Barntrup

Barntrup
Coat of arms
Barntrup
Location of Barntrup within Lippe district
Coordinates: 51°58′59″N 09°07′00″E / 51.98306°N 9.11667°ECoordinates: 51°58′59″N 09°07′00″E / 51.98306°N 9.11667°E
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Detmold
District	Lippe
Government
• Mayor	Jürgen Schell (non-party)
Area
• Total	59.46 km^2 (22.96 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	8,846
• Density	150/km^2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	32683
Dialling codes	05263, 05262 (Alverdissen)
Vehicle registration	LIP
Website	www.barntrup.de

Barntrup is a town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has an area of 59.46 km² and 8,824 inhabitants (2013). It lies 40 km east from Bielefeld and 9 km west from Bad Pyrmont at the east border of NRW to Lower Saxony.

Town division

• Alverdissen
• Barntrup
• Selbeck
• Sommersell
• Sonneborn

History

Barntrup and Alverdissen were founded by the Earl of Sternberg in the year 1220. Originally Barntrup was called Barendorf and was a village at the Schratweg. Between 1317 and 1359 Barntrup was built on the highest point of the "Thornesberg" which is 189 m high above sea level. This is the central point of Barntrup.

Kerssenbrock Castle (also called Schloss Kerssenbrock or Barntrup Castle, see picture) was constructed from 1584-1588 by Anna von Kerssenbrock (maiden name Anna von Canstein). Her husband, Franz von Kerssenbrock, had been a mercenary in the French Wars of Religion, where he had made much money. The Kerssenbrock family was one of the main noble families in the region.

Education

• Primary school "von-Haxthausen Grundschule" has at this time 420 pupils and 21 teachers.
• High school "Städtisches Gymnasium Barntrup" has about 920 pupils and 50 teachers.
• Junior high school "Hauptschule des Schulverbandes Barntrup-Dörentrup" has about 350 pupils.

Sons and daughters of the town

Heinrich Meibom

• Hermann von Kerssenbroch (1519-1585), longtime rector of the High School Paulinum in Münster (Westfalen)
• Heinrich Meibom (1555-1625), poet and historian
• Ludwig Winter (1894, † unknown), politician (NSDAP)
• Ulrich Born (born 1950), lawyer and politician (CDU)

Literature

• Böttcher, Martin und Erika, ed. (1976) (in German), 600 Jahre Barntrup 1376–1976, Barntrup: Lippischer Heimatbund 
• Dedo von Kerßenbrock-Krosigk (2009) (in German), Schloss Barntrup (Lippische Kulturlandschaften, Heft 12), Detmold, ISBN 978-3-941726-09-3 
• Knese, Louis (1977) (in German), Zauberwahn und Hexenprozesse in Barntrup, Detmold: Lippischer Heimatbund (u. a.) 
• Hartwig Walberg; Michael Tönsing (1988), Heinz Stoob; Wilfried Ehbrecht, eds. (in German), Westfälischer Städteatlas, Band: III, 1. Teilband, Altenbeken: GSV-Städteatlas-Verlag, ISBN 3-89115-121-7 

References

1. "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen". Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW (in German). 18 July 2016.

External links

• Official website (in German)