Vlotho

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Vlotho
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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′  N , 8 ° 52 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Detmold
Circle : Herford
Height : 109 m above sea level NHN
Area : 76.93 km 2
Residents: 18,380 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 239 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 32602
Primaries : 05733, 05228Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : HF
Community key : 05 7 58 036
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address :
Lange Strasse 60
32602 Vlotho
Website : www.vlotho.de
Mayor : Rocco Wilken ( SPD )
Location of the city of Vlotho in the Herford district
Kreis Lippe Niedersachsen Kreis Gütersloh Kreis Minden-Lübbecke Bielefeld Nordrhein-Westfalen Enger Löhne Bünde Kirchlengern Herford Spenge Hiddenhausen Rödinghausen Vlothomap
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Overview

Vlotho  [ ˈfloːtʰoː ] ( Low German : Vläote, Vläothe, Vleode, Vlauthe ) is an East Westphalian city ​​and middle center with almost 20,000 inhabitants in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Weser . It is located in the east of the Herford district and thus belongs to the Detmold administrative district ( Ostwestfalen-Lippe ). Since 1978 parts of Vlotho have been designated as a climatic health resort with a spa area. Please click to listen!Play

geography

Geographical location

Topography of the urban area

The city is located about 10 km south of Porta Westfalica at the transition between Ravensberger Hügelland in the west and north, Lipper Bergland in the south and the upper Weser valley in the east. The Weser coming from the east turns its course to the north at Vlotho and divides Uffeln in the northeast from the rest of the city. Highest elevation with 342  m above sea level. NN is the Bonstapel in the southeast, but the cityscape is dominated by the Amtshausberg ( 141  m above sea level ), located directly on the Weser , a spur of the Ebenöde hill , which is located northwest of the city center. The lowest point with about 49  m above sea level. NN lies in the northeast of the urban area at the outflow of the Weser. Overall, with the Bonstapel mentioned above and the next higher peaks Nettelberg (304 m), Saalegge (300 m), Ruschberg (294 m) and Bickplecken (276 m), the five highest mountains in the Herford district are located in Vlotho. Some brooks spring from the peaks. Of the waters that run completely or partially in Vlotho, the following have a catchment area of ​​over 10 km²: Glimke , Linnenbeeke , Mittelbach , Borstenbach , Forellenbach and the Salts . These predominantly drain the peripheral areas in the direction of Werre or Bega , only Forellenbach and Linnenbeeke drain a significant part of the central urban area directly into the Weser.

The total area of ​​the city of Vlotho is 76.92 km². The largest extension in north-south direction and in east-west direction is about 13 km.

Area
according to type of use
Agricultural
schafts-
area
Forest
area
Building,
open and
operational space
Traffic
area

Surface of water
Sports and
green space
other
use
Area in km² 50.46 10.31 9.32 4.38 1.15 1.00 0.30
Share of total area 65.59% 13.40% 12.11% 5.69% 1.49% 1.30% 0.39%

City structure

According to § 2 of the main statute, Vlotho is divided into the following four districts, whose boundaries coincide with those before the regional reform (see incorporations):

District Residents
(Oct. 1, 2017)
Districts of the city of Vlotho
Exter Uffeln Valdorf VlothoAdministrative division of Vlotho
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Vlotho 6,932
Valdorf 5,414
Uffels 3,631
External 2,814
total 18,791

All districts with the exception of Vlotho have the prefix Vlotho- .

Neighboring communities

Vlotho borders Herford and Löhne in the Herford district in the west, Bad Oeynhausen and Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district in the north and Kalletal , Lemgo and Bad Salzuflen in the Lippe district in the east and south .

geology

Geothermal map of Vlotho

Vlotho lies on a subsoil that is essentially made up of clay , marl and sandstone from the Triassic and Lower Jura . The mountain formation transformed the area into numerous saddles, hollows, nests, ditches and smaller clods. On the Weser and in the southern urban area, loose rock from the Ice Age such as boulder clay , meltwater sand, river gravel and fertile loess can be found. The latter also where the area in the west merges into the Ravensberg hill country. As a result of karstification , correspondingly large sinkholes occurred in this area . The very rare pyrite twin crystal Iron Cross was found in Vlotho and the surrounding area .

The suitability of Vlotho for the use of geothermal heat sources by means of geothermal probes and heat recovery through heat pump heating is extremely different depending on the location, there are unsuitable but also very suitable locations (see the adjacent map).

climate

The climate in Vlotho is determined by its location in the oceanic-continental transition area of Central Europe and by its natural spatial location at the transition between the Ravensberger Hügelland in the west and north, the Lipper Bergland in the south and the upper Weser Valley in the east. The area is mostly in the sub-Atlantic maritime climate , but has temporary continental influences . The winters are mostly mild under the influence of the Atlantic, the summers are moderately warm and the rainfall is relatively evenly distributed. The annual mean temperature is around 8.5 ° C, with the altitude around 0.5 ° C cooler. The Wesertal valley is up to 0.5 ° C warmer. The mean annual amount of precipitation here is around 750 mm.

As climate values, with the exception of precipitation, are not available for Vlotho, the data from the neighboring city of Herford are used for assessment. It should be noted that Herford is around 40 m lower. The following table shows the climate data on a long-term average (different time periods):

Precipitation in Vlotho-Valdorf
Average monthly temperatures for Herford (1971–2000), precipitation for Vlotho-Valdorf (1961–1990), average sunshine duration for Herford (1961–1990)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Temperature ( ° C ) 1.8 2.2 5.3 8.4 13.0 15.6 17.7 17.4 13.8 9.8 5.4 3.1 O 9.5
Precipitation ( mm ) 69.2 51.3 62.8 59.4 71.6 82.1 74.9 71.6 67.0 55.2 67.9 79.2 Σ 812.2
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.4 2.5 3.3 5.0 6.4 6.5 6.1 6.1 4.4 3.5 1.7 1.2 O 4th
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69.2
51.3
62.8
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71.6
82.1
74.9
71.6
67.0
55.2
67.9
79.2
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Source: DWD

See also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

history

Panorama of the city of Vlotho, in the general view from Winterberg (left) to Amtshausberg (right) from the Uffelner Buhn location
The city center, the Weser and the Uffeln district
The city center, the Amtshausberg and the Weser

Surname

The origin of today's name Vlotho is believed to have developed from Vlothowe . The Low German word is a combination of Vlauthe , Vlothe or similar (today's trout stream ) and owe for floodplain . The trout stream is narrowly bounded laterally by hills, which prevented any significant agriculture from developing on its banks.

Early history

Tool finds in the old gravel pit in the Uffeln district suggest that the area of ​​and around Vlotho has been inhabited at least since the Mesolithic , the Middle Stone Age (4,000 BC). The discovery of the radicals of a Germanic living space in the neighboring city Bad Salzuflen (district deserts , 200 n. Chr.) Also has as 1933. encountered mounds on the Uffelner Buhn out (about 2000 to 3000 v. Chr.) Continuous to other colonization. This is supported by testimony from other burial sites around 700 BC. BC in today's Vlotho city area to the left of the Weser , which with one exception (in the district of Exter) are no longer directly traceable.

The Vlothoer Amtshausberg was probably fortified by a hill fort around 2,000 years ago. At the time of the Carolingians around 850 AD, there was a fortified royal court here. The existence of an old hill fort called " Hünenburg " has also been proven on the Paterberg .

Important trade routes in the direction of Porta Westfalica and the natural harbor in Vlotho have long led through the Ravensberger Mulde, located between two mountain ranges (Teutoburg Forest and Wiehengebirge) . The Weser could be crossed here via the so-called Vössen ford , which is close in the direction of Rehme .

First mention

Vlotho Castle - today's view

Vlotho is first mentioned in 1185 when a Gottfried von Vlotho donated seven Hufen land to the Loccum monastery . The process was notarized by Bishop Anno von Landsberg , but the present copy of the document is not dated. It is also one of the few indications of the existence of the Lords of Vlotho . There is also nothing left of what was probably its first seat, the Wasserburg Schune.

The area of ​​activity of the Lords of Vlotho, the old office of Vlotho, roughly corresponded to today's urban area. However, the area of ​​today's Rehme district of the city of Bad Oeynhausen must be added. They gave up their seat, the moated castle Schune in the area where the trout stream meets the Weser , around 1150. From then on , they controlled the Weser waterway, but also the local land routes, from the castle built on today's Amtshausberg . Almost nothing is known of the Lords of Vlotho. When they died out, the Counts of Ravensberg took over the rule, but had to share their sovereign rights with other landlords. As early as the 10th century, some farms in the old monasteries in Herford and Möllenbeck were subject to tax. Other rights holders include: a. the Herford monastery on the mountains and the Segenstal monastery in Vlotho, but also the Abdinghof monastery in Paderborn were among the beneficiaries.

From the 13th century

The history of the town of Vlotho is closely linked to that of the hilltop castle built around 1250 on the Amtshausberg . Reliable information about their establishment is not available. The Vlotho chronicler Großmann writes in connection with the history of the church in Valdorf: “Apparently the intention of the Lords of Vlotho was to turn the settlement at the foot of the Amtshausberg into a kind of state capital. For this purpose they cut out an area of ​​only 6 km² from the area of ​​the parish Valdorf (45 km²) and gave the settlement Vlotho city rights. ”That meant that there was a separate city judge here and the place was given appropriate city ​​rights .

The first ferry service in Vlotho is believed to be in 1336, which was first mentioned in a document in 1423. Field names known from the 16th century are further evidence. It made sense to set up a customs post here for both traffic on water and on land. As a result, there were settlements.

In 1368 the people of Minden invaded and almost completely destroyed the castle and town. As a result, Vlotho lost its town charter again and belonged to Herford under the district court.

As part of the County of Ravensberg , the rule of Vlotho fell to the United Duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg . In the middle of the 16th century, Wilhelm the Rich , Duke of Jülich, Kleve and Berg arranged for a cadastre to be drawn up. This land register of the County of Ravensberg from 1556 also contains detailed records of the former office of Vlotho. Information about the number of farmsteads, their residents and what services and fees were to be provided by them and to whom, as well as information about affiliations, were retained.

Thereafter, the office of Vlotho consisted of the bailiwicks Wehrendorf and Vlotho. Of the 225 farmsteads of the latter, 91 were in the parish of Exter with the farmers' groups Exter, Schwarzenmoor and Solterwisch , which belonged to the Herford Abbey of Berg. In the parish of Rehme (87 sites) the farmers' communities Rehme (church location), Niederbeck and Oberbecksen, Bessingen, Babbenhausen and Reelsen were combined. The village of Vlotho had 47 sites.

136 farmsteads for the parish of Valdorf were recorded for the Vogtei Wehrendorf. This area with the combined farming communities Bonneberg, Brockhagen, Maasbecke, Nieder- and Oberhollwiesen, Nienhagen and Valdorf (church location) remained largely unchanged and thus corresponds to today's Vlotho district Valdorf .

From the 17th century

Replica (2000) of the boat of a Vlotho inland fisherman. Such battened boats were also used in ferry operations on the Weser.
Office Vlotho around 1797

There are few written records about the fate of the city of Vlotho during the Thirty Years' War . As far as is known, Vlotho stayed on the edge of the war and was only affected by marching through and billeting of various troops. The only major act of war in the area was a battle that lasted only a few hours in what is today the Vlotho district of Valdorf. The event is known today as the Battle of Valdorf or Vlotho .

It was not until 1650 that the people of Vlotho were allowed to hold an annual fair under the Great Elector . Otherwise the place experienced a new bloom. It is noticeable that in other parts of the world normality began relatively hesitantly so shortly after the Thirty Years' War.

The port, from which trading goods and raw materials were transported to and far into the hinterland of Lippe and Ravensberg, played an important role in the rapidly increasing importance of the Weser city. The fact that the most important port between Minden and Hameln could emerge in Vlotho of all places was due to the fact that islands (Werder) shared the river here. In the quiet arm (where the railway line has been running since 1875), according to Großmann, up to a hundred ships could dock, anchor and even spend the winter.

The founding of the Vlothoer Schiffergilde, an association of the local inland waterway boatmen, can be traced back to this upswing. Similarly, many Vlothoers had set up on the haulage trade, the city lived to a large extent from freight traffic, the natural harbor proved to be a blessing. Vlotho became the Leggeort (center of the linen trade), received municipal rights as a titular town in 1719 and again its own magistrate in 1740 .

Raft shipping was also of great importance, transporting not only the raw material wood, but also millstones on the Weser downstream. The carts came upstream with their heavy load as far as the Thuringian Forest, which then continued their way on the water in a northerly direction.

With the transition of the county of Ravensberg to Brandenburg at the beginning of the 17th century nothing had changed for Vlotho in terms of area. In 1786, with the county of Lippe, some unclear boundary conditions were settled in the area of ​​the peasantry Steinbründorf, Wehrendorf and Exter. For 1796, 636 colonies with 484 kötter houses are known in the peasantry, as well as 235 town houses in the city of Vlotho. The first city map also comes from this year.

19th century

Water wheel of the former Kuhl'schen Mühle on the trout stream
Weserhafen, town and Amtshausberg around 1850

After the Peace of Tilsit , Prussia ceded all areas west of the Elbe in 1807. The new Kingdom of Westphalia was redistributed according to the French model. The Bielefeld district formed from Ravensberg belonged to the Weser department with the capital Osnabrück and consisted of 11 cantons. The canton of Vlotho corresponded exactly to the previous Prussian office. That changed after the continental barrier , in which his area west of the Weser and north of the Werre was added to the French Empire. The remainder of the Bielefeld district as a whole was merged with the Fulda department , and Schwarzenmoor was added to the Herford canton. The canton Vlotho received the remaining part of the canton Bünde with the main towns Gohfeld and Löhne. This remained so until 1815, when the Gohfeld parish was added to the newly formed Bünde district. Vlotho's area again included the parishes of Vlotho, Valdorf, Exter (but without Schwarzenmoor) and Rehme. Then there was the community of Dehme. When the city of Vlotho came under Prussian administration again in 1813, it again benefited from its favorable location on the important Weser waterway. The year brought the union of the districts of Bünde and Herford to what is now the district of Herford. The parish of Rehme was added to the office of Dützen in the Minden district. In 1843, Rehme became an independent office. As for the Amt Vlotho, nothing changed after 1832.

In the middle of the 19th century there was reports of brisk commercial activity. Initially, they wanted to benefit from mineral springs in the west of the city in the form of bathing and spa operations, but this was quickly abandoned. Among other things, two sugar factories produced in the small town. Shipbuilding continued to offer jobs in the Uffeln on the right side of the Weser , which was later incorporated into Vlotho. The natural resource of water power from the trout stream was used by seven oil, grain and barley mills. The trade in oil and the still lively freight forwarding business prompted the historian Vormbaum to put on paper in 1864 ... that Vlotho is one of the most important towns in the County of Ravensberg among the small towns.

In 1843 the railway between Cologne and Minden was opened, which diverted important flows of goods to Vlotho. It was not until 1875 that Vlotho was connected to the increasingly dense modern rail network through the establishment of the railway line beginning in Löhne and planned to Vienenburg . Linked to this, however, was the widespread end of overland haulage.

Vlotho was the most important tobacco town in the Ravensberger Land at this time; the raw material came directly from Bremen via the Weser. In 1875, however, the Weserhafen was not connected to the railway because the traffic on the river decreased more and more. Shipping traffic had little chance against the expansive railway. The cigar and tobacco industry reached its peak during this period. In a petition to the German Reichstag in 1879, 19 relevant companies with 754 and 1095 workers, respectively, were mentioned for the cities of Bünde and Vlotho, a long way from the other places in Ravensberg, and thus far surpassed other places in the district with the tobacco industry. At the end of the 19th century, the cigar industry in the German Empire got into a sales crisis due to a disproportionate increase in the tobacco tax, after which the city of Bünde took over the role of "Germany's cigar city" in the tobacco industry until today. Their advantage was, among other things, the advantageous location at the crossing point of important rail connections to Osnabrück and Bremen in long-distance traffic and Minden and Herford in the regional area. In 1870, the cigar merchant Robert Volbracht (until then in the aforementioned Bünde) took over a bankrupt brewery, which existed until 1956 and had a certain regional importance in the triangle Lübbecke, Minden, Vlotho, Hameln and was taken over by the Lippstadt brewery Weißenburg . In 1875 Vlotho received a rail connection. The Vlotho train station and the Vlotho railway bridge were opened.

20th and 21st centuries

Former Schöning cigar factory. Today known as the “culture factory” with a youth center, youth art school, city library and local history museum

The Weser city with about 4,000 inhabitants had problems expanding in its valley location. It was not until 1903 that the Herford Kleinbahn route from Weserhafen to Wallenbrück opened up the important connection to the southern Herford district and the cities of Bad Salzuflen and Herford. During the First World War , the municipality of Valdorf was divided into Valdorf-Ost (Winterberger area) and Valdorf-West (main area including the Horst and the baths / church area).

In 1928, the construction of the Vlothoer Weser Bridge took into account the ever increasing vehicle traffic that the Weser ferry, operated by Robert Volbracht since 1870, could no longer handle. With this bridging, Vlotho was directly connected to the municipality of Uffeln, which at that time still belonged to the Minden district. The ferry was in operation until 1937. Until then, a long and arduous detour via Porta Westfalica or Rinteln was necessary, and the ferry could not or would not be used, especially in bad weather.

On April 20, 1933, a square in today's Exter district was named after Adolf Hitler , and six days later the square in front of the Vlotho town hall. In addition, the Lange Strasse was called Adolf-Hitler-Strasse during the National Socialist era .

On September 23, 1939, today's Federal Motorway 2 was opened to traffic in the area of ​​the former Vlotho office, initially only for "official traffic". On November 13, 1940, the section was expanded to two lanes.

During the Second World War , the Vlotho road and rail bridge were bombed by the Allies, but could not be destroyed. In 1945, the bridges were blown up by German pioneers in the last days of the war. An anti-aircraft battery with ten 8.8 cm anti-aircraft cannons and three listening mirrors for locating enemy aircraft was stationed on the Steinegge in today 's Exter district . It was served by 60 soldiers of the Wehrmacht , the Landdienst Hitler Youth and allied Croats and was supposed to protect the Bad Oeynhauser Weserhütte , the Löhne train station and the underground armament systems in Porta Westfalica . When American spearheads advanced from the southwest on April 3, 1945, the battery took them under fire, with the fire being partly directed by forward observers with field telephones . Four German soldiers, including the commander of the flak position in the rank of first lieutenant , fell. They were buried in the Exter cemetery.

From 1946 until the road bridge was repaired in 1951, the Weser ferry temporarily resumed operation. Out of place in Vlotho and neighboring Varenholz the UFA a place to stay.

Vlotho only benefited indirectly from the reconstruction, significant industry settled in the neighboring towns in the Vlotho district as long as it still existed. One of the companies that were particularly important for the Weser city after the war was the rapidly expanding company Meyra (ambulance vehicles), which briefly also produced small cars. Today administration and production are located in Kalldorf, a district of the neighboring municipality of Kalletal in Lippe . On large parts of the former Meyra site there is now the Minskemarkt, a shopping center in which mostly discounters are represented.

As a result of the Second World War, British agencies were also stationed in Vlotho. a. the headquarters of the English "Red Cross" was located in a confiscated manufacturer's villa. Little was known that Vlotho was a meeting point for families of German scientists as part of the “Operation Matchbox”. The reason was the desire of the British to be able to use the vast know-how of German research for industrial and military purposes, as a kind of human reparation . One example is the possible extraction of crude oil from the coal in the immeasurable deposits in the Australian state of Victoria. In the Federal Republic of Germany this fact was only known to a small group, and this complex has only been marginally researched at the moment. From Vlotho, many of the at least 200 families were likely to have undertaken the long journey by ship in the 1940s / 50s. Many of them have found their new home on the 5th continent. German “know-how” was also used as part of this campaign in Canada , when the Dominion of Canada was part of the British Empire.

In the mid-1950s, the port as an economic factor seemed to end up on the sidelines, even when the Herford small railways gave up the connection. It experienced a brief renaissance when the Lippe furniture industry, in particular, discovered it as a nearby transshipment point for tropical timber. The North German Broadcasting Corporation made it the venue for its port concerts several times . A long operation was not granted to him, the movement of goods on the Weser decreased rapidly. The last commercially operated raft passed the town of Vlotho in 1964. In 2006 the remains of the port facility were removed. Today there are mooring options for excursion boats and sport boats only on the left, but also parking spaces with supply facilities for mobile homes.

The tobacco industry, which was once important for Vlotho, also experienced its decline here after the lifting of the machine ban in production. Until the beginning of the 1970s there was only one company, but it was no longer producing in Vlotho. During this time, the construction of today's Mindener Straße (L 778) falls, which, although it divides the city, on the other hand connects it to the surrounding area by continuing over the Weser. In the "old" city area itself, the route of the small railway, which was finally closed in 1962 between Vlotho and Herford, was largely used during construction.

Incorporations

The Vlotho office was dissolved on January 1, 1969 through the law on the reorganization of the Herford district and the independent city of Herford. The former municipalities of Exter, Valdorf and the city of Vlotho were merged to form the new city of Vlotho as the legal successor to the dissolved office.

Pursuant to § 18 of the Bielefeld-law , the township Uffeln from the official local mountains in Minden incorporated on 1 January 1973 in the city of Vlotho and belongs since then to Herford .

Population development

Figures on December 31, 1961 on June 6, 1970 on May 27 and 1974 on June 30.

Vlotho according to the territorial status at that time

Population development of Vlotho.svgPopulation development of Vlotho - from 1871
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Population development of Vlotho according to the table below. Above from 1730 to 2018. Below an excerpt from 1871

For the data on the territorial status at that time, see the article about the district Vlotho .

Vlotho according to the current territorial status

year Residents
1961 19,394
1970 19,681
1972 21,135
1974 21.009
1975 20,629
1980 19,949
1985 18,963
1990 19,952
1995 20,520
2000 20,533
2004 20,138
year Residents
2005 20,035
2007 19,729
2009 19,500
2010 19,282
2011 19,075
2012 19,035
2013 18,970
2016 18,663
2017 18,546
2018 18,429

religion

Segenstal Monastery and St. Stephen's Church (Vlotho)
St. John's Church

Vlotho is traditionally evangelical due to its long membership in the County of Ravensberg . There are five Lutheran parishes in the urban area ( Exter-Bonneberg , Uffeln , Valdorf , St. Stephan (Vlotho-Stadt) and Wehrendorf ) and one Reformed parish ( St. Johannis (Vlotho) ). These parishes belong to the parish of Vlotho with its seat in neighboring Bad Oeynhausen. There are also two Catholic parishes in the districts of Vlotho and Exter ( Heilig Kreuz and St. Hedwig ).

Catholic Holy Cross Church in Vlotho

Also represented are the Pentecostal Church ( Free Christian Community ), the New Apostolic Church Community of Vlotho and the Jehovah's Witnesses. The religious community “Das Leben e. V. ”, also known as the Norwegian community or“ Smithians ”, maintains a meeting house in the Exter district. There are decidedly for Christ communities in the city center and in Wehrendorf, a district in the Valdorf district.

The village church in the district of Exter was consecrated as the first Protestant motorway church in 1959 , the tower is still the one originally built around 1676, the present-day nave replaced the then original, plastered half-timbered building in 1951 .

The denominational affiliation of the students in Vlotho can be an indication of the distribution of religions. Accordingly, in the 2006/2007 school year, 66.8% of the students stated Protestant, 7.6% Catholic and 6.7% Islamic as their religious affiliation. 7.2% said they belonged to another religion and 11.7% no denomination.

The primary school in Exter is one of the few Protestant denominational schools in the region. Today it is operated as a branch of the Uffeln primary school.

For the Muslims in the urban area there is a mosque of the Turkish-Islamic community, which belongs to the umbrella organization Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DİTİB).

Judaism

Two so-called Jewish letters from 1690 are the oldest evidence of settlement. The oldest dated tombstone from 1713 was found in the old Jewish cemetery on Oberg, which is now in the new Jewish cemetery in Vlotho on the Wasserstraße along with other well-preserved ones . The Vlotho Jews were active as cattle dealers and butchers and also in the yarn and linen trade. In 1850/1851 137 representatives of this belief lived in the city. The new synagogue built at that time was destroyed on November 10, 1938, the day after the “ Reichspogromnacht ”. Four of the Nazi violent criminals at the time were sentenced to imprisonment in March 1946 before the jury court in Bielefeld. Of the 87 Jewish people living in Amt Vlotho in 1933, 28 emigrated abroad. It can be assumed that there were 41 Holocaust victims from Vlotho, two more displaced persons returned to their hometown, only to leave it shortly afterwards. Today there are no more Jewish citizens living in Vlotho, Stephen Hans Loeb, who emigrated to the USA at the time, was made honorary citizenship of the city in 1991.

politics

City council

The city ​​council of Vlotho currently has 34 members. In addition, the mayor is the council chairman. The following table shows the local election results since 1975:

2014 2009 2004 1999 1994 1989 1984 1979 1975
Political party Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats %
SPD 12 36.01 12 34.35 12 36.46 12 35.92 17th 42.50 16 40.51 16 39.66 16 39.67 16 41.35
CDU 12 34.75 11 32.18 13 39.73 17th 48.34 16 40.11 11 27.50 9 21.49 15th 35.35 15th 36.86
GLV 1 5 15.3 5 14.36 5 13.31 3 8.83 4th 10.57 4th 10.80 3 8.64 0 4.70 - -
FDP 3 7.36 4th 12.92 4th 10.50 2 6.92 2 6.82 4th 10.40 3 8.86 2 5.40 2 6.22
The left 2 6.84 2 5.70 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Individual applicants - - 0 0.49 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
VBU 2 - - - - - - - - - - 4th 10.80 6th 14.48 - - - -
FWG 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 6.87 6th 14.88 6th 15.56
Total 4 34 100 34 100 34 100 34 100 39 100 39 100 39 100 39 100 39 100
voter turnout 51.02 54.53 52.36 58.57 81.98 67.15 72.86 76.25 87.62
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1 Green List Vlotho
2 Vlothoer Citizens Union
3 Free community of voters
4th without taking into account rounding differences
Allocation of seats in the
city ​​council in 2014
     
A total of 34 seats
  • Left: 2
  • Green list: 5
  • SPD: 12
  • FDP: 3
  • CDU: 12

Mayor

In connection with the local elections, the newly constituted city council elects local mayors for the districts . They are usually provided by the party with the most votes in the district electoral districts.

mayor

Town hall, the large windows of the meeting room were donated in 1963 by the country team of the "Sommerfelder Heimattreuen".

Until 1808 the status of bailiff could be leased. From then on, in the Kingdom of Westphalia , which was under Napoleonic rule , there was the Maire , the mayor . There were u. a. the tasks of judiciary and administration are separated. Even after the end of foreign rule, he was designated as a cantonal official in the Vlotho office , until the official title of office man was introduced after the rural community order introduced in 1841 . It was only with the incorporation from 1969 onwards that Vlotho became what corresponds to the historical concept of town . This meant that until then the chief administrative officer of the office was also responsible for the place Vlotho. In 1843 the opportunity arose to leave the administrative district, but it was not used, Vlotho remained titular town.

Mayor in office and city of Vlotho until 1968

  • 1808–1832: Ernst Andreas Martzilger, former royal officer
  • 1832–1851: Philipp Poehlmann, government trainee
  • 1851–1855: Karl Albert Strosser, career officer
  • 1855–1894: Heinrich Müller, former bailiff in Alswede
  • 1894–1919: Heinrich Brüggenschmidt, former officer
  • 1920–1935: Paul Schildwächter
  • 1935–1945: Wilhelm Sappke, administrative officer from Silesia
  • 1945 -1945: Wilhelm Lücking (Vlotho and Bonneberg ), commercial clerk ( the Allies appointed special mayors in the communities of Exter and Valdorf )
  • 1945–1946: Julius Schöning, cigar manufacturer
  • 1946–1961: Friedrich Albrecht, head of the employment office
  • 1961–1968: Werner Eversmeier, businessman

Mayor of the city of Vlotho from 1969 (community reform)

  • 1969–1978: Rudolf Kaiser (CDU)
  • 1978–1979: Wilhelm Weber ( FWG )
  • 1979–1984: Heinz Reinhardt (CDU)
  • 1984–1994: Gerhard Wattenberg (SPD)
  • 1994–1999: Ulrich Sturhahn (SPD)
  • 1999–2003: Lieselore Curländer (CDU), full-time (before the end of the term of office from 2003 to 2009 District Administrator, Herford district)
  • 2003–2015: Bernd Stute (2003–2013 SPD, 2013–2015 non-party)
  • since 2015: Rocco Wilken (SPD)

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City Directors

The position of city ​​director (called Amtsdirektor until 1968) existed in Vlotho from 1946 to 1999. He is a hallmark of the North German council constitution with its typical dual leadership. The city director was employed full-time and was in charge of the city administration, while the mayor (old type) worked on a voluntary basis, presided over the city council and also performed predominantly representative tasks.

  • 1946–1951: Wilhelm Lücking
  • 1951–1966: Hans Hohenstein
  • 1967–1981: Heinz Volkmann
  • 1981–1984: Jürgen Stracke (voted out by the city council)
  • 1985–1993: Hermann Kölling
  • 1993–1999: Jochen Zülka (SPD)

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

Coat of arms of the city of Vlotho

The city of Vlotho was granted the right to carry a coat of arms, a flag, a banner and an official seal with a certificate from the District President in Detmold dated November 30, 1970. These are described in § 3 of the main statutes as follows:

Description of coat of arms
"Divided in a wave shape by silver (white) and red: above three red rafters floating freely above , two green, outwardly curved lilies with silver (white) flowers on a green floor below ."

Significance The three rafters come from the coat of arms of the County of Ravensberg , to which Vlotho belonged for centuries. The wave cut symbolizes the Weser . The lilies indicate the Cistercian nunnery.

Flag description
"From red-white-red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 1: 1: 1: 1, striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms shifted from the center to the pole."
Banner description
"From red-white-red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 1: 1: 1: 1 striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms above the center."
Seal description
Inscription above : STADT VLOTHO / below : KREIS HERFORD.
Seal picture: The coat of arms in which the content of the municipal coat of arms, namely the red rafters and green in black, and otherwise in outlines is reproduced.

Town twinning

Vlotho has two city partnerships:

There are partnership associations for both town twinnings.

Culture and sights

Theaters and museums

Facade painting on Sommerfelder Platz in Vlotho.

Theater and concert fans use the offers in Herford (city theater, only guest performances and the Northwest German Philharmonic), but also in Bielefeld and Detmold. Organ concerts are held regularly in the St. Stephen's Church in the center.

There is an amateur playgroup in the Bonneberg district.

In the 1990s, the last Vlotho cinema, the Weser-Lichtspiele, was closed. The next cinematic offering is located in the UCI multiplex cinema in neighboring Bad Oeynhausen.

In the former Schöning cigar factory opposite the Vlotho train station there is the so-called “culture factory” with a youth center, youth art school, city library and local history museum. Cabaret events take place here regularly.

Large-scale facade paintings have been created in the city center since 2013 and have become special sights in Vlotho. The spectrum of works with which more than 25 artists have designed numerous walls, windows and even power boxes (mainly on Sommerfelder Platz and Langen Straße) ranges from watercolor to photography to trompe-l'oeil . Artistic objects can also be found in flower beds and on trees, "which are intended to induce reflection and amazement".

There was a local history museum in Vlotho even before the Second World War. It was located on the Amtshausberg near the remains of the old Vlotho castle , but only offered a disordered offer according to the perspective of the time. In the course of the renovation of the castle grounds at the end of the 1930s, combined with a reconstruction of the former castle as a ruin, it was dissolved, and the Bismarck tower built there was also demolished. In 1974 the Vlothoer Heimatverein opened its home parlor in the old Schöning cigar factory at the foot of the Amtshausberg. Since 2016, the Heimatverein Vlotho has officially offered the presentation of exhibits on traditional cigar production at the same location in the “Heimatmuseum Vlotho” as a focus . In the 19th century, the Weser city in East Westphalia was a leader in this economic sector. Furthermore, the authentic reconstruction of a typical " mom and pop shop " can be seen in the local history museum . The Heimatverein also operates the Hammerschmiede Gnuse, which has been restored and ready for use in the Valdorf district .

music

The Vlotho Music Festival, which has been taking place for free and outdoors since 1975, will no longer take place in the city of Vlotho until further notice. The organizer is the Vlotho-based “Verein umsonst & Außen Kultur e. V. Vlotho ”, which was founded by the initiators of the first events.

Buildings

The following remarkable buildings are located in the city center:

  • The Evangelical Lutheran St. Stephen's Church was originally the house of worship for the nuns of the Cistercian convent Segenstal, which was founded in 1252 and moved to the city in 1288 . Remnants of the cloister are still visible on the exterior. The simple Gothic rectangular hall with skylights was extended by a second ship in the South 1659/60. The furnishings include the pulpit, carved by Hans Küchlein in 1660, and the gallery balustrades from the 17th century. The altar was created after 1660.
  • The Evangelical Reformed St. John's Church , an octagonal central building with a semicircular apse , was built in 1782/83. The interior still has a simple classicist interior.
  • Despite the urban redevelopment carried out at the beginning of the 1970s and the expansion of federal highway 514, which destroyed entire rows of houses, some half-timbered buildings, mostly gable-fronted from the 16th and 17th centuries, have survived in the expanded town center. A particularly beautiful ensemble is located on the so-called Brink , an elevated section of the Lange Straße secured with retaining walls.
  • At the address Lange Straße 71 there is a former hall house from 1619, at number 101 a gabled house dated 1652 with a lateral loft .
  • Also a Utlucht has the former Café Sturhan, no. 116 . The Evangelical Lutheran rectory is number 108 ; the two-storey half-timbered building is inscribed and dated to 1650.
  • One of the best-preserved half-timbered buildings in Vlotho is the so-called Malz House , Lange Straße 136. The stately hall house with utlucht was built in 1684 by master builder Henrich Helle for the merchant Otto Heinrich Schürmann and his wife Elisabeth Waddenberg. The interior of the building, whose permanent preservation is guaranteed by the German Foundation for Monument Protection , can be viewed on request.
  • The Alt Heidelberg restaurant , Lange Straße 70, originally dates from 1604. The house was dismantled in 1983/84 and then replaced by a new building, using some of the original beams, which is outwardly based on the previous building.
  • Another small half-timbered house can be found at Roseneck 2 , which has been used as a restaurant ("guild house") since its renovation in 1976. Probably built around 1570, it is essentially one of the oldest buildings in the city.
  • The lintel of the plastered half-timbered building at Weserstraße 27 is also marked with the year "1570" . With the petty bourgeois house at Lange Straße 32 , which was built in 1568, one of the oldest houses in the town was lost. It was dismantled in 1969 and rebuilt from 2005 to 2007 on the grounds of the Farmhouse Museum in Bielefeld .
  • The remains of Vlotho Castle , attested to since the 12th century, lie on the Amtshausberg . Most of the complex was dismantled in 1709. Its foundations were uncovered between 1936 and 1939, and the castle itself was not restored, but reconstructed as a ruin. About 500 m north-west of the castle ruins is a rampart that is still clearly visible today, the so-called " Schwedenschanze ". The function and the age of this hill are still unclear.

These structures are particularly noteworthy from the districts:

Monuments

  • A memorial was erected in 1969 at the Vlotho Jewish cemetery in Wasserstraße to commemorate the Vlotho Jews murdered during the Nazi era .
  • A memorial stone in Langen Strasse has been commemorating the Vlotho synagogue that was destroyed on November 10, 1938, since 1988.
  • Between 2006 and 2007, a total of 41 so-called stumbling blocks were laid by the artist Gunter Demnig in memory of the murdered Vlotho Jews.
  • There are war memorials in memory of the fallen soldiers of the First and Second World War in Vlotho on Burgstrasse to the Amtshausberg as well as at the Valdorfer Friedhof and in Exter. In common parlance today they are more commonly referred to as memorials.
  • To the founder of the city partnership with Sommerfeld Dr. Georg Schultze (1889–1982), commemorates a memorial stone on Dr.-Georg-Schultze-Platz.
  • At the former Vlotho district court at Langen Straße 112, a memorial plaque commemorates the politician and court director Franz Leo Benedikt Waldeck (1802–1870).
  • A memorial at the Ludwig-Jahn Stadium on the Amtshausberg has been commemorating Friedrich Ludwig Jahn since 1928.
  • In 1917 a memorial stone was erected in Valdorf for Eberhard Delius (1843–1917) the former pastor of the parish of Valdorf and superintendent of the parish of Vlotho.
  • A memorial stone on the Eiberg in Valdorf commemorates the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig (October 18, 1813) and the battle near Vlotho and Valdorf (October 17, 1638).

Sports

Vlotho is home to several sports clubs. These include the football club SC Vlotho 1921 e. V., which emerged from the union of the clubs FC Arminia Vlotho and SuS Winterberg and whose first men's team plays in the district league, TuS Bonneberg 1963 e. V., gymnastics and sports community Vlotho from 1880 e. V., gymnastics club "Eintracht" Valdorf e. V., TuS Westfalia Vlotho-Uffeln eV (including regional handball league ), the sports community "Unity" Exter e. V., FC Exter 1947. e. V., tennis club Vlotho e. V., Tennis Club Rot Weiß Exter e. V., 1st  Badminton Club Vlotho e. V., the riding and driving clubs Fridericus Rex Valdorf e. V. and von Bismarck Exter e. V.

Water sports are possible on the Weser. In the district of Uffeln there is a sports boat harbor and in the district of Valdorf there is the heated outdoor forest pool . There are sports halls at the school locations. There are also several tennis courts, an indoor tennis center and two golf courses in the urban area . The Weser cycle path runs through Vlotho .

Green spaces and recreation

Arnholz (Naturschutzgebiet) Borstenbach Borstenbach Borstenbach Borstenbach Eiberg (Lipper Bergland) Heideholz Kleiner Selberg Linnenbeeke Linnenbeeke Linnenbeeke Mittelbachtal Paterberg Siebenstücken Plögereisiek Salze-Glimketal Salze-Glimketal Salze-Glimketal Sandgrube Exter Vlothoer WeserwiesenVlotho
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Vlotho has a publicly accessible spa park that is used jointly by Bad Senkelteich and Bad Seebruch (Weserlandklinik). In the spa park there is a sound garden and the former house of the town's guest . The Linnenbeeke flows through it.

Vlotho has by far the most nature reserves per municipality in the Herford district, a total of 13. These are the Arnholz , the Borstenbach , the Eiberg , the Heideholz , the small Selberg , the Linnenbeeke , the Mittelbachtal , the Paterberg , the Plögereisiek , the Salze -Glimketal , the Exter sand pit , Siebenstücke and the Vlothoer Weserwiesen . Together, these areas cover around 204 hectares, or 2.65% of the urban area.

Regular events

  • Outdoor swimming party in the Waldfreibad Valdorf organized by the DLRG and the outdoor swimming pool association (beginning of July)
  • External triathlon (July / August - since 1989 swimming-cycling-running triathlon with mostly 400 to over 500 also supraregional participants)
  • Harbor Festival (summer - at the Vlothoer Weserhafen)
  • Day of the farmers bath (2nd Sunday in September - Bad Seebruch and Bad Senkelteich present themselves)
  • Christmas markets of the local district associations (the first, held in Exter in 1995, was imitated by many in the region)
  • Uffelner Meile The business world, associations and institutions from Uffeln and Vlotho present their offerings along the Mindener Straße thoroughfare every three years in May / June
  • Music festival for free and outside
  • Citizen brunch (in summer - downtown Vlotho - Sommerfelder Platz)

Culinary specialties

There are no pronounced Vlotho specialties, in addition to a normal gastronomic offer without particular highlights, the popular kale meal in late autumn should perhaps be mentioned. There are also no special brandies or other alcoholic drinks for Vlotho.

tourism

Moorland Clinic in Bad Senkelteich
Snow-covered forest path on the Bonstapel
  • In Uffeln, on the Borlefzen leisure area, there is an 80,000 m² boat harbor with access to the Weser and two campsites. There are bathing lakes along the river.
  • The Vlothoer Weserhafen is only used for tourism today. For some time now the city of Vlotho has been offering a limited number of parking spaces for mobile homes; Supply units are available. Motor sports boats can also moor at two floating jetties during floods.
  • Of particular note are the mud baths Bad Seebruch (Weserland clinic) and Bad Senkelteich (Moorland Clinic) in Valdorf where since the 19th century Kurbetrieb takes place. Since 1978, a part of Valdorf with Bad Seebruch and Bad Senkelteich has been a state-recognized climatic health resort with a spa area.
  • The Bonstapel nature trail leads as a 5 km long circular route on the Bonstapel mountain at a height of more than 300 m to fourteen stations where information boards tell about the history of the landscape and its flora and fauna. An example of the didactic quality is an insect wall that shows the habitats of many forest insects using a living example.
  • Vlotho is located on the 500 km long Teutoburg Forest wellness cycle route , which is designed as a circular cycle path, on the 491 km long Weser cycle path and on the Soleweg. In addition, around 25 km of local cycle paths are marked in the urban area. Furthermore, four local hiking trails with lengths between one and 10 km are signposted.
  • In the summer months, Mindener Fahrgastschifffahrt offers steamboat trips on the Weser to Hameln , Rinteln and Minden .
  • Historical city tours are offered. In one case, Vlotho Castle is the destination of the "castle murmur", where the castle grounds can be explored in the dark.
  • In the district of Exter, the so-called “Exter Tour” was set up in 2014, with information about 31 signposted stations on its two circular hiking trails (in-town and about the heights surrounding the town). In the offer of the “Exter-Tour for Children”, which was opened in June 2016 and is accompanied by pedagogical support, preschool and school children are given child-friendly information at 14 stations in the town center.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

media

Editorial office of the Vlothoer Zeitung in Langen Strasse

The Vlothoer Zeitung (formerly Vlothoer Tageblatt ) appears as an edition of the Bielefelder Westfalen-Blatt and the Herford Kreisblatt . The Herford edition of the Neue Westfälische Zeitung , Bielefeld, has only a small number of subscribers . Vlotho belongs to the reporting area of ​​the regional studio Bielefeld of the WDR . Radio Herford can be received via 91.7 MHz and sends local news from Vlotho.

Public facilities

The public facilities in Vlotho include the city administration, the volunteer fire brigades and the rescue station , the waterworks and sewage works, the building yard and various educational institutions. The district of the former district court of Vlotho is now part of the district of the district court of Bad Oeynhausen . The local tax office responsible for Vlotho and the employment agency are in the district town of Herford.

education

LWL-Bildungsstätte Jugendhof Vlotho

With the exception of a comprehensive school and a special needs school, the city offers all types of general education. There are three primary schools in the city, the Vlotho primary school with two locations, the Hans-Schwarze primary school and the Uffeln-Exter network primary school with two locations, with the Exter location having the status of a Protestant denominational primary school . The secondary school in the school center Südspange continues in the lower secondary level . Since the 2012/13 school year, it has been the successor to the secondary and secondary schools at the same location. The city offers the Weser-Gymnasium Vlotho for secondary levels I and II .

In 2008, a total of 2,313 pupils were taught at the general education Vlotho schools with 132 teachers, 34.2% of them at the primary schools, 9.5% at the secondary school, 19.7% at the secondary school and 36.6% at the grammar school.

The youth art school is located in the culture factory. In addition, the city is the seat of the LWL-Bildungszentrum Jugendhof Vlotho , the educational facility of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and other educational institutions such as the Pan-European Studienwerk (GESW) and AKE-Bildungswerk e. V. The state-recognized institute for physiotherapy at the Weserland-Klinik Bad Seebruch was located in the district of Valdorf .

The controversial Collegium Humanum , a former right-wing extremist institution, including its sub-organization “Bauernhilfe e. V. “, was banned on May 7, 2008 (date of the prohibition order: April 18, 2008) by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in accordance with Section 3 of the Association Act.

traffic

Station building: vacancy and decay

From Herford and Bad Salzuflen, Vlotho could be reached from 1903 to 1962 with the Herford small railway via Exter, in 1963 the connection to Exter was also discontinued. Vlotho has been connected to the German railway network since 1875. the then planned route was supposed to connect the cities of Löhne and Vienenburg: today ( Elze – Löhne railway ). A ferry connection across the Weser is mentioned in documents as early as 1336. In 1928 the Weser Bridge Vlotho was inaugurated as the first road bridge over the Weser. Vlotho was thus directly connected to the municipality of Uffeln in what was then the Hausberge department . The ferry operated until 1937. The bridge was subject to tolls until 1943. It survived the Allied air raids in World War II, but its central section over the Weser was blown up by German pioneers in early April. This was to stop the advance of the Americans. Until the inauguration of the new bridge in 1951, a ferry operated again across the Weser from 1945. The partially renewed bridge was no longer able to cope with the increasing traffic; it was replaced in 1981 by a modern prestressed concrete bridge a few hundred meters upstream.

The federal autobahn 2 (A 2) can be reached via the junction Porta Westfalica (no.33), Kreuz Bad Oeynhausen (no.32) and Herford-Ost (no.30), the junction Vlotho-West ( No. 31) is located in the western part of Exter. This is where the federal highway 611 , which opened in 2019 and leads north to the A 30 in Löhne, begins . In addition, the federal highway 514 connects Vlotho with the A 30. Via the state road L 778, which runs through the district of Uffeln, there is a connection to the Vennebeck airport ( Porta Westfalica ).

The Weserbahn ( Bünde - Löhne - Hameln - Hildesheim ) is operated every hour by the NordWestBahn on the Weserbahn (RB 77) of the same name . In 1875 the Vlotho railway bridge was opened. The vlotho station is equipped with a ticket machine. The former station building of the station, which is under monument protection and was built in 1875, is empty and is no longer used for traffic purposes. An association that emerged from a citizens 'initiative developed the concept of a so-called citizens' station, but this ultimately could not be realized. On May 2, 2019, the citizens' association decided to dissolve it because "a revival can be ruled out" and the association's purpose "cannot be achieved".

The nearest larger airports are Hanover Airport around 80 km away, Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport around 84 km away and Münster / Osnabrück Airport around 100 km away. The airport in Porta Westfalica is mainly used by sports pilots.

Local public transport consists of four bus routes . Line 434 / VB1 (Vlotho station - Exter - Schwarzenmoor - Herford station ) is operated by the "DB Ostwestfalen-Lippe-Bus" every hour from Monday to Friday and every two hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Lines S2, S3 and S4 are served by VlothoBus GmbH, a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Vlotho GmbH, with minibuses and run on ring lines every two hours in each direction. The stops “Bahnhof Vlotho”, “Rathaus”, “In der Grund” and “Kirchplatz” are served every hour, regardless of the direction.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Gustav Bonnemeyer (April 9, 1847 - May 15, 1923), appointed June 12, 1917.
  • Heinrich Brüggenschmidt (May 2, 1854 - April 15, 1941), bailiff, appointed November 11, 1921.
  • Annemarie von Lengerke (born April 15, 1915 - † December 16, 2012), appointed April 15, 2000.
  • Stephen Hans Loeb (born September 26, 1916 - May 1, 1998), appointed September 25, 1991.
  • Paul Thoss (November 20, 1860 - January 1, 1950) appointed on November 20, 1930.

Source:

Gustav Bonnemeyer was awarded honorary citizenship in recognition of his great services to the welfare of the city , which included, for example, the substantial amount of a foundation for a hospital. The inflation in the 1920s destroyed the foundation's assets. - Magistrate Heinrich Brüggenschmidt received it as well as merchant Paul Thoß in recognition ... of great services before, during and after the First World War . - Paul Thoß was a member of the official representation, city councilor, alderman for many years and had represented Brüggenschmidt during his military service. - In more recent times, this recognition was given to Annemarie von Lengerke for her tireless voluntary work for her hometown in many functions. - Stephen Hans Loeb left his place of birth as a Jewish citizen at a young age in the early years of Nazi rule and after the Second World War shook hands in a forgiving symbolic way, which the city council took as an opportunity to give him honorary citizenship.

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who worked in Vlotho

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Harland: History of the rule and city of Vlotho . Vlotho 1888, OCLC 79833997 . available online
  • Karl Großmann: History of the Office Vlotho 1246–1963 . Vlotho 1963, DNB  451686136 .
  • Karl Großmann: History of the city of Vlotho . Vlotho 1971, DNB  720233585 .
  • Peter Sundermann (ed.): 800 years of Vlotho - city history (s) . Vlotho 1985, DNB  881137715 .
  • History workshop Exter / Heimatverein Vlotho / Mendel-Grundmann-Gesellschaft (ed.): History trail - paths into Vlotho's past . Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-89534-243-2 .
  • History workshop Exter (ed.): Contributions to local history (collection series) . ISSN  1619-7828 (published since 1992).

Web links

Commons : Vlotho  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Vlotho  - travel guide
Wikisource: Vlotho  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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  2. Central locations in North Rhine-Westphalia. (PDF) In: State Development Plan North Rhine-Westphalia. State government of North Rhine-Westphalia , 2016, accessed on May 16, 2020 (Annex 1; p. 116).
  3. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia : Municipal profile Vlotho ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lds.nrw.de
  4. Website of the city of Vlotho, main statute § 2 (PDF; 30 kB)
  5. Numbers, data, facts. In: https://www.vlotho.de/ . October 1, 2017, accessed September 6, 2019 .
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  11. as already noted by Ledebur in 1829 in his diplomatic history of the city and rule of Vlotho
  12. entry to Schune in the scientific database " EBIDAT " European Castle Institute
  13. ^ Heinrich Harland: History of the rule and city of Vlotho. Vlotho 1888, OCLC 79833997
  14. by the modern city chronicler Karl Großmann
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  16. History workshop Exter, E09 contribution to the local history ISSN 1619-7828 "Robert Volbracht and the Brewery" 2001
  17. The street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe during National Socialism - database of street naming 1933–1945. In: Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe . Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
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  19. Joachim Burek: The war reaches Exter: Battle on the stone burrow on April 3, 1945 - historians find aerial photo of the flak position . In: Herford district sheet . No. 78 , April 1, 2020, p. 11 ( online ).
  20. Historical yearbook for the Herford district, 2017, W. Sieber: “Springboard into a new world”, p. 169 ff., Herford district home association, ISSN 0942-6434, ISBN 978-3-7395-1024-8
  21. Law on the reorganization of the district of Herford and the independent city of Herford of December 12, 1968.
  22. Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 75 .
  23. Act in full (PDF; 322 kB)
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  25. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics: Students at general education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia according to religious affiliation
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  28. ↑ State database NRW; Election results for the municipality code 05758036
  29. ^ State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections
  30. ^ Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia, election of the council in 1999
  31. ^ Westfalen-Blatt , Bielefeld edition of October 2, 1989 (election results 1984/1989)
  32. ^ Vlothoer Anzeiger , edition of October 2, 1979 (election result 1979)
  33. ^ Vlothoer Anzeiger , edition of May 6, 1975 (election result 1975)
  34. Municipal data center: municipal elections 2009 City of Vlotho
  35. ^ City of Vlotho - elections
  36. Section 39 (2) of the municipal code of North Rhine-Westphalia and Section 2 (3) of the main statute of the city of Vlotho
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  38. ^ Gallery of the Mayor's Terms of Office
  39. ^ Gallery of city directors with terms of office
  40. vlothoer-anzeiger.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vlothoer-anzeiger.de  
  41. Main statute of the city of Vlotho of December 23, 1999
  42. ^ Partnership with Aubigny. In: Vlotho. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  43. partnership with Lubkso. In: Vlotho. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
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  45. ^ House of Malz . German Foundation for Monument Protection
  46. For more information on this house see: Stefan Baumeier: Westphalian farmhouses - saved from excavators and caterpillars. 2nd Edition. Bielefeld 1983, pp. 22-23.
  47. ^ Page of the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 6, 2014.
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  49. Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW: Kommunalprofil Vlotho ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 221 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  50. Massage and physiotherapist schools. In: Association of physical therapy. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  51. ^ Heinrich Harland, History of the Lordship and the City of Vlotho, 1888
  52. History workshop Exter (Ed.): Contributions to local history, search for traces XIII, Unterwegs in Uffeln , Vlotho 2005
  53. Westfalen-Blatt, regional edition Vlothoer Zeitung. May 13, 2019, p. 9.
  54. Gerd Sievers: Honorary Citizen in the Herford District In: Herford District Home Association Historical yearbook for the Herford district. (Volume 24), Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7395-1024-8