Vlotho (district)

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Vlotho
City of Vlotho
Vlotho coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 62  (47-295)  m
Area : 6.17 km²
Residents : 6920  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1,122 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 32602
Area code : 05733
Exter Uffeln Valdorf Vlothomap
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Location of Vlotho in Vlotho

Vlotho is at the Weser situated district of the city of the same Vlotho in East Westphalia Herford . Until December 31, 1968, Vlotho was an independent town in the Vlotho district with the independent communities of Exter and Valdorf. It was enlarged on January 1, 1973 by incorporating the municipality of Uffeln to the right of the Weser in the former Hausberge district . The district of Vlotho, with 6920 inhabitants (as of December 1, 2018), is the most populous in the city, and it is also where the city's administrative center is located.

The district area includes the Ebenöde with Amtshausberg and Steinberg with their forests. The residential area that dominates the rest of the district extends along Lange Straße at the southern foot of the Amtshausberg. It continues from the right bank area of ​​the trout stream to the north slope of the winter mountain to the south of it. Service providers with different functions dominate commercial enterprises (retail, craft, gastronomy, etc.). As in many other small towns, the vacancy problem has increased in size in recent years.

Industry or manufacturing is no longer noticeably present. Particularly in the course of the establishment of Mindener Strasse as a through road L778 over the Weser to the Uffeln district , resident larger companies were relocated to the Hollwiesen industrial area in the Valdorf district in the 1970s .

Population development

The following graphic and table show the population development of the district or the city of Vlotho:

The population development of the district Vlotho (red) according to the table opposite compared to the population development of the municipality (blue)
year Residents
1730 1300
1844 2171
1871 3066
1890 3612
1901 4336
1925 5016
1933 5444
1939 5556
1950 8150
year Residents
1961 8124
1969 8707
1984 7392
2007 7756
2009 7574
2013 6985
2017 6932
2018 6920

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Figures - Data - Facts: Population. In: Vlotho. December 31, 2018, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Numbers, data, facts. In: http://www.vlotho.de/ . City of Vlotho, accessed September 1, 2019 .