Vreden
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Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ N , 6 ° 49 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Muenster | |
| Circle : | Bark | |
| Height : | 32 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 135.83 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 22,670 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 167 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 48691 | |
| Primaries : | 02564, 02567 | |
| License plate : | BOR, AH, BOH | |
| Community key : | 05 5 54 068 | |
| LOCODE : | DE VRE | |
| City structure: | City center, 5 church villages , 5 farmers | |
City administration address : |
Burgstrasse 14 48691 Vreden |
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| Mayor : | Christoph Holtwisch ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the town of Vreden in the Borken district | ||
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Vreden ( Low German Vrene ) is a city in the western Münsterland , in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the district of Borken in the administrative district of Münster .
The municipal profile of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Office for Information and Technology identifies Vreden as a “ small medium-sized town ”.
geography
location
Vreden is located in the western Münsterland , in the transition from the North German Plain to the Lower Rhine . The river Berkel and the Ölbach flow through Vreden. Other larger flowing waters are the Moorbach, which flows into the Ölbach in the city area, as well as the Ausbach (city center), the Huningbach (Ammeloe) and the Emrichbach (Wennewick-Oldenkott), each of which flows into the Berkel.
From a natural perspective, the Vreden area is part of the Vreden-Gronauer Niederungen , part of the Westmünsterland .
The Münsterland park landscape surrounding Vreden is characterized by meadows and forests, heathland and moorland ( Venn ).
Neighboring communities
German neighboring communities of Vreden are Ahaus , Stadtlohn and Südlohn . However, the largest part of the municipal boundary is made up of the state border with the Netherlands .
On the Dutch side, since the Dutch municipal reform on January 1, 2005, Vreden has bordered the province of Gelderland with the municipalities of Winterswijk , Oost Gelre (formerly Groenlo) and Berkelland (formerly Eibergen ) and the province of Overijssel with the municipality of Haaksbergen .
City structure
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The city is divided into the city center , the five Kirchdörfer Ammeloe , Ellewick-Crosewick, Lünten , Wennewick-Oldenkott and Zwillbrock and the five farming communities Doemern, Gaxel, Large mast, mast and Small Köckelwick.
Starting from the medieval city, the city center itself expanded almost circularly and evenly in all directions within the city walls. The bypass road, which began in several sections in the 1970s and was completed in 2006 through the closure of the ring, mostly forms the end of the closed development.
The various settlements built after the war on the area of the then independent Ammeloe Office, which were originally outside the city, are now part of closed development due to the extensive expansion of the city, although some of them are located outside the outer ring (bypass).
With the "Marienhook" in Gaxel and the holiday home area "Seerose" (also in Gaxel), there are only two larger settlement areas outside the actual city or the parish villages.
history
Excavation finds show that the area of the Zwillbrocker Venn was settled more than 10,000 years ago. In the area of today's urban development, archaeological finds reach back to around the fifth century BC. BC back.
From the Xanten annals it emerges that in 839 the relics of three saints were transferred to Vreden. The bone dust of St. Felicitas is still lying in the altar of the collegiate church . The other two saints were Felicissimus and Agapitus . This is the first written mention of Vreden and should coincide with the founding of the women's monastery in Vreden.
In 1016, Count Wichmann III. , a Billunger and relative of the royal family, buried in Vreden.
At the end of 1024, the newly elected King Konrad II visited Vreden as part of his royal ride. There he was received by the abbesses Adelheid von Vreden and Sophia von Essen , the daughters of Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophanu and sisters of the late Emperor Otto III. were.
While the monastery, which was directly under the empire , belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne , the municipality belonged to the Diocese of Münster . In 1252 the Archbishop of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster undertook to expand and fortify Vreden as a city. Vreden thus received city rights. As part of the Munster collegiate feud , Vreden was besieged and captured several times between 1451 and 1455. In 1470 Vreden became a member of the Hanseatic League . Within the Hanseatic League, Vreden belonged to the Braem district . The Braemquartier was one of the two sub-quarters in the Münster Hansequartier. Its suburb (principal place) was Coesfeld .
The Eighty Years 'War in the neighboring Netherlands and the Thirty Years' War also affected Vreden. In 1598 Vreden was occupied by Spanish troops. It was not until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 that hostilities ended. The border between the Diocese of Münster and the Archdiocese of Utrecht became the state border that exists today. At around the same time the Berkel shipping was started.
In 1811 Vreden fell temporarily to France . In the same year a city fire destroyed large parts of the city. A second catastrophic fire occurred in 1857. To promote the local economy, the Sparkasse was founded in 1841 , the third in the Münsterland. Many industrial companies, especially weaving and spinning mills, started production in the 19th century. Nevertheless, it was not until 1903 that Vreden was connected to the North Railway of the Westphalian State Railway .
Large parts of the city and industry, including the two churches, were destroyed in the Second World War by air raids shortly before the end of the war. While the collegiate church was being rebuilt, the ruins of the parish church of St. George had to give way to a new building. During the construction work, the foundations of several predecessor churches were discovered under St. George, which go back to the time of the first millennium AD.
After the war, the city grew steadily and exceeded the 20,000 mark in the 1990s. The textile industry increasingly gave way to a well diversified mix of different industries.
On July 1, 1969, the Ammeloe Office (131.88 km²), which was administratively independent as a rural municipality since the beginning of the 19th century , and the town of Vreden (then 3.71 km²) were merged to form the new town of Vreden.
In the course of the local reorganization , the previous Ahaus district , to which Vreden had belonged since 1816, was incorporated into the expanded, new Borken district on January 1, 1975 . The local court in Vreden was dissolved shortly before, the responsible local court has been Ahaus since then .
population
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On January 1, 2019, a total of 23,768 people (main and secondary residence) were registered in Vreden.
politics
City council
Five parliamentary groups are represented in the Vreden city council. The council consists of 34 members and the mayor (Christoph Holtwisch, CDU). Composition after the local elections on May 25, 2014 :
The previous mayor Dr. Christoph Holtwisch (CDU) was re-elected with 54.0% of the votes cast.
The turnout was 59.7%, 5.8 percentage points below the turnout in the 2009 local elections.
MPs
- Johannes Röring (CDU) has represented the Borken II constituency in the German Bundestag since 2005 .
- Ursula Schulte (SPD) was elected to the German Bundestag in September 2013 via the state list .
- Bernhard Tenhumberg (CDU) represented the Borken II state constituency from 1995 to 2017 in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Town twinning
Vreden has had a town partnership with Elsterwerda in Brandenburg since 1990 .
coat of arms
In the middle of the 13th century, Vreden was expanded as a city by the Archbishop of Cologne and the Bishop of Munster , who ruled Vreden together . The seal of the city shows the diocese patrons Paulus ( Münster ) and Petrus ( Cologne ) in front of a split shield. This shows the Cologne Cross at the front and the Munster bar at the back. This shield is the coat of arms of the city of Vreden. The golden bar, actually on a red background, can be traced back to a wrong color scheme at the end of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century.
Since the mid-1970s, the seal image, which contains the actual coat of arms, has been used almost exclusively.
Religions
Catholic parish
The Roman Catholic Church has a prominent position in the history of Vreden. Excavation finds under St. George's Church showed that one of the first church buildings in the Münster diocese was in Vreden. In the Middle Ages, the bishops of Cologne and above all Münster determined the fate of Vreden. Heinrich Tenhumberg , who was born in Vreden-Lünten, is also a former bishop of Münster from Vreden.
Chaplain Leo Grüner was one of those Catholics who spoke out against the Nazi persecution of Jews in 1938. He became known for being persecuted by the Gestapo.
To this day more than 80% of the population profess the Catholic faith, which is often present in everyday life in the form of buildings, various associations, processions, etc. As in other parishes in Westmünsterland, the proportion of Catholics was well over 90 percent by the end of the Second World War.
The importance of the Catholic faith can also be found in the cityscape. With the St. Georgs parish church and the former collegiate church of St. Felizitas located directly next to it at Kirchplatz 1, two sacred buildings dominate the inner city area. Both churches are in the area of the former monastery immunity , which is still reminiscent of the street name "Freiheit". Unfortunately, other buildings of the women's monastery are no longer preserved. Only the name of the so-called Matthias House (a new building from the 1980s) is reminiscent of the canons' building that used to be there.
The former Poor Clare monastery and the Franciscan monastery are also no longer preserved . However, friars settled on the Schulze Früchting's farm in Ellewick in the 20th century. The buildings previously located there (house and outbuildings) were subsequently dismantled and rebuilt in the city park, where they form the core of the farmhouse museum located there. The religious order now operates the “Haus Früchting” facility for the disabled in Ellewick and has its own chapel.
In addition, the towns of Ammeloe, Ellewick-Crosewick, Lünten, Wennewick-Oldenkott and Zwillbrock have Catholic places of worship. Due to its baroque interior, the St. Franziskus Church in Zwillbrock is known far beyond the region. Various chapels, wayside shrines and rosary stations complete the list of consecrated buildings. The St. Antonius Church of the St. Antoniusheim workers' colony , built from 1912 to 1916, on the other hand, where St. Mass was read, was profaned on January 31, 2010 . The church of St. Mary in the city was also desecrated on November 20, 2011, following a decision by the diocese. In March 2015, the church and its outbuildings were demolished. Only the church tower remained standing.
The Catholic parishes of Vredens, which used to include the parish of St. Georg in Ottenstein , were merged into the new parish of Vreden St. Georg in September 2007. They are assigned to the Vreden deanery , which also includes the municipalities of Stadtlohn and Südlohn-Oeding.
Evangelical parish
After the beginning of the Reformation , many residents of Vreden changed to the new faith in 1550. Even in the age of confessionalization in the 17th century, the influence of Catholic forces on the one hand and that of the Reformed to and fro fluctuated. From the beginning of the so - called Counter - Reformation , the number of Evangelicals decreased more and more, but even in the 18th century several Vreden families were still Protestant. They were members of the Reformed parish in Rekken, the Netherlands. After the Congress of Vienna , Vreden came to Prussia with the Münsterland. The Prussian upper class (high officials, teachers, judges, etc.) was preferentially Protestant. Therefore, a Protestant congregation was soon founded again, which received its first church building in 1860.
In the 1970s, this was replaced by a community center with a church and multifunctional rooms at Mauerstraße 14. The community grew strongly in the second half of the 20th century due to the influx of people who were expelled from the east. The parish of Vreden-Stadtlohn-Oeding has around 4,500 parishioners today. Two services are celebrated every Sunday. The parish is looked after by two full-time pastors; she runs a kindergarten.
Other parishes
The New Apostolic congregation has a church building in a congregation center that was expanded a few years ago to create more space. The New Apostolic Church is located in a residential area at the intersection of Polstrasse and Süringstrasse. It is attended not only by Vredener members, but also by New Apostolic Christians from all over the old Ahaus district.
The Evangelical Free Church Vreden, which has its historical roots in the Anabaptist movement of the Reformation in the Netherlands and Switzerland and is networked nationwide in the Mennonite Brethren Community , has its own in Bahnhofstr. 11 about a church and other premises for church services and meetings of the congregation.
Jewish community
As in most German cities, the racial madness of the Nazi era also led to the end of the Jewish community in Vreden . In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was damaged and later demolished. A memorial plaque and the street name “Zur Synagoge” remind of their location.
After the war a Jewish community was never established again. Therefore, two Jewish cemeteries , the Old Jewish Cemetery and the New Jewish Cemetery , are currently the only public testimonies to the Jewish faith.
Religious affiliation in numbers
(As of December 31, 2005)
- 90.87% Roman Catholic
- 9.06% Protestant
- 0.07% other / without
Culture and sights
Museums
The most important cultural institution in Vreden is the cult Westmünsterland , which continues the former Hamaland Museum . The cult is also the district museum of the Borken district. It deals with the cultural and historical development of the western Münsterland .
There is also the Vreden Farmhouse Museum in the city park of Vreden . This is a historical courtyard complex made up of eleven farmhouses and outbuildings (mill, bakery, coach house, etc.) that have been moved there.
Other museums and educational institutions are (partly privately run):
- Paper cutting museum
- Miniature Shoe Museum
- Erning Sculpture Park
- Heimathaus Noldes (in Vreden-Ammeloe)
- Berkel power plant
- Biological station Zwillbrock
Buildings
In March 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War , Vreden was the target of air raids, which particularly damaged the inner-city area. Many buildings were completely rebuilt in the course of the reconstruction. The list of architectural monuments in Vreden therefore includes comparatively few buildings in the city center.
The following structures are particularly noteworthy:
- Historical remains of the castle complex
- Baroque mansion (today both part of the town hall)
- Old Town Hall (on the market square)
- Collegiate Church of St. Felizitas with the Vredener Hunger cloth from 1619
- Historical remains of an old church (foundations) under the parish church of St. George
- Maria Brunn Chapel
- Baroque church Zwillbrock
Parks
Vreden is located in the so-called Münsterland park landscape . Therefore there are several landscapes outside the settlement areas that have a park-like character. The most prominent example is the Zwillbrocker Venn , which is home to the largest black-headed gull colony in Europe as well as the northernmost breeding colony of flamingos .
The city park serves as an inner-city recreational area. Various sculptures were installed in the park, including several that were created as part of a sculpture symposium in 1977 in collaboration with the Folkwang School in Essen .
The remaining parts of the moat and the Butenwall are in the immediate vicinity of the city park. Similar to the promenade in Münster , the Butenwall is a ring formerly outside the city fortifications, which can only be used to a limited extent by motorists.
The Erning couple's private sculpture park is not open to the public. According to Westfalenspiegel, the extensive plot of land on the outskirts is "one of the most beautiful natural works of art that were created on a private initiative". Many sculptures created by the initiators are presented in the park. Further creations of the artists can be found in various places in the cityscape.
Regular events
The most important event in the Vreden area is the annual Vreden fair, which takes place from Saturday to Monday on the first weekend in September. On average, over 80,000 visitors come to this large festival in the city center, which is closed for this purpose. This makes it the second largest fair in the Borken district and the largest in the Ahaus district . In keeping with its Catholic origins as a parish festival , it is still celebrated today as a religious festival with a procession .
Furthermore, the Hamalandtag, the Hanseatic Market, the Heimattag and the Jazz Days take place annually or every two years. In addition, the local shooting clubs organize their shooting festivals annually (citizen shooting club: every two years).
Sports associations, clubs and neighborhoods also organize a wide variety of small and large events, which are often open to the public (for example, Midsummer Run, New Year's Run, the so-called "Scene 80" parties or the "Blue-Yellow Night").
Clubs (selection)
Cultural and traditional associations
- Homeland and Antiquity Association of the Vredener Lande. V., founder of the Hamaland Museum
- General Citizens' Rifle Club St. Georg e. V. Vreden
- Vredener Georgspfadfinder e. V.
Further shooting clubs exist in all peasant communities and districts.
sports clubs
- TV Vreden 1922 e. V. (largest Vreden club for competitive and popular sports, including badminton, handball, athletics and water polo)
- SpVgg Vreden (soccer)
- DLRG local group Vreden
- Sportschützen Vreden 1960 e. V
- Celtic Stepfire 2004 e. V
- Endurance team Vreden e. V
There are other football clubs in Vreden (FC Vreden) and the districts (ASV Ellewick-Crosewick, SF Ammeloe and Grün-Weiß Lünten). There are independent clubs for other sports, with the DHG Ammeloe-Ellewick being formed from the formerly independent women's handball teams of ASV Ellewick and SF Ammeloe.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Street
Due to its geographical peripheral location, Vreden was not directly connected to the federal trunk road network for a long time. As part of a reorganization, the former L 572 was upgraded to a federal road with effect from January 1, 2010 , so that the B 70 Vreden now crosses in a north-south direction. In addition, the state roads L 560 and L 608 run through Vreden.
The closest German autobahns are the A 31 (about 20 km away) and the A 3 , A 30 and A 43 highways , each about 35–40 km away. On the Dutch side, the distance to the trunk road network is about 10–15 km (national roads N 18 , N 313 , N 318 and N 319 ) and 25 km (motorways A 18 and A 35 ).
In the inner city, three ring roads lead around the city center, whereby the so-called Butenwall, which surrounds the historic city center, is mostly closed to motorized traffic. The outer ring has been open to traffic since late summer 2006. The districts are connected via county roads.
The SchnellBus line S 70 connects Vreden with Ahaus and continues through the Westmünsterland to the Münster regional center. RegioBus, NachtBus and BürgerBus lines complement the public transport offer.
bicycle
Several cycle paths lead through Vreden, u. a. the European cycle route R1 (leads from France to Russia), the 100 castles route , the flamingo route and the agri cultura route.
railroad
Traffic on the Stadtlohn – Vreden railway was suspended on May 31, 1958 (passenger traffic) and in the 1980s (freight traffic). The nearest train stations are Winterswijk on the Zutphen – Winterswijk line , Ahaus on the Dortmund – Enschede line and Borken on the Borken – Essen line .
shipping
The Berkel shipping came to a standstill in the 19th century.
Airfield
The airfield “ Flugplatz Stadtlohn-Vreden ” is located on the municipal boundary to Stadtlohn , which, in addition to sailing and leisure pilots, can also be flown to or from on business. The runway is currently 1,200 meters long, an extension to around 1,800 meters is being planned. The closest airports, Münster-Osnabrück and Düsseldorf, are around an hour's drive away.
education
In Vreden, pupils will find a largely complete range of schools. With the St. Norbert School and the St. Marien School, two elementary schools are located in the city center. The Hamaland School was created from the amalgamation of the previously independent primary schools in Ammeloe, Ellewick and Lünten. All three locations will continue to operate under the umbrella of the school network. Other (elementary) schools used to exist in various farmers' associations, but have been closed over the years. The Großemast primary school last closed in 2009.
There are currently three school types available for secondary schools. The Georgianum grammar school was founded in 1677 . The school is located on the school campus at Widukind Stadium. The secondary school founded in 2013 is also located there. This started after the "Hoimar von Ditfurth-Realschule" and the secondary school "St. Georg ”were expired for the 2013/2014 school year. The secondary school “St. Georg ”, in turn, arose from the merger of the previously independent Walbert School (secondary school) with the“ old ”secondary school St. Georg.
The range of schools on the south-eastern edge of the city center is supplemented by the St. Felicitas School. The “old” St. George School was also located in the immediate vicinity.
There is additional educational offer from the adult education center , which appears under the name "current forum". This is a special purpose association of the cities of Ahaus, Stadtlohn and Vreden as well as the municipalities of Heek , Legden , Schöppingen and Südlohn. The music school, on the other hand, has long been a joint offer with the municipality of Südlohn, but is now exclusively supported by the city of Vreden.
Established businesses
The economic structure in Vreden is shaped by industrial companies in a wide variety of sectors: jewelry, graphics, wood and plastic processing, steel, machine and vehicle construction, textile and clothing companies and paper production. The focus is on medium-sized companies.
In addition, there are many craft businesses in Vreden that are known nationwide due to their high performance. An example of this are the shoemakers Wessels, whose origins go back to 1745. The family business has specialized in unusual footwear, especially oversized shoes. The construction and ancillary trades have a special status because of the brisk construction activity.
The Vreden-based company PlanET Biogastechnik was awarded the “Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Companies” in 2006 for its innovative ideas in the field of renewable energies.
Important industries and employers are (selection):
- Vehicle construction: Schmitz Cargobull , H & W Nutzfahrzeugtechnik GmbH, LANSING Fahrzeugbau GmbH,
- Metal construction: LANSING Metallbau GmbH & Co. KG, Metall- & Alubau GmbH & Co. KG, LM Metallbau GmbH, BEUTING Metalltechnik GmbH & Co. KG,
- Graphic industry: SAUERESSIG GmbH + Co. KG, SAUERESSIG FLEXO GmbH & Co. KG, Matthews Europe GmbH & Co. KG, Laudert GmbH & Co. KG, KruseMedien GmbH, CAD Creativity And Design GmbH & Co. KG
- Plastics production and processing: Quadrant AG , Wefapress Beck + Co GmbH, Terbrack Kunststoff GmbH + Co. KG, Indiana Gummi GmbH, Arcoplast Kunststoff GmbH, bwn Kunststofftechnik GmbH
- Mechanical engineering: Severt Maschinenbau GmbH
- Jewelry production: Niessing Manufaktur GmbH & Co. KG ,
- Shopfitting: Dula-Werke Dustmann & Co GmbH, Lieba Lichtelementebau GmbH & Co. KG, OBV Objektbau Bomers GmbH,
- Woodworking: joinery - carpentry Tenhumberg GmbH
- Extraction and filter technology: Kemper GmbH
- Renewable energies: PlanET Biogastechnik GmbH
- Window production: VENTANA DEUTSCHLAND GmbH & Co. KG, LANSING Metallbau GmbH & Co. KG, Bröcking Fenster OHG, Fenestra Fensterbau Gericks GmbH
- Schuhmanufaktur: WESSELS shoes plus sizes
- Paper production: Papierfabrik Vreden GmbH
Public facilities
- Regional Studies Institute Westmünsterland
- Workers' colony St. Antoniusheim Vreden
Special events
Basics of the social market economy
Towards the end of the Second World War , the " Institute for Textile Market Economy" of the Westphalian Wilhelms University was relocated from Münster to Vreden-Ellewick in order to protect it from Allied bombing .
During this time, the head of the institute, Alfred Müller-Armack , developed the basics of the social market economy , which he published in 1947 in his book "Wirtschaftslenken und Marktwirtschaft". He is therefore also one of the fathers of the economic miracle . When the D-Mark was issued in Germany on June 21, 1948 , Müller-Armack was staying in Vreden and himself helping to distribute the new notes to the population.
Muensterland snow chaos
Vreden became known nationwide when on November 25, 2005, due to the so-called Münsterland snow chaos , a severe onset of winter, large parts of the city of Vreden were cut off from the power supply for several days. The load of heavy snow caused seven steel frame power pylons of the 110 kV overhead line and 22 smaller concrete pylons to collapse.
Cross-border flower parade
The only cross-border flower parade takes place in Vreden. Since 1912, the Rekken Flower Parade Association has been moving across the German-Dutch border to the Vreden church village of Wennewick-Oldenkott at the end of August.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Judocus Vredis (* 1493 as Jost Pelser; † 1558) was prior of the Carthusian convent. He created small-format, finely divided clay reliefs that can be found today in many important museums and collections in Western Europe.
- Karl von Kerssenbrock (December 16, 1750; † November 20, 1829) was abbot of the Liesborn monastery
- Isaak Auerbach (* 1827; † 1875) was an architect who was particularly successful in Cologne.
- Wilhelm Siehoff (* 1881; † 1953) was the two-time Lord Mayor of Münster for the Center Party.
- Joseph Gerdes (* 1884, † 1959) was district administrator in the Warendorf district and represented in Beckum and Tecklenburg
- Fritz Terhalle (born October 20, 1889; † September 8, 1962 in Munich ) was an economist and chairman of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Finance .
- Johann Bockwinkel (born August 19, 1910 - † July 23, 1999 in San Lorenzo , Paraguay ) was a missionary and prelate of Encarnación in Paraguay
- Heinrich Tenhumberg (born June 4, 1915, † September 16, 1979 in Münster ) was Bishop of Münster .
- Prelate Wilhelm Wissing (born January 31, 1916, † November 12, 1996 in Coesfeld ) was president of the papal missionary organization Missio .
- Aloys Terbille (born December 30, 1936 - October 30, 2009) was a teacher and Low German author
- Ralf Willing (born February 25, 1949); trumpeter
- Martin Plewa (born May 6, 1950); former national coach of eventing riders .
- Bernhard Tenhumberg (born March 15, 1956) was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament for the CDU from 1995 to 2017 .
- Johannes Röring (born May 16, 1959) has been a member of the Bundestag for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag in Berlin since September 18, 2005 .
- Dirk Korthals (born March 22, 1962) is a former swimmer (silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games).
- Thomas Suddendorf (* 1967) is a psychologist.
- Claus Hecking (* 1975), journalist and political scientist.
Personalities associated with Vreden
- Count Wichmann III. († 1016), a Billunger and relative of the royal family, was buried in Vreden.
- Adelheid I († around 1040/1044), daughter of Emperor Otto II and Theophanu , was abbess in Vreden.
- Claudia Seraphica von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck (* 1625 † 1688), was abbess at Freckenhorst Abbey and Heerse Abbey .
- Johann Heinrich Cohausen (* 1665 in Hildesheim ; † July 13, 1750 in Vreden) was the personal physician of the Bishop of Münster and a medical-satirical writer.
- Jodocus Hermann Nünning (* 1675 in Schüttdorf ; † 1753 in Borken ) was a scholaster at Vreden Abbey .
- Bernhard Rave (born September 25, 1793 in Ramsdorf; † August 29, 1866) was mayor of Vreden from 1820–1866.
- Alfred Müller-Armack (* 1901 in Essen, † 1978 in Cologne) worked out the basics of the social market economy in Vreden-Ellewick .
- Maria Beerlage , double world champion in artificial cycling , lives in Vreden.
- Henning Siemens (* 1974), handball player
- Jörg Philipp Terhechte (* 1975), lawyer and university professor, grew up in Vreden and attended the Georgianum grammar school there
literature
history
in order of appearance
- Friedrich Tenhagen: Collected treatises on the history of Vreden . Vreden Local History and Antiquity Association, Vreden 1939.
- City of Vreden (ed.): Vreden after 1150 years. On the occasion of the first documentary mention 1150 years ago . Vreden 1989.
- Hermann Terhalle: Vreden at the turn of the millennium (= contributions of the Vreden Heimatverein to regional and folklore, vol. 50). Vreden 1999.
- Hans-Werner Peine, Hermann Terhalle (eds.): Stift - Stadt - Land, Vreden in the mirror of archeology (= contributions of the Vreden Heimatverein to regional and folklore, vol. 69). Vreden 2005.
- Volker Tschuschke (Red.): Modern times. Pieces of the mosaic on the development of Vreden in the 19th and 20th centuries (= contributions of the Vreden Heimatverein to regional and folklore, vol. 91). Vreden 2005, ISBN 978-3-926627-70-4 .
Further publications of the Heimatverein
The Heimat- und Altertumsverein Vreden is the publisher of a series of 101 volumes (as of July 2020) that deals with the history of Vreden and the West Munsterland. The extensive publications of the Heimatverein are summarized and indexed using keywords in:
- The publications of the Heimatverein Vreden (= contributions of the Heimatverein Vreden on regional and folklore, vol. 57), compiled by Hermann Terhalle, Vreden 1999.
Web links
- City of Vreden
- Link catalog on Vreden at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Social market economy from the monastery cell - "A search for traces" by Claus Hecking (Vreden-Ellewick) in the Financial Times Deutschland on February 23, 2007 ( Memento from February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Vreden in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
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- ↑ 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. , vhs-aktuellesforum.de; accessed on November 14, 2016
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