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Petershagen

Field	Value
name	Petershagen
type	Stadt
image_photo	Petershagen Aerial Pan.jpg
imagesize
image_caption	Aerial view of Petershagen
image_flag	Flagge Petershagen.svg
image_coa	Wappen von Petershagen.svg
coordinates
image_plan	Petershagen in MI.svg
state	NRW
region	Detmold
district	Minden-Lübbecke
elevation	41
area	211.94
postal_code	32469
area_code	05707
licence	MI
Gemeindeschlüssel	05 7 70 028
divisions	29
website	www.petershagen.de
mayor	Dirk Breves
leader_term	2020–25
party	CDU

Petershagen (; ) is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies on the Westphalian Mill Route. The core is formed by the districts of Petershagen and Lahde, located opposite each other on the Weser. Its typical dialect belongs, as with the Bremer Platt to the Southern Oldenburgish variety Northern Low Saxon, itself a dialect of the Low German language.

Geography

Petershagen is situated on the river Weser, approx. 10 km north-east of Minden.

Neighbouring municipalities

Minden
Hille
Uchte
Stolzenau
Leese
Landesbergen
Loccum
Rehburg-Loccum
Nienburg
Niedernwöhren
Bückeburg

Division of the town

The town of Petershagen consists of 29 districts:

Bierde
Buchholz
Döhren
Eldagsen
Friedewalde
Frille
Gorspen-Vahlsen
Großenheerse
Hävern
Heimsen
Ilse
Ilserheide
Ilvese
Jössen
Petershagen-Lahde
Maaslingen
Meßlingen
Neuenknick
Ovenstädt
Petershagen (city center)
Quetzen
Raderhorst
Rosenhagen
Schlüsselburg
Seelenfeld
Südfelde
Wasserstraße
Wietersheim
Windheim

International relations

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

Petershagen is twinned with:

[[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|25px]] Petershagen-Eggersdorf (Brandenburg, Germany) -- since 1990

Sport

The SC Neuenknick e.V. motorcycle speedway club, race at the Stadion Lindenau track, which is located approximately 12 kilometres north east of the town on Brennwisk 40. The facility, a 357 metre track, has hosted important events since 1981, including qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1988.

Notable people

The following persons were born in Petershagen:

Master Bertram (c. 1345 – c. 1415), painter (presumably born in Bierde)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807), natural scientist
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792–1854), Professor of Church History
Henry Clay Brockmeyer (1826–1906), politician and translator of Hegel
August Fick (1833–1916), Germanist and linguist
Fred Walsen (1841-1906), American banker and Colorado State Treasurer
Wilhelm Normann (1870–1939), inventor of fat hardening and thus the founder of margarine production
Elsbeth Schragmüller (1887–1940), spy
Edelgard Bulmahn (born 1951), politician
Willi Brase (born 1951), politician

References

[https://www.wahlergebnisse.nrw/kommunalwahlen/2020/index_bm.shtml Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020], Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
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"World Championship".
"World Championship".

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