. The deep subsurface of the Verler area consists of a plinth of folded rocks from the ancient times ( Devonian and Carboniferous ). In the direction of the surface there is a solid rock subsoil, which consists entirely of mighty, tectonically only slightly disturbed clay marl stones from the Middle Ages ( Upper Cretaceous ) and older layers of chalk-limestone. They are slightly inclined to the east.

The upper layer of the area consists of a mostly sandy-silty-clayey loose rock layer from the Ice Age ( Quaternary ). There are young, sometimes peaty sediments of the Ems and its tributaries as well as older Ice Age deposits such as ground moraines or meltwater sands in the upper layer. The near-surface area sometimes has abundant groundwater. The groundwater of the deeper subsurface is too salty.

In Verl, nutrient-poor and predominantly sandy soils with low agricultural yields as well as low water capacity and water permeability can be found. In places, fen soils have formed.

On the Gebiebt Verls found by a glacier of ice sheet shaped drumlins . The course of the Dalke-Bach bordering on Gütersloh follows such drumlins in parts.

Although Verl in the Emssandebene is (Ostmünsterland), its landscape image is one for the Münsterland characteristic park embossed. This is made clear by the alternation of smaller arable and grassland areas as well as structured hedges and individual farms surrounded by trees.

Verl is well to very well suited for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of a geothermal probe and heat recovery through heat pump heating (see the adjacent map).

Expansion and use of the urban area

The largest expansion of the city area in north-south direction is around 11 km and in east-west direction around 10 km.

The total area of ​​the city of Verl covers an area of ​​71.36 km². The predominant part consists of agriculturally used areas, buildings and open spaces, together around 86%, followed by forest and traffic areas with a total of around 8.5%. With a forest share of 6.4%, the area is rather poor in forest compared to North Rhine-Westphalia, which has a forest share of 27%.

The following table shows the detailed land use:

Area according to type of use	Agricultural schafts- area	Building and open space	Forest area	Traffic area	Surface of water	Sports and green space	Operating space	other use
Area in km²	51.6	9.88	4.53	4.09	0.56	0.38	0.18	0.13
Share of total area	72.3%	13.9%	6.4%	5.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%

without taking into account rounding errors

Neighboring communities

In the north, Verl borders on the independent city ​​of Bielefeld . To the east is the town of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock and to the south-east is the municipality of Hövelhof . In the south is the city of Delbrück , in the southwest the city of Rietberg and in the west the district town of Gütersloh .

Hövelhof and Delbrück belong to the Paderborn district , Holte-Stukenbrock Castle, Rietberg and Gütersloh belong to the Gütersloh district.

City structure

It is not easy to show the exact boundaries of the Verler districts, as the city was literally "pieced together" during the municipal reorganization. It consists of the 3 old communities Verl, Österwiehe and Bornholte with precise boundaries, as well as the western part of the former community Sende, which must also be clearly defined.

From here it gets difficult: The places Kaunitz and Sürenheide still exist, which previously belonged to Varensell (Sürenheide) and Österwiehe (Kaunitz) and therefore have no precise territorial boundaries outside their center, as they never formed an independent municipality. In addition, there are small parts of the former municipalities of Varensell (this part is called "Verl-Eiserstraße" today) and Holte Castle (this part is now often attributed to Kaunitz) , which were added to the city of Verl.

In addition, the old municipality of Verl has ceded a small part of the area to the municipality of Spexard (now part of Gütersloh).

Districts and areas of Verl

Today the city of Verl consists of six districts:

1. City center Verl (with Verl-Eiserstraße)

2. Bornholte

3. Send

4. Österwiehe

5. Kaunitz

6. Sürenheide

(For more detailed information on the division of the former municipality of Sende into 3 parts, see Sende .)

The majority of the population lives in Verl, Sürenheide, Bornholte and Kaunitz, while Österwiehe and Sende are more rural.

The above structure is not regulated by the main statutes of Verl; this does not differentiate between individual districts. Therefore, there are no official boundaries between the individual districts. In Kaunitz in particular, the transition to Österwiehe is fluid.

The following table tries to distribute the population figures to the districts that cannot be clearly delimited.

Distribution of the population to the individual districts

	Loss	Bornholte	Kaunitz	send	Sürenheide
Total population	13,515	2.120	4,086	1,297	4,662
of which male	06.711	1,068	2,078	0.683	2,683
of which female	06,804	1,052	2.008	0.614	1,979

climate

Verl belongs to the temperate climate zone of Central Europe. It is in the range of the sub-Atlantic maritime climate . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic and the summers are moderately warm. This influence leads to a medium to relatively subdued annual temperature amplitude of around 16 ° C. The long-term average precipitation amounts to around 770 to 830 mm. The minimum precipitation amounts are recorded in March (40–50 mm) and the maximum in July and August (80–90 mm). The city lies in a valley fog zone with frequent radiation fog on 70 to 100 days a year.

See also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

The following tables show the characteristic climate data of the city of Verl, measured over a 30-year period:

Air temperature (long-term mean)			Air temperature		Wind speed 1.5 m / s (medium frequency)
over the year	in January	in July	absolute max.	absolute min.
9-9.5 ° C	1-2 ° C	17-18 ° C	36.0 ° C	−22.8 ° C	20-25%

Hot days (max.> 30 ° C)	Summer days (max.> 25 ° C)	Frost days (min. <0 ° C)	Ice days (max. <0 ° C)	Foggy days	Total precipitation (annual mean)
5 days / year	29 days / year	57 days / year	14 days / year	70-100 / year	about 770-830 mm

Climate data for Verl Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 5.0 6.0 10.0 14.0 19.0 21.0 23.0 23.0 20.0 15.0 9.0 6.0 O 14.3 Min. Temperature (° C) −1.0 −1.0 1.0 4.0 8.0 11.0 12.0 12.0 10.0 6.0 2.0 0.0 O 5.4 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2 3 3 5 6th 6th 6th 6th 5 4th 2 1 O 4.1 Rainy days ( d ) 17th 15th 13 15th 13 14th 15th 16 14th 15th 17th 16 Σ 180 Source: holidaycheck

history

First mention and the meaning of the name

The first documented mention of a farm belonging to the farmers of the Verler Land comes from the year 1088 as the Krax farm ( crackashardt = crow forest ). It is mentioned in the " Herzebrocker Heberolle ", which is now in the Osnabrück State Archives. In a further document in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive in Münster from 1153, Bishop Bernhard I von Oesede from Paderborn attests to the Ebbinghaus (“ebbekenhusen”) and Liemke (“lindbike”) farms.

The name Verl was first mentioned in the 13th century. In a document in the State Archives in Münster from 1264 he appears with the mention of a "Henricus de Verlo". There are two interpretations of this name. On the one hand the interpretation as "four forests" and on the other hand "the far away ('ver') forest ('lo')" in the sense of "remote" or "remote" is suggested.

In 1350, the Meierhof von Verl is also documented in the State Archives in the Münster. The document says: "curia dicta Verlo in parochia Nygenkerken prope Rethberge" - "a main courtyard called Verlo in the parish of Neuenkirchen near Rietberg". In 1370 another document speaks of the mill and the "four houses" in Verl.

Modern times and the Reformation

The county of Rietberg emerged in 1237 as an independent state rulership. Bornholte, Sende, Österwiehe, Liemke and the Gütersloh peasantry , later the Verl peasantry , belonged to their territory .

County of Rietberg , map drawn up between 1645 and 1662

Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg was an Austrian statesman and diplomat

In 1512 a chapel was built in the community of Verl . This was around 1577 to Parish collected and formed since the center of the group consisting of the Bauerschaften Verl, transmitting and Bornholte Kirchspiels Verl.

Today's predominantly Catholic population is based on the history of the former County of Rietberg. The count's house was catholic and the inhabitants had to follow the creed of the sovereignty ( Cuius regio, eius religio ). The Reformation was only temporarily introduced in 1537 due to a fiefdom dependency of the Rietberg Count House of Hesse . In 1610 the count family and with them the subjects returned to the Catholic faith. This has an effect to this day, although after the end of the Second World War, with the refugees and displaced persons, a large number of Protestant believers settled in what was then the Verl office .

In the first years of the Thirty Years' War the worst events passed the Verler Land. The plague , which was widespread at this time , also largely spared the population of Verler. It was not until 1635 that troops from Lüneburg , who spent the winter in Bielefeld, plundered the country. They advanced in the direction of Rietberg in search of provisions and mainly captured cows and grain. Everything that was not stolen was destroyed. In 1644 Hessian soldiers and three years later Swedish soldiers again plundered the country. After the end of the war in 1648 it was difficult to begin with the reconstruction due to the omnipresent need. In 1676 the Red Ruhr spreads in the Verler Land. More than 125 people fell victim to her.

On September 6, 1746 the foundation stone of the church in Kaunitz (then Neu-Kaunitz) was laid; it should form the nucleus of the village. It was built on the initiative of the sovereign Count Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz- Rietberg and his wife Maria Ernestine on the border area between Österwiehe and Liemke - "the Mayburg". In 1792, Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg arranged for the St. Anna Church to be built . The classical hall church replaced the chapel built there in 1512 and was completed in 1801.

Under the last Prince of Kaunitz, the County of Rietberg, to which Verl had belonged since the 13th century, lost its independence when it was added to the Kingdom of Westphalia newly formed by Napoleon I in 1807 . Two administrative districts , the cantons of Rittberg and Neuenkirchen , were formed from the county . Both belonged to the Paderborn district in the Fulda department . After the Congress of Vienna , the area came to Prussia in 1815 and was incorporated into the newly founded Wiedenbrück district in 1816 . In 1822 Prince Alois von Kaunitz sold the county estates to the manor owner Friedrich Ludwig Tenge zu Niederbarkhausen .

On July 1, 1838, the cantonal administration was relocated from Neuenkirchen to Verl. The communities of Österwiehe and Liemke with the village of Kaunitz, which previously belonged to the canton of Rietberg, were added to the new canton of Verl. As a result of the Prussian community Regulation of 31 October 1841 changed on June 16, 1843, the name: From the Canton was official . Verl 1848 caused great distress to the Verler peasants from their landlords to draw Friedrich Ludwig Tenge to Barkhausen to a reduction to obtain the duties demanded by him. The Verler farmers were joined by men from the County of Rietberg and the Delbrück office . A total of 4,000 men moved to Barkenhausen. The Verler Land was known for its poverty at the time. This was shown, among other things, by the fact that typhoid fever occurred in 1856 .

Wilhelminian style and industrialization

Map of the Verler Land (excerpt from the "Le Cog" map from 1805)

Verler Hospital (around 1914)

From 1850 onwards, newly regulated ownership, new processes and aids as well as targeted state funding established the upswing in agriculture and the related trades in the Verl office. The prerequisite for this upswing was the construction of the roads to Bielefeld, Gütersloh, Neuenkirchen as well as to Kaunitz and on to Hövelhof . This construction began in 1854 and was not completed until 1890. From 1901 to 1902 the Teutoburg Forest Railway Company (TWE) built the Gütersloh – Verl – Kaunitz – Hövelhof railway line. This was opened on April 18, 1903. With the start of operations on the following day, Verl received a direct connection to the economically important rail connection between the Ruhr area and Hanover. The Verl office promoted the construction of the railway by bearing the cost of the land purchase within all municipalities of the Verl office and the municipalities of Spexard and Hövelhof. This was a considerable economic development for the time. The roads and rail traffic made it easier for the residents of Verler to take advantage of the work opportunities that had arisen in the neighboring towns. The sale of agricultural products was also promoted in this way.

The Verler Hospital was built between 1907 and 1909. It was built by the Verler Domkapitular Ferdinand Kühlmann. At that time a total of 9811 inhabitants (as of 1910) lived in the Verler Land; including 1844 in Verl, 1765 in Bornholte, 2410 in Sende and 2492 in Liemke. In 1911 many houses in the village of Verl already had electricity. This was produced by the Westphalian wood industry , which had its business at the location of today's post office in the center of the village. After this burned down in 1922, the general network expansion began. Between 1927 and 1929, the expansion of power grids also took place in the communities of Bornholte, Sende, Liemke and Österwiehe. In 1938 coats of arms were introduced for the office and its communities and the Cologne – Hanover motorway was completed, which also runs through Verl.

First World War

The first eight men from Verl received the draft order on July 31, 1914 . More than 350 citizens from the district of Verl fell victim to the First World War . In addition, the war created an economic emergency in the Verler Land. The economic upswing from the early days came to a standstill. From 1915 the Verler Schützenhalle became a branch of the Sennelager prisoner-of-war camp for 80 prisoners. In the center of the village, a memorial was erected in 1923 for those who fell in the First World War. The memorial is located on the former village cemetery and has the shape of an obelisk .

time of the nationalsocialism

In the Reichstag elections in September 1930 and 1932, the NSDAP received relatively few votes. The Center Party received an average of around 66% of the vote. Shortly after the seizure of power , the place of honor in the center of Verl was renamed "Hindenburg-Hitler-Platz". He kept this name until the end of the Nazi era. As everywhere in Germany, there was also systematic exclusion and deportation of the Jewish inhabitants in Verl during National Socialism : During the November pogroms in 1938 , the house of the Verler family Hope was devastated. Most of the family members were finally murdered in the concentration camps Auschwitz , Theresienstadt and in the Minsk ghetto from 1941 onwards .

See also : List of stumbling blocks in Verl

By contrast, the Wissbrun family from Kaunitz managed to emigrate to the United States in 1937 . This was preceded by several months of imprisonment for Oskar Wissbrun for allegedly derogatory remarks about the Nazi regime .

In 1938, the Verl office became the site of two of the 37 prisoner work places in the Oberems prison camp , which had the status of a “special prison”. In Verl, guards mistreated several prisoners so badly that they died.

The actual course of the war had little effect on Verl. The inhabitants were largely spared except for a few bombs. Nevertheless 550 Verler citizens died. -ZZ On April 1, 1945, US troops reached the office and brought him the end of the war and the Nazi era. They freed 800 Jewish female forced laborers near Kaunitz , who were supposed to be taken from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Lippstadt to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . In the period that followed, a DP camp was set up for them in Kaunitz .

Post-war until today

Since numerous expellees and refugees from the eastern provinces of the former German Empire had settled in Verl after the war, the Protestant Church of the Redeemer was built on Paul-Gerhardt-Strasse in 1951. For the same reason, the Catholic Church of St. Judas Thaddäus was built in the Sürenheide district two years later . In 1960 a total of 3,448 new citizens from the eastern areas had settled in the Verl district. This is the result of a survey from the same year. In order to remedy the housing shortage of the displaced, new settlements were built especially in Sürenheide - due to the inexpensive building land. In 1964, the municipality of Liemke, which belongs to the Verl office, was renamed into today's Holte Castle . On December 31, 1969, the Verl office was dissolved as a result of the reorganization of the Wiedenbrück district.

As a result of the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1970, the former Verl office with the formerly independent municipalities Verl, Bornholte and Österwiehe as well as parts of Sende and Liemke in the municipality of Verl. In 1978 the Teutoburger-Wald-Eisenbahn stopped the passenger train service on the Gütersloh – Verl – Kaunitz – Hövelhof route due to the growing number of private vehicles. The station building in Verl was sold and is now used as a restaurant and warehouse. After almost three years of renovation, the Heimathaus was opened on September 1, 1986 . At the end of 1988, despite popular resistance, the Verler hospital was closed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and converted into a nursing home (St. Anna House). After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Verl made friends with the city of Annaburg in Saxony-Anhalt in 1990 . The community opened its library in 1999 and twinned with the city of Delphos , Ohio , United States that same year .

The former station building in Kaunitz was reopened in 2003 after its renovation as a village community center. From 2006 to 2007 the town hall was rebuilt and expanded. The core of the new town hall is the office building from 1885. On November 11, 2008, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to raise Verl to a middle district town with effect from January 1, 2010 .

In 2020, the city hit the corona pandemic in a special way, because on June 21 of the year, after numerous Tönnies employees had tested positive, a quarantine zone was set up in the Sürenheide district . A total of 668 people live in the streets affected. About 250 of them were Tönnies employees, over 100 were verifiably infected as of June 21.

Religions

More than half of the population (58%) belong to the Roman Catholic Church and around 18% to the Protestant churches. The remaining 24 percent belong to other denominations or are non-denominational .

The three Catholic parishes Sankt Maria Immaculata in Kaunitz, Sankt Judas Thaddäus in Sürenheide and Sankt Anna in Verl joined forces on January 1st, 2001 to form a joint pastoral association . The pastoral network belongs to the deanery Rietberg-Wiedenbrück in the Archdiocese of Paderborn . The Protestant Church is represented by the Resurrection Church in Sürenheide and the Church of the Redeemer in Verl. It belongs to the Gütersloh church district within the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .

There are currently more than 120 Aramaic families living in Verl who, as Christians, belong to the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch . The district of Gütersloh, along with the neighboring cities of Verl (Gütersloh, Rheda-Wiedenbrück and Rietberg), is one of the strongholds of the Aramaeans in Germany. Depending on the source, one eighth to one fifth of the German Arameans live in the district (as of 2007).

Muslims can use the Mevlana Camii as a prayer house. There is also the Christian Brothers Congregation in Verl . There is also a New Apostolic Church and a Baptist house of prayer in Verl .

See also : Section "Religion" in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

• Church building in the city
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  Evangelical Resurrection Church in the Sürenheide district

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  Evangelical Church of the Redeemer in Verl

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  Catholic Church St. Anna in Verl

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  Catholic Church of St. Judas Thaddäus in Sürenheide

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  Catholic Church of St. Maria Immaculata in Kaunitz

Incorporations

From 1816 to December 31, 1972, Verl belonged to the Wiedenbrück district . The district was opened in 1973 as part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform in the newly founded Gütersloh district.

The local reorganization of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, for which an expert commission was set up in 1965 , was justified by the fact that the local level of performance could be improved by dismantling micro-administrations and special-purpose associations.

For the former Verl office with the municipalities of Verl, Bornholte, Sende, Österwiehe and Schloß Holte, the senior district director proposed the formation of two new large municipalities:

• a municipality of Verl with Verl, Bornholte, Österwiehe (with the village of Kaunitz and the neighboring area of ​​Schloß Holtes) and the western part of Sendes (excluding Eckardtsheim ),
• a community of Schloß Holte with Schloß Holte (without the part of the area bordering Kaunitz) and the eastern part of Sendes.

This would correspond to the geographical and settlement-related division of the area into two parts, which would be strengthened by the cultural and personal relationships between the population of both areas, and the church relationships as shown by the boundaries of the parish districts.

The country's interior ministry took up the proposal. When the municipal reorganization came into force through the law on the reorganization of the Wiedenbrück district and parts of the Bielefeld district on December 4, 1969 , the new municipality of Verl was created on January 1, 1970.

It consists of the former municipality of Verl (with the exception of the area around the motorway access), the former municipality of Bornholte, the western part of the former municipality of Sende (excluding Eckardtsheim), the former municipality of Österwiehe (with the exception of the southwestern end) and the southeastern part of the former municipality of Holte Castle. In addition, the "Bahnhof" and "Eiserstraße" areas were incorporated from the former municipality of Varensell (Rietberg).

On January 1, 1973, Verl was incorporated into the Gütersloh district as part of the implementation of the Bielefeld Act .

Population development

As a result of the municipal reorganization, the more populous parts of Sende and Liemke were spun off from office and merged into the municipality of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock or the city of Bielefeld. Compared to the former Verl office, the newly formed community lost almost a third of the area and thus also part of the population.

The following tables show the population of the Verl office and the municipality of Verl as well as the population of the municipality of Verl by age group for 2004 and a forecast for 2020.

As of 1975, the figures are official updates from the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia, Statistics Division . The figures from 1975 to 1985 are estimated values, the figure for 1987 is a census result and from 1990 updates will follow based on the results of the 1987 census. From 1985 onwards, the figures relate to the population at the place of the main residence .

Population development in Verl since 1849 (right line: today's territorial status,
left line: regional status Amt Verl)

Resident Office Verl 0000year0000 Residents 1849 07.144 1871 07,245 1890 07,633 1910 09,811 1930 12,566 1938 14,324 1948 18,432 1956 20,396 1969 26,497

Residents of the community of Verl year Residents 1975 (December 31) 17.194 1980 (December 31) 18,398 1985 (December 31) 18,508 1987 (May 25) 18,521 1990 (December 31) 19,771 1995 (December 31) 21,626 2000 (December 31) 23,315 2005 (December 31) 24,754 2007 (December 31) 24,949

Population status and forecast by age group

Population age groups	Verl 2004 population		Verl 2020 forecast BKR		Change 2004–2020
all in all	24,403	100.0%	27,239	100.0%	+ 2,836	+ 11.6%
under 3	00.719	002.9%	779	2.9%	+ 60	+ 8.4%
3-6	00.831	003.4%	757	2.8%	- 74	- 8.9%
06-10	01,283	005.3%	979	3.6%	- 304	- 23.7%
10-16	01,834	007.5%	1,451	5.3%	- 383	- 20.9%
16-18	00.635	002.6%	476	1.7%	- 159	- 25.0%
18-25	02,060	008.4%	2,228	8.2%	+ 168	+ 8.1%
25-30	01,511	006.2%	1,886	6.9%	+ 375	+ 24.8%
30-50	08,166	033.5%	7,784	28.6%	- 382	- 4.7%
50-65	03,824	015.7%	6,418	23.6%	+ 2,594	+ 67.8%
65-75	02,240	009.2%	2.223	8.2%	- 17th	- 0.8%
over 75	01,300	005.3%	2,257	8.3%	+ 957	+ 73.6%

politics

City council

City council election 2014

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

56.9

23.5

10.7

5.2

3.7

CDU

SPD

Green

FWG

FDP

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

 % p

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

-1.5

-3.0

+10.7

+1.0

-4.5

CDU

SPD

Green

FWG

FDP

Allocation of seats in the
city ​​council in 2014

     

A total of 38 seats

• Greens : 4
• SPD : 9
• FWG : 2
• FDP : 1
• CDU : 22

The city ​​council currently has 38 members from five parties. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the distribution of seats in the Council and the election results since 1975:

City Council of Verl: Voting share and community (1975-2009) or city councils (from 2010)

	CDU		SPD		FDP		FWG		ödp		Green		Total 1		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
1975-1979	68.17	27	25.62	10	6.21	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	39	88.95
1979-1984	66.24	27	30.00	12	3.76	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	39	72.59
1984-1989	63.63	26th	31.96	13	4.41	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	39	69.55
1989-1994	52.04	23	28.00	12	3.81	0	11.28	4th	-	-	04.87	0	100	39	70.72
1994-1999	58.53	23	30.84	12	-	-	10.63	4th	-	-	-	-	100	39	83.68
1999-2004	67.79	26th	23.01	09	1.90	0	07.30	3	-	-	-	-	100	38	56.52
2004-2009	61.17	23	24.96	09	4.48	2	06.80	3	2.60	1	-	-	100	38	57.64
2009-2014	58.37	22nd	26.47	10	8.24	3	04.19	2	2.73	1	-	-	100	38	56.02
2014-2020	56.86	22nd	23.48	09	3.71	1	05.22	2	-	-	10.74	4th	100	38	50.62
Percentages rounded. Sources: State database NRW; State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia

¹ without taking into account rounding differences

Until 2014, Verl was considered the largest city in western Germany, and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen were not represented on its city council . In the local elections , the party, which had only founded a local association in Verl on February 15, 2014, achieved a vote share of 10.74% from a standing start and with 4 council members forms the third largest parliamentary group.

mayor

After the municipal reorganization, the official became the municipality director as head of administration and representative of the municipality, with the honorary mayor as chairman of the municipal council at his side. This so-called municipal dual leadership has not existed in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1999. Now the mayor is the head of the administration and also the chairman of the council.

In the local elections in 1999, Klaus Hörsting (CDU) was elected mayor with 76.7% of the vote. His successor was Paul Hermreck (CDU). He received 58.0% of the vote in the 2004 local elections.

Hermreck was also able to gain a majority in the local elections in 2009 and was re-elected with 64.76% of the vote. His only opponent, Peter Heethey (SPD), got 35.24%.

In the mayoral election on September 13, 2015, Paul Hermreck ran after a rift with the CDU as an independent candidate against the CDU-appointed mayor of Hemer Michael Esken , who was born in the Verler district of Kaunitz , and Peter Heethey (SPD). Since none of the candidates achieved an absolute majority in the election, there was a runoff between Paul Hermreck and Michael Esken on September 27, 2015, from which Esken emerged as the winner with 55.5 percent of the vote.

Full-time mayor

Term of office	designation	Surname
1961-1985	Official Director / Municipal Director (from 1970)	Hans-Georg Klose
1985-2004	Municipal Director / Mayor (from 1999)	Klaus Hörsting (CDU)
2004-2015	mayor	Paul Hermreck (CDU)
since October 21, 2015	mayor	Michael Esken (CDU)

Honorary mayor and chairman of the municipal council

Term of office	designation	Surname
1956-1971	honorary mayor	Hermann Dreismann, CDU
1971-1975	honorary mayor	Hubert Hermwille, CDU
1975-2013	honorary mayor	Josef Lakämper, CDU

Source: Archives of the municipality of Verl, as of March 5, 2009

Election results

State election

Together with the cities and communities of Langenberg, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Rietberg and Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, Verl belongs to the Gütersloh III state electoral district .

In the 2005 state elections , the direct mandate of the constituency Michael Brinkmeier (CDU) won with 60.6% of the vote. Brinkmeier also received the direct mandate in the 2010 state elections with 52.9%.

In 2012, André Kuper (CDU) achieved 49.57 percent in the early state elections and thus entered the state parliament as a directly elected member.

Parties and constituencies	2005 result	Result 2010	2012 result
CDU	61.8%	53.8%	50.98%
SPD	24.9%	26.7%	29.53%
Green	03.9%	08.5%	07.65%
FDP	05.5%	04.8%	03.99%
The left	-	03.7%	01.47%
Pirate party	-	01.5%	05.82%
Others	03.9%	1 %,	-

Bundestag election

The city belongs to the Gütersloh constituency ( constituency 132). The constituency was newly established in 1980 and until 2002 had constituency number 101. Until 1998 it comprised the entire Gütersloh district. Werther has not been part of the constituency since 1998 and Holte-Stukenbrock Castle since 2005.

In the 2005 Bundestag election , the direct mandate of the constituency Hubert Deittert (CDU) won with 48.9% of the vote. The direct client in the 2009 Bundestag election received Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) with 44.7% of the votes , which he won again in the 2013 Bundestag election with 50.2% of the votes.

Parties and constituencies	2005 result	Result 2009	2013 result
CDU	49.7%	45.4%	54.0%
SPD	28.8%	21.9%	23.4%
Green	05.0%	07.5%	06.4%
FDP	10.8%	16.2%	05.7%
The left	-	05.0%	03.8%
Pirate party	-	-	01.7%
AfD	-	-	02.6%
Others	05.7%	04.1%	02.4%
Second vote results, percentages rounded

coat of arms

The council of the newly formed parish decided on April 16, 1970 that Verl had a coat of arms and a banner. In essence, with the approval of January 31, 1973, the municipality took over the coat of arms of the former Verl office.

Blazon : “In the quartered shield in the first and fourth field in green a silver (white) oak tree with two golden (yellow) acorns, in the second and third field in silver (white) a green oak tree with golden (yellow) acorns. A golden (yellow) heart sign. "

The area of ​​the escutcheon is divided into four fields. A golden heart shield is embedded in the center of the coat of arms . Fields one and four have a green background and each show a silver oak tree with two golden acorns. In fields two and three you can see green oak trees, each with two golden acorns on a silver background. The model for this coat of arms was the coat of arms of the former Verl office. Its heart shield, however, was covered with five green diamonds. The four oak trees refer to the fact that Verl should mean "four forests". Recently, however, this name interpretation has been questioned. The five diamonds on the official coat of arms symbolized the five municipalities (Verl, Bornholte, Sende, Liemke and Österwiehe) that belonged to the Verl office. When using the official coat of arms, Verl wanted to express that it was formed by the amalgamation of four municipalities belonging to the former office and not by incorporations. This union is symbolized by the omission of the five diamonds on the heart shield.

The following gallery provides an overview of the city's coat of arms and its integration as a banner and flag. On the right is the coat of arms of the former Verl office.

• Coat of arms and banner
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  The coat of arms of the city of Verl

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  The banner of the city of Verl

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  The flag of the city of Verl

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  The coat of arms of the Verl office

logo

The logo of the city of Verl

Since 2014 the city of Verl has had a logo with which it presents itself to the public and which is used for city correspondence. The logo was created by the city as part of an agency competition in 2013.

The logo has a slogan : "City of Verl - A good reason" .

Public budgets

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The city of Verl has not needed any loans to secure its liquidity for years. In the core budget of the city, only the funding program “Gute Schule 2020” of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is shown as an investment loan. All liabilities in the core budget amounted to around 17.7 million euros at the end of 2018. In addition, the municipal companies still have obligations from investment and internal loans.

Due to the continuously high trade tax income, Verl is one of the financially strongest municipalities in the state. In 2018, the trade tax revenue was € 54.5 million or € 2,137 per inhabitant (December 31, 2018: 25,498 inhabitants). The city of Verl has the second lowest assessment rate for trade tax of all municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia. As of December 31, 2018, equity amounted to € 237.8 million.

City partnerships and friendships

→ Main article : City partnership Verl – Delphos

Verl maintains a city partnership or friendship with two cities:

• 1990: Annaburg , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany ( friendship between cities )
• 1999: Delphos , Ohio , USA ( town twinning )

Shortly after the Wall came down in 1989, Verl and Annaburg in Saxony-Anhalt became friends. At the beginning there were contacts between the then Hegerings chairman of Verl, Heinrich Meermeier, and his counterpart in Annaburg, as a result of which further contacts with other institutions and the administrations of both municipalities followed, which ultimately led to the decision to form an official friendship with each other.

On November 2, 1998, the council of the Verl community decided to enter into a twinning agreement with the city of Delphos (Ohio) in the USA. Ferdinand Bredeick, brother of the pastor Johannes Otto Bredeick, who was born in Verl in 1789, founded the city of Delphos in 1845. Because of the bitter hardship prevailing at the time, many emigrants left Verl and the surrounding communities and settled in Delphos and the surrounding area.

Culture and sights

Heimathaus Verl

theatre

Verl does not have its own theater, but the auditorium of the comprehensive school is used as such by the Kolping Theater Verl once a year . Otherwise the facilities of the surrounding cities must be used. The closest theaters are the Gütersloh Theater , the Bielefeld Theater and the Detmold State Theater .

Museums

Since 1986 the city has operated together with the Heimatverein Verl e. V. the Heimathaus Verl . In addition to an exhibition on the settlement history of the Verler Land, other cultural events take place there. Art exhibitions have also been on view in the town hall since 2008.

The former managing director of Bielefelder Union Knopf GmbH , Manfred Dolleschel, founded the Verler Knopfmuseum in 2014 . The museum is located in a former printing works called “Heuerlingshaus” on Sender Strasse. The still functional manufactory machines from the first half of the 20th century come from the French town of Andeville near Paris. They were saved from destruction by the specialist Dolleschel and rebuilt by him as his old age project with a lot of expertise in Verl.

music

The Musikverein Verl consists of the East Westphalia Wind Orchestra , the East Westphalia Youth Orchestra and the student orchestra with a total of over 160 active musicians. The association was founded in 1956. There are also other orchestras in Verl. In addition to the Jagdhornbläserkorps and the Verl trombone choir, the Westfalia Big Band Show Orchestra is known beyond the city limits. Some choirs invite the population not only to sing along, but also to various concerts. The best-known include the men 's choir “Liedertafel” , the women's choir “VerLady” and the gospel choir S (w) inging Voices .

Buildings

View of the St. Anna Church Square

The Catholic parish church of St. Anna was built from 1792 to 1801 by Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg. It is a three-aisled classicist hall church with an east tower. The architecture, which is rather untypical for Westphalia, goes back to the builder. He was an Austrian statesman and commissioned the Viennese architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg to design the building.

Some half-timbered houses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center. At Bürmannstrasse 10 there is a former Heuerlingshaus , which was built in 1741. Today it is used as a café (Café Klüter). The half-timbered eaves house at Kirchplatz 4 dates from the early 18th century . It was plastered in the late 19th century and rebuilt in the forms of Baroque Art Nouveau . Heinrich Schroeder KG has been running a Boonekamp and liqueur factory there since 1844 . The two-column half-timbered building at Kirchplatz 5 is dated in writing on the Dielentor in 1698. However, parts of the scaffolding are probably older, as indicated by the date “1586” on a beam inside. Today the building is used as a restaurant (Bürmanns Hof). The two-storey half-timbered building at Sender Straße 8 goes back to a Kötterstelle founded in 1615. During the restoration carried out in 1985, several pieces of wood from the ailing half-timbered construction were replaced. On September 1, 1986 the building was officially opened as Heimathaus Verl . The transverse hall house with a crooked hip roof and utlucht at Hauptstrasse 15 , built around 1800, is used today by the Verler library . Although it has a large hall gate, there is evidence that it has not been used for agriculture.

On the northern edge of the urban area is the old village mill , the oldest Verler mill. In a document from 1370, which is kept in the Münster State Archives, there is already a reference to "molen to Verlo", which points to the predecessor of today's village mill. The stately half-timbered building with a half-hipped roof is said to go back to the year 1598. It owes its current appearance to a comprehensive renovation in 1819.

In the vicinity there are still some impressive individual farms, as they are typical for this area. Hof Johannliemke , Mühlenstraße 1 , presents itself in a sense of unity that is rare for today's times . While the main house, a mighty four-column building, dates from 1822, the sheepfold was built in 1595. The bakery was built in 1509. The farm complex is completed by an apiary, some younger barns and a processional chapel from 1888. On the Kettelhoit farm in Verl-Bornholte there is a half-timbered store , which, according to the inscription, was built in 1747. It is one of the few remaining storage structures in the Verler Land, but it is in great need of restoration. Next to the Droste-Haus on Schillingsweg is the Seppeler Chapel , a baroque field chapel, which was first mentioned in 1661, with a Pietà from the period inside.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Verl

Monuments

Nepomuk statue at the Verler village mill

The memorial for the fallen of the First World War

There is a statue of St. John Nepomuk on the bridge over the Ölbach in front of the village mill . However, it is no longer the original figure from 1752 - according to the base inscription - but a more recent work by Heinz Hollenhorst. The statue owes its origins to the Counts of Rietberg-Kaunitz, who made Nepomuk the patron saint of the County of Rietberg in the 18th century and had a wooden figure created at this point. However, this was destroyed in 1920 and replaced by a stone figure, which was also destroyed in 1976. The Nepomuk statue was rebuilt in 1980 based on the stone figure.

There are numerous wayside shrines and court crosses of various ages in the local area . While new structures of this type are still being erected in the present, others look back on centuries of history. The oldest wayside shrine in Verl dates from 1706 and is located on Lönsweg in the Bornholte district. 19 wayside shrines and eight court crosses are currently entered in the municipal monuments list.

The 1914–1918 Memorial is located on the Memorial Square. In 1923 the memorial was erected for those who fell in the First World War. It has the shape of an obelisk and bears the inscription "The heroic death for Germany's existence and honor died in the World War 1914–1918". The names of the fallen soldiers from Verl are carved on the side. Due to the weathering, these are barely legible today. The 1939–1945 memorial is also located on the memorial square . On November 16, 1968, the memorial designed by the Verler sculptor Heinz Hollenhorst was erected for those who fell in the Second World War. The memorial in the form of a multifaceted broken and openwork wall full of crosses bears the inscription 1939–1945 .

On July 4, 1991, the memorial stone for the Jewish Hope family was erected on Hauptstrasse, in the vicinity of the former Jewish houses. The stone bears the inscription: In memory of the Hope families . In Hebrew it is added: Let there be peace .

On April 1, 1995, a bronze commemorative plaque was unveiled on the street Zum Sennebach in the Kaunitz district for the liberation of the 800 Jewish forced laborers .

The fruit-bearing tree of life was erected in 1988 on Kühlmannplatz, the schoolyard of the grammar school . This is intended to commemorate the work of Cathedral Chapter Ferdinand Kühlmann, who worked as a priest in Verl for over 50 years. The sculpture was created by the sculptor Bruno Buschmann.

Parks

Memorial Square with Cenotaph for the Fallen in the First World War and a Memorial for the Victims of the Second World War (center)

The memorial square is a small green area in the center of the city . The village cemetery was located here from 1770 to 1873. In 1923 a memorial was erected in the form of an obelisk for the fallen of the First World War . In 1968 the memorial for the victims of the Second World War was built. In 2002 the square was redesigned.

The lawn at the Konrad-Adenauer-Schulzentrum in the town center and the small wooded area Am Bühlbusch in the southeast of the city are also laid out like a park.

graveyards

Since the former village cemetery on today's memorial square was abandoned, the communal cemetery on the edge of the place has been used for burials. In addition, there is a cemetery in the Kaunitz district and a Catholic and Protestant burial site in the Sürenheide district.

The small Jewish burial site on Bükersweg was devastated during the National Socialist era and not restored after the war. The property has not been cultivated since then. A redesign to a memorial site with trees and boulders is planned.

Natural monuments and nature reserves

Overview map of the Verler nature reserves

A designated natural monument in the city is the so-called Friedenslinde . This is on the edge of the location transmitter at 51 ° 54 '14.1 "  N , 8 ° 33' 3.8"  O .

There are three nature reserves in Verl , two of which are exclusively within the urban area. The largest with 131  hectares are the grass meadows . They are also one of the larger wet meadow protection areas in the Gütersloh district. The area was designated on January 26, 1989 and is located southwest of the Kaunitz district. The Fleckernheide nature reserve is another nature reserve entirely in Verl. It is 10.5 hectares in size and was placed under protection on July 18, 1989. In addition, the 228 hectare Große Wiese nature reserve is partly on the city's territory. The much larger part of it belongs to the city of Gütersloh. It was expelled on December 28, 1994 and is located north of Verl.

Sports

Sports Club Arena (2008)

Multiple sports hall at the Konrad Adenauer school center

The Sportclub Verl 1924 e. V. ( SC Verl ) has been playing in the 3rd division since 2020/21 .

The sports club with the largest number of members is the Turnverein von 1912 Verl e. V. (TV Verl). This plays with the women's handball team in the Oberliga (Westphalia) and with the men's team in the regional handball league and also offers aikido , judo , badminton , rhythmic gymnastics , dodgeball and volleyball . The baseball club Verl / Gütersloh Yaks is represented in the NRW League.

The local branch of the DLRG in Verl received national prizes for good youth work, including the “Green Belt”, an award for exemplary promotion of talent in clubs.

The city's four shooting clubs operate different shooting clubs . Twelve different pigeon breeding clubs and three pedigree poultry breeding clubs are represented in Verl. The Tractor Pulling Team Verl e. V. has been driving successfully in German and European tractor pulling for years . In the various classes, the club was multiple German champions and in 2003 also vice European champions. Another representative of motorsport is the Motor-Sport-Club Verl . Other clubs in the city include the riding club RV Verl or the Schachfreunde Verl .

SC Verl plays its games in the Verler football stadium. It can hold 5000 visitors and is called Sportclub Arena . Connected there is a sports center with football, baseball and basketball courts , an inline skating facility, a bike cross track and a fin track . The tennis clubs operate three tennis courts spread across the city.

In the Konrad-Adenauer-Schulzentrum there is a teaching pool as well as several multi -sports halls , which are used not only by the students of the local schools, but also by the Verl gymnastics club and its handball team. One of the halls was used by the German national women's handball team as the venue for an international match against the Netherlands .

The city also has other gyms, an outdoor swimming pool and around 20 open soccer fields, which are spread over the settlement areas.

Regular events

The hobby market has existed since 1966 and is one of the largest pet and flea markets in Germany. The market takes place on the first Saturday of every month in and around the Ostwestfalenhalle in the Kaunitz district. During the market, the hall is framed by stalls selling all kinds of goods and food and drink stalls. Small animals such as birds, poultry, guinea pigs and rabbits are offered for sale in the hall. Donkeys, horses and goats can be bought in the outdoor area.

Verler Easter fire 2016

The annual concert of the Musikverein Verl takes place in January. In the pedagogical center of the comprehensive school in Verl, the wind orchestras present a program of marching music , polka , samba, as well as film and musical hits every year . Since 1970 the Kolping Theater Verl has put on a play every year . Every spring, the assembly hall of the comprehensive school becomes a small theater for two weeks . At Easter , the widespread tradition of lighting Easter fires is maintained in Verl .

Every summer takes place in and around the Ostwestfalenhalle of Trucker Treff, a Country - Festival , occurring in the well-known musicians, instead.

The traditional Verler Leben fair takes place in the center of the village on the first weekend in September . The festival officially ends with fireworks on Sunday evening.

In the weeks of Advent Church of Saint Anne's is one of the in the center Christmas market place.

Culinary specialties

The local specialty: "Verler Heimatwasser"

The hearty Westphalian cuisine can traditionally be found in Verl . In addition, the pancake-like pickert is widely used. One beverage specialty is the Schroeders Boonekamp bitters . This is so closely connected with the city that it bears the name "Verler Heimatwasser".

Economy and Infrastructure

The first large company in Verler Land was the Holter ironworks . It was founded by the manor owner Friedrich Ludwig Tenge zu Niederbarkhausen and began operations in 1842. Up to the end of the 19th century there were only small craft businesses, mainly active in wood and meat processing, and a few brick factories .

Today the city owes its strong economic power to internationally operating large companies such as nobilia , the Beckhoff Group , Teckentrup and heroal . In addition, the Verler economy has a strong middle class . This also reflects the number of employees subject to social security contributions.

Verl has the lowest trade taxes in the Gütersloh district. The trade tax multiplier is 340 and thus 51 below the average for the Gütersloh district. The rate of assessment for property tax is set at 265. The resulting trade tax revenues are in the city with 1708.81 € per inhabitant at the top of the cities and municipalities in the Gütersloh district and second in North Rhine-Westphalia. The town of Harsewinkel follows in second place in the Gütersloh district with a gap of € 357.99. Verl also has the third highest purchasing power in the Gütersloh district with a purchasing power index of 104.30.

Excess commuters

The city's economic power is also reflected in the commuter statistics. More people commute into the city every day (10,788 inbound commuters) than out of the city (7,730 outbound commuters). As of June 30, 2013, the commuter surplus was 3,058.

The following table shows the daily number of outbound and inbound commuters in the five most important cities in the area (as of June 30, 2013).

city	Commuters	Commuters	Commuter surplus / balance
Gutersloh	3149	2770	−379
Bielefeld	1363	1280	0−83
Rietberg	0551	1000	+449
Rheda-Wiedenbrück	0473	0743	+270
Holte-Stukenbrock Castle	0356	0711	+355

Labor market data

With 574.5 per 1000 inhabitants, the density of employees subject to social security contributions in Verl in 2004 was well above the national average of 472.9. On July 30, 2008, a total of 11,011 people were employed in Verl subject to social security contributions.

With 91.47% of all employees, the majority work in the two professional areas of service (46.39%) and manufacturing (45.08%). Another 6.27% work in technical professions, 1.65% in agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and horticulture and 0.57% in the other professional areas.

In 2014, an average of 568 people were unemployed in Verl, compared to 640 people in 2000.

traffic

Road traffic

Federal motorway 2 runs through the city . Verl is connected to it via the Gütersloh junction about 6 km away. To the motorway 33 Verl is connected with about 10 km from the connection points in Bielefeld-Senne and Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock and with the approximately 18 km away junction in Hovelhof.

Rail and bus transport

No longer used train station in Bornholte

The city is located on the Gütersloh – Verl – Kaunitz – Hövelhof branch line of the Teutoburg Forest Railway Company (TWE). This line has existed since 1903, but has only been used for goods transport and museum traffic since 1978 . That is why the Verler train station was closed years ago and turned over to commercial use. The other stations on the railway line in Varensell, Bornholte and Kaunitz are no longer used for passenger transport. With the train stations in Gütersloh around 10 km away and Bielefeld around 20 km away, Verl is connected to nationwide rail transport.

A revitalization of passenger traffic on the TWE has long been considered. A financial participation in the operating costs on the part of the cities of Gütersloh, Harsewinkel and Verl as well as the district of Gütersloh is already considered certain (there are corresponding council and district council resolutions). The final decision and a date (planned for December 2016) for resuming passenger traffic is still pending at state level.

In terms of local road transport , Verl is connected to the surrounding cities and communities of Gütersloh, Hövelhof, Holte Castle and Bielefeld via regional buses . The regional tariff association “Der Sechser” ( OWL Verkehr GmbH ) and the NRW tariff apply to all local public transport . After Hövelhof, a transitional tariff applies to the Paderborn-Höxter local transport network .

Pedestrian and bicycle traffic

The Europaradwanderweg R1 , a 3,500-kilometer long-distance cycle route from Boulogne-sur-Mer in France to Saint Petersburg in Russia , leads from Gütersloh towards Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock across the city. The 160-kilometer long-distance cycle path BahnRadRoute Teuto-Senne from Osnabrück to Paderborn also runs through the city.

In addition, there are bike tours to historic farmers, in the Senne and to the Emsquellen as well as through the historic county of Rietberg. Hikes lead to the Steinhorster basin , along the Ölbach or through the Sürenheide district. The Heimatverein also offers these tours with a guide.

Air traffic

The neighboring cities do not have a commercial airport. The closest airport is Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport . This is about 30 kilometers away and can be reached via the A33. The international airports in Dortmund (around 95 km away) and Hanover (around 130 km) can also be reached via the A2 .

media

There are three daily newspapers in Verl. In alphabetical order these are Die Glocke from Oelde , the Neue Westfälische and the Westfalen-Blatt from Bielefeld. All newspapers also offer local sections for the city in their editions. The Westfalen-Blatt and the Neue Westfälische each have their own local editorial office. In addition, the two advertising-financed magazines Verler Leben and Verler Magazin appear monthly . Both are free and distributed as in- house mail and through retail outlets.

Verl also belongs to the reporting area of ​​the WDR regional studio Bielefeld . Furthermore, the city belongs to the broadcasting area of Radio Gütersloh , which Verl covers in the reporting as local radio .

Public facilities

Main entrance of the Ostwestfalenhalle Kaunitz

Library with integrated transverse hall house

The town hall on Paderborner Straße, which was moved into again in 2008 after a year of expansion, is not only the seat of the mayor but also the central point of contact for all citizens of the town. A motor vehicle registration office has also been set up there since July 2008 .

The Verl volunteer fire brigade is responsible for fire protection and general assistance in the city and has two fire engines , one in Verl and a second in the Kaunitz district. The Kaunitz fire fighting train was founded on August 8, 1910 and today consists of 52 fire brigade members. The Löschzug Verl was founded on July 6, 1913 and today has 74 firefighters. In 2014, the Verler fire engine set up its own fire fighting group in the Sürenheide district . There and in the Verl-West industrial area, the Verl volunteer fire brigade is supported by the Spexard fire engine of the Gütersloh volunteer fire brigade. For this purpose, a public law cooperation agreement was concluded between the cities of Verl and Gütersloh in 2011. Due to the geographical location of the fire stations , the Spexard fire brigade can reach the Verler district and the industrial area faster than the local fire brigade. In groups (9 emergency services) and with a vehicle, initial measures are initiated within the relief period . In the medium term, the establishment of a fire fighting train in Sürenheide is planned.

The library in Verl opened its doors in 1999 and has since become an integral part of the educational, cultural and recreational areas of the city of Verl. The library is open for 34 hours a week and has a media inventory of over 40,000 media of various types (as of January 1, 2019) . There are also online offers. With approx. The library is well received with 82,000 visitors and over 260,000 items on loan. In 2019 and 2020 there will be plans for a realignment with the introduction of an open library.

The Verl outdoor pool has thousands of visitors every year in the summer months. In addition to a 50 m swimming pool, a flow channel and 10 m diving platform, it also offers open spaces as well as beach volleyball and beach handball fields. The indoor swimming pool in the school center is also one of the city's public facilities and is available to the population.

In the Heimathaus , which is run by the Verl Heimatverein, cultural events of all kinds take place regularly. In addition to seminars, readings and small concerts, exhibitions can also be visited.

The Ostwestfalenhalle in the Kaunitz district, inaugurated in 1966, is also one of the city's public institutions. It was operated by the “Großmarkt Kaunitz” special purpose association until 1976. Originally it served as a wholesale market for eggs and poultry. That is why it is popularly known as the “egg hall”. Today, in addition to the hobby market, other events take place throughout the year.

The community sewage treatment plant Verl-Sende operates the city together with the connected municipalities of Oerlinghausen, Bielefeld and Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock. It has a cleaning capacity of around 1,000,000 m³ per year. The city also operates the Verl-West sewage treatment plant, which in 2007 had a cleaning capacity of 2,165,151 m³.

education

View of the grammar school (front) and the Marienschulen as well as the St. Anna Church

Cafeteria in the Konrad-Adenauer-Schulzentrum

In 1966, the Realschule , founded in 1964, moved into its new school building for the first time. This formed the first building block for the Konrad Adenauer school center located in the center of the city . In the 2013/2014 school year, Hauptschule and Realschule did not accept any new pupils due to the establishment of the comprehensive school and expired in 2018. In addition to the grammar school and comprehensive school, the primary school “Marienschule” also belongs to the school center. Since November 2009 the school center has also had a cafeteria .

On the occasion of the inauguration of the secondary school in 1973, the school center was named after Konrad Adenauer . With the move to the grammar school in 1977, the Konrad Adenauer school center was completed.

The two secondary schools will be attended by 2,001 students in the 2019/2020 school year (grammar school: 1,022, comprehensive school: 979).

→ Main article : Gymnasium Verl

From the school year 1977/1978, classes began in the newly built high school in Verl. Since 2017, the school has had the status of a “cooperating school” in the process of being certified as a UNESCO project school .

Furthermore, the city has five primary schools which will be attended by 975 students in the 2019/2020 school year. The primary school Am Bühlbusch with 329 and the Catholic Marienschule with 241 students are in the Verl district . The Kaunitz-Bornholte Elementary School Association is located in Kaunitz and Bornholte with a total of 236 students. 87 of them visit the Bornholte sub-location. In the Sürenheide district, the Catholic St. George School is attended by 169 students.

Established businesses

With the company nobilia , the largest manufacturer of fitted kitchens in Europe is based in the city. The company employs around 2,400 people and produces around 2,600 kitchens a day at two production sites (Verl-Sürenheide and -Kaunitz) (as of December 2012). nobilia is one of the largest employers in Verl.

The Beckhoff Group , based in Verl, operates the largest electronics retailer in town, one of the largest building technology companies in North Rhine-Westphalia and an international subsidiary for automation technology . The group employs 2500 people worldwide (as of March 2011) and a large part of them in the city.

Teckentrup is one of the largest European manufacturers of metal doors and gates . It operates 15 branches in Germany and employs more than 850 people worldwide. Their head office is in Verl-Sürenheide.

As a manufacturer of aluminum profiles, the Heroal company is based in Verl. It employs more than 800 people at its locations in Verl and the neighboring municipality of Hövelhof.

Another aluminum processor is the Alulux company . It employs around 280 people and is also based in the city. Alulux has been part of the Irish CRH since April 2012 .

The Kleinemas company is a well-known manufacturer of meat and sausage products based in Verl . It employs around 250 people.

Another large company is based in Verl, the family company Nüßing . Nüßing is a leading company in the building hardware division and operates ten locations across Germany.

The Verler company Hermann Bock is a manufacturer of care aids. The focus here is on the development and manufacture of health beds and preventive lying surface systems. According to the ABC of the German economy , the company employed 120 people in 2014 and achieved a turnover of 22 million euros.

With the agricultural machinery factory Köckerling , an agricultural technology manufacturer specializing in ploughless tillage is also based in the city.

The German subsidiary of the Spanish telephone company Telefónica operated an important location in Verl. Despite moving into a new building completed in spring 2010, this location was closed again in September 2011.

With Bertelsmann Financial Services , the global media group Bertelsmann operates a location in the city. Many residents of Verl also work for other branches of the group, which has its headquarters in Gütersloh, in close proximity to the city.

Personalities

→ Main article : List of personalities from the city of Verl

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer

Johannes Otto Bredeick, founder of the city of Delphos in Ohio (USA)

Ludger Stratmann (2014)

Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer was born on May 15, 1777 in Verl. The Franciscan Father (OFM) was the founder of the Congregation of Nurses according to the 3rd Rule of St. Francis of Munster . He died on June 2, 1858 in Telgte .

Johannes Otto Bredeick , the founder of the city of Delphos in Ohio (USA), which has been Verl's twin town since 1999, was born on January 22nd, 1789 in Verl-Bornholte. As a pastor, he and his brother Ferdinand organized an emigration movement to the USA. He also founded the city of Ottoville , a town neighboring Delphos.

The German writer Norbert Johannimloh was born on January 21, 1930 in Verl. The best-known work is the autobiographical novel Appelbaumchaussee , which describes the Westphalian childhood in the thirties and forties of the 20th century.

Joachim Milberg is an engineer and manager and was born on April 10, 1943 in Verl. After studying production engineering, he received a doctorate in engineering ( Dr.-Ing. ) In 1971 . Milberg was a professor at the Technical University of Munich and chairman of the board of Bayerische Motorenwerke AG . Since 2004 he has been chairman of the supervisory board of BMW AG.

Elmar Brok was born in Verl on May 14, 1946 . The politician (CDU) studied law and political science without a degree and then worked as a journalist. He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2007 and since 2012, and he was Senior Vice President Media Development at Bertelsmann AG until 2011 .

Wilhelm Steckling , born in Verl on April 23, 1947, was Superior General of the Huenfeld Oblates from 1998 to 2010 . He has been Bishop of Ciudad del Este since 2014 .

The doctor and cabaret artist Ludger Stratmann was born on July 23, 1948 in Verl. He studied human medicine , received his doctorate in 1985 and set up a practice for general medicine in Bottrop . Since 2002 he has devoted himself exclusively to his stage work. Stratmann was awarded, among other things, the culture prize of the city of Bottrop .

The blues musician and songwriter Roland Berens was born on July 12, 1949 in Verl. He obtained a diploma in the engineering course of information processing and studied Spanish studies, literature and economics from 1992 to 1997; PhD 2001.

Hubert Berenbrinker is auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Paderborn and was born on June 7, 1950 in Verl. He studied at the Paderborn seminary . On April 19, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . the titular bishop of Panatoria and ordered him auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Paderborn. He celebrated his first pontifical ministry on July 7, 2008 in the Verler St. Anna Church.

Christian Stratmann is principal at the Mondpalast and the RevuePalast Ruhr and was born on February 18, 1951 in Verl. Stratmann is a bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit and a citizen of the Ruhr area .

Personalities who have worked on site

The following personalities are not born losers, but act or worked here.

• Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711–1794), Austrian statesman and diplomat, was a. a. Builder of the St. Anna Church in Verl
• Vicarius Ferdinand Kühlmann (born November 15, 1842 in Westerwiehe - January 24, 1929), was cathedral chapter in Paderborn , built the Verler hospital, the street between St. Anna's Church and the hospital was named after him
• Ernst Meurin (1885–1965), author and district home administrator from Wiedenbrück, teacher in Bornholte, co-founder of the Heimatverein, Ernst-Meurin-Straße bears his name
• The Franz-Josef Balke (* 1939), CDU, 1975-1992 in Verler council, district council member since 1973 in Gütersloh, 1983-1988 deputy district administrator of the district of Gütersloh, then to 1994 District and then to 1997 again deputy.
• Peter Venne SVD (1913–2009), father since 1939, lecturer, Dr. Phil., 1952–1962 Professor at the University of Steyler-Nanzen in Nagoya , Japan, 1962–1987 Professor at the University of Fu Yen in Taipei

Others

At the Ölbach

The term Ölbachgemeinde , used by many locals for Verl, goes back to Verl's most famous brook, the Ölbach . A piece of music with the text "Verl am Ölbach (...)" also refers directly to the city's connection to this body of water. This song can be heard often at the numerous shooting festivals in the city.

literature

• Friedrich Adämmer, Udo Graffunder: Verl, a community with a future . Flöttmann, Gütersloh 1978, DNB  790449471 .
• Friedrich Adämmer, Udo Graffunder: Verl, our community . Flöttmann, Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-87231-012-7 .
• Josef Freise: Verl - testimonies from ancient times . Rhode, Marienfeld 1979, ISBN 3-921961-01-8  ( formally incorrect ) .
• Catholic parish of St. Anna Verl (ed.): Our parish church of St. Anna in Verl 1792–1992 . Paderborn 1992.
• Bernhard Klotz: Landscape guide with circular hiking trails and Pättkes trips in the Verler Land (=  local history publication series . Issue 1). Verl 1980, DNB  820551848 .
• Malte Möhr: Discovering Verl. Exploring nature and history . plv, Mammendorf 2006, ISBN 3-86611-080-4 .
• Hans-Josef Pähler: The bird world of the Verler country (=  local history publication series . Issue 3). Verl 1983, DNB  840385080 .
• Robert Peters, Valentina Djatlova: Dictionary des Verler Platt . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-495-8 .
• Maria Schlelein: 1000 years like a day - history of the Verler Land . Heimatverein Verl, Gütersloh 1998, ISBN 3-929494-08-6 .

Web links

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

Wiktionary: Verl  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Website of the city of Verl
• Website of the Verler Heimatverein
• Link catalog on the subject of Verl at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Verl in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

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