Rahden
Rahden is a town in the far north of North Rhine-Westphalia between Bielefeld and Bremen and between Hanover and Osnabrück. Rahden is part of the Minden-Lübbecke District in East Westphalia-Lippe.
Rahden was first mentioned in 1033 and 1816 to 1831 was county town of the district Rahden.
Geography
Rahden is situated approximately 15 km north of Lübbecke and 25 km north-west of Minden. It is the northernmost town of North Rhine-Westphalia.Division of the town
The town of Rahden consists of 7 districts:- Rahden
- Kleinendorf
- Varl
- Sielhorst
- Preußisch Ströhen
- Wehe
- Tonnenheide
Mayors
| Term of office | Mayor |
| 1973–1985 | Reinhold Spönemann |
| 1985–1999 | Wilhelm Möhring |
| 1999–2015 | Bernd Hachmann |
| since 2015 | Bert Honsel |
People
- Tine Wittler, German writer and television presenter
International relations
- Glindow -- since 1990
- Galgahévíz -- since 1995
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The only honorary citizen of Rahden is Professor . He was born in 1867 in the Great Village and was a prominent portrait painter, poet and the composer of the "New Westphalia March." A street in downtown Rahden is named after him.Sons and daughters of the town
The individuals listed here come from the city Rahden and have both regional, national or even international importance. Here, the list is not exhaustive.| Name | born | in | died | in | note |
| 1533 | Rahden | 1603 | Breitenburg | Wife from Heinrich Rantzau | |
| Carl Langhorst | 1867 | Rahden | 1950 | Painter and composer | |
| 1878 | Rahden | 1948 | Lübbecke | Member of the Landtag NRW, County Council Member for Westphalia | |
| Friedhelm Ortgies | 1950 | Rahden | Member of the NRW state parliament | ||
| 1954 | Rahden | Member of the Bundestag | |||
| Andreas Brandhorst | 1956 | Rahden | Fantasy- and Science-Fiction-author and translator | ||
| Heinrich Bretthorst | 1883 | Rahden | 1962 | Leipzig | politician |
| 1957 | Rahden | Radio and television presenter and singer | |||
| Kurt Bock | 1958 | Rahden | Chairman of BASF | ||
| Achim Post | 1959 | Rahden | Deputy federal secretary of the SPD, a member of the Bundestag | ||
| 1961 | Rahden | Mayor of Minden | |||
| 1966 | Rahden | chess players | |||
| 1972 | Rahden | Director of Office Unterspreewald, Brandenburg | |||
| 1972 | Rahden | Was a member of the NRW state parliament | |||
| 1949 | Rahden | Was a member of the NRW state parliament | |||
| Tine Wittler | 1973 | Rahden | Writer and television presenter | ||
| Lars Windhorst | 1976 | Rahden | Entrepreneurial wunderkind of the 90 | ||
| Stefan Wessels | 1979 | Rahden | Keeper, played from 1998 till 2003 at FC Bayern München |