page_title: Ladbergen
section_title: Noticeable facts
hierarchical_section_title: Ladbergen / History / Noticeable facts
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Mühle am Ladberger Mühlenbach. Fotografiert von Werner Sendker English: A watermill besides the Mühlenbach.
context_page_description: Ladbergen is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Dortmund-Ems Canal, approximately 25 km south-west of Osnabrück and 20 km north-east of Münster.
context_section_description: About 37% of the population of the village emigrated during the 19th century. This was the highest emigration rate in Germany during that era.
  Peasants from Ladbergen often gained extra income by working in the Netherlands for extended periods.
  Many families from Ladbergen have family names, which in the recent past only existed in Ladbergen – such as Gehde, Rahmeier, Schoppenhorst, Wibbeler, Wiethaupt and Wiethölter.
  The predominant spoken language in Ladbergen was up to the 1930s almost exclusively Ladbergen Platt, a variant of the established Low German dialects. A 2009 survey concluded that just over 700 of the original inhabitants (11% of the population) still can speak this local dialect, though actively speaking the dialect is mostly reserved to the over-70-year-olds.
  Since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in the year 1949, Ladbergen is one of the "strongholds" of the Free Democratic Party in the Münsterland and throughout Germany.
caption: A watermill besides the Mühlenbach.
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