Weddinghofen
Weddinghofen
City of Bergkamen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 18 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 9 ″ E | |
Height : | 60 m |
Area : | 7.84 km² |
Residents : | 10,052 (December 31, 2017) |
Population density : | 1,282 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1966 |
Postal code : | 59192 |
Area code : | 02307 |
Weddinghofen in Bergkamen
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Good Velmede
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Weddinghofen has been a district of Bergkamen since January 1st, 1966 .
location
Weddinghofen borders immediately to the west on Bergkamen-Mitte . To the south lies Methler , west Oberaden and north of salvation . The district is located on Landesstrasse 664 and Kreisstrasse 9; the federal road 61 touches the place in the southwest. The Federal Highway 2 runs south of the town center. The Kamen / Bergkamen junction is in Weddinghof area.
history
The Gut Haus Velmede is worth mentioning . 1153 confirmed Pope Eugene III. the Cappenberg monastery in Velmede, which has been the seat of part of the von Bodelschwingh family since 1636 , who in the 19th century had two Prussian ministers and also pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the elder , the founder of the health facilities in Bethel near Bielefeld, came from.
At the end of the 19th century, mining in the Ruhr also reached the community. In 1890 the first shaft for what would later become the Zeche Monopol shaft Grimberg 1/2 was sunk. Due to the high demand for workers in the mining industry , there was a corresponding increase in population in the middle of the 20th century.
Population development
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politics
coat of arms
Blazon : “In silver (white) a bar divided into three rows each sixfold in black and gold (yellow); above three and below two black, upright, floating ears of wheat. "
The municipal coat of arms, which was not created until 1959, shows a combination of Mark chess bars (as a sign of earlier membership of the Grafschaft Mark ) and the coat of arms of the two families of Velmede, one coat of arms shows a bevel bar in three rows of black and silver and the other in Silver ten ears of corn.
Education and sport
In Weddinghofen there is a primary school and a grammar school as well as the BALU children's and youth center. There is also the vocational college for technical college . Numerous clubs offer sporting activities in many areas. In addition, the district is home to an outdoor and wave pool, an ice rink and a sports field.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 291 .
- ^ House Velmede at GenWiki. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .
- ↑ List of the population of the districts
- ^ MF Essellen: Description and brief history of the Hamm district and the individual localities in the same . Verlag Reimann GmbH & Co, Hamm 1985, ISBN 3-923846-07-X , p. 179 .
- ↑ Municipal directory 1910, Hamm district. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .
- ↑ GenWiki Office Unna-Kamen. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .
- ^ Otto Lucas: Kreis-Atlas Unna . Unna / Münster 1957
- ^ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Special series on the 1987 census in North Rhine-Westphalia: Population and private households as well as buildings and apartments. Selected results for parts of the community. Arnsberg administrative district . 1990, p. 290 .
- ^ Community coat of arms at Wiki Commons. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .