Petershagen is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies on the Westphalian Mill Route. The core is formed by the districts of Petershagen and Lahde, located opposite each other on the Weser.

Geography

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
• 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