Sprockhövel is a town in the district of

Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis is a district in the center of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the southern Ruhr urban area and has ca. 324,000 inhabitants (2012). The district's seat (capital city) is Schwelm; the largest of its nine towns ...

, North Rhine-Westphalia,

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Geography

Sprockhövel is located in the southern suburban part of the

Ruhr area The Ruhr ( ; , also ''Ruhrpott'' ), also referred to as the Ruhr Area, sometimes Ruhr District, Ruhr Region, or Ruhr Valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 1,160/km2 and a populati ...

. It is 6 km southeast of

Hattingen Hattingen is a town in the northern part of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History Hattingen is located on the south bank of the River Ruhr in the south of the Ruhr region. The town was first mentioned in 13 ...

, 8 km northwest of Gevelsberg, 13 km south of

Bochum Bochum (, ; ; ; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348 (April 2023), it is the sixth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federa ...

and 14 km northeast of

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...

(centre). The town consists of the ''

Stadtteil A quarter is a part of an urban area, urban settlement. A quarter can be administratively defined and its borders officially designated, and it may have its own administrative structure (subordinate to that of the city, town or other urban area ...

e'' Gennebreck, Haßlinghausen, Hiddinghausen, Niedersprockhövel, Niederstüter and Obersprockhövel.

History

The town was first mentioned in documents around 1000 AD. It was part of the

County of Mark The County of Mark (, colloquially known as ) was a county and Imperial State, state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle. It lay south of Lippe (river), Lippe river on both sides of the Ruhr river along the Volme a ...

, but close to the

Duchy of Berg Berg () was a state—originally a county, later a duchy—in the Rhineland of Germany. Its capital was Düsseldorf. It existed as a distinct political entity from the early 12th to the 19th centuries. It was a member state of the Holy Roman Emp ...

, whose cultural influence is still visible today in the historical part of town. The current administration of Sprockhövel is a result of the local government reform on 1 January 1975. Sprockhövel is twinned with

South Kirkby South Kirkby is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England which is governed locally by South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council. The town forms half of the civil parish of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe. The parish has a populatio ...

, West Yorkshire.

Politics

The current mayor of Sprockhövel is Sabine Noll, an independent endorsed by the CDU and Greens, since 2020. In the most recent mayoral election on 13 September 2020, Noll won with 57.9% of votes against Volker Hoven, who was supported by the SPD, FDP, and WfS-FW.

List of mayors

* Hans Käseberg (SPD) 1970–1999 * Paul Gerhard Flasdieck (SPD) 1999–2004 * Klaus Walterscheid (SPD) (* 1946), 2004–2014 * Ulrich Winkelmann (* 1957), 2014-2020 * Sabine Noll (* 1968), since 2020

City council

The Sprockhövel city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: ! colspan=2, Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , 4,040 , 31.8 , 2.4 , 12 , ±0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left,

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

(SPD) , 3,384 , 26.6 , 11.5 , 10 , 6 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left,

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (, ), often simply referred to as Greens (, ), is a Green (politics), green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of the Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Ger ...

(Grüne) , 3,148 , 24.8 , 12.0 , 10 , 5 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Free Democratic Party (FDP) , 1,113 , 8.8 , 0.2 , 3 , ±0 , - , , align=left, We for Sprockhövel–Free Voters (WfS–FW) , 607 , 4.8 , 0.9 , 2 , ±0 , - , , align=left, Together in Sprockhövel (MiS) , 427 , 3.4 , New , 1 , New , - ! colspan=2, Valid votes ! 12,719 ! 98.1 ! ! ! , - ! colspan=2, Invalid votes ! 250 ! 1.9 ! ! ! , - ! colspan=2, Total ! 12,969 ! 100.0 ! ! 38 ! 2 , - ! colspan=2, Electorate/voter turnout ! 21,162 ! 61.3 ! ! ! , - , colspan=7, Source
City of Sprockhövel

Notable people

* Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817–1884), women's rights activist *

Henriette Davidis Johanna Friederika Henriette Katharina Davidis (1 March 1801 in Wengern – 3 April 1876 in Dortmund) was a German cookbook writer. Although many similar cookbooks had been published by then, amongst others Sophie Wilhelmine Scheibler's ''Allgeme ...

(1801–1876), house economist and author *

Dietrich Grönemeyer Dietrich H. W. Grönemeyer (born 12 November 1952) is a German professor of medicine and one of the inventors of Microtherapy.SMST-2004: proceedings of the International Conference on Shape - 2006 - Jörn Richter and Dietrich Grönemeyer, Institu ...

(born 1952), physician and brother of Herbert Grönemeyer * Dirk Schrade (born 1978), versatile rider, has been living in the Haßlinghausen district since 2009 * Erwin Sellering (born 1949), Minister President of

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

since 2008 (SPD)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sprockhovel Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis