Horn-Bad Meinberg (;

Low German Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...

: '' Häoern-Möomag '') is a German

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

in the Lippe district in the north-east of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

on the edge of the

Teutoburg forest The Teutoburg Forest ( ; ) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Until the 17th century, the official name of the hill ridge was Osning. It was first renamed 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 memorial Metz

Horn-Bad Meinberg is the location of the

Externsteine The Externsteine () is a distinctive sandstone List of rock formations, rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg in the Lippe district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The formation is a T ...

, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns.

Geography

In the municipality are the two highest peaks of the

Eggegebirge The Egge Hills (, ), or just the Egge (''die Egge'') is a range of forested hills, up to , in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Geography The Egge extends from the southern tip of the Teutoburg Forest range near Horn-Bad M ...

, the Lipp Velmerstot (441 m) and the Prussian Velmerstot with about (464 m) above sea level and the highest elevation of the

, the Barnacken with (446 m). The deepest point of the metropolitan area is (125 m). Between the districts

Horn Horn may refer to: Common uses * Horn (acoustic), a tapered sound guide ** Horn antenna ** Horn loudspeaker ** Vehicle horn ** Train horn *Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals * Horn (instrument), a family ...

and Holzhausen-Externsteine is the most famous natural monument of the Teutoburg Forest, the

, nearby springs the

Wiembecke Wiembecke is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its source is near the Externsteine in the Teutoburg Forest. It flows through Horn-Bad Meinberg and joins the Werre in Detmold. In its lower course the Wiembecke is also called ''Knochenba ...

Neighbouring communities

Starting in the west the municipality is bordering to

Schlangen Schlangen is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Schlangen has about 9,000 inhabitants (2013) and enjoys relative prosperity. Located a few kilometers away from Detmold, the municipality stretches from the edge ...

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

, Blomberg and

Schieder-Schwalenberg Schieder-Schwalenberg (Low German: ''Schüer-Schwalenberg'') is a town in the Lippe district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately east of Detmold. It consists of 8 communes, which have been combined to a town in 197 ...

Lippe Lippe () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. ...

. It follows in the south

Höxter Höxter () is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the left bank of the river Weser, 52 km north of Kassel. It lies the heart of the Weser Uplands, and is the seat of the Höxter district. The district of Höxter has a popul ...

with the community Steinheim. Southwest still meets the Kreis Paderborn with the communities

Altenbeken Altenbeken (, , in contrast to " New Beken") is a municipality in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Altenbeken is situated in the Eggegebirge, approx. northeast of Paderborn. To the west of the town is t ...

and

Bad Lippspringe Bad Lippspringe () is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Bad Lippspringe is situated on the western slope of the Teutoburger Wald, approximately north-east of Paderborn. The river Lippe has its sour ...

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"

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 The Soest Feud (), or Feud of Soest, was a feud that took place from 1444 to 1449 in which the town of Soest, Germany, Soest claimed its freedom from Archbishop Dietrich II of Moers, Dietrich of Electoral Cologne, Cologne (1414–1463), who tried ...

(1444-1449) and during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine ...

(1618-1648). 1761 the town resisted in the

Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763, was a Great Power conflict fought primarily in Europe, with significant subsidiary campaigns in North America and South Asia. The protagonists were Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of Prus ...

the siege of the French troops commanded by the princes of Beauvau.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. 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

In the east of Horn arose at the beginning of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the '' settlement Moorlage ''. Reason was the relocation of the village Haustenbeck in Senne, which was given to the

Sennelager Training Area The Sennelager Training Area () is a military training area in Germany, under the control of British Forces based in Paderborn Garrison. It covers an area of , and belongs to the German Government, which discharges its responsibility through i ...

. Many people from the community moved to Horn, where the company ''Künnemeyer'' needed workers. The

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

s 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

Official website
{{Authority control Lippe Teutoburg Forest Spa towns in Germany