WARSTEIN

'Warstein' is a town in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located at the north end of the Sauerland.

Contents

Geography

Neighbouring places

Division of the town

History

List of mayors

Twin towns

Economy

Literature

External links

Geography

Warstein is located in the north of the Arnsberger Wald at the brook ''Wester''. Most parts of the south of the city is covered by forests, in the north there is the Haarstrang height with only little forest. The border of these two landscapes is the river Möhne. The highest elevation with 581  m is in the south of the city near the hill ''Stimm Stamm'', the lowest elevation with 216 m is in the village ''Waldhausen'' in the north.

Neighbouring places

The following towns bordered to Warstein (clockwise, beginning in the north): Anröchte, Rüthen, Bestwig, Meschede, Arnsberg, Möhnesee, Bad Sassendorf.

Division of the town

Warstein consists of the following 9 districts:

★ Allagen ★ Belecke ★ Hirschberg ★ Mülheim ★ Niederbergheim

★ Sichtigvor ★ Suttrop ★ Waldhausen ★ Warstein

History

There were found old spoors of human life in the Bilsteinhöhle between Warstein and Hirschberg. In 1072 Warstein was first mentioned officially. First it seemed to be sure, that Warstein became an official town in 1276, but that is wrong. Probably it became a town in the same year as Belecke in 1296. In the Middle Ages Warstein was part of the Hanse. A fire in 1802 destroyed big parts of the town. After that the town centre was rescheduled from a hill to the Wester. In 1844 the Amt Warstein was founded. It was part of the Archbishopric Cologne till 1902. In 1975 Warstein and the other eight independent villages became the new town of Warstein.
The decrease of population in Warstein since 1998:

★ 1998: 29.102

★ 1999: 29.084

★ 2000: 29.028

★ 2001: 29.007

★ 2002: 29.012

★ 2003: 28.762

★ 2004: 26.629

List of mayors

★ Manfred Gödde (BG) - since 2004

★ Georg Juraschka (SPD) - 1999 to 2004

★ Manfred Gödde - before 1999

Twin towns

★ Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (France) -- since 1964

★ Wurzen (Saxony, Germany) -- since 3rd October 1990

★ Hebden Royd (United Kingdom) -- since November 1995

★ Pietrapaola (Italy) -- an official friendship since 2001

Economy

The largest employer in Warstein is the Warsteiner Brauerei founded in 1753. It is one of the largest breweries in Germany and famous in the whole world.

Literature

★ Heppekausen, Wolfgang; Clewing, Christian: Warstein: Bilder einer sauerländischen Stadt. Selbstverlag, Warstein 2001. ISBN 3-00-008520-3

★ Gerte, Franz im Auftrag der Volkshochschule Möhne-Lippe: Wie war das?: Belecke 1923-1948. Selbstverlag, Belecke 2001.

★ Bamberg, Fritz: Die neue Stadt Warstein in alten Ansichten. Europäische Bibliothek, Zaltbommel 1986. ISBN 90-288-3363-3

★ Bender, Josef: Geschichte der Stadt Warstein. Stein, Werl 1973. ISBN 3-920980-03-4

★ Sandgathe, Günther: Die Stadt Warstein im Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Selbstverlag, Warstein 1971.

External links

★ Official site

★ Warsteiner brewery homepage