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Coordinates: 51°39′46″N 9°22′21″E / 51.66278°N 9.37250°ECoordinates: 51°39′46″N 9°22′21″E / 51.66278°N 9.37250°E | ||
Country | Germany | |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Admin. region | Detmold | |
District | Höxter | |
Government | ||
• Mayor | Christian Haase (CDU) | |
Area | ||
• Total | 97.84 km2 (37.78 sq mi) | |
Elevation | 100 m (300 ft) | |
Population (2015-12-31) | ||
• Total | 13,442 | |
• Density | 140/km2 (360/sq mi) | |
Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
Postal codes | 37688 | |
Dialling codes | 05273 | |
Vehicle registration | HX | |
Website | www.beverungen.de |
Beverungen (German pronunciation: [ˈbeːvəʁʊŋən]) is a town in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Beverungen lies in the Weser Uplands on the side of the Weser opposite Solling roughly 10 km south of Höxter. 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. In Beverungen (main town), the river Bever empties into the Weser.
Geopolitically, Beverungen thereby lies in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia at the three-state point shared with Lower Saxony and Hesse. The Weser forms the border with the former.
One peculiarity in the town's location is to be found at the constituent community of Würgassen, which lies on the Weser's right (here, north) bank, which would actually mean that the community were in Lower Saxony had it not been for the way a long-standing boundary dispute was settled in 1837. Even today, the boundary does not quite put all the community in North Rhine-Westphalia; the local Shooting Brotherhood's shooting range still lies partly in North Rhine-Westphalia and partly in Lower Saxony.
The town of Beverungen lies right at the point common to the Bundesländer of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse. It borders in the west on the towns of Borgentreich and Brakel, in the north on the town of Höxter (all in Höxter district), in the east on the Samtgemeinde of Boffzen with its member communities of Boffzen and Fürstenberg and the market town of Lauenförde (all in Holzminden district), and the municipality-free area of Solling (Northeim district), and in the south on the towns of Bad Karlshafen and Trendelburg (both in Kassel district).