Stemwede

Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Location of Stemwede within Minden-Lübbecke district

(2020–25) Kai Abruszat^[1] (FDP)Area

• Total165.29 km² (63.82 sq mi)Elevation

41 m (135 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total13,311 • Density81/km² (210/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

32351

Dialling codes05474, 05773, 05745Vehicle registrationMIWebsitewww.stemwede.de

Stemwede is a municipality in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Following a recent regional reorganization, in 1973, the former districts of Dielingen-Wehdem and Levern were consolidated and the district of "Stemwede" created. The new name was chosen because for a thousand years the area along the Stemweder Berg (mountain) was popularly referred to as Stemwede.^[3]

Geography

Stemwede is situated approximately 20 km north-west of Lübbecke.

Subdivisions of the town

The municipality of Stemwede is divided into 3 districts (consisting of the following villages each):

District Levern
- Levern
- Sundern
- Niedermehnen
- Destel
- Twiehausen

District Dielingen
- Drohne
- Dielingen
- Haldem
- Arrenkamp

District Wehdem
- Westrup
- Wehdem
- Oppendorf
- Oppenwehe

References

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ Stemwede Emigrant Database