Stemwede

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base data
Land of the Federal Republic:	North Rhine-Westphalia
governmental district:	Governmental district Detmold
circle:	Circle Minden Lübbecke
surface:	165.29 km ²
inhabitants:	14.494 (31. December 2002)
Population density:	88 inhabitants for each km ²
height:	41 m and. NN
postal zip code:	32351
preselection:	0 54 74& 0 57 73 & 05745
geographical situation:	Coordinates: 52° 25 ' n. Break. 8° 26 ' o. L.52° 25 ' n. Break. 8° 26 ' o. L.
Kfz characteristic:	MI
municipality keys:	05 7 70 044
municipality arrangement:	3 municipality districts and 13 local parts
address of the local administration:	ToThie 20 32351 Stemwede Dielingen
Website:	www.stemwede.de
E-Mail address:
Politics
mayor:	Ekkehardt Stauss (CDU)

Stemwede is belonged a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and to the circle Minden Lübbecke in east Westphalia lip.

Table of contents 1 history 1,1 incorporations 2 politics 2,1 local council 3 culture and objects of interest 3.1 Buildings of 3,2 Naturdenkmäler 3,3 regular meetings 4 personalities 5 literature 6 Web on the left of

history

in a document it is reported to 969 that knight Worad gave different yards, body-own and further to the Mindener cathedral. Bishop von Minden was at this time Milo. In this documentthe villages Levern, Destel and Wehdem are mentioned for the first time.1198 are mentioned for the first time in the Osnabrücker document book the designation Stemwede. 1227 were created a Cistercian interior monastery in Levern. Stemwede belongs to the dünnbesiedelsten municipalities of the country North-Rhine/Westphalia.

With Oppendorf an aircraft crash took place to 16. December 1943,that 8 humans died and 19 Gehöfe were destroyed.

incorporations

1973 were united the earlier offices Dielingen Wehdem and Levern to the municipality Stemwede. These offices consisted of the following localities:

• Oppenwehe
• Oppendorf
• Wehdem
• Westrup
• Arrenkamp
• Haldem
• Dielingen
• drone
• Destel
• Sundern
• Levern
• Twiehausen
• Niedermehnen

politics

local council

• CDU 20 seats
• SPD of 7 seats
• FDP 3 seats
• the Greens of 2 seats

(conditions: Local election to 26. September 2004)

culture and objects of interest

of buildings

3 mills gives it in Stemwede.

• Mill in Destel
• Support windmill Oppenwehe
• Kolthoff yard meal mill in Levern
• in the local centre from Levern are the historical buildings worth seeing of the lady pin.
• Formerly largest wind power station of the world in Stemwede drone.

Naturdenkmäler

• of the Stemweder mountain is of layers of the highest chalk composed. Its highest collection is 181 M.It is 7 km long and 3 km broad. Because of the white way the hill grave is from the early Bronzezeit with 17 m diameters.
• The large protected area Oppenweher moorland is appropriate for 952 hectars northeast the Stemweder of mountain. Since the moorland plants react extremely sensitively to footstep load, that may Visitors only the ways marked on moving boards and folding sheets use

regular meetings

the Stemweder open air take place since 1976 annually in August and tighten as the MC and outside - festival over 20.000 visitors.

personalities

Gustav Niermann

literature

• Oppenwehe - anniversary publication to the 775-Jahrfeier 1227-2002, ISBN 3833402563
• the village Dielingen in the change of the times: 350 years brother shank pc. Matthias in Dielingen 1654-2004, ISBN 3896469053
• Alfreds Pohlmann: Church and pin Levern (Westfäli art places 54). Münster 1989
• Heinz Redeker: Stemwede - boy municipality - oldVillages, ISBN 3-922657-79-6

Web on the left of

• Website of the municipality Stemwede
• child and Jugendbistro House information
• about the local part Sundern information
• about the local part Niedermehnen information
• about the local part Oppendorf information
• about the local part Oppenwehe association
• for youth, spare time and culture would run in Stemwede