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Neumünster (German pronunciation: [nɔʏˈmʏnstɐ] (listen)) is a city in the middle of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. With more than 79,000 registered inhabitants, it is the fourth-largest municipality in Schleswig-Holstein (behind Kiel, Lübeck and Flensburg).

Neumünster
Town
City hall
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Neumünster
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Coordinates: 54°04′17″N 09°59′24″E
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Urban district
Subdivisions	9 Stadtbezirke
Government
• Lord mayor	Tobias Bergmann (SPD)
Area
• Total	71.57 km2 (27.63 sq mi)
Elevation	22 m (72 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[1]
• Total	79,905
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	24534 - 24539
Dialling codes	04321
Vehicle registration	NMS
Website	Official website

History

The city was first formally mentioned as Wippendorp im Gau Faldera in 1127. In that year, the Bishop Vicelinus was sent there by the Archbishop of Bremen to perform missionary work. By 1136, Vicelinus built a new monastery there (Latin: novum monasterium, Greco-Latin: Neomonasterium, German: neues Kloster or neues Münster). The name "Novum monasterium" eventually replaced the previous names of Wippendorf and Faldera and led to the current name.[2][3]

In April 1870, Neumünster received town privileges.[4] Since 1903 Neumünster is a so-called "independent city" (German: Kreisfreie Stadt) as it is not part of a district (German: Kreis).[5]

Großflecken (English: Large spot), a large, centrally-located street and public space in the city, became a place for civil unrest several times. In March 1848, riots broke out at Großflecken as part of the German revolution and again in 1923 during a period of inflation.[6]

The city was protested by the Rural People's Movement as part of a farmers' protest movement in northern Germany from 1928 to 1933, which was the basis for Hans Fallada's novel A Small Circus (Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben). The city's Hans Fallada Prize is named after him.[7]

The Schleswig-Holstein Nazi Party was founded in 1925 by Hinrich Lohse. The local Nazi Party group of Neumünster met at Hofbräu München, a brewery at Großflecken. In 1926, Joseph Goebbels spoke to the local members there. In 1929 there were reportedly 29 members of the local Nazi Party group, but this number increased to 400 members a year later and to over 2,000 members by 1932. Shortly after the Nazi seizure of power, Großflecken was renamed to Adolf-Hitler-Platz (English: Adolf Hitler Place).[8] On Kristallnacht in 1938, all Jewish men were arrested and sent to KZ Sachsenhausen.[9]

During World War 2, Neumünster was bombed multiple times by Allied forces in 1945, partly because of its importance as a railway junction and industrial city.[10][11] The British took control of the City in May 1945.[12]

In the fall of 1946, the state of Schleswig-Holstein was founded and post-war Neumünster held its first municipal election.[13]

Neumünster used to be a hub for the textile industry, with its first fulling mill going back to 1566. However, the industry eventually left the city due to competition from overseas and Neumünster's last cloth factory closed in the beginning of the 1990s. This, among other reasons, has led to Neumünster having a relatively high rate of unemployment in recent decades compared to nationwide averages.[14]

In 2012, McArthurGlen Group opened a designer outlet shopping center in the industrial section of the city, using approximately 15,000 square meters.[15]

Current infrastructure

Neumünster station is a major railway junction with lines running in six (formerly seven) directions, including the important Hamburg-Altona–Kiel and Neumünster–Flensburg lines.

Near Neumünster at Ehndorf, there is a high-power medium wave transmission facility for transmitting the programmes of Deutschlandfunk, the Ehndorf transmitter, which is often named incorrectly as "Neumünster transmitter".

The city has an airfield[16] and a hospital.[17] The utility company, "Stadtwerke Neumünster" (SWN), also manages local inter-city bus routes.[18] In 2022, SWN ended all its inter-city bus service for Sundays and holidays, instead offering an on-demand shuttle van requiring an additional "comfort surcharge" on top of regular bus fares.[19]

The city is divided into nine neighborhoods: Böcklersiedlung-Bugenhagen, Brachenfeld-Rutenberg, Einfeld, Faldera, Gadeland, Gartenstadt, Stadtmitte, Tungendorf and Wittorf.[20]

Geography

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Neumünster is located at river Schwale, near the geographical center of Schleswig-Holstein, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Kiel, 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Hamburg and 72 kilometres (45 mi) west of Lübeck. The Aukrug Nature Park is close to the town.

Politics

Mayor

The current mayor of Neumünster is Tobias Bergmann of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The most recent mayoral election was held on 9 May 2021, with a runoff held on 30 May, and the results were as follows:

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Olaf Taurus	Independent (CDU)	10,315	40.6	9,857	49.2
	Tobias Bergmann	Social Democratic Party	6,834	26.9	10,194	50.8
	Sven Radestock	Alliance 90/The Greens	5,649	22.3
	Memet Celik	Independent	1,799	7.1
	Mark Proch	National Democratic Party	786	3.1
Valid votes			25,383	99.1	20,051	99.4
Invalid votes			233	0.9	112	0.6
Total			25,616	100.0	20,163	100.0
Electorate/voter turnout			64,345	39.8	64,344	31.3
Source: City of Neumünster (1st round, 2nd round)

List of mayors and Lord mayors

In 1870 Neumünster received the town privileges.[21]

• 1870–1894: Eduard Schlichting
• 1894–1919: Max Röer
• 1919–1933: Detlef Schmidt
• 1933–1945: Max Stahmer (NSDAP (Nazi Party))
• 1945–1946: Gustav Bärwald (Oberstadtdirektor)
• 1946–1948: Ludolf Behnke (CDU)
• 1948–1950: Hugo Voß (SPD)
• 1950–1970: Walther Lehmkuhl (SPD)
• 1970–1988: Uwe Harder (SPD)
• 1988–1991: Franz-Josef Pröpper (SPD)
• 1991–2009: Hartmut Unterlehberg (SPD)
• 2009–2021: Olaf Tauras (CDU)
• 2021–present: Tobias Bergmann (SPD)[22]

City council

The Neumünster city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 6 May 2018, and the results were as follows:

Party		Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	7,665	34.0	2.5	15	1
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	6,163	27.4	6.6	12	2
	Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)	3,686	16.4	3.9	7	2
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	1,318	5.9	1.7	2	1
	Alliance for Citizens in Schleswig-Holstein (BfB)	1,293	5.7	0.4	2	±0
	The Left (Die Linke)	959	4.3	1.3	2	1
	National Democratic Party (NPD)	879	3.9	2.3	2	1
	Liberal Conservative Reformers (LKR)	440	2.0	New	1	New
	Pirate Party Germany (Piraten)	120	0.5	1.5	0	1
Valid votes		22,523	98.8
Invalid votes		263	1.2
Total		22,786	100.0		43	±0
Electorate/voter turnout		64,839	35.1	4.7
Source: City of Neumünster[23][24][25]

Population development

Year	Total population[26][27][28][29]	German citizens #	German citizens %	Other citizens #	Other citizens %
1803	2,588
1835	3,732
1871	8,628
1875	10,100
1880	11,600
1885	13,659
1890	17,539
1895	22,489
1900	27,335
1905	31,439
1910	34,555
1916	31,658
1917	31,034
1919	36,173
1925	39,844
1933	40,332
1939	54,094
1945	57,473
1946	66,185
1950	73,481
1956	72,134
1961	75,045
1965	74,542
1970	86,013
1975	84,777
1980	80,145
1985	78,280
1987	79,771
1990	80,743
1995	82,028
2000	79,831	73,959	92,6 %	5,872	7,4 %
2001	79,646	73,934	92,8 %	5,712	7,2 %
2002	79,544	73,945	93,0 %	5,599	7,0 %
2003	78,951	73,370	92,9 %	5,581	7,1 %
2004	78,555	73,086	93,0 %	5,469	7,0 %
2005	78,072	72,711	93,1 %	5,361	6,9 %
2006	77,936	72,493	93,0 %	5,443	7,0 %
2007	77,595	72,300	93,2 %	5,295	6,8 %
2008	77,100	72,291	93,8 %	4,809	6,2 %
2009	76,897	72,124	93,8 %	4,773	6,2 %
2010	76,830	72,087	93,8 %	4,743	6,2 %
2011	77,201	72,492	93,9 %	4,709	6,1 %
2012	76,951	72,437	94,1 %	4,514	5,9 %
2013	77,058	72,370	93,9 %	4,688	6,1 %
2014	77,588	72,107	92,9 %	5,481	7,1 %
2015	79,197	71,786	90,6 %	7,411	9,4 %
2016	79,680	71,182	89,3 %	8,498	10,7 %
2017	79,335	70,602	89,0 %	8,733	11,0 %
2018	79,487	70,271	88,4 %	9,216	11,6 %
2019	80,196	69,976	87,3 %	10,220	12,7 %
2020	79,905	69,382	86,8 %	10,523	13,2 %
2021	79,496	68,760	86,5 %	10,736	13,5 %

Twin towns – sister cities

Neumünster is twinned with:[30]

• Gravesham, England, United Kingdom
• Koszalin, Poland
• Parchim, Germany

Notable people

• Vicelinus (1086–1154), Apostle of Holstein and Bishop of Oldenburg
• Ernst Eduard Hudemann (1811–1889), educator, philologist and classical historian
• Eduard Sachau (1845–1930), orientalist
• Rudolf Bülck (1880−1954), librarian
• Karl Schlabow (1891–1984), archaeologist, museum director and conservator
• Walter Bartram (1893–1971), former Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein
• Hans Schnoor (1893–1976), musicologist
• Fritz C. Mauch (1905–1940), film editor and assistant director
• Eduard Müller (1911–1943), Catholic priest, one of the Lübeck martyrs
• Herbert Martin Hagen (1913–1999), SS Stormbolder and convicted war criminal
• Annemarie Auer (1913–2002), author and literary scholar
• Gerhard Wessel (1913–2002), President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau 1968–1978
• Horst Mittelstaedt (1923–2016), biologist cyberneticist and university lecturer
• Detlev Blanke (1941–2016), University lecturer for interlinguistics at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin
• Michael Simon (born 1958), theatre director, opera director and scenic designer
• Thomas Mohr (tenor) (born 1961), tenor and academic teacher
• Christine Haderthauer (born 1962), former CSU General Secretary and former Minister of State (Bavarian State Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women)
• Aminata Touré (born 1992), German Green Party politician, member and former Vice-President of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag and current Minister of Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration and Equality of Schleswig-Holstein

Sport

• Wilf Smith (born 1946), English footballer
• Werner Bühse (born 1951), sports shooter
• Svenja Schlicht (born 1967), swimmer
• Dirk Urban (born 1969), shot putter
• Stefan Schnoor (born 1971), footballer
• Gabriel Silberstein (born 1974), Chilean tennis player
• Mona Barthel (born 1990), tennis player

See also

• VfR Neumünster
• Hans Fallada Prize
• Einfelder See

References

External links

• Neumünster travel guide from Wikivoyage
• (in German) Official website

На других языках

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[de] Neumünster

Neumünster (niederdeutsch: Niemünster und Neemünster) ist eine kreisfreie Stadt und ein Oberzentrum in der Mitte Schleswig-Holsteins. Mit rund 80.000 Einwohnern (Stand 2021) ist Neumünster nach Kiel, Lübeck, Flensburg und Norderstedt mit Stand vom Juni 2021 die fünftgrößte Stadt im nördlichsten deutschen Bundesland.[2] Die Holstenhallen sind ein Veranstaltungsort in Neumünster.

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[ru] Ноймюнстер

Ноймюнстер (нем. Neumünster) — город в Германии, город земельного подчинения, расположен в земле Шлезвиг-Гольштейн. Расположен в 70 километрах к северу от Гамбурга и в 30 километрах к югу от Киля.

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