Sundern

Sundern ( Sauerland) is a city in North Rhine- Westphalia and belongs to Hochsauerlandkreis.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Development of the Population
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 3.4 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Museums
  • 4.2 Structures
  • 4.3 Natural Monuments
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Media
  • 5.3 Formation
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.3 personalities who were active in the city

Geography

Geographical Location

The area lies on the northern slope Sundern the right bank Slate Mountains. Through the city flows, among other rivers Rohr and Sorpe. To the west of Sundern is the recreation area around the Sorpesee. The town is surrounded by mostly over 500 m high mountains. In the south is found the highest elevation of 648 m high Schomberg. A large part of the urban area is located in the nature park Homert.

Neighboring communities

To the north is the town of Sundern Arnsberg, in the north- east bordering Sundern to the city Meschede, southeast lies the community Eslohe. South borders the municipality of Finnentrop ( Kreis Olpe ). In the southwest Sundern adjacent to the town Plettenberg and to the west by the city Balve, as well as to the city Neuenrade.

Boroughs

  • Allendorf ( 1565 inhabitants)
  • Old Hellefeld ( 457 inhabitants)
  • Amecke (1786 inhabitants)
  • Endorf with the side villages Endorferhütte, Recklinghausen ( Sundern ), Brenschede, Klosterbrunnen, tube Spring, Bönkhausen, and Mitre (1858 inhabitants)
  • Enkhausen with the side villages Estinghausen and deep Hagen (845 inhabitants)
  • Hachenbach ( 2938 inhabitants)
  • Hagen / Wilde Wiese ( 920 inhabitants)
  • Bright field / Herb Recklinghausen ( 800 inhabitants)
  • Hovel ( 588 inhabitants)
  • Long Scheid ( 2927 inhabitants)
  • Linnepe / Linneperhütte ( 474 inhabitants)
  • Meinkenbracht (225 inhabitants)
  • Stemel ( 1025 inhabitants)
  • Stockum with the side villages Dörnholthausen and Seidenfeld ( 2137 inhabitants)
  • Sundern ( 13,015 inhabitants)
  • Westenfeld ( 1039 inhabitants)

History

Some districts of the present city Sundern were first mentioned in connection with the construction of the church organization of the Archdiocese of Cologne. So there was a significant in Endorf, which was founded at the beginning of the 10th century pin Meschede owned Hofverband. The Count of Arnsberg had about in silk box, Amecke or Hennighausen considerable possessions, which were first mentioned in 1165. In the phase of the eastward expansion of the county of Arnsberg Freedoms Stockum ( 976 ), Hagen ( 1296 ), Sundern (prior to 1310 ) and long- Scheid ( 1307 ) were founded. After the transition of the county to the Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia Allendorf ( 1407) even received city rights. While the places Allendorf, Sundern, Hagen, Hachenbach and long Scheid Member of the cities Curia were in the diets of the Duchy, the Baron von Wrede ( Amecke ) and Plettenberg ( Stockum ) were represented in the Knights Curia from the field Sundern.

In the Middle Ages Sundern laid claim to membership in the Hanseatic League, which always remained controversial, however. In the early modern period, the region of today's Sundern was a center of mining and iron smelting. Remains of early mining industry can still be found in the so-called Hermann mine in Allendorf district and former lead mine " Elector Ernst" in Bönkhausen. With industrialization, these sources of income largely collapsed. In parts of present-day urban area it came to re-agrarianization and importance of emigration. Especially with the construction of the Röhrtalbahn began in the last decades of the 19th century a new economic boom based on the metal industrial finished goods production.

The City Council Sundern spoke on 15 September 2011 unanimously from a social and ethical rehabilitation for the victims of the witch trials.

Incorporations

The city Sundern was formed on 1 January 1975 by the merger (and often against the resistance ) of the previously independent municipalities Allendorf ( Sauerland), Old Hellefeld, Amecke ( Sorpesee ) Endorf, Enkhausen, Estinghausen, Hachenbach, Hagen, Light box, Herb Recklinghausen, Hovel, Langscheid ( Sorpesee ) Linnepe, Meinkenbracht, Stemel, Stockum, Sundern ( Sauerland), West field and Wild meadow. Legal basis was then the so-called Sauerland / Paderborn- law, Section 1, § 6

Development of the population

Number of inhabitants (municipality Sundern without incorporations ) 1858-1974

Number of inhabitants ( as of 1995 as of December 31 ):

Policy

City ​​council

The municipal election held on 30 August 2009 led to the following distribution of seats in the City Council:

  • CDU: 20 seats (-3)
  • SPD: 9 seats ( ± 0)
  • FDP: 6 seats ( 3)
  • GREEN: 3 seats (± 0)

Mayor

Twinning

  • Schirgiswalde in Saxony, since 1990
  • Benet in France, since 1977
  • Torfou (Maine -et- Loire) in France, since 1990 with the district Hachenbach
  • Calopezzati in Calabria (Italy ), since 2009

Coat of arms

Blazon:

In a growing white yellow nimbierter John the Evangelist in blue dress and with yellow hair, a yellow cup holding in his right hand with a hovering blue snake.

Description:

After the municipal reorganization, the City Council decided to introduce a new coat of arms. He opted for the subscribed in the Arnsberg coat of arms collection and until 1956 conducted without official permission crest. John the Evangelist with the attributes chalice and serpent is the patron saint of Sundern and patron of the parish. The official approval was granted on 26 June 1978.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • In the core city, the local museum Old Distillery.
  • The Heinrich Luebke Memorial ( Heinrich- Lübke -Haus) is located in the district Enkhausen.
  • In Endorf is the home and Hunting Museum " Old Schmitte " at home. Among other things, there is a small visitor mine and the scientific legacy of coming from Endorf folklorist Dr. Maria Rörig.
  • In the district of Hagen is a small mining museum. Also tunnel tours can be booked there.

Structures

About five kilometers southeast of the local part Endorf located in a forest in the mid- 19th century abandoned monastery well worth seeing with a small church and a respected as a medicinal source. The founder of the monastery was the Elector Clemens August of Cologne. Famous is especially the organ from the mid-18th century that still resounds to concerts. In the church a Sunday worship takes place, which attracts mainly people from the surrounding areas of the city and the community Sundern Eslohe. The monastery building itself is now used by the Catholic Youth Community. Until the sixties of the 20th century it was one room school, a so-called " Schoolhouse ", with the classes 1 to 8, all of which were taught together by a single teacher. It was attended by students from Brenschede tube and Spring. Both places were part of the former political community Endorf.

The Catholic parish church of St. John is a neo-gothic building.

Between Linnepe and Endorf located at Dümberg ( 576 m) the remains of a hill fort dating from the 10th century, the " Güllene ring ".

In Endorf is also home to the Strackenhof, probably the oldest preserved stone house in the entire Electoral Cologne Sauerland. The building was threatened with demolition. An interest group founded and was able to prevent the demolition. With funding, among other things, a special federal program for monuments, began with the restoration of the building in 2009. On September 12, 2010, the day of the open monument, parts of Strack Court could be viewed.

Landmark Stockum is the leaning bell tower of the Catholic Parish Church of St. Pancras from the 11th century with the Romanesque cloister and the Romanesque baptismal font from the 12th century.

The Hachenburg is the ruins of a hilltop castle, which was built around 1000 on a mountain height in Hachenbach district.

Also noteworthy is the baroque church of the district Allendorf (about 1725), with an organ from the late 18th century. In the tower basement late Gothic tabernacle. Monumental, grünmarmorierter high altar ( 1750 )

On the Schomberg Wilde Wiese 2005/2006 a 60 meter high mobile phone tower was erected, which has 30 meters height above a viewing platform that provides a full panoramic view of almost the whole of the Sauerland.

Natural Monuments

  • The Sorpesee, one of the most beautiful lakes of the Sauerland, is actually not a natural monument but an artifact or landscape structure.

Economy and infrastructure

The industrial structure of the city is dominated by small and medium enterprises. It outweighs the metal processing industry, producing lights and the production of paper and cardboard. The company Severin (production of electrical, household and kitchen appliances ) is one of the largest local companies. The co-owner of the company Severin, Severin and Rudolf Schulte, are also about 9 % shareholder of the airline Air Berlin; until its IPO in May 2006, she had even 25 % of the company. Other major companies are the Wellpappenfabrik Tillmann, household goods factory Schulte -Ufer, bike accessories manufacturers SKS Germany and the fittings manufacturer Franz Miederhoff OHG.

The manufacturing sector is concentrated mainly along the Rohr between the districts Sundern, Stemel and Hachenbach. Was the production sector over-represented with earlier 70 percent of the commercial structure adopted in recent years, the importance of trade and services clearly. Considerable importance has also tourism in particular around the Sorpesee.

Traffic

Sundern is accessed mainly by country, county and local roads. Federal roads run throughout the city. A direct connection to a motorway does not exist. Previously there was a railway connection to the Röhrtalbahn. A railway linking the city Sundern is classified as " demand in 2015 " in traffic planning of NRW ( IGVP ).

From 1955 to 2006, there were the Segelfluggelände Sundern- Silk field near the village of silk box.

Media

Until recently there was in Sundern offices of the regional newspapers Westfälische Rundschau and Westfalenpost. However, both sheets have continued to editorial offices in the city. In addition to some advertising papers exist with Dorfinfo.de a local, private online service.

Education

In Sundern there is a school center, which since August 2008 a community secondary school (after merging the two main schools ), secondary school (founded in 1925 as a church school ) and high school founded in 1970, belong. In primary education exist in the core city and the surrounding villages a total of nine elementary schools. In addition, a special school for children with learning difficulties exist.

Of the more than local importance, the education Sorpesee is the Hochsauerlandkreises in the district long Scheid.

Personalities

Freeman

The freedom of the city Sundern and their former municipalities:

  • Josef Schulte (municipality Stemel )
  • Dr. Joseph Evers ( freedom Hachenbach )
  • Augustine crushing Ting, Dean (Liberty Hachenbach )
  • Clemens Schulte ( freedom Hachenbach )
  • John Sauer ( city Allendorf )
  • Franz Schmitz- Schnieders ( freedom Sundern )
  • John Scheffer Hoppe Höfer ( freedom Sundern )
  • Josef Brumberg ( freedom Sundern )
  • Theodor Horn (Freedom Sundern )
  • Sister Haberilla ( freedom Sundern )
  • Sister Kunibalda ( freedom Sundern )
  • Dr. Heinrich Lübke ( born October 14, 1894 in Enkhausen, † April 6, 1972 in Bonn), Federal President ( freedom Sundern )
  • Franz -Josef Tigges ( born April 14, 1933, Sundern, † 4 April 2001 ), 1969-1999 Mayor of Sundern (city Sundern )
  • Franz Müntefering (born 16 January 1940 in Neheim ), grew up in Sundern, politician of the SPD until 2007 Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs and Vice-Chancellor, from October 2008 to November 2009 federal chairman of the SPD
  • Ferdinand Tillmann (* June 27, 1932 in Sundern ), former District President of Arnsberg and from 1972 to 1994 Member of the German Bundestag

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Josef Bergthal (painter ) (* 1821 or 1827 in Sundern, † 1887 in Philadelphia ) was a painter who emigrated to the USA in 1863.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke ( born August 25, 1887 Enkhausen district, † October 16, 1954 in Augaard ), brother of Heinrich Lübke, politician ( CDU), was first captain, then a farmer, 1951-1954 Minister -President of Schleswig -Holstein.
  • Heinrich Lübke ( born October 14, 1894 Enkhausen district, † April 6, 1972 in Bonn), politician ( CDU), Member of the Prussian Landtag ( center ) from 1931 to 1933, Food and Agriculture Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia ( 1947-1952 ), Member of the German Bundestag 1949/50, and then again from 1953, since 1953 Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, Federal President of 1959-1969.
  • Rudolf Kaiser (* 1927 Meinkenbracht district ) Professor of English and Indian researchers
  • Johannes Dröge ( born March 25, 1931) sculptor
  • Erhard Ahmann ( born May 21, 1941 † 14 December 2005), football player and coach
  • Hans -Werner Bierhoff ( born 1948 ), psychologist and university teachers
  • Berthold Tillmann ( born March 6, 1950), politician and 1999-2009 Mayor of the City of Münster
  • Dieter Korn ( * 1958 ), geologist and paleontologist
  • Alfons Kaiser, Meinkenbracht (born 1965 ), head of " Germany and the World" at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Personalities who were active in the city

  • Hans -Georg Walther (1916-2010), painter and photographer
  • Franz Müntefering (born 16 January 1940 in Neheim ), since 1975 Member of the German Parliament, Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia ( 1992-1995), Minister of Transport, Building and Housing (1998-1999 ), MP, MP, Secretary General and Chairman, Chairman of the SPD (2004-2005), Vice-Chancellor of the Grand Coalition and Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs (2005-2007), from March 2004 to November 2005 and from October 2008 to November 2009 party chairman of the SPD
  • Hans -Werner Ehrenberg ( born August 30, 1952), politician, 1980-2012 teacher in Sundern
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