Medebach

Medebach
Medebach
Location of the town of Medebach within Hochsauerlandkreis district
Coordinates	51°11′50″N 8°42′25″E / 51.19722°N 8.70694°E / 51.19722; 8.70694Coordinates: 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)[1]
- 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.

Geography

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

Neighbouring municipalities

• Hallenberg
• Korbach
• Lichtenfels
• Willingen
• Winterberg

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

• Locminé (France)
• 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.^[2]

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

References

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)

External links

• Official site (German)
• Touristic information (German)