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.
Geography
Petershagen is situated on the river
Weser, approx. 10 km north-east of
Minden.
Neighbouring municipalities
Division of the town
The town of Petershagen consists of 29 districts:
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Bierde
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Buchholz
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Döhren
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Eldagsen
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Friedewalde
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Frille
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Gorspen-Vahlsen
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Großenheerse
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Hävern
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Heimsen
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Ilse
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Ilserheide
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Ilvese
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Jössen
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Petershagen-Lahde
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Maaslingen
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Meßlingen
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Neuenknick
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Ovenstädt
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Petershagen (city center)
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Quetzen
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Raderhorst
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Rosenhagen
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Schlüsselburg
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Seelenfeld
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Südfelde
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Wasserstraße
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Wietersheim
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Windheim
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International relations
Petershagen is
town twinning with:
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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:
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Master Bertram (c. 1345 – c. 1415), painter (presumably born in Bierde)
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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807), natural scientist
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Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792–1854), Professor of Church History
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Henry Clay Brockmeyer (1826–1906), politician and translator of Hegel
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August Fick (1833–1916), Germanist and linguist
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Fred Walsen (1841-1906), American banker and Colorado State Treasurer
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Wilhelm Normann (1870–1939), inventor of fat hardening and thus the founder of margarine production
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Elsbeth Schragmüller (1887–1940), spy
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Edelgard Bulmahn (born 1951), politician
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Willi Brase (born 1951), politician
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