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Beverungen () is a town in Höxter district in
North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...
,
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.


Geography


Location

Beverungen lies in the Weser Uplands on the side of the
Weser The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports o ...
opposite Solling roughly 10 km south of Höxter. In parts of the eastern municipal area near the river, the town has a share of the Weser Valley, and to the west the higher
Oberwälder Land The Oberwälder Land is a natural region in the extreme east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with small elements parts in Hesse and Lower Saxony. It consists of Muschelkalk upland, heavily dissected by the Nethe and its tributari ...
natural region. In Beverungen (main town), the river Bever empties into the Weser. Geopolitically, Beverungen thereby lies in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia at the three-state point shared with
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
and
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. The Weser forms the border with the former. One peculiarity in the town's location is to be found at the constituent community of Würgassen (, which lies on the Weser's right (here, north) bank, which would actually mean that the community were in Lower Saxony had it not been for the way a long-standing boundary dispute was settled in 1837. Even today, the boundary does not quite put all the community in North Rhine-Westphalia; the local Shooting Brotherhood's shooting range still lies partly in North Rhine-Westphalia and partly in Lower Saxony.


Neighbouring communities

The town of Beverungen lies right at the point common to the '' Bundesländer'' of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse. It borders in the west on the towns of Borgentreich and Brakel, in the north on the town of Höxter (all in Höxter district), in the east on the
Samtgemeinde A ''Samtgemeinde'' (; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of municipalities, equivalent to the '' Ämter'' in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenbu ...
of Boffzen with its member communities of
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and Fürstenberg and the market town of Lauenförde (all in Holzminden district), and the municipality-free area of Solling ( Northeim district), and in the south on the towns of
Bad Karlshafen Bad Karlshafen () is a baroque, thermal salt spa town in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It has 2300 inhabitants in the main ward of Bad Karlshafen, and a further 1900 in the medieval village of Helmarshausen. It is situated at the co ...
and
Trendelburg Trendelburg () is a town in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany with a population of 5,282 on 30 September 2009. It is situated on the river Diemel, north of Kassel. The town is twinned with Pocklington, England England is a co ...
(both in
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district).


Constituent communities

Beverungen consists of the following 12 centres: * Beverungen * Amelunxen * Blankenau * Dalhausen * Drenke * Haarbrück * Herstelle * Jakobsberg * Rothe * Tietelsen * Wehrden * Würgassen


History

The name "Beverungun" is known from as early as the mid 9th century. This was at first a noble estate with great landholdings, which soon developed into a village. About 1300, Bishop Bernhard of Paderborn began building work on the
castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...
. The village was granted town rights in 1417. For over 500 years thereafter, Beverungen was a farming town. The town reached both heights and depths through this time, one of the latter being the Plague striking the town in 1626, during the
Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battl ...
. The Hessians and the Swedes saw fit in 1632 to burn the town down, leaving only five houses standing afterwards. Thanks to the town's advantageous location, it soon recovered and quickly had a flourishing trade in
grain A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit ( caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legu ...
,
iron Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in ...
and
glass Glass is a non-Crystallinity, crystalline, often transparency and translucency, transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most ...
from the glassworks in the ''Paderborner Land''. For centuries, Beverungen was the
harbour A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is ...
town for the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn. Even many people who went to the Americas began their journeys to the ocean steamers in
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here. Towards the end of the 19th century, a new economic upswing began with the
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's arrival and the building of a
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across the Weser. During
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, a subcamp of
Flossenbürg concentration camp Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountains of Bavaria, adjacent to the town of ...
was located here.Christine O'Keepe.''Concentration Camps.''www.tartanplace.com/tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html The current town of Beverungen with its 12 constituent communities was created in 1970.


Würgassen

Its existence witnessed by documentary proof from the 10th century, Würgassen likely already existed in
Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Em ...
's time. In 1698, the stately home (''Schloss'') was completed. Although the local
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holds that the village's name came about from the story in which "Charlemagne had the Würgassen dwellers strangled in the lanes for reverting to heathen customs", or in
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, ''"Karl der Große hat die Würgasser wegen eines Rückfalles in heidnische Sitten in den Gassen erwürgen lassen"'', this is certainly untrue. Rather, the village's original name was Wirrigsen, more closely akin to the terms ''Wirura'' (the Weser) and ''Gisen'' (bubble up). As late as the early 20th century, the Weser at Würgassen was still underlain by a good many rocks, so that the water was churned up. The villagers who did not work in
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in earlier days hired themselves out foremost as
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s in the
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on the river Weser. In the 1970s, many people were employed at the newly built
Würgassen Nuclear Power Plant Beverungen () is a town in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Location Beverungen lies in the Weser Uplands on the side of the Weser opposite Solling roughly 10 km south of Höxter. In parts of the eas ...
, which was abandoned in 1995 and is now being dismantled.


Politics


Town council

Town council's 32 seats are apportioned as follows, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 September 2004: * CDU 18 seats * SPD 8 seats *
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3 seats * FDP 3 seats


Coat of arms

Beverungen's civic
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in it ...
might heraldically be described thus: In azure three fleurs-de-lis argent, two above, one below. The
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only appeared in the town's official seal in the 17th century. At first, there was only one, but the now familiar design with three came into use in the 18th century. The charge is believed to represent the
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Economy and infrastructure


Transport

Beverungen is served by
Lauenförde-Beverungen station Lauenförde-Beverungen is a railway station located in Lauenförde, Germany and is across the river from Beverungen. The station is located on the Sollingbahn and the train services are operated by NordWestBahn The NordWestBahn GmbH is a pri ...
on the
Solling Railway The Solling Railway (german: Sollingbahn is a non-electrified, single track standard gauge railway connecting Höxter-Ottbergen in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Northeim in southern Lower Saxony. It takes its name fro ...
(''Sollingbahn'') in the neighbouring community of Lauenförde, which is close to Beverungen. Trains run hourly to Ottbergen and Bodenfelde; from Bodenfelde, trains run to either
Northeim Northeim (; nds, Nuurten) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in 800 in a document r ...
or
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. From Ottbergen there are connections to Altenbeken,
Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for th ...
and Holzminden. Furthermore, the constituent community of Wehrden has a halt on the same line.


Public institutions

* Public
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* Festival hall * Würgassen nuclear power station (derelict)


Education

Beverungen has a
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centre with a
Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling ('' Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classificatio ...
, a
Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola' ...
and a Gymnasium to which go students not only from Beverungen, but also from the neighbouring communities of Lauenförde in
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
and
Trendelburg Trendelburg () is a town in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany with a population of 5,282 on 30 September 2009. It is situated on the river Diemel, north of Kassel. The town is twinned with Pocklington, England England is a co ...
-Langental in
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.


Events

In Beverungen, a shooting festival is held every other year. Every year at
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, the "Orange-Blossom-Special" – a music festival hosted by the local
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/
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company,
Glitterhouse Records Glitterhouse Records is a German independent record label and mail order company based in Beverungen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was founded in the mid-1980s. From the late 1980s until the mid-1990s it was the European branch of the American la ...
– is held. Some 2000 visitors attend from all over Europe.


References


External links


Beverungen

Beverungen's public Internet café

Beverungen in the ''Kulturatlas Westfalen''
{{Authority control Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia Höxter (district)