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Beverungen: Guide
Beverungen is a town in Höxter (district)|Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Location
Beverungen lies in the Weserbergland on the side of the Weser opposite Solling roughly 10 km south of Höxter. In parts of the eastern municipal area near the river, the town has a share of the Weser Valley, and to the west the higher Oberwälder Land natural area. In Beverungen (main town), the river Bever empties into the Weser.
Geopolitically, Beverungen thereby lies in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia at the three-state point shared with Lower Saxony and Hesse. The Weser forms the border with the former.
One peculiarity in the town's location is to be found at the constituent community of Würgassen, which lies on the Weser's right (here, north) bank, which would actually mean that the community were in Lower Saxony had it not been for the way a long-standing boundary dispute was settled in 1837. Even today, the boundary does not quite put all the community in North Rhine-Westphalia; the local Shooting Brotherhood's shooting range still lies partly in North Rhine-Westphalia and partly in Lower Saxony.
Neighbouring communities
The town of Beverungen lies right at the point common to the Höxter district), in the east on the Amt (subnational entity)|Samtgemeinde of Boffzen with its member communities of Boffzen and Fürstenberg and the market town of Lauenförde (all in Holzminden (district)|Holzminden district), and the municipality-free area of Solling (Northeim (district)|Northeim district), and in the south on the towns of Bad Karlshafen and Trendelburg (both in Kassel (district)|Kassel district).
Constituent communities
Beverungen consists of the following 12 centres:
Beverungen
Amelunxen
Blankenau
Dalhausen
Drenke
Haarbrück
Herstelle
Jakobsberg
Rothe
Tietelsen
Wehrden
Würgassen
History
The name "Beverungun" is known from as early as the mid 9th century. This was at first a noble estate with great landholdings, which soon developed into a village. About 1300, Bishop Bernhard of Paderborn began building work on the castle. The village was granted town rights in 1417. For over 500 years thereafter, Beverungen was a farming town.
The town reached both heights and depths through this time, one of the latter being the Bubonic plague|Plague striking the town in 1626, during the Thirty Years' War. The Hessians and the Sweden|Swedes saw fit in 1632 to burn the town down, leaving only five houses standing afterwards. Thanks to the town's advantageous location, it soon recovered and quickly had a flourishing trade in grain, iron and glass from the glassworks in the Paderborner Land.
For centuries, Beverungen was the harbour town for the Princely Bishopric (Hochstift) of Paderborn. Even many people who went to the Americas began their journeys to the ocean steamers in Bremen here. Towards the end of the 19th century, a new economic upswing began with the railway's arrival and the building of a bridge across the Weser.
The current town of Beverungen with its 12 constituent communities was created in 1970.
Würgassen
Its existence witnessed by documentary proof from the 10th century, Würgassen likely already existed in Charlemagne's time. In 1698, the stately home (Schloss) was completed.
Although the local folklore holds that the village's name came about from the story in which "Charlemagne had the Würgassen dwellers strangled in the lanes for reverting to heathen customs", or in German language|German, "Karl der Große hat die Würgasser wegen eines Rückfalles in heidnische Sitten in den Gassen erwürgen lassen", this is certainly untrue. Rather, the village's original name was Wirrigsen, more closely akin to the terms Wirura (the Weser) and Gisen (bubble up). As late as the early 20th century, the Weser at Würgassen was still underlain by a good many rocks, so that the water was churned up.
The villagers who did not work in agriculture in earlier days hired themselves out foremost as sailors in the shipping on the river Weser. In the 1970s, many people were employed at the newly built nuclear power station, which was abandoned in 1995 and is now being dismantled.
Politics
Town council
Town council's 32 seats are apportioned as follows, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 September 2004:
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU 18 seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD 8 seats
Greens 3 seats
Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP 3 seats
Coat of arms
Beverungen's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: In azure three fleurs-de-lis argent, two above, one below.
The fleur-de-lis only appeared in the town's official seal in the 17th century. At first, there was only one, but the now familiar design with three came into use in the 18th century. The charge is believed to represent the Bishop of Paderborn. The arms were officially conferred on 12 May 1917, and confirmed in 1970.
The current arms do not bear any likeness to the original town seal, which came into use at the time when Beverungen was granted town rights. This seal showed a town gate and Saint Vitus.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
There is a railway station (on line 356 by the Deutsche Bahn railway guide) in the neighbouring community of Lauenförde, although owing to the short distance from the town, it is known as Lauenförde-Beverungen. Trains run hourly to Ottbergen and Bodenfelde; from Bodenfelde, trains run to either Northeim or Göttingen. From Ottbergen there are connections to Altenbeken, Paderborn and Holzminden. Furthermore, the constituent community of Wehrden has a halt on the same line.
In Beverungen itself, there is only the derelict Warburg-Borgentreich-Beverungen-Boffzen-Holzminden railway line, which was made useless in 2004 when all its bridges were dismantled. Deutsche Bahn apparently wanted to obviate any possible plans to reopen the line.
Public institutions
Public Internet café
Festival hall
Würgassen nuclear power station (derelict)
Education
Beverungen has a school centre with a Hauptschule, a Realschule and a Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium to which go students not only from Beverungen, but also from the neighbouring communities of Lauenförde in Lower Saxony and Trendelburg-Langental in Hesse.
Events
In Beverungen, a shooting festival is held every other year. Every year at Pentecost|Whitsun, the "Orange-Blossom-Special" – a music festival hosted by the local record label/mail order company, Glitterhouse Records – is held. Some 2000 visitors attend from all over Europe.
Reference
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