Höxter (district)

The circle is a circle Hoexter in Detmold ( Westphalia- Lippe) in the far east of North Rhine - Westphalia. County seat is Hoexter. With only 121.6 inhabitants per km ², the circle on the lowest population density of all districts in North Rhine -Westphalia.

• 4.1 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 street
• 5.2 Rail transport
• 5.3 Airports and airfields

Geography

Neighboring districts

The circle Hoexter is bordered to the north by the district of Lippe, on the east by the Lower Saxon counties wood Minden and Northeim and the Hessian district of Kassel, in the south also in the district of Kassel, in the southwest on the Hochsauerlandkreis, on the southeast by the Hessian Waldeck- Frankenberg and to the west by the Paderborn district. With 121.6 inhabitants per square kilometer Höxter is the least populated county in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Population and county subdivision

The circle is divided into ten municipalities Hoexter, all of which are cities. The county town of Hoexter is considered Medium district town. The following table shows the cities and towns of the district in alphabetical order with the number of inhabitants on 31 December 2012, the area and the population density:

According to a population forecast by the Bertelsmann Foundation in the year 2011, the county Hoexter in 2030 will have the oldest population of all municipalities in North Rhine -Westphalia. Around 50 percent of the population will then be older than 52 years.

History

The district was created on the basis of a local government reform on 1 January 1975 by the merger of the former former district Hoexter with the former district Warburg. He largely coincides with the upper Waldi 's district of the historic Bishopric of Paderborn and the former Prince-Bishopric Corvey.

Household

In the end of 2008, total assets of the district was 200 568 209 euros and the net income included € 1,541,429. After the financial statement cash and cash equivalents in the amount of 5,404,848 euros were available.

Policy

In the local elections of 2009, the District Friedhelm Spieker was chosen by the Christian Democratic Union of Germany with 59.2 percent of the vote. He assumed the office of Hubertus Backhaus on 20 October 2009. District director 's Klaus Since 2013 Schumacher.

Former county councilors

Former senior district directors

Coat of arms

How many newly formed circles, the circle Hoexter has an old and a new coat of arms, with the old circle Warburg tribute should be paid here. The blazon of the coat of arms today reads: " In silver ( white), a blue lily; about it in a limited by a blue wave beams, golden ( yellow ) main shield a red continuous cross. "

Traffic

Road

The county Hoexter B 239, B 241 and B 252 and the federal motorway A 44 developed by the federal highways B 7, B 64, B 83.

Rail transport

The State Royal Westphalian Railway Company closed in 1851 to today's railway Hamm- Warburg Warburg to the coming of Kassel Friedrich- Wilhelms- Northern Railway and continued her route to Altenbeken on. Here chained 1864/65 from the Eggebahn by Hoexter, which was connected with wood Minden with the Brunswick Railroad. In Ottbergen took from 1878, the Solling train to Göttingen and Northeim its beginning.

The western edge of the circle passes through since 1872, the Hanover - Altenbekener railroad. In the south, the network of Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company expanded: Opened in 1873 by Warburg towards Brilon Wald -Hagen Upper Ruhrtalbahn culminated in 1876 Scherfede a cross connection of wood Minden on a Wehrden.

The Prussian State Railway, it was then left to take two supplements in operation:

54 km from 172 km routes were shut down in the passenger and later dismantled:

Airports and airfields

The airfield Hoexter wood Minden is the only commercial airport in the circle Hoexter. The nearest airports are the airport Paderborn / Lippstadt airport Kassel- Calden and the airport Hannover- Langenhagen.

Health service

The St. Petri-Hospital Warburg will move in the fall of 2013 a new clinic at the Hüffertstraße. Are also investing in the first phase around 33 million euros.

Shares of the circle Hoexter

• 73.91 % Savings Banks Association purpose Hoexter
• 60.00% Krankenhauszweckverband Warburg, see also St. - Petri-Hospital Warburg, which was sold to the Rhön -Klinikum in May 2008
• 51.00% Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft Hoexter mbH ( AWG), including and operator of the landfill Wehrden in Beverungen - Wehrden, 49.0 % are held by E.ON Westfalen Weser
• 44.56 % Economic Development in the circle Hoexter mbH ( GfW )
• 36.84 % Nahverkehrsverbund Paderborn- Hoexter (NPH ) ( Purpose Association ), an umbrella organization is the purpose of transport association Westfalen -Lippe ( NWL )
• 33.33% culture Hoexter - Corvey GmbH, winner of the " Corveyer Music Weeks " and other musical events, as well as the "Museum Hoexter - Corvey "
• 29.27 % Diemel Water Association founded Warburg, 1951
• 22.73 % Purpose Association Teutoburg Forest Nature Park / Eggegebirge
• 14.29% Study Institute of Local Government Hellweg Sauerland ( special purpose association ) based in Soest
• 12.50% Radio Paderborn mbH & Co. KG, see Radio Hochstift
• 7.14% OstWestfalenLippe Marketing GmbH
• 7.14% gGmbH way through the country with headquarters in Detmold, winner of the literary and music festival in East Westphalia -Lippe
• 7.14% Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office in East Westphalia -Lippe ( OWL - CVUA )
• 3.92% airport Paderborn / Lippstadt
• 1.37% E.ON Westfalen Weser based in Paderborn
• 1.00% Municipal association of shareholders RWE Westfalen Weser Ems GmbH ( KAV)
• 0.40% E.ON Mitte, based in Kassel
• 0.21 % Interargem GmbH based in Bielefeld founded in 1996 and a subsidiary of E.ON Energy from Waste AG ( EEW)