Lüdinghausen
Luedinghausen ( Low German: Lünkhusen or Lünksel ) is a city in North Rhine -Westphalia south-west of Münster in Coesfeld. Luedinghausen consists of its core city and the district Seppenrade.
- 2.1 religions
- 2.2 Amalgamations
- 2.3 Population development
- 3.1 City Council
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 Town twinning
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 parks
- 4.3 Miscellaneous
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Long distance routes
- 5.3 Established businesses
- 5.4 Education
- Born 7.1 In Luedinghausen
- 7.2 Connected to Luedinghausen
Geography
Geographical location
Luedinghausen is located about 30 kilometers north of Dortmund, the Dortmund -Ems Canal and the Stever.
Neighboring communities
Lüdinghausens neighboring municipalities are (starting in the southwest ) clockwise Olfen ( Coesfeld ), Haltern am See ( District of Recklinghausen ), Dülmen, Send, mountain ash, northern churches (all: Coesfeld ) and Selm ( Unna district ).
Districts
In addition to the core city Luedinghausen there with Seppenrade another district.
Bauernschaften
To Luedinghausen include the peasantry Aldenhövel, Bechtrup, Berenbrock, Brochtrup, Dorfbauerschaft, Elvert, Emkum, Ermen, Leversum, Ondrup, Reckelsum, Tetekum, Tüllinghoff and Westrup.
History
The first mention Lüdinghausens as " Ludinchusen " took place in the year 800 on the occasion of the transfer of ownership of a farm on the St. Liudger by Snelhard. In the year 974, the settlement received by belonging to the Abbey Church Will the market and mint money.
In 1309 Luedinghausen were arbitrarily granted town rights by the Lords of Luedinghausen or Luedinghausen - Wolff. 1443 came Luedinghausen to the diocese of Münster. In 1499 this city and department sold to the cathedral chapter Münster.
1507 began with the laying of the cornerstone of the construction of the Felizitaskirche, which still has the largest local church, the thickest massive sandstone pillars of Europe.
1803 Luedinghausen district town in the newly formed county Luedinghausen. It was then preferred to the town of Werne. On October 10, 1832, the entire inner city was at the market completely destroyed by fire. The town hall was destroyed by fire. Only a street at the mills and Langenbrückentor and a group of houses near the Münstertors were spared. After several small fires in the years 1882 and 1883 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. The existing in the farming communities syringe houses were dissolved, as the fire could fall back on motor vehicles.
Over the years, Luedinghausen developed into a regional center of the surrounding towns with a catchment area of over 100 000 inhabitants. After several small part of spin-offs on April 1, 1903 April 1, 1914 in 1929 and 1 January 1966, the rural community Luedinghausen was dissolved on July 1, 1969 and incorporated into the city. On 1 January 1975 finally Seppenrade was incorporated. Since the circle Luedinghausen was dissolved by the same date, the city lost the seat of the district administration. Luedinghausen was incorporated into the Coesfeld.
Besides Nottuln and transmission is currently being considered in Luedinghausen about to apply for the status of a district town in the Middle of the state government. In Luedinghausen out an evaluation has already been commissioned. Whether the city will take this path ultimately, is expected to be decided in the next meeting of the City Council in December. Especially the formation associated with the Hochstufung their own youth ministry is estimated by some politicians of the city as problematic, the main point of this criticism are the anticipated rising costs. Also the Coesfeld is the thing hostile to, because it would mean a weakening of the circle skills would get if Luedinghausen and possibly Nottuln and sending approved an upgrade.
Religions
The majority of the local population is Catholic. There are two Catholic, a Protestant and a New Apostolic Church and a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Luedinghausen. The Catholic parishes of St. Felicitas and St. Ludger have merged the feast of Pentecost 2007 Church of St. Felicitas. Furthermore Luedinghausen also has a mosque for the followers of the Islamic faiths.
Incorporations
In the municipal reorganization, which was carried out in two steps, the city Luedinghausen enlarged with effect of 1 July 1969 to the territory of the former municipality Luedinghausen - country and on 1 January 1975 at the former municipality Seppenrade.
Population Development
- 2002: 23 504
- 2003: 23,745
- 2004: 23 945
- 2005: 24,097
- 2006: 24,200
- 2007: 24,200
- 2008: 24,183
- 2009: 24,196
- 2010: 24,195
- 2011: 23 544
- 2012: 23 569
Policy
City council
1 Green: 1984 and 1989: Green, 1994: B'90 / Green
The list only parties and voter communities are listed that have received at least 1.95 percent of the votes in each election.
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In gold, a red bell, accompanied on the top left of a red Ammonites. "
In the new, valid since 1982 coat of arms symbols of the ancient coat of arms approved by Luedinghausen and Seppenrade are recorded and combined into a meaningful symbiosis.
The bell a coat of arms goes back over many centuries. They found, for example, on several coins from the mint Luedinghausen to 1308 shields of the last knight of Luedinghausen, Ludolf, and the seal of the city judge of 1441.
About the origin of the bell in the coat of arms is adopted, the bell was the coat of arms of the Knights of Luedinghausen even before the city's founding; Ludolf as overlord of the place have taken the city with characters in his coat of arms; the legends of the Glockenkolk and the self ringing of bells at the arrival of the corpse of St.. Liudgerus in Luedinghausen would have given the reason for the bell symbol; with the name " Luedinghausen " have nothing to do with the bell. The representation of the Ammonites leads back to the 1877 and 1895 found in Seppenrade fossils of giant ammonites, one with a diameter of about 1.80 m; he is still regarded as the greatest.
Twinning
The city Luedinghausen maintains partnerships with the cities
Culture and sights
Structures
Luedinghausen is known as the Three castle town. Particularly worth seeing are the Wasserburg castle and the castle Luedinghausen Vischering. The third castle within the city Luedinghausen is the Castle Wolfsberg. There are also in the surrounding six other castles belonging to the city after the district reform, the most famous is the Castle Kakesbeck.
- Catholic parish church of St. Felicitas (named after the holy Felicitas ).
- Protestant parish church, neo-gothic building with West Tower, dedicated in 1859.
- City Hall (called Borg ), classical brick building with central projection, built from 1844 to 1845 as a city, the District Court and City Hall.
- Hake House, the former poorhouse, Wolf Berger Street. Timber-framed building from 1648, rebuilt in the 1930s, today students Café, Blueprint and youth group rooms.
- Yard pit, Tetekum 39 ( south of the town center of Luedinghausen ), the oldest farmhouse in Westphalia. Mentioned for the first time in 1339, the farm name pit ( Coesfeld ) is not only in Luedinghausen still a concept. Heart of the system is a 32-meter main house, which is a half-timbered hall with a four-column structure in the core. Scientific studies show that the wood was harvested for this building in 1517. This building is the oldest known Vierständerbau and the oldest known farmhouse Westphalia.
Castle Vischering at Luedinghausen
Tower of St. Felicitas Church
Protestant parish church
Borg mill
Jewish Cemetery
Parks
In Seppenrade worth a visit to the Rose Garden. In addition, the visitor should not miss the parks around the three moated castles in Luedinghausen and surrounding areas.
Others
In Seppenrade the then world largest Ammonite was founded in 1895 in a quarry found (70 hundredweight, 0.4 m thick, 1.95 m diameter). Previously, a somewhat smaller, but also significant, Ammonite already been fetched from the same quarry. Both originals are placed in the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster. The species was honored with the name of their locality: Parapuzosia seppenradensis.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The city is the intersection of the highways 58, 235 and 474, and thus has a junction with the car lanes 1, 2 and 43
A direct rail link exists at the Dortmund -Gronau - Enschede railway to Lünen / Dortmund and Dülmen / Coesfeld / Gronau / Enschede ( NL ); direct bus connections exist among other things to Munster, Selm, Lünen, Northern churches, Olfen and sending.
In the mountains Borken is the belonging to Luedinghausen flight Borkenberge.
Long distance routes
The city is served by a number of cycle routes:
- The Dortmund -Ems canal route is approximately 350 km long and quasi- gradient -free cycle path connecting the Ruhr with the North Sea coast.
- The German Football Route NRW is a 850 km -long adventure - bike route to football in North Rhine -Westphalia.
- The 960 km long network of cycle paths 100 castles route meanders largely away from the roads of castles to water castles, manor houses and Gräftenhöfen, palace gardens and cottage gardens, monasteries and churches, a total of significantly more than the eponymous 100 buildings are controlled.
- The pilgrimage route ( D network route D7) leads over about 1065 km as Radfernweg from Flensburg to Aachen. It is the German section of the Euro Velo Route " pilgrimage route " ( EV3 ).
Established businesses
Important Companies in Luedinghausen are mainly the Maggi factory of Nestlé Germany AG and the mail-order company Askari Sport. Furthermore, located in Luedinghausen a branch of the German grain brandy - marketing ( dkv ) and the Hidden Champion Kleffmann market research.
Education
In addition to the Richard von Weizsäcker vocational college, the Astrid Lindgren School ( special school for social and emotional development ), the Gemeinschaftshauptschule Luedinghausen and the Realschule Luedinghausen there are two high schools in Luedinghausen: the Canisianum ( privately funded ) and the St. Anthony's High School. In Luedinghausen there with the Ludgerischule ( Tüllinghofer road ) and the East Wall school ( East Wall ) two elementary schools. In addition Seppenrade has its own primary school ( Marian School ) The wide range of kindergartens also includes a Waldorf Kindergarten in free sponsorship.
Luedinghausen is the seat of the music school district Luedinghausen. The youth orchestra of the music school district takes as its figurehead numerous concert tours. So they played in the partner municipalities Taverny and Neisse and in several editions of the European Youth Music Festival in Norway, Denmark and Hungary. In the years 2004 and 2008, the orchestra was to collaborate with the local choir for two weeks each in Salem (USA). In return, the choir came to Germany in 2005 and 2009. The orchestra currently has about 75 members 12 to 21 years. Great encouragement will also find the traditional New Year's concerts of the orchestra in the first weeks of January.
Sport and Leisure
Luedinghausen offers a variety of sports clubs for different interest groups. Its most important is the large sports club SC Union 08 Luedinghausen with a wide range of sports departments (eg, football, volleyball, table tennis, basketball). The first badminton team of the SC Union plays in the first division. In addition, there Seppenrade in the SV Fortuna 26 with about 1,100 members. In addition to a wide range sport football is mainly played there. But other sports are represented in Luedinghausen, as much at home there are two tennis clubs: the TC 77 Seppenrade and the traditional club TC Blau-Gold eV Luedinghausen, the Judo Club Luedinghausen and a karate club. Furthermore, even to mention several equestrian clubs like LZRFV Seppenrade and RV Luedinghausen. Another very successful Club is the rowing club Luedinghausen ( RVLH ).
For motor sports is located in the southeast of the "Westfalen -Ring", the stadium for the railway sport. Every year on Ascension Day, the traditional grass track race of the AMSC Luedinghausen held with assistance of ADAC. Local heroes here are the Lüdinghausener Christian "sleeve" Hülshorst and Jens Klein, who bring to their methanol- fueled 500cc track sport motorcycles in the drift Lüdinghausener the fans to their feet.
Annually from 2007 to 2012 took place on the festival Area4 nearby airfield Borkenberge.
Personalities of the city Luedinghausen
Born in Luedinghausen
List chronologically by date of birth:
Connected to Luedinghausen
With Luedinghausen related personalities. List chronologically by date of birth:
- Gottfried von Raesfeld (1522-1586), dean of Münster, since 1559 archdeacon to Luedinghausen and since 1568 Official Lord to Luedinghausen, rearranger Burg Luedinghausen, founder of a poorhouse in Luedinghausen
- Bernhard Hürfeld (1891-1966), in the concentration camp Dachau imprisoned pastor and founder of the school Canisianum
- Alfons Lütkoff (1905-1987), painter and Studienassessor in Luedinghausen 1934-1938
- George Ştefănescu (1914-2007), painter
- Erwin Josef Ender ( born 1937 ), Emeritus Apostolic Nuncio in Germany
- Berthold Wald ( born 1952 ), Philosopher, Professor and university rector
- Philipp Stüer (* 1975), two-time world rowing champion