Horn-Bad Meinberg

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Horn-Bad Meinberg
Town
The Town Hall of Horn-Bad Meinberg.
Coat of arms
Location of Horn-Bad Meinberg within Lippe district
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Coordinates: 51°53′N 8°58′E / 51.883°N 8.967°E / 51.883; 8.967
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  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	17,290
• 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 (German pronunciation:

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 is the location of the Externsteine, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns.

Geography

In the municipality are the two highest peaks of the

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

Starting in the west the municipality is bordering to

on the border with the municipality Horn-Bad Meinberg.

Constituent communities

The 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

History

The 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

.

Settlement Moorlage

In 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

External links

• Official website (in English)
• Official website (in German)