Weyhe is a municipality in the district of Diepholz,

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. It is situated approximately 15 km south of Bremen.

History

First mentioned in 860, when a sick girl from "Wege" travelled to the grave of Saint Willehad in Bremen. Legend has it that she was cured by a miracle. However, it was not until 1 March 1974 when the municipally was officially christened as "Weyhe". That day, the nine smaller municipalities Kirchweyhe, Leeste, Lahausen, Sudweyhe, Erichshof, Melchiorshausen, Dreye, Jeebel and Ahausen were united.

Education

In the western part there is the KGS Leeste, in the eastern part the KGS Kirchweyhe. These schools are part of the

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(comprehensive school) system which employs all three traditional tracks in German education;

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, and Gymnasium.

Twin towns – sister cities

Weyhe is twinned with: * Cesvaine, Latvia *

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, France *

Ērgļi Ērgļi is a small town in Ērgļi Parish, Madona Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia on the banks of the Ogre river. It serves as the administrative center for Ērgļi Parish. Ērgļi had 2,769 residents as of 2017. History Ērgļi ...

, Latvia *

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, Latvia *

Madona Madona (; german: Modohn) is a town with town rights in the Vidzeme region of Latvia and is the center of the Madona municipality. History The surrounding area of Madona had been populated in earlier times, which is confirmed by discoveries ...

, Latvia *

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, Latvia

Notable people

Louise Ebert Louise Ebert (23 December 1873 in Melchiorshausen/Weyhe as ''Louise Rump'', – 18 January 1955 in Heidelberg) on 9 May 1894 in Bremen married Friedrich Ebert, who from his election in 1919 until his death on 28 February 1925 served as the first ...

(1873–1955), wife of

Friedrich Ebert Friedrich Ebert (; 4 February 187128 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. Ebert was elected leader of the SPD on t ...

, the first president of the

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Katja Riemann Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann (, born 1 November 1963) is a German actress. The daughter of two teachers, Riemann grew up in Weyhe, near Bremen. After high school she went to Hamburg to study music and theater. She is the mother of actress Pau ...

(born 1963), actress *

Michael Rosemann Michael Rosemann (born 7 October 1967) is a German information systems researcher and professor at thQueensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia. He is the Director of the Centre for Future Enterprise at QUT. His research interests inc ...

(born 1967), professor and Honorary Consul in Brisbane, Australia *Hermann Rumsfeld, great-great-grandfather of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

References

External links

* {{Authority control Diepholz (district)