Hövelhof is a municipality in the district

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 t ...

, 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 inha ...

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. Since 14 March 2012, Hövelhof can use the official additive ''Sennegemeinde'' (English: "Senne municipality").

Geography

Hövelhof is located in the

Senne Senne may refer to: Places * Senne (Germany), a natural region of Germany *Senne, a district of Bielefeld, Germany * Senne (river), a river of Belgium *Senné (disambiguation), places in Slovakia People with the name *Yōkō Senne, a 13th-centur ...

area, the eastern part of the Westfälische Bucht, approx. 10 km northwest of

. The eastern side of Hövelhof belongs to the Military Training Area Senne.

Neighbouring municipalities

Augustdorf Augustdorf is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has an area of 42.18 km² and about 10,100 inhabitants (2020). History In 1775 Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold Simon August, Count of Lippe (12 ...

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 ...

* Delbrück * Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock *

Verl Verl () is a town in the district of Gütersloh in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is approximately 15 km south of Bielefeld and 10 km east of Gütersloh. In the 19th century two citizens of Verl, Johannes Otto and ...

Division of the municipality

*Klausheide * Staumühle * Espeln * Riege * Hövelriege *Hövelsenne (mostly vacated)

Description

Unusually for a village as small as Hövelhof, it is relatively self-contained—there are numerous supermarkets, restaurants, clothes shops, travel agencies, pubs and much more, meaning that the village could theoretically remain independent of the city of Paderborn. In fact, the only common feature of a full-fledged town that is missing from Hövelhof is a cinema, for which inhabitants do indeed need to venture into Paderborn City Center—approximately 15 km (10 mi) away. It also has five schools, its own fire brigade, and a library.

Culture

Hövelhof has two main festivals during the year. The first is the '' Schützenfest,'' a celebration of the St. Hubertus Hunters' Guild, which takes place on the hunting grounds. The second is the ''Hövelmarkt','' a general village fair with not only market stalls, but also fairground rides and traditional German dances, complete with traditional music and costume.

Nature

Hövelhof is part of the Senne, the biggest

heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...

landscape in North Rhine-Westphalia. There are many rivers and crooks that flow through the municipality area, from which the biggest one is the Ems.

Politics

The local government is dominated by the

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

CDU.

Coat of arms, seal and banner

The coat of arms of Hövelhof shows historical and geographical symbols: # The cross in the top field represented the bishop cross from the prince-bishops of

, who were the sovereigns since the Middle Ages up to 1803. # The wave line symbolises the brooks and rivers, especially the river Ems. # The

hunting horn A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges. In horns, unlike some other br ...

stands for the hunting castle, build by the prince-bishop Dietrich Adolf von der Recke in the year 1661. # The green color stands for the wealth of forest and green areas. The seal contains the coat of arms with the transcription ''Gemeinde Hövelhof Krs. Paderborn.'' The banner is striped lengthways with green and white and has the coat of arms in the upper third.

Notable persons

* Heinz Stücke, world traveler and cyclist

Twin town

Hövelhof has a partnership with the French city

Verrières-le-Buisson Verrières-le-Buisson () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is from the centre of Paris, in the Essonne department just outside the inner ring of the Île-de-France. The commune borders the river Bièvre. History T ...

since 29 May 1971. The partnership consists of yearly meetups in either one of the two cities, student exchanges, and more. Hövelhof has also named a small park with a pond after Verrières-le-Buisson.

References

External links

* Paderborn (district) {{Paderborn-geo-stub