Welver
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ' N , 7 ° 57' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Soest | |
| Height : | 83 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 85.62 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 11,833 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 138 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 59514 | |
| Primaries : | 02384, 02921 | |
| License plate : | SO, LP | |
| Community key : | 05 9 74 048 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WLV | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Am Markt 4 59514 Welver |
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| Mayor : | Uwe Schumacher (independent) | |
| Location of the community of Welver in the Soest district | ||
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Welver is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Soest district .
geography
Neighboring communities
Clockwise from the north, Welver borders on Lippetal , Soest , Werl (Soest district) and the independent city of Hamm .
Districts
Today's community was formed in 1969 as part of the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia ; it comprises 20 districts.
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history
Prehistory and early history
Early historical finds made by interested friends of the homeland and farmers in and around Welver in the past decades have shed a lot of light on our prehistoric times. Some of these surface finds, which come to light through ever deeper soil cultivation, can be seen in the Burghof Museum in Soest and in the Welver home. These finds, which are all registered and drawn on maps, including those that remain in private ownership, provide a summarized insight into the settlement of our homeland before the first documents report on the people and their actions. The soil deeds and their preservation and evaluation are of great importance for present and future research. Like the Bronze Age, the Iron Age has left its mark, but finds from this period (Bronze Age, 2000 BC to 750 BC) are rare, as iron and bronze objects in the ground have often not survived to our day. Iron and bronze could also be recycled. Finds from the Neolithic Age (5000 to 2000 BC) are particularly common, and older finds have also been recorded. A special soil document that indicates a larger settlement is a prehistoric earth fortification system in Kuhholz near Kirchwelver. It is cut through by Recklingser Straße on the north side from west to east. The pond, which is still preserved within the complex, is popularly known as "Walhalla". In his essays on prehistory and early history, Diedrichs writes in the Soest magazine that the Wallburg in Welver is one of the sites that do not yet allow a perfect time setting. This will probably be reserved for later research.
Manor house
The name “Welver” appears for the first time in a document from Archbishop Philipp I of Heinsberg of Cologne , which was issued on April 12, 1179 in Soest. The content of the document confirms the exchange of two farms between the monasteries Oelinghausen and Oedingen , so it actually has nothing to do with Welver. Among the witnesses, however, the noblemen Konrad von Rüdenberg, Eberhard von Ardey and Wikbold von Welver appeared after the clergy. Since these noble lords named themselves according to their place of origin, Welver could look back on a documented 800-year existence in 1979.
The noble lords of Welver lived on the "Welvereburg", as it is called in various documents. It was located in the area of today's “cloister courtyard” and “cloister garden” and was probably already protected by one of the moats and ponds that still exist here today. Wikbold was apparently the last male representative of the noble family of Welver, as can be deduced from a document from the Cappenberg monastery (undated, between 1185 and 1203). In it, Wikbold was listed with his wife and daughter and other witnesses. A son would certainly have been mentioned too. Wikbold's daughter was probably married to the Soester Vogt Eberhard (1178-1210). So their inheritance with the Welverburg and the patronage of the church at Welver came to the Soester bailiffs, whose last, Vogt Walther, laid the foundation stone for the establishment of a Cistercian monastery in 1240 , in which he and his wife Sophia their goods in Welver, Klotingen and Scheidingen sold to the Ramsdorf monastery.
Parish
When and by whom the church in Welver was built cannot be seen from the documents. However, the oldest monastery documents from the years 1240 to 1245 presuppose these - like the Welver parish - as existing. Based on the construction and the custom of that time, it can be assumed that the Lords of Welver initially built it as a separate church in the 12th century. An indication of this is given by the right of patronage over the church, which the Soester bailiffs held as successors to the Lords of Welver. At the time of the monastery, the church was then rebuilt and enlarged as required.
The old parish association of Welver has always included the five localities Recklingsen, Klotingen, Flerke, Meyerich and Welver. Historians assume that this area originally belonged to the parish of Dinker. You refer u. a. to the fact that at the “Ulrich Prozession” in Soest, to which the representatives of the Börde parishes were invited every year, Dinker's envoys were at the head of the “Butenlüde”, the rural communities. Behind Dinker followed the neighboring church game Welver, which revealed itself as a branch of Dinker.
Further indications of the possible age of the church in Welver could be its double patronage . The old church is dedicated to the martyrs "Albanus" and "Cyriakus". The veneration of Cyriacus spread after Margrave Gero transferred relics of this saint from Rome to the Frose monastery near Aschersleben in 950 . The main patron of the church at Welver, St. Albanus, refers even further back. He was especially venerated in England at the time when Anglo-Saxon missionaries brought the Christian faith to Germany.
The "great procession on Whit Monday", which was held in Welver for centuries, was originally an "Albanus costume", in which large numbers of pilgrims from the near and further surroundings participated, for example from Soest, Scheidingen, Werl, but especially Dinker, Hultrop, Lippborg and the Lip villages to Hovestadt, Liesborn and Wadersloh. At the beginning of the 19th century, the number of “catfish”, as teacher Honkamp reported, was 2000 to 3000.
The rectory, which has been in Meyerich since ancient times, gives rise to the assumption that a church could have stood here before the establishment of a church in Welver. The Archbishop of Cologne, Heinrich von Virneburg, decided in a decree of 1326 that the Welver pastors should live in “Mederike” - Meyerich - where they would have had their apartment from “ancient times”. When considering the facts listed here, the church development in the Welver area could have proceeded as follows: Construction of a wooden church in Meyerich, which is entrusted to the protection of St. Albanus (8th century -? - / destruction through destruction or fire or similar) . Decay -? -) The Lords of Welver built their own church near their court, took over the time-honored Albanus patronage and, following the "fashion", also placed it under the protection of St. Cyriacus. (10th, 11th century?) The own church became a parish church, which was still under the patronage of the Lords of Welver. (12th and 13th centuries) The parish church was converted into a monastery church and expanded accordingly (1245–1254), the parish incorporated into the monastery (1326).
Welver Monastery
A profound and decisive turning point in the religious, cultural and economic-social development of Welver and its surroundings brought about the foundation of a Cistercian monastery around the year 1240. With a document from 1242, the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden, confirmed the founding of the monastery and placed the new monastery under the special protection of the church.
The management and administration of the monastery was in the hands of the abbess, who was elected by the nuns for life. She supervised the internal, religious life in the monastery, took care of the temporal and economic affairs and represented the monastery externally. At her side were the "Priorissa", who managed the finances, the "Kellner", who was entrusted to the kitchen, cellar and service staff, and the "Kemner", who took care of the inventory, house and church rules.
Helika, a sister of Vogts Walther, was named as the first abbess in Welver. It was followed by Acela and Aleydis, who had the monastery buildings built in stone for the first time in 1261-1267. To date, 29 abbesses have become known by name from documents and files. The most willing to build was probably Maria Elisabeth von Aldebruck, who rebuilt part of the monastery buildings around 1685 and from 1697–1700 a new monastery church, today's parish church “St. Bernhard ” . The beautiful monastery portal, later the entrance to the “St. Georg ”, commemorates her with her coat of arms, inscription and year (1687). Catharina Gertrudis von Bischopinck built the brewery of the monastery, which later housed the Catholic school, then the Jungkolping home and which now houses the home . The coat of arms and the inscription on this building are heavily weathered today: “CatarIna GertrVDIs a BbischopinCk, Abba regnante, FrIDerICo rege haeC teCta feCit”. The inscription contains the year 1712 in Roman numerals. A precious monstrance also bears the name of the abbess and the year 1722.
Since its inception, the monastery has been under the supervision of the Abbot von Altenkampen on the Lower Rhine. He was responsible for the final decision in safeguarding the spiritual and worldly interests of the monastery. His decision had to be obtained for buying and selling, foundations and buildings, as well as electing the abbess and the pastor.
In the first two centuries, the monastery acquired large estates through donations (dowries of the daughters of the nobility living in the area who were accepted into the monastery in the sense of the time), foundations and purchases. In the stock exchange register of 1685 a total of 51 farms from the surrounding area were listed as monastery property.
A number of documents, some of which are kept in the Münster State Archives and some in the Soest City Archives, bear witness to the almost six centuries of work of the Cistercian women in the Welver area.
Reformation in Welver
The great religious reform movement of the 16th century also took its course in the Börde after the city of Soest committed itself to Luther's teaching in 1531. By buying the neighboring free counties Soest had in the 13./14. Century made the Börde subject. So it tried to open the door to the new teaching in the Bördekirchspiele.
In Welver the situation remained very confused for a long time. The monastery remained Catholic. The abbess Gertrud van Hoyte and her successor Margaretha von Fürstenberg tried together with the convent to protect the parish entrusted to them from the "influences of the new doctrine". There were long and tiresome correspondence and disputes between the Soest magistrate and the abbesses. After much back and forth, which did not rule out mutual lockouts, even expulsions, the relationship in Welver initially remained so that the pastor was Catholic and the respective vice curate was Protestant. Of course, there was no lack of friction and further arguments with this solution. During the Thirty Years' War , sometimes imperial troops intervened in favor of the monastery, and sometimes soldiers from the Soest council.
On December 19, 1649, the church, parsonage and sextonry in Welver, along with church and parish assets, were acquired by the Brandenburg commissioners Droste-Neuhoff zu Altena and Eberhard Zahn, electoral prince. Richter in Unna, in the presence of the Soest magistrate, was finally transferred to the Protestant community here and Albert Scheväus was introduced to the church in Welver as a Lutheran pastor. As from 1565 to 1623, the church was used simultaneously: the monastery’s Catholic service was held in the nun’s choir , and the Protestant parish’s service was held in the lower room of the church. From 1697 to 1700 the monastery built a new baroque church (today's Catholic parish church) right next to the old church, which has since been used exclusively by the evangelical community.
Dissolution of the monastery
The effects of the "great politics" in the wake of the French Revolution also made themselves felt in the Soest Börde. In the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), it was decided to cede all holdings on the left bank of the Rhine to France. Those affected should be compensated "on the right bank of the Rhine". According to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803) in Regensburg, the lands required for this were to be made available through the expropriation of spiritual property. In 1804, a government commission appeared in Welver Abbey to take inventory, seal the archive and the cash register, and approve the confiscation. Further measures were only postponed because of the outbreak of war.
Along with the women of the convent and the abbess Maria Theresia von Loen, the young monastery organist and teacher Bernhard Heinrich Honkamp was also very concerned about the future of the monastery. He thought of his school, which he had set up with great love and idealism, but which could no longer exist without the helpful support and encouragement of the abbess and the convent.
At the suggestion of Honkamp, the monastery convent established a Catholic parish at its new church, which was approved by the Chamber of Hamm on September 3, 1807 with the consent of the then governor. The Catholic residents of Welver, Meyerich, Flerke, Klotingen, Recklingsen, Einecke, Eineckerholsen, Ehningsen, Berwicke, Nateln, Dinker, Vellinghausen , Eilmsen and Dorfwelver have belonged to this parish ever since .
On November 18, 1809, only the Welver Monastery was abolished after almost 570 years of existence. What remains, however, is the Welver Forest, the largest contiguous forest area in the Börde, the old ponds and graves, the buildings with inscriptions carved into stone and the coat of arms of Abbess v. Aldebruch, most of the half-timbered houses still existing in the village, in which the servants of the monastery lived, and the baroque church built around 1700.
Honkamp
The Honkamp memorial commemorates the teacher, who is widely respected and popular for his kindness and philanthropy, who came from Anröchte to Welver as a monastery organist and worked here as an educator and music lover for over 60 years. In particular, he devoted himself to caring for the poor and visited the sick and needy in Welver and the surrounding area. He drew a. a. Medical reports, which he sent to the doctors in town for further initiation. With the help of his great naturopathic experience, he was able to bring relief and improvement to many sick people. Because of his services to the community, he was awarded the General Badge of Honor by the Prussian King and later the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.
In 1882 Honkamp's students and friends erected a memorial to him in the old school yard at the suggestion of honorary officer Wilhelm Smith. Today it has found its place in a modified form in front of the elementary school in Welver.
schools
Even before Honkamp there was a school on site that had been run by the Protestant sexton and teacher Heinrich Kötter for about 40 years. Another was built in 1861 for Meyerich and Flerke in Meyerich. The school in Klotingen finally followed in 1892. In the area of the old Welver parish, there were a total of four schools at the end of the 19th century.
Official constitution
On August 15, 1809, the Grand Ducal Bergish Government ordered the introduction of an official constitution. The Börde villages were thus released from the subordination of the city of Soest. Welver now belonged to the Mairie Schwefe, who administered Arnold Smiths volunteer. Smiths was the first bourgeois owner of "Haus Meyerich", which was mentioned very early in medieval documents as "castrum" (fortified castle seat). The Lords of Mederyke were named as the first owners. The families v. Hertfelde, called Glassem, Lappe, Plettenberg , Dinklage and Plettenberg-Schwarzenberg . Around 1450 the “most famous son of the Börde”, the later Teutonic Order Master of Livonia, Wolter von Plettenberg , was born here at “Haus Meyerich” . In 1502 he defeated Tsar Ivan III in the Battle of Pleskau . Thereby he saved the independence of the order for more than a generation and was able to keep the country peaceful for many decades. A cast of his statue at the Riga Order Castle is in the Burghofmuseum in Soest. Ludwig I of Bavaria had a bust of this important master of the order set up in the Walhalla near Regensburg.
The name "Smiths", the new owner of "Haus Meyerich", is closely connected to the history of the Schwefe office. Three members of the family one after the other determined the local fate of the office as “volunteer men”. The already mentioned volunteer Arnold Smiths held this office from 1809 until his death in 1837. That was a significant time, the one with the Napoleonic occupation, the wars of freedom, secularization , the Stein reforms and the dismissal of the peasants from bondage made many new beginnings and set great tasks. From 1844 to 1854 Albert Smiths, son of Arnold Smiths, was a volunteer and then until his death in 1861 as the first alderman in the department. On October 3, 1873, the economist Wilhelm Smith, grandson of Arnold and son of Albert Smith, was elected honorary officer of the office of Schwefe and introduced to his office by the district administrator. His service expenses were set at 400 thalers a year. According to his motto “Do right and be afraid of nobody”, he administered his office for 49 years. Although partially paralyzed, he worked tirelessly for the task assigned to him. He was a captain. D. and from 1887 to 1890 also a member of the Reichstag. The Smiths family still owns a letter from Frederick the Great with his personal signature, with which he allowed the sale of the aristocratic estate "Haus Meyerich" to "commoners", and a letter from the aged Emperor Wilhelm I , which he wrote that day signed with a very shaky hand before his death and countersigned by Bismarck.
Popular destination
Around 1900, the area around Welver with its old forests - the mixed oak forest still extended to today's Erlenstrasse - and with the wide meadows and floodplain areas became a popular local recreation and excursion destination for the people of the eastern Ruhr area. Many Sunday excursionists who came by train from Unna / Dortmund, Hamm and Soest were looking for relaxation and variety in the local landscape in the summer months. One drove in good company to the coffee tables in the garden taverns in cheerfully decorated carts . When, around 1900, when drilling for hard coal in the Nateln area, a 20 ° C, 8% brine source was found that delivered around 400 liters of brine per minute, the question arose whether a brine bath should not be built as well. The plans were finally broken in 1906, since other and older rights had to be taken into account.
Forerunner of today's church
The political community of the church village now called itself "Kirchwelver" in order to differentiate itself more clearly from "Bahnhof Welver", whose entire area belonged to Meyerich. Settlement construction increased. The borders blurred more and more, especially for the new citizens. After years of deliberations in the responsible community bodies, an agreement was finally reached on merging the communities of Meyerich and Kirchwelver. The general public interest, communal and economic considerations and the disentanglement of the boundary conditions challenged this. With this decision, what was anticipated by the development was reproduced. The general public unanimously welcomed the amalgamation to form the new municipality with the name "Welver". The merger took effect on April 1, 1957.
Formation of today's church
On July 1, 1969, the previous communities of Balksen, Berwicke, Blumroth, Borgeln, Dinker, Dorfwelver, Ehningsen, Eilmsen (newly created in 1920 by outsourcing from Vellinghausen), Einecke, Einckerholsen, Flerke, Illingen, Klotingen, Merklingsen, Nateln, Recklingsen, Scheidingen, Schwefe, Stocklarn and Vellinghausen merged with Welver to form the new community of Welver.
Population development
| year | 2000 | 2004 | 2006 | 2012 |
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| Residents | 12,787 | 12,957 | 12,778 | 12,126 |
politics
Municipal council
In the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the result led to the following distribution of the 26 seats (in brackets: seats 2009):
- CDU - 9 seats (11)
- SPD - 10 seats (8)
- Green - 3 seats (2)
- FDP - 2 seats (3)
- Citizens' Community (BG) - 2 seats (-)
- Results of local elections since 1975
The list only includes parties and voter communities that received at least 1.95% of the votes in the respective election.
| year | SPD | CDU | Green | FDP | BG | UDW | BIW |
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| 1975 | 32.2% | 51.3% | 16.5% | ||||
| 1979 | 35.4% | 45.0% | 9.7% | 9.9% | |||
| 1984 | 44.7% | 45.9% | 9.4% | ||||
| 1989 | 53.6% | 35.7% | 10.7% | ||||
| 1994 | 33.2% | 42.6% | 9.4% | 14.8% | |||
| 1999 | 33.1% | 45.6% | 8.8% | 12.6% | |||
| 2004 | 30.2% | 41.1% | 9.1% | 18.4% | |||
| 2009 | 28.2% | 40.3% | 7.7% | 11.3% | 12.5% | ||
| 2014 | 38.2% | 34.5% | 9.9% | 9.2% | 8.2% |
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Coat of arms, seal, flag and logo
With a certificate from the District President in Arnsberg dated March 31, 1970, the municipality was granted the right to use a coat of arms and a seal. As a legal successor, it continues the coat of arms awarded to the Borgeln-Schwefe office by the North Rhine-Westphalian interior minister on November 7, 1961. The municipality was also granted the right to fly a flag with a certificate from the District President in Arnsberg dated July 7, 2011. Since 2011, the municipality has had an image / word mark as the logo with which it appears publicly .
coat of arms
seal
flag
Logo (image / word mark)
Blazon of the coat of arms: “Split by red and gold (yellow); in front a soaring golden (yellow) black-tongued male, behind two fallen crossed black swords, above a black eagle. "
The coat of arms combines symbols of the former ruling families. The male stands for the noble family Rüdenberg (" Redendes Wappen "), eagles and swords come from the coat of arms of the bailiffs of Soest who owned Welver Castle.
Description of the seal: "The municipality has an official seal with the municipality's coat of arms and the inscription: 'Gemeinde Welver, Kreis Soest'."
Description of the flag: “Yellow and red striped lengthways in a ratio of 1: 1; the leek side divided into yellow and red twenty times; in the middle of the cloth the coat of arms. "
The logo / word mark shows the first letter of the community name in a stylized form.
Parish partnership
The partner community of Welvers is Ketzin an der Havel in Brandenburg.
Culture and sights
Heimathaus Welver
In the former bakery and brewery of the monastery in Kirchwelver, one of the largest collections of local history in the region is shown. Several thousand objects are exhibited on over 400 m². Special mention should be made of a diorama that recreates the battle of Vellinghausen with around 2500 tin soldiers .
Other sights
Also worth seeing are the medieval churches in the districts Borgeln , Schwefe and Dinker as well as the chapel in Stocklarn .
Sports
A marathon route that is still unique in Germany leads through the large community of Welver . It leads through all 21 districts.
- sports clubs
- SV Welver (soccer)
- SuS Scheidingen 1928 eV (football, table tennis)
- TV Flerke / Welver 1928 eV (athletics, dancing, volleyball)
- TC Welver (tennis)
- Judoclub Welver (judo, fitness, rehab, volleyball)
- TuS Schwefe (soccer)
- TV Borgeln (soccer)
- SV Eilmsen (soccer)
- RG Eichengrund Welver eV (riding)
- ASV Long Whip Welver (fishing)
- RV Welver (riding)
- Kyffhäuser Kameradschaft Welver (shooting sport)
carnival
Welver is known as a carnival stronghold in central Westphalia. The carnival parade, which takes place every year on Weiberfastnacht, is one of the largest in the region.
traffic
Rail transport
In Welver there are two stations on the Hamm – Warburg railway line, the Welver and Borgeln stops .
Road traffic
The A 2 motorway ( E 34 , Oberhausen – Dortmund – Hannover – Berlin) and the federal highways 63 and 475 pass near Welver . The A 2 is reached via the L 667 (AS 18 Hamm or AS 19 Hamm-Uentrop ). Soest and thus the B 1 and A 44 ( E 331 , Dortmund – Kassel– [Erfurt]) can be reached via the L 670 .
There is no longer any regular (regional) bus service.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Rainer Dorwarth (1924–2015), artist
- Wolfgang Hellmich (* 1958), member of the German Bundestag (SPD) since 2012, Chairman of the Defense Committee
- Werner Lorant (* 1948), football coach
- Wolter von Plettenberg (1450–1535), landmaster in Livonia
- Wilhelm Smiths (1847–1925), honorary officer in Schwefe and member of the Reichstag
Web links
- Working group for history and homeland preservation - Heimatverein Welver
- Welver in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
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- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 293 .
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 230 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 92 f .
- ↑ 2014 local elections - Final result for: Welver
- ↑ Directories of the results of the local elections for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDS NRW) from 1975 to 2009
- ↑ Elective profile of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NW ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Election results 1999 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.9 MB)
- ↑ 2004 election results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.0 MB)
- ↑ Election results 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.5 MB)
- ^ Peter Veddeler: Coats of arms, seals, flags. Münster 2003, ISBN 3-87023-252-8 , p. 239
- ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Welver (PDF; 1.5 MB) welver.de. Retrieved on September 28, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ [1] A strip for every place
- ↑ Marathon route Welver ( Memento from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Source: Contribution by W. Siepmann in the commemorative publication 800 years Welver . Ed .: Festival committee of the associations in the large community of Welver. 1979
