Lienen

Lengerich is a municipality in the region Tecklenburger Land ( district of Steinfurt ), between Münster and Osnabrück in North Rhine- Westphalia.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 parks
  • 5.2 Natural Monuments
  • 5.3 Sport
  • 5.4 events
  • 5.5 Mountain

Geography

North of Lienen extend most of the Terra Vita Nature Park and the Holperdorper valley. The Wester Becker mountain in the Teutoburg forest is 236 m above sea level, the highest elevation in the country Tecklenburg, Steinfurt the circle and the Münster region. To the southwest opens the Munsterlander parkland. The road to the peasantry Holperdorp runs with a serpentine between the Aldruper and Lienener mountain in about 202 m above the ridge of the Teutoburg Forest. The 206 -meter-high Langenberg is still a small part in the peasantry Holperdorp, for the most part, however, in the neighboring Lower Saxony in the area of ​​Bad Iburg.

Neighboring communities

Ladbergen, Lengerich (both the district of Steinfurt ), Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Bad Iburg, Glandorf ( district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony ), Greven (District of Warendorf, in North Rhine -Westphalia).

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Lienen Lienen and Kattenvenne and the outlying farming communities Holperdorp in the north of the Teutoburg Forest, village farmers, Aldrup, Wester Beck, Höste, Holzhausen and Meckelwege in the south.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1088 as Lina. Lina means as much as place on the slope of the mountain or hill village in the Teutoburg Forest.

" Lengerich: Lynon in the 12th century by lina, the hill-side. "

In 1965, " 1000 years Lienen district " was celebrated. This was based on a " documentary mention " of the community from the year 965 in relation to the ' Graf panel ', a striking rocks in the northwest of Holperdorper Valley.

Until the 20th century, the community was dominated by agriculture. In the period from the 17th to the 19th century, the peasant household linen industry supplemented the farm income.

In 1832 set up, triggered by the collapse of house linen industry in the Napoleonic period and occurred overpopulation, an emigration to North America in transition. This ended only with the beginning of the industrial revolution. During this period, the construction of the lime plant in Höste and improved traffic engineering development triggered by a railway line from first commercial and industrial impulses. Until the district reform in 1975 Lienen belonged to the circle with the city of Tecklenburg Tecklenburg as the county seat.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1975 area of the city Lengerich were incorporated with time more than 200 inhabitants.

Policy

Parish council

Based on the results of the local elections on August 30, 2009, the municipal council is composed as follows:

  • SPD: 10 seats ( 2)
  • CDU: 10 seats ( ± 0)
  • FDP: 3 seats (-1)
  • Alliance for Ecology and Democracy: 3 seats (-1)

Mayor

Selected full-time mayor since September 2009 Dr. Martin Hellwig (SPD).

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, on a red, with a silver lily pad Dreienberg occupied two red, beam them asked lily pads. "

The coat of arms of the municipality Lienen was created by a proposal of the Prussian State Archives, as there is no historical seals or coats of arms were known. The three mountain symbolize the rolling countryside around the village and is derived from Lengerich for the mountain slope. The three lily pads refer to the historical connection to the County of Tecklenburg, they come from Tecklenburg county coat of arms.

Tecklenburger county coat of arms

Twin Cities

Culture and sights

Parks

In Lengerich at the village pond the BAREFOOT PARK was established in spring 2002. The barefoot park consists of a circular walk of 2.5 km in length. The BAREFOOT PARK season in Lengerich begins on April 1 and ends on October 31. During this time, the BAREFOOT - PARK is open every day from sunrise to sunset. The park is easily accessible, solid " opening times " does not exist. In full moon nights, there is the opportunity to explore the BAREFOOT PARK on a guided torchlight hike.

In the years 2004/2005 the Nordic walking park was installed Tecklenburger country under its paths through the Tecklenburger country. Depending on your personal fitness 4 trails can be explored on Lienener area. The Nordic Walking Park in Tecklenburger country offers trails of varying difficulty to a total of over 300 km in length.

Natural Monuments

  • Duvensteine ​​in Holperdorp

On the north side of the valley Holperdorper is a mountain ridge, which consists of sandstone. In some places this sandstone occurs at the surface, forming towering rock formations, including the Duvensteine ​​. The name of the rock indicate cult places where earlier deities were worshiped. Who wanted the blessing of children and fertility, prayed to the horror mother, the deity of the fertile middle period of life. The gray mother said to have been worshiped at the Duvensteinen. The You -ve (ve = Fee = parent ) is the dark mother (which stands for the age).

Sports

  • Became internationally known are the jumpers Toni and Felix Haßmann.
  • Thorsten Grünkemeyer, bronze medalist in table tennis, Summer 2004 Paralympics

Events

Find Annually " Lienen in Green " Marksmen with village party and the Christmas market is held. The annual change is the " Lienener Autumn" and the " Sunflower Market " instead. At irregular intervals, the Volunteer Fire Department Lienen organized the " Bombeiros Show Night". In 1950 took place the first " fire -water Revue " instead: water games with colored lights that move to the beat of popular songs. The four-day event is organized by the comrades of the volunteer fire department and carried out.

Mountain

On the southern slope of Teutoburg Forest at 225 m above sea level there is the snack station Malepartus. Already towards the end of the 19th century what the small plateau overlooking in the Münster region parkland a place to align the Lienener Schützenfest. Early as 1910, was a log cabin available as a catch for hikers. In the 1920s the name Malepartus is mentioned. Malepartus is the fable Reineke Fuchs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe borrowed, in Reineke Fuchs calls his castle Malepartus.

Economy and infrastructure

Lienen has in the district Kattenvenne a station on the railway line Muenster - Osnabrueck, which is served by regional trains. The Teutoburg Forest Railway ( TWE ) Ibbenbüren- Lengerich - Gütersloh - Hovelhof leads in tourism traffic on the route through Lengerich. The range of TWE was used from 1901 to 1968 and for passenger transport. Today is the " Teuto - Express" railway museum a tourism traffic on the track direction Tecklenburg and Bad Iburg.

Personalities

  • Hermann wars, revolutionary from rich parents, among others familiar with Karl Marx.
  • Friedrich Ernst Hunsche (1905-1994), born in Lengerich - Meckelwege, writers, poets, local historian, Low German language and stories, archivist, genealogist, research on emigration
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