Hochsauerlandkreis
The Sauerland is a circle in the east of North Rhine -Westphalia and based on the area of the largest in this country.
- 7.1 Railway
- 7.2 motorways
Geography
It is bordered to the west by the Märkischen circle, to the north by the districts of Soest and Paderborn, on the northeast by the circle Hoexter, on the east by the Hessian Waldeck- Frankenberg and on the south by the counties of Siegen- Wittgenstein and Olpe. The county is traversed by the Ruhr and Lenne, both of which originate in Winterberg.
The highest elevation of the Hochsauerlandkreises while the highest elevation of the country North Rhine-Westphalia is the Langenberg with 843.2 m above sea level. NN, the lowest point is at the Ruhr in Arnsberg- Voßwinkel at home Füchten at 146 m above sea level. NN.
Territorial reform
The Hochsauerlandkreis was founded in its current form on 1 January 1975 based on the Sauerland / Paderborn- law. Previously, this area was divided into the districts of Arnsberg, Meschede and Brilon. In the reorganization of the old district of Arnsberg Warstein gave to the district of Soest and Balve and Asbeck the Märkischen circle. The Office Serkenrode been done by the old district of Meschede in the district of Olpe.
At the newly formed Hochsauerlandkreis fell from the circle Wittgenstein the height villages Neuastenberg ( " the big village" ), Mollseifen, Long Meadow and the settlement Hoheleye. The Altkreis Buren gave the localities Essentho Meerhof, Ösdorf and West from Home to the city of Mars mountain.
History
On the history of the region before the municipal reorganization cf. inter alia, the contributions Sauerland, County Arnsberg, Duchy of Westphalia and Wittgenstein district.
Policy
District elections 1975-2009
Note:
- The civil list 1989 list was a citizen in the city of Hallenberg
- The civil list was created in 2009 in 2006 in a split from two council members from the Alliance 90/The Greens. It is founded the constituency association Sauerland citizens list (SBL ), which was represented to the district council elections in 2009 these two members of the district council.
Source:
- Manual of the county for the 8th term, 04/ 09, page 191
Senior district directors
District administrators
Parliamentary representatives
The High Sauerland district is represented in the Bundestag and Landtag NRW by:
- Member of Parliament: Patrick Ernst Sensburg (CDU )
- Member of Parliament: Dirk Wiese ( SPD)
- Member of Parliament: Klaus Kaiser (CDU )
- Member of Parliament: Matthias Kerkhoff (CDU )
Coat of arms
In red with a silver (white ), right -looking eagle with inlaid silver ( white ) heart shield, topped with a solid black cross.
Description:
The High Sauerland district includes areas of the former territories of the County of Arnsberg and the Duchy of Westphalia. Accordingly, the two coats of arms were pooled in a circle coat of arms: the Arnsberg eagle in the original colors of red and silver, and the Electorate of Cologne Cross of the Elector of Cologne. The coat of arms is similar to the resolution circle Arnsberg, which was first awarded in 1963. The official approval was granted on 31 October 1975.
Ring of Honor Hochsauerlandkreises
Since 1975, the following persons of the Ring of Honor Hochsauerlandkreises was awarded:
- Rolf Füllgräbe († ), former Chief Executive of the Hochsauerlandkreises
- Konrad Heutger († ), former SPD parliamentary group in the council of Hochsauerlandkreises
- Egon Mühr († ), former Chief Administrative Officer Hochsauerlandkreises
- Willi Gerlach ( † ), former Deputy Chief Executive of the Hochsauerlandkreises
- Ewald Franzmann ( born June 26, 1929 † 27 January 2010), former CDU parliamentary group in the council of Hochsauerlandkreises
- Franz -Josef Leikop, former Chief Executive of the Hochsauerlandkreises
Circle outline
The Hochsauerlandkreis consists of twelve municipalities. Ten had the title of " city ". Of these ten, the four cities Brilon, Meschede, Schmallenberg and Sundern (Sauerland ) Medium kreisangehorige cities because their populations are both 25000-60000. The city of Arnsberg is Large district town, as their population is about 60,000.
The following list is one of the twelve cities and towns of Hochsauerlandkreises alphabetically with official name and - on the population figures from December 31, 2012 - in parentheses.
Cities
Communities
Nature and Environment
The existing in Hochsauerlandkreis Nature has a great variety. This results in many areas worthy of protection found with rare plants and animals. Many species exhibit here on a distribution area in North Rhine -Westphalia. These species include, for example, the black stork, the eagle owl, the great gray shrike and the Whinchat. This led to the expulsion of a variety of different sized protected areas.
There are Hochsauerlandkreis total of 177 nature reserves with a total area of approximately 7,800 ha Furthermore, have been reported to the European Union 55 FFH areas with an area of about 30,000 ha by the State of NRW, the most major nature reserves also part of most even larger habitat areas are. Two bird sanctuaries are completely and two others partly in Hochsauerlandkreis. Also in the bird sanctuaries there is overlap with protected areas and habitat areas. Other legitimate biotopes are shown for example as natural monuments.
The Hochsauerlandkreis is one of very few counties in North Rhine-Westphalia, which have, landscape plans for the entire district area. Meanwhile, the landscape plans Sundern and Arnsberg are already back in a revision.
Traffic
Railway
The Hochsauerlandkreis pervades since the 1870-73 Upper Ruhrtalbahn Hagen- Arnsberg Meschede- Olsberg Mars mountain Warburg Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company. The long delay between planning and construction of the line was one of the reasons for the economic backwardness of the region behind the early undeveloped neighboring areas. Conversely meant the opening of the railway in particular an economic impulse for the West of today Hochsauerlandkreises. The track has a central importance for rail passenger and freight transport of Hochsauerlandkreises.
From the main line went from branch paths that have been built around the turn of the century by the Prussian state railways to open up the traffic- yet poorly developed side valleys of the Ruhr and the hill country:
Even the Arnsberg district Neheim- Hüsten was a railway junction for both the passenger and for freight transport: from here led the AG Ruhr -Lippe Kleinbahnen 1898 a narrow-gauge railway to Soest and 1907 a further dreischienige line parallel to the main track in the Ruhr valley to Arnsberg. Although the individuals mode is set now, the route is still used for freight transport. The third small railway line from Neheim- Hüsten was conducted in 1900 by the West German railway company in Röhrtal to Sundern. This route was crucial for the industrial development of the Röhrtals. This is now used only sporadically for freight. Considerations include the transport again failed recently to a negative assessment of the " integrated comprehensive transport planning " of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia.
To the east of Winter Hochfläche led from 1902 a more narrow -gauge railway from stone Light the city Medebach and overcame the height difference of more than 300 m by means of two hairpins.
The Westfälische Landes- Eisenbahn GmbH was represented by the line opened in 1898 from Belecke to Brilon city.
In addition, in the 19th and early 20th century opened up some industrial railways - such as the web between the Ramsbecker Erzrevier and the main Stretched today Ruhrtalbahn and in the east the Rhene - Diemel Valley Railway also to transport ore.
Highways
The highways in the district are the federal highways 46 and 445 The A445 connects the A46 to the motorway 44 (Dortmund -Kassel) at the junction Werl and then continues north towards Hamm. Direction Arnsberg is the A445 directly to the A46 and now runs in an easterly direction. The following are the connection points Neheim Neheim -South, Hüsten, Arnsberg -Altstadt, Arnsberg - east, Freienohl, Wennemen, year of, Meschede and Bestwig. Here ends the highway. A further construction on Brilon up to the A44 in the area of the cross - hairs Wünnenberg is planned. Similarly, a gap closing between Arnsberg- Neheim Hemer and Menden on (Sauerland) is planned.
Partnerships
- County Olesno / Poland
- Megiddo region / Israel
- West Lothian / Scotland