Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is an old charactered town in the district of Osnabrück, in

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. It is situated in the

Teutoburg Forest The Teutoburg Forest ( ; ) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Until the 17th century, the official name of the hill ridge was Osning. It was first renamed the ''Teutoburg Forest'' ...

, approximately 20 km southeast of

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; ; archaic English: ''Osnaburg'') is a city in Lower Saxony in western Germany. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population of 168 ...

Geography

Dissen is located on the southern slope of the

at the transition to East Westphalia. The highest point is the Hankenüll (307 meters) on the northeastern city limits. From east to west is the city area about eight kilometers, from north to south about ten kilometers. The land use is composed as follows: 43.8 percent agricultural use, 41.7 percent forest area, 9.8 percent building and courtyard areas and 4.7 percent traffic and other areas. Dissen is bordered to the north by

Hilter Hilter is a municipality in the district Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany, in the hills of the Teutoburg Forest. As of 2020 it has a population of 10,429, and covers an area of 52.61 km2. Its highest elevation is the Hohnangel, 262 metr ...

and Melle, to the west by

Bad Rothenfelde Bad Rothenfelde is a municipality and health resort in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teutoburg Forest, approx. 20 km southeast of Osnabrück Osnabrück (; ; archaic English: ''Osnaburg'') i ...

, and to the south and east by the

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

n towns of

Versmold Versmold (; ) is a town in Gütersloh (district), Gütersloh District in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located some 30 km west of Bielefeld. History In 1096 Versmold was first mentioned in a document, and is thus one o ...

and

Borgholzhausen Borgholzhausen () is a town in the Gütersloh (district), district of Gütersloh in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Teutoburg Forest, approx. 20 km north-west of Bielefeld. Borgholzhausen is a sister city ...

in the

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe and the administrative region of Detmold (administrative region), Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a Gütersloh (distric ...

district. The city consists of the districts Dissen, Aschen, Erpen, and Nolle.

History

Dissen was first mentioned in documents in 822, when

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handed over the Meierhof in Dissen to the

Bishop of Osnabrück A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

. Since when the place exists is not known. A public school with three classes was founded in 1857. In April 1832, a major fire destroyed 32 buildings, 200 people lost their roof over their heads. On November 8, 1951 Dissen received the city rights. The name "Dissen am

Teutoburger Wald The Teutoburg Forest ( ; ) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Until the 17th century, the official name of the hill ridge was Osning. It was first renamed the ''Teutoburg Forest'' i ...

" was officially ordered by the

Ministry of the Interior with effect from 1 January 1976. Since 1 March 2005 Dissen has a full-time mayor. Since May 26, 2019 Eugen Görlitz ( CDU) is

mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...

. Origin of the place name Old names of the place are 1217, 1284, 1325 (de) Disne, 1223, 1282, 1402, 1412, 1442, 1456/58, 1463, 1556, (after 1605) (de) Dissen, 1225 (in) Dyssene, (approx 1240) Dissene, 1246 (de) Dissenen, 1271 (de) Dissine, 1279 (in) Dhissene, 1402 Dyssen, 1412 Dyssen, 16th c. Dyssen and 1565 Dissenn. Difficult, perhaps too low-German hazy in a form Disina "misty, hazy area", perhaps referring to the moorland at Dissener Bach. Or maybe as Desina> Dissen to North Germanic anord. of the "haystack, ëschober", norw. desja "small pile", which was also borrowed in English. Then about hill town. Hard to solve so far.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1974, there was an area exchange between the city of Dissen and the neighboring community

, in which Dissen gained a little more than 100 inhabitants, but also ceded nearly 600 inhabitants.

Population development

Politics

City Council The following table shows the municipal election results since 1996. Mayors * Georg Majerski (2005-2011) * Hartmut Nümann (2011-2019) * Eugen Görlitz (2019-Incumbent) Dissen atw rathaus

Coat of arms

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: In green under a golden crown a golden wheel.

Twin towns and sister cities

Dissen-Striesow Dissen-Striesow (, ) is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany. History The municipality of Dissen-Striesow was formed on 31 December 2001 by merging the municipalities of Dissen and Striesow. From ...

, Landkreis Spree-Neiße,

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Gudensberg Gudensberg () is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany. Since the municipal reform in 1974, the nearby villages of Deute, Dissen, Dorla, Gleichen, Maden and Obervorschütz have become parts of the municipality. Geography Gudensberg is situated ...

Schwalm-Eder-Kreis Schwalm-Eder-Kreis is a ''Kreis'' (Districts of Germany, district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Kassel (district), Kassel, Werra-Meißner, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, and Wald ...

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Thum Thum is a small town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 5,000. Geography Thum is situated in the Ore Mountains, 10 km northwest of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 19 km south of Chemnitz. The Jah ...

Erzgebirgskreis Erzgebirgskreis is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is named after the Ore Mountains (German: ''Erzgebirge''), a mountain range in the southern part of the district which forms part of the Germany–Czech Republi ...

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Main sights

*Fernmeldeturm Dissen (with viewing platform) * Frommenhof * St. Mauritius (Dissen) (13. century)

Notable people

* Hermann Heinrich Grafe (1818–1869), founder of the League of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany * Christoph Friedrich Kurlbaum (1833–nach 1890), businessman and member of the parliament * Erich Goudefroy (1880–1960), President of the

Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' (), also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the re ...

directorate Mainz and Altona * Marianne Brentzel (* 1943), Author * Gerda Krämer (* 1945), Politician (

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together wi ...

) * Klaus Feldmann (* 1950), General * Rainer Spiering (* 1956), Politician (CDU) * Andy Grote (* 1968), Politician (

) * Marco Heggen (* 1970), Musician * Gerwald Claus-Brunner (1972–2016), Politician (

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)

References

External links

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