Wallenhorst

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Wallenhorst (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Osnabrück
Height :	88 m above sea level NHN
Area :	47.18 km 2
Residents:	23,048 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	489 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49134
Area code :	05407
License plate :	OS , BSB, MEL, WTL
Community key :	03 4 59 033
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausallee 1 49134 Wallenhorst
Website :	www.wallenhorst.de
Mayor :	Otto Steinkamp (independent)
Location of the municipality of Wallenhorst in the district of Osnabrück

Leveling point at the new
St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst

Helmich stones in Rulle on the street of the megalithic culture

Wallenhorst is an independent municipality in the district of Osnabrück . Due to the territorial reform in 1972, the current municipality was formed through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Wallenhorst, Hollage , Rulle and Lechtingen . These former communities now form the districts of the community of Wallenhorst.

Geographical location

Wallenhorst is located in the Osnabrücker Land on the southern foothills of the Wiehen Mountains in the middle of the TERRA.vita nature and geopark . The community belongs to the catchment area of ​​the south bordering city of Osnabrück and is about 7 km away from the city center. Other neighboring communities are Bramsche in the north and Belm in the east (both in Lower Saxony ) and Lotte in North Rhine-Westphalia in the west.

The reference height of the German main height network , the normal height zero , is fixed at a height reference point at the New St. Alexander Church. The geopotential elevation of this point was determined in 1986 within the framework of the European leveling network ( UELN ) and forms the basis for all height measurements in Germany.

history

In the Rulle district, the Helmich Stones , a large stone grave of the megalithic culture, bear witness to the oldest traces of settlement. The Wittekindsburg is also located in Rulle . It was an early medieval fortification.

In the oldest part of Wallenhorst, the old village east of today's center , there was probably a pre-Christian sanctuary from the 8th century. It was located on the grounds of the Meyerhof , in the vicinity of which there were other farms. The foundation of the sanctuary was partially used around 800 for the construction of the Old St. Alexander Church . Wallenhorst was first mentioned in the Latin legend De miraculis sancti Alexandri as Walonhurst , where in 851 Wetrih, who had been deprived of his sight, ran towards the Christian martyr Alexander of Rome and miraculously regained his eyesight: Alter vero vir nomine Weltrih oculorum lumine privatus in eodem in villa Walonhurst sancto martyri Alexandro occurrit meritisque eius adiuvantibus visa recepit . The "Hörnschen Hof", which has been documented since 1223, but is probably about 200 years older, was also a Meierhof. The farm north of the old village in the direction of Pente has not been owned by the Hörnschemeyer clan named after him since 1910/11 .

After the completion of the New St. Alexander Church towards the end of the 19th century, the center of Wallenhorst shifted west to the New Village . The new church was built near the 15th century Gothic Anna Chapel on the Bokholt. The Bokholt was the meeting place for the monastery estates of the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück in the 15th and 16th centuries. The old village east of federal highway 68 retained its rural character.

On November 19, 1966, the bridge under construction on the B 68 over Ruller Strasse collapsed. As concreting work was in progress, the witch's stone next to the bridge was largely spilled under the still liquid concrete. It was not exposed again until 1997.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Hollage, Lechtingen and Rulle were incorporated.

Population development

The following overview shows the population of Wallenhorst in each area and on December 31.

The figures are updates by the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony based on the census of May 25, 1987 .

The data from 1961 (June 6) and 1970 (May 27) are the census results including the places that were incorporated on July 1, 1972.

Population development of Wallenhorst from 1961 to 2017. See also section #Medifications

year	Residents
1961	9,700
1970	13,879
1987	20,752
1990	21,604
1995	22,844
2000	23,293
2005	24,135
2010	23,706
2011	23,557
2014	23.001
2016	23,125
2017	22,981
2018	23,081

Denominations

The old St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst

The Gothic Anna Chapel

Wallenhorst is predominantly Catholic, which is reflected in the municipality's coat of arms in the form of a cross, the four diamonds indicate the four districts. Around 15,000 Catholics belong to the three parishes St. Alexander (Wallenhorst, Lechtingen), St. Josef (Hollage and Hollage-Ost) and St. Johannes ( Rulle ). In addition to the Catholic, there are two Evangelical Lutheran parishes: the Andreas parish (Hollage and Alt-Wallenhorst) and the Paul Gerhardt parish ( Lechtingen , Rulle and the Osnabrück district of Haste ) with a good 5,000 members.

The Rulle monastery , a Cistercian abbey, existed in the Rulle district from 1246/47 to 1803 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of the municipality of Wallenhorst consists of 34 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 20,001 and 25,000. The 34 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor Otto Steinkamp (independent) is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The following table shows the local election results since 1972.

Council of the municipality of Wallenhorst: election results and municipal councils
	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		WWG 1		The left		Pirates		CDW / W 3		EB		total		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
1972-1976	-	20th	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		31	86.9
1976-1981	-	19th	-	11	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		33	94.8
1981-1986	-	16	-	8th	-	-	-	2	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-		32	79.5
1986-1991	-	21st	-	9	-	2	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		35	73.5
1991-1996	-	17th	-	10	-	3	-	1	-	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		35	70.9
1996-2001	51.7	19th	29.9	11	9.8	3	1.7	0	7th	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	35	69.5
2001-2006	49.3	18th	38.2	13	4.8	1	1.1	0	6.5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	34	58.7
2006-2011	48.0	16	38.5	13	5.8	2	2.8	1	4.9	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	34	63.5
2011-2016	42.8	15th	31.3	11	12.8	4th	-	-	10.2	3	1.6	1	1.4	0	-	-	-	-	100	34	58.7
2016-2021	28.7	10	31.0	11	6.3	2	3.5	1	8.6	3	2.7	1	1.1	0	18.1	6th	-	-	100	34	63.5
Percentages rounded. Sources: State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, District Osnabrück. In the case of different information in the sources mentioned, the data from the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology were used, as they are generally more plausible. 1 Wallenhorster voter community 2 The FDP did not run in 2011. 3 Christian, Democratic for Wallenhorst - The Voting Group

Mayors, rulers and community directors

In September 2014 Steinkamp was elected the new mayor with 62.8% of the vote, incumbent Belde received 18.4%.

Mayor:

• since 2014 Otto Steinkamp (independent)
• 2000–2014 Ulrich Belde (SPD)
• 1996–2000 Helmut Lahrmann (CDU)
• 1981–1996 Ewald Schawe (CDU)
• 1976–1981 Helmut Krabbe (CDU)
• 1972–1976 August Schawe (CDU)
• 1968–1972 Josef Beckmann
• 1957–1968 Johannes Trimpe
• 1948–1957 Mathias Riepenhoff
• 1946–1948 Johannes Trimpe
• 1945–1946 Heinrich Hardinghaus

Head:

• 1930–1945 Heinrich Hardinghaus
• 1920–1930 Colon Josef Meyer
• 1917–1920 Colon Heinrich Wulf
• 1915–1917 Colon Josef Meyer
• 1906–1915 Colon Heinrich Trimpe
• 1895–1906 Colon Franz Sudowe
• 1893–1895 Colon Heinrich Peddenpohl
• 1886–1893 Colon Johann Mathias Meyer
• 1880–1886 Colon Heinrich Peddenpohl
• 1875–1880 Colon Johann Mathias Meyer
• 1857–1858 Colon Christopher Heinrich Meyer (presumably still head of department after 1858)
• 1849 Colon Christopher Heinrich Meyer
• 1814 Colon Burmeister

Municipal Directors:

• 1984–1996 Walter Klein
• 1972–1984 Hugo Pott
• 1967–1972 Karl-Heinz Voerste
• 1965–1967 Wilhelm Osterfeld

coat of arms

Current coat of arms

Blazon : In green a silver ring, placed over it in the manner of an inclined cross, four silver diamonds, one point towards the center of the shield; the tips do not touch.

The four silver diamonds point to the four former communities Wallenhorst, Hollage, Lechtingen and Rulle. The ring connects them to a common wheel, and the wheel is also the coat of arms symbol of the Bishop of Osnabrück. But it can also be interpreted as an image of the place name Wallenhorst: The wall encloses an eyrie. The cross in the middle reminds of the Saxon Wars and the Christianization of the area. Green did not appear in the coat of arms of the sub-municipalities, the color was chosen as a symbol of the living nature in order to indicate the charming surroundings of Wallenhorst.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Hans-Heinrich Reclam.

Historical coat of arms

Blazon : In red, a golden wheel growing out of the lower edge of the shield, of which six spokes two are completely visible. A running golden hen on the wheel, above it in each of the shield corners a single golden paw cross.

The main character of the coat of arms is the hen. It crowns the top of the Old Alexander Church in Wallenhorst, unlike other churches, which are usually decorated with a rooster. Therefore, the hen is a special landmark and symbol of the place. The wheel is the coat of arms of the diocese and city of Osnabrück, with which there have been various relationships since the early Middle Ages. The two crosses indicate the old and the new church of the place. Gold was chosen for the pictures because the hen was previously gilded (collection letter from Auxiliary Bishop Otto Graf Bronckhorst from 1711); Red corresponds to the field mark of the Lower Saxony coat of arms .

Partner communities

Wallenhorst has had a partnership with the municipality of Stawiguda (Stabigotten) in Poland since June 2002 and with the Italian municipality of Priverno in the province of Lazio since March 2008 .

Honors

Since 2001, the “Stumbling block” has been awarded in Wallenhorst to people who have done an honorary job. A jury made up of volunteers from all areas of community life decides on the topic and those to be honored. The prize will be presented in an evening event on the "kick-off day".

Prize winners:

• 2001: Evelin Risse for the Ecumenical Discussion Group under the motto Future needs an origin
• 2002: Margot Landwehr under the motto With a disability - in the middle of life for her commitment in the disabled sports group of TSV Wallenhorst
• 2003: Patrick Bäune under the motto Where we are is the future: Youth in Wallenhorst for his work in the German Red Cross
• 2004: Nelli and Paul Lenz with their eleven children under the motto stop! together - families in Wallenhorst
• 2005: Ewald Willy Stiene under the motto environmental protection in Wallenhorst: for the sake of the future for his work as a voluntary nature and species protection officer
• 2006: Heinz Schleibaum under the motto Community on the move: Sport in Wallenhorst for his commitment to the Sportfreunde Lechtingen
• 2007: Angela and Ferdinand Ballmann under the motto In the middle of old age: Seniors in Wallenhorst for the Hollage Tuesday meeting
• 2008: Sabine and Thomas Olbert under the motto Rooted in Wallenhorst, open to the world for their commitment to people in Sri Lanka
• 2009: Franz Stavermann under the motto Between Success and Volunteering: Business in Wallenhorst for his voluntary commitment as an entrepreneur in numerous associations and initiatives
• 2010: Horst Klose under the motto We are Wallenhorst - local and immigrated for his integrative youth work
• 2011: Burkhard Hörnschemeyer under the motto Where children, there future for his many years of voluntary work for children, especially from the Chernobyl region
• 2012: Karl-Heinz Voerste under the motto Diversity in Unity: 40 years of the Wallenhorst community for his commitment to the growing together of the community
• 2013: Oliver Brink under the motto This is where the music plays for his voluntary work in child and youth work, especially in the area of ​​early musical education
• 2014: Mathilde Hawighorst under the motto Together and For One Another: Wallenhorsters are committed to supporting old people and their relatives
• 2015: Manfred Schürmann under the motto Education in Wallenhorst - More than school! for his voluntary German lessons for emigrants and refugees
• 2016: Jacqueline Mauter under the motto Young volunteer work - keep it up! Keep doing! for her outstanding services in voluntary work as a local representative of the Malteser relief service
• 2017: Stefanie Wächter under the motto Inclusion - Strong together in Wallenhorst! for their voluntary work in the field of inclusion
• 2018: Peter Papke under the motto Active United in Sport for his voluntary commitment in the sporting field

The stumbling block 2019 will be awarded under the motto Families in Wallenhorst - Volunteering is a matter of honor .

Economy and Infrastructure

media

In Osnabrück, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung appears daily with the local section “Osnabrück Nord”.

The Bürger-Echo is a local information magazine that appears every 14 days and appears in Wallenhorst in the districts of Hollage, Lechtingen, Rulle, Wallenhorst and in Osnabrück-Pye. The publisher is the Wallenhorst e. V.

"Wallenhorster" is a news portal founded in summer 2016 for the municipality of Wallenhorster and offers current news and dates. “Wallenhorster” is available as a free app and as an online magazine.

education

In the district of Wallenhorst there is a secondary school , a secondary school and a primary school , in the districts of Rulle and Lechtingen there is one more primary schools and in Hollage two primary schools.

The WABE-Zentrum - Klaus-Bahlsen-Haus, the trial operation of the Ecotrophology course at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences is located in Wallenhorst . In addition, the "Waldhof" is located on the same site as a test facility for the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture.

The Competence Center ISOBUS  e. V. (CCI) is a registered association for the promotion of technical further development, the accelerated introduction into practice and the international implementation of ISOBUS, a data transmission system for agricultural engineering. The seat is the test farm Waldhof.

commuter

In 2013, the municipality of Wallenhorst had 7,551 out- commuters among employees subject to social insurance , of which 4,482 commuters from Wallenhorst drove to Osnabrück to work. Conversely, there were 4,116 commuters to Wallenhorst among employees subject to social insurance in 2013 , of which 1,111 commuters from Osnabrück came to Wallenhorst.

traffic

Street

The A 1 Puttgarden - Saarbrücken motorway runs through Wallenhorst . The community can be reached directly via the “Osnabrück-Nord” exit. In addition, the B 68 Cloppenburg - Scherfede federal road runs through the municipality, as does the L109 state road .

The scenic routes Route of Megalithic Culture and Bramgau route running through the territory of Wallenhorst.

Bus transport

Wallenhorst is directly integrated into the local road traffic of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Osnabrück through the lines 533 and 581-586. The main carriers of the mileage are the bus companies of Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG and Weser-Ems Bus GmbH . As a result, Wallenhorst, Hollage, Rulle and Lechtingen have an attractive bus connection to Osnabrück with frequent traffic (usually every 20/40 minutes or every 30 minutes). There are also individual bus connections to Icker and Damme.

There are very strong commuter links between the municipality of Wallenhorst and the city of Osnabrück, which is why the municipality subsidizes the bus connections from all parts of the city to Osnabrück that have been good up to now.

Rail transport

Wallenhorst does not have its own train connection. The next train station just 1 km west of the municipality is the Halen train station in Lotte, where the regional train line RB 58 runs every hour from Osnabrück to Bremen. Bramsche train station is next to the north. There are connections to the RB 58 and RE 18 (Osnabrück - Wilhelmshaven). To the south, the closest stop is Osnabrück Altstadt . All bus routes with destination Osnabrück go to the train station; the bus stop is called (after the old name of the train station and the location at Osnabrücker Hasetor) "Hasetor / Bahnhof Altstadt". There you can board the regional lines RE 18 (Osnabrück - Wilhelmshaven), RB 58 (Osnabrück - Bremen), RE 60 (Rheine - Braunschweig) and RB 61 (Bad Bentheim - Bielefeld). The next train station is the Osnabrück main station . Almost all bus lines that have the destination Osnabrück lead there. There are further connections to regional and long-distance trains.

air traffic

The international airport Münster-Osnabrück (FMO) in Greven is about 45 kilometers away and can be reached directly via the A1. There is an express bus connection from Verkehrsgemeinschaft Osnabrück (VOS) from downtown Osnabrück to Münster-Osnabrück Airport and back with the express bus X150.

Shipping

Hollager lock in the Osnabrück branch canal

In the west of Wallenhorst , the Osnabrück branch canal , also known as the Osnabrück branch canal, runs parallel to the Hase, which was built between 1910 and 1915 . In the area of ​​the municipality of Wallenhorst there is a marina and the Hollage lock . The canal is used by cargo ships and by leisure vessels. A passenger ship runs regularly on weekends between the Hollage lock and the confluence of the branch canal with the Mittelland Canal during the summer months .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Wallenhorst

• Georg Budke (1900–1994), CDU politician
• Georg Hörnschemeyer (1907–1983), sculptor
• Barbara Hardinghaus (* 1975), reporter at "Spiegel"
• Hubert Müller (1936–1995), Catholic priest, theologian and canon lawyer
• Johanna Voss (* 1957), politician Die Linke

Personalities associated with the community

• Hans Josef Becher (1927–1993), actor, dramaturge and acting teacher, died in 1993 in Wallenhorst
• Stefanie Hiekmann (* 1990), food journalist and cookbook author, grew up in the Wallenhorster district of Lechtingen
• Clemens Lammerskitten (* 1957), politician (CDU)
• Stefan Niggemeier (* 1969), media journalist, grew up in the Wallenhorst districts of Rulle and Lechtingen
• Horst Georg Pöhlmann (* 1933), German Protestant theologian, lives in Wallenhorst
• Oliver Schawe (* 1969), former world champion in kickboxing and world cup winner in taekwondo
• Irmgard Vogelsang (1946–2019), politician (CDU)

Trivia

A roundabout built in the Wallenhorst center attracted a lot of media attention in 2014 due to an expensive lighting system. Public and private television reported on the relatively expensive manhole covers, which were illuminated with LED lamps and which cost 10,000 euros to install. In the following year, 2015, these manhole covers were mentioned in the Black Book of the Taxpayers Association.

literature

• Joseph Martin, Die Vogtei Wallenhorst in the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648. Events, consequences and effects of the Peace of Westphalia. Wallenhorst, 1998. ISBN 3-9805-6614-5

Web links

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

• Homepage of the community of Wallenhorst

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ Georg von der Haar: The history of the court and the clan of the Hörnschemeyer zu Wallenhorst, a contribution to the settlement and local history of the Osnabrück area. Georgsmarienhütte 1971
3. ^ New bridge building collapsed near Osnabrück . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . November 21, 1966, p. 5 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 258 .
5. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, population update
6. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 6, 2014
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Franz-Joseph Hawighorst: 1150 years Wallenhorst . Ed .: Wallenhorst community. Druck- und Verlagshaus Fromm, 2001, Self-government in the areas, p. 875 .
8. ↑ Wallenhorst 2011 election results ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2015 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. 
9. ^ Wallenhorst municipality: election results Wallenhorst municipal council election 2016. (PDF) Wallenhorst municipality, accessed on March 31, 2017 . 
10. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, Table 5000311
11. ↑ Landkreis Osnabrück, official final results of the district election on September 9, 2001 ( Memento from May 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ The municipal election for the district of Osnabrück from September 11, 2011 (also includes 2006 results). (PDF 8.0MB) Osnabrück district, accessed on March 6, 2016 .  Page 47 "Municipal elections" column
13. ^ Wallenhorster voter community - politics by citizens for citizens. Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Achieving the best together for Wallenhorst! - Imprint. Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 
15. ↑ http://www.noz.de/lokales/wallenhorst/artikel/510183/wallenhorster-neuanfang-mit-steinkamp#gallery&49991&0&510183
16. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/wallenhorst/artikel/459509/neue-gediktafel-am-schawe-denkmal-in-rulle In Neuer Osnabrücker Zeitung on March 17, 2014: "New memorial plaque at the Schawe memorial in Rulle "; accessed on September 28, 2018
17. ^ Franz-Joseph Hawighorst: 1150 years of Wallenhorst . Ed .: Wallenhorst community. Druck- und Verlagshaus Fromm, 2001, Self-government in the areas, p. 876 f .
18. ^ Franz-Joseph Hawighorst: 1150 years of Wallenhorst . Ed .: Wallenhorst community. Druck- und Verlagshaus Fromm, 2001, Self-government in the areas, p. 850 f .
19. ^ Franz-Joseph Hawighorst: 1150 years of Wallenhorst . Ed .: Wallenhorst community. Druck- und Verlagshaus Fromm, 2001, Self-government in the areas, p. 878 .
20. ↑ The day of the kick-off ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. Retrieved October 9, 2015. 
21. ^ Wallenhorst news - Wallenhorst news. In: Wallenhorster. Retrieved July 22, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from September 20, 2014
23. ↑ Black Book Bund der Steuerpayers, Luminous manhole covers in the roundabout ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2015 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. accessed on September 30, 2015