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Horn-Bad Meinberg (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔʁn baːtˈmaɪ̯nˌbɛʁk] ; Low German: Häoern-Möomag ) [3] is a German city in the Lippe district in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of the Teutoburg forest. The district Bad Meinberg is a spa resort. It has 17,263 inhabitants (2019). It was formed in 1970 by merging various other municipalities that had grown together, including Bad Meinberg and Horn - the new entity's original name was Bad Meinberg-Horn, before taking its present name.
Horn-Bad Meinberg | |
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 The Town Hall of Horn-Bad Meinberg. | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Horn-Bad Meinberg within Lippe district  | |
  Horn-Bad Meinberg  Horn-Bad Meinberg | |
| Coordinates: 51°53′N 8°58′E / 51.883°N 8.967°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Detmold |
| District | Lippe |
| Subdivisions | 16 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–25) | Heinz-Dieter Krüger[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 90.15 km2 (34.81 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 207 m (679 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 17,329 |
| • Density | 190/km2 (500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 32805 |
| Dialling codes | 05234 |
| Vehicle registration | LIP |
| Website | www.horn-badmeinberg.de |
Horn-Bad Meinberg is the location of the Externsteine, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns.
Geography
editIn the municipality are the two highest peaks of the Eggegebirge, the Lipp Velmerstot (441 m) and the Prussian Velmerstot with about (464 m) above sea level and the highest elevation of the Teutoburg forest, the Barnacken with (446 m). The deepest point of the metropolitan area is (125 m). Between the districts Horn and Holzhausen-Externsteine is the most famous natural monument of the Teutoburg Forest, the Externsteine, nearby springs the Wiembecke.
Neighbouring communities
editStarting in the west the municipality is bordering to Schlangen, Detmold, Blomberg and Schieder-Schwalenberg in Lippe. It follows in the south Höxter with the community Steinheim. Southwest still meets the Kreis Paderborn with the communities Altenbeken and Bad Lippspringe on the border with the municipality Horn-Bad Meinberg.
Constituent communities
editThe merger of the city of Horn and the municipalities Bad Meinberg, Belle, Bellenberg, Billerbeck, Fromhausen, Heesten, Holzhausen-Externsteine, Leopoldstal, Schmedissen, Vahlhausen at Horn, Veldrom and Wehren and Kempenfeldrom and the integration of parts of the municipalities Oberschönenbuch Hagen (Fissenknick) and Schönemark (Wilberg) formed the newly Horn-Bad Meinberg"[4]
Horn
editHistory
editThe oldest known written mention of Horn shows that the foundation of the city was in 1248. Armed conflicts around the city were especially during the Soest Feud (1444-1449) and during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). 1761 the town resisted in the Seven Years' War the siege of the French troops commanded by the princes of Beauvau.[5] In 1864, large parts of the city were destroyed by fire, including the old town hall; a new neo-Gothic town hall was built in its stead. A connection for the city of Horn to the railway connection was made in 1895. The station was built outside the city center and is located on the route Detmold-Altenbeken.
Settlement Moorlage
editIn the east of Horn arose at the beginning of World War II, the settlement Moorlage . Reason was the relocation of the village Haustenbeck in Senne, which was given to the Sennelager Training Area. Many people from the community moved to Horn, where the company Künnemeyer needed workers. The farmers received courtyards of the Reichsumsiedlungsgesellschaft. On February 18, 1938, the first proposal was made to build a closed settlement. Some forty families settled around to Horn. End of August 1939 arrived the first domestic, mayor Wilhelm Mehrmann. 1989 were still 42 of 44 settlement houses owned by the families, who they also built before the war.
References
edit- ^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
- ^ "Plattdeutsche Ortsnamen".
- ^ 449.100.1 main statute of the city Horn-Bad Meinberg.
- ^ Hans Brenner-Eglinger: Brief eines Baslers aus dem Siebenjährigen Kriege, in: Basler Stadtbuch|Basler Jahrbuch 1900, hrsg. v. Albert Burckhardt und Rudolf Wackernagel, Basel 1900, S. 249–254.
External links
edit- Official website (in English)
- Official website (in German)