Löhne

Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Coat of arms

Location of Löhne within Herford district

(2020–25) Bernd Poggemöller^[1] (SPD)Area

• Total59.41 km² (22.94 sq mi)Elevation

70 m (230 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total40,265 • Density680/km² (1,800/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

32584

Dialling codes05732, 05731 (Gohfeld), 05228 (Wittel)Vehicle registrationHFWebsitewww.loehne.de

Löhne (German pronunciation: [ˈløːnə] ^ⓘ) is a town in the district of Herford, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

Löhne is situated on the river Werre, approx. 8 km north of Herford and 20 km south-west of Minden.

Löhne is twinned with:^[3]

Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1653–1728), Prussian field marshal
Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (1620–1689), founder and first duke of the line Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ "Städtepartnerschaften". loehne.de (in German). Löhne. Retrieved 2021-02-19.