Petershagen is a town in the

Minden-Lübbecke Minden-Lübbecke is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the northeastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Diepholz, Nienburg, Schaumburg, Lippe, Herford, Osnabrück. Geography This is the northernmost district of North ...

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 inha ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It lies on the Westphalian Mill Route. The core is formed by the districts of Petershagen and Lahde, located opposite each other on the Weser.

Geography

Petershagen is situated on the river

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 ...

, approx. 10 km north-east of Minden.

Neighbouring municipalities

Division of the town

The town of Petershagen consists of 29 districts:

International relations

Petershagen is twinned with: *

Petershagen-Eggersdorf Petershagen-Eggersdorf is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. Geography The municipality, situated east of Berlin centre, is composed by the main settlement of Petershagen and by Eggersdorf. Demography ...

(

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

) -- since 1990

Notable people

The following persons were born in Petershagen: Wilhelm Normann 1905

* Master Bertram (c. 1345 – c. 1415), painter (presumably born in Bierde) *

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg. He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army. His marriage in Berlin, 1770, with Euphrosyne Luise ...

(1743–1807), natural scientist * Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792–1854), Professor of Church History *

Henry Clay Brockmeyer Henry Clay Brockmeyer (born Heinrich Conrad Brokmeyer, August 12, 1826 near Petershagen, Prussia – July 26, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a German-American poet, philosopher, and politician. Early life Brockmeyer was born Heinrich Conrad Br ...

(1826–1906), politician and translator of Hegel *

August Fick Friedrich Conrad August Fick (May 5, 1833, in Petershagen, Germany – March 24, 1916, in Hildesheim or Breslau) was a German philologist. He spent his life chiefly at Göttingen, where he first studied philology under Theodor Benfey; became a ...

(1833–1916), Germanist and linguist *

Wilhelm Normann Wilhelm Normann (16 January 1870, in Petershagen – 1 May 1939, in Chemnitz) (sometimes also spelled ''Norman'') was a German chemist who introduced the hydrogenation of fats in 1901, creating what later became known as trans fats. This inventi ...

(1870–1939), inventor of fat hardening and thus the founder of margarine production *

Elsbeth Schragmüller Elsbeth Schragmüller (7 August 1887, Schlüsselburg near Petershagen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire — 24 February 1940, Munich, Nazi Germany), also known as Fräulein Doktor and Mademoiselle Docteur, as well as Fair Lady, La Baronne and Mlle ...

(1887–1940), spy * Edelgard Bulmahn (born 1951), politician *

Willi Brase Willi Brase (born 10 October 1951 in Petershagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD. Willi Brase is married with two children and is a Protestant. Brase attended elementary sch ...

(born 1951), politician

References

External links

Official site

Virtual tour through the city Petershagen
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