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Medebach Coordinates 51°11′50″N 8°42′25″E / 51.19722°N 8.70694°ECoordinates: 51°11′50″N 8°42′25″E / 51.19722°N 8.70694°E 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 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 GermanyMedebach is twinned with
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
- ^ "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31 December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html.
- ^ "Zugriff vor dem tödlichen Knall", Spiegel Online, 5 September 2007. (German)
External links
- Official site (German)
- Touristic information (German)
Arnsberg | Bestwig | Brilon | Eslohe | Hallenberg | Marsberg | Medebach | Meschede | Olsberg | Schmallenberg | Sundern | WinterbergCategories:- Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
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