Weddinghofen

Weddinghofen City of Bergkamen
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
Good Velmede

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

year Residents 1849 0.356 1890 0.437 1895 0.542 1900 0.625 1905 0.716 1910 0833 1912 0.840 1931 0.825 1938 0.927 1946 1,699 1956 5,035 1960 6,453

year Residents 1987 09,519 2000 10,188 2001 10,338 2002 10,377 2003 10.306 2004 10,242 2005 10,212 2006 10,211 2007 10.182 2008 10,082 2009 09,935 2010 09,815

year Residents 2011 09,729 2012 09,630 2013 09,657 2014 09,666 2015 10.110 2016 10,053 2017 10,052 2018 09,972

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

1. ↑ 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 .
2. ^ House Velmede at GenWiki. Retrieved June 9, 2013 . 
3. ↑ List of the population of the districts
4. ^ 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 .
5. ↑ Municipal directory 1910, Hamm district. Retrieved June 9, 2013 . 
6. ↑ GenWiki Office Unna-Kamen. Retrieved June 9, 2013 . 
7. ^ Otto Lucas: Kreis-Atlas Unna . Unna / Münster 1957
8. ^ 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 .
9. ^ Community coat of arms at Wiki Commons. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .