Summary
Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is an old charactered town in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teutoburg Forest, approximately 20 km southeast of Osnabrück.
Dissen, Lower Saxony | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Dissen, Lower Saxony within Osnabrück district  | |
  Dissen, Lower Saxony  Dissen, Lower Saxony | |
| Coordinates: 52°07′N 08°12′E / 52.117°N 8.200°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Lower Saxony |
| District | Osnabrück |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–25) | Eugen Görlitz[1] |
| • Governing parties | CDU |
| Area | |
| • Total | 31.9 km2 (12.3 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 109 m (358 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 10,638 |
| • Density | 330/km2 (860/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 49201 |
| Dialling codes | 05421 |
| Vehicle registration | OS |
| Website | www.dissen.de |
Geography edit
Dissen is located on the southern slope of the Teutoburg Forest 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 and Melle, to the west by Bad Rothenfelde, and to the south and east by the North Rhine-Westphalian towns of Versmold and Borgholzhausen in the Gütersloh district.
The city consists of the districts Dissen, Aschen, Erpen, and Nolle.
History edit
Dissen was first mentioned in documents in 822, when Louis the Pious handed over the Meierhof in Dissen to the Bishop of Osnabrück. 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.[3] On November 8, 1951 Dissen received the city rights. The name "Dissen am Teutoburger Wald" was officially ordered by the Lower Saxony 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.
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.[4]
Incorporations edit
On April 1, 1974, there was an area exchange between the city of Dissen and the neighboring community Bad Rothenfelde, in which Dissen gained a little more than 100 inhabitants, but also ceded nearly 600 inhabitants.[5]
Population development edit
| Year[6] | Population |
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| 1885 | 1536 |
| 1910 | 2016 |
| 1925 | 2182 |
| 1933 | 2515 |
| 1939 | 2617 |
| 1950 | 4340 |
| 1956 | 4353 |
| 1961 | 6962 |
| 1970 | 7433 |
| 1973 | 7976 |
| 1975 | 7754 |
| 1985 | 8108 |
| 1987 | 8060 |
| 1990 | 8401 |
| 1995 | 9010 |
| 2000 | 9222 |
| 2005 | 9322 |
| 2010 | 9271 |
| 2011 | 9396 |
| 2014 | 9270 |
| 2015 | 9390 |
| 2017 | 9689 |
| 2018 | 9882 |
| 2019 | 9998 |
Politics edit
City Council
The following table shows the municipal election results since 1996.
| Council of the city of Dissen: election results and city councils | |||||||||||||||||||
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| CDU | SPD | GRÜNE | FDP | UWG | Total | Poll | |||||||||||||
| Legislative period | % | seats | % | seats | % | seats | % | seats | % | seats | % | seats | % | ||||||
| 1996–2001 | 37,9 | 9 | 46,2 | 11 | 2,8 | 1 | 5,6 | 1 | 7,5 | 1 | 100 | 23 | 64,5 | ||||||
| 2001–2006 | 45,3 | 12 | 42,6 | 11 | 2,4 | 0 | 3,6 | 0 | 6,1 | 2 | 100 | 25 | 58,6 | ||||||
| 2006–2011 | 45,9 | 10 | 40,1 | 9 | 4,1 | 1 | 4,8 | 1 | 5,1 | 1 | 100 | 22 | 48,7 | ||||||
| 2011–2016 | 40,9 | 9 | 39,4 | 9 | 7,2 | 1 | 3,0 | 1 | 9,5 | 2 | 100 | 22 | 50,1 | ||||||
| 2016–2021[7] | 45,3 | 10 | 25,7 | 5 | 7,7 | 2 | – | – | 21,3 | 5 | 100 | 22 | 49,6 | ||||||
| Percentages rounded. Sources: Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen,[8] Landkreis Osnabrück.[9] | |||||||||||||||||||
Mayors
- Georg Majerski (2005-2011)
- Hartmut Nümann (2011-2019)
- Eugen Görlitz (2019-Incumbent)
Town Hall of Dissen
Coat of arms edit
Blazon: In green under a golden crown a golden wheel.
Twin towns and sister cities edit
Main sights edit
- Fernmeldeturm Dissen (with viewing platform)
- Frommenhof
- St. Mauritius (Dissen) (13. century)
Notable people edit
- 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 directorate Mainz and Altona
- Marianne Brentzel (* 1943), Author
- Gerda Krämer (* 1945), Politician (SPD)
- Klaus Feldmann (* 1950), General
- Rainer Spiering (* 1956), Politician (CDU)
- Andy Grote (* 1968), Politician (SPD)
- Marco Heggen (* 1970), Musician
- Gerwald Claus-Brunner (1972–2016), Politician (Pirates)
References edit
- ^ "Verzeichnis der direkt gewählten Bürgermeister/-innen und Landräte/Landrätinnen". Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. April 2021.
- ^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
- ^ "Stadt Dissen - Lebensmittelpunkt im Grünen: Geschichte". www.dissen.de. Archived from the original on 2015-05-17.
- ^ Jürgen Udolph (Recherche). "Der "Ortsnamenforscher"". Internetseite NDR 1 Niedersachsen. Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ^ Statistisches Bundesamt (1983). Historisches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Namens-, Grenz- und Schlüsselnummernänderungen bei Gemeinden, Kreisen und Regierungsbezirken vom 27.5.1970 bis 31.12.1982. Stuttgart und Mainz: W. Kohlhammer GmbH. ISBN 3-17-003263-1.
- ^ "Stadt Dissen - Lebensmittelpunkt im Grünen: Statistisches". www.dissen.de. Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ^ "Stadt Dissen - Lebensmittelpunkt im Grünen: Bekanntmachung des Wahlergebnisses". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- ^ "Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen. Tabelle 5000311". Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ^ "Die Kommunalwahl Landkreis Osnabrück vom 11. September 2011 (enthält auch Ergebnisse 2006)" (PDF). Landkreis Osnabrück. Archived from the original (PDF; 8 MB, S. 68 Spalte "Gemeindewahlen") on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
External links edit
Media related to Dissen at Wikimedia Commons