Spenge

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Country Germany Admin. region Detmold Elevation 129 m (423 ft) Area 40.24 km² Population 14,847 (31 Dec 2010)		State North Rhine-Westphalia District Herford Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Local time Wednesday 2:29 PM Postal code 32139

Weather 14°C, Wind SW at 29 km/h, 65% Humidity

Spenge is a town in the district of Herford, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Map of 32139 Spenge, Germany

Spenge is situated north of Bielefeld and west of Herford. It borders Lower Saxony in the west.

Spenge consists of 5 subdivisions (population as of December 31, 2001):

Bardüttingdorf (1,480 inhabitants)

Hücker-Aschen (1,465 inhabitants)

Lenzinghausen (2,793 inhabitants)

Spenge (8,696 inhabitants)

Wallenbrück (1,976 inhabitants)

1969–1984: Karl Obermann (UWG)

1984–1995: Karl-Heinz Wiegelmann (SPD)

1995–2009: Christian Manz (born 1954), (CDU)

2009–today: Bernd Dumcke (SPD)

Lutheran Church of Sankt Martin built in the 13th Century, within the Altar of St. Martin, created around 1470.

Marienkirche in Wallenbrück built 1096, to the west of Spenge

Mühlenburg Castle built in 1468.

Eberhard Werdin (1911-1991), composer and music pedagogue

Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 1942), politician (Alliance '90 / The Greens), 1984-1987 and 1989-2009 Member of the European parliament

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