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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′N8°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 (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 17,375 |
| • 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:[ˈhɔʁnbaːtˈmaɪ̯nˌbɛʁk]ⓘ;Low German: Häoern-Möomag)[3] is a Germancity in theLippe district in the north-east ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of theTeutoburg forest. The districtBad 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 is the location of theExternsteine, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns.
In the municipality are the two highest peaks of theEggegebirge, the LippVelmerstot (441 m) and the PrussianVelmerstot with about (464 m) above sea level and the highest elevation of theTeutoburg forest, theBarnacken with (446 m). The deepest point of the metropolitan area is (125 m). Between the districtsHorn and Holzhausen-Externsteine is the most famous natural monument of the Teutoburg Forest, theExternsteine, nearby springs theWiembecke.
Starting in the west the municipality is bordering toSchlangen,Detmold,Blomberg andSchieder-Schwalenberg inLippe. It follows in the southHöxter with the communitySteinheim. Southwest still meets theKreis Paderborn with the communitiesAltenbeken andBad Lippspringe on the border with the municipality Horn-Bad Meinberg.
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]
The oldest known written mention ofHorn shows that the foundation of the city was in 1248. Armed conflicts around the city were especially during theSoest Feud (1444-1449) and during theThirty Years' War (1618-1648). 1761 the town resisted in theSeven 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 therailway connection was made in 1895. The station was built outside the city center and is located on theroute Detmold-Altenbeken.
In the east of Horn arose at the beginning ofWorld War II, the settlement Moorlage. Reason was the relocation of the village Haustenbeck inSenne, which was given to theSennelager Training Area. Many people from the community moved to Horn, where the companyKünnemeyer needed workers. Thefarmers received courtyards of theReichsumsiedlungsgesellschaft. 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.
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