Petershagen

Petershagen is situated on the river Weser, approx. 10 km north-east of Minden. Neighbouring municipalities • Minden • Hille • Uchte • Stolzenau • Leese • Landesbergen • Loccum • Rehburg-Loccum • Nienburg • Niedernwöhren • Bückeburg Division of the town The town of Petershagen consists of 29 districts: • Bierde • Buchholz • Döhren • Eldagsen • Friedewalde • Frille • Gorspen-Vahlsen • Großenheerse • Hävern • Heimsen • Ilse • Ilserheide • Ilvese • Jössen • Petershagen-Lahde • Maaslingen • Meßlingen • Neuenknick • Ovenstädt • Petershagen (city center) • Quetzen • Raderhorst • Rosenhagen • Schlüsselburg • Seelenfeld • Südfelde • Wasserstraße • Wietersheim • Windheim ==International relations==

Petershagen is twinned with: • 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: • Master Bertram (c. 1345 – c. 1415), painter (presumably born in Bierde) • Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807), natural scientist • Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792–1854), Professor of Church History • Henry Clay Brockmeyer (1826–1906), politician and translator of Hegel • August Fick (1833–1916), Germanist and linguist • Fred Walsen (1841-1906), American banker and Colorado State Treasurer • Wilhelm Normann (1870–1939), inventor of fat hardening and thus the founder of margarine production • Elsbeth Schragmüller (1887–1940), spy • Edelgard Bulmahn (born 1951), politician • Willi Brase (born 1951), politician ==References==