Medebach

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Medebach

Medebach
Coat of arms of Medebach
Medebach is located in Germany
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Medebach
Coordinates 51°11′50″N 8°42′25″E / 51.19722°N 8.70694°E / 51.19722; 8.70694
Administration
Country Germany
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region Arnsberg
District Hochsauerlandkreis
Town subdivisions 10
Mayor Thomas Grosche (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area 126.05 km2 (48.67 sq mi)
Elevation 410 m  (1345 ft)
Population 7,912 (31 December 2010)
 - Density 63 /km2 (163 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate HSK
Postal code 59964
Area code 02982
Website www.medebach.de
Church

Medebach is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Geography

Medebach is situated approx. 15 km east of Winterberg, 17 km south-west of Korbach and 45 km north of Marburg.

Neighbouring municipalities

Division of the town

Medebach consists of the following districts:

  • Medebach
  • Berge
  • Deifeld
  • Dreislar
  • Düdinghausen
  • Küstelberg
  • Medelon
  • Oberschledorn
  • Referinghausen
  • Titmaringhausen
  • Wissinghausen

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Medebach is twinned with

  • Flag of France.svg Locminé (France)
  • Flag of Germany.svg Worbis (Germany)

History

The town was first mentioned in a document in 1144. It belonged to the Hanseatic League.

Medebach and its district Oberschledorn entered the international news in September 2007 during the 2007 bomb plot in Germany, when three Islamic terrorists, two Germans and a Turk, were arrested there. They had received training in Pakistan and were about to build bombs from hydrogen peroxide in a rented holiday flat.

Notable inhabitants

  • Henricus de Medebeke, 1347 mayor of Reval
  • Caspar Vopelius, cartographer, mathematician, astronomer
  • Wilhelm Hohoff
  • Hermann Bergenthal, painter, Oberschledorn
  • Josef Bergenthal, writer („Münster steckt voller Merkwürdigkeiten“, 1935), Oberschledorn

  1. ^ "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31 December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html. 
  2. ^ "Zugriff vor dem tödlichen Knall", Spiegel Online, 5 September 2007. (German)
Towns and municipalities in Hochsauerland
Arnsberg | Bestwig | Brilon | Eslohe | Hallenberg | Marsberg | Medebach | Meschede | Olsberg | Schmallenberg | Sundern | Winterberg 
Coat of Arms of Hochsauerland district


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