Beverungen

Beverungen (German pronunciation: [ˈbeːvəˌʁʊŋən] ⓘ) is a town in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

In parts of the eastern municipal area near the river, the town has a share of the Weser Valley, and to the west the higher Oberwälder Land natural region.

Geopolitically, Beverungen thereby lies in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia at the three-state point shared with Lower Saxony and Hesse.

The town of Beverungen lies right at the point common to the Bundesländer of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse.

Thanks to the town's advantageous location, it soon recovered and quickly had a flourishing trade in grain, iron and glass from the glassworks in the Paderborner Land.

Although the local folklore holds that the village's name came about from the story in which "Charlemagne had the Würgassen dwellers strangled in the lanes for reverting to heathen customs", or in German, "Karl der Große hat die Würgasser wegen eines Rückfalles in heidnische Sitten in den Gassen erwürgen lassen", this is certainly untrue.

The villagers who did not work in agriculture in earlier days hired themselves out foremost as sailors in the shipping on the river Weser.

In the 1970s, many people were employed at the newly built Würgassen Nuclear Power Plant, which was abandoned in 1995 and is now being dismantled.

Town council's 32 seats are apportioned as follows, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 September 2004: Beverungen's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: In azure three fleurs-de-lis argent, two above, one below.

Brakel Steinheim Borgentreich Nieheim Höxter Bad Driburg Willebadessen Marienmünster Beverungen Warburg North Rhine-Westphalia Lippe (district) Paderborn (district) Hochsauerlandkreis Hesse Lower Saxony
Coat of Arms of Höxter district
Coat of Arms of Höxter district