Holzwickede () is a municipality in the district of Unna in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It is twinned with Weymouth, Louviers and Colditz.

Mayors

  • 1969–1975: Josef Wortmann
  • 1975–1989: Heinrich Schürhoff
  • 1989–1999: Margret Mader
  • 1999–2015: Jenz Rother
  • since 2015: Ulrike Drossel

People from Holzwickede

  • Agnes von der Vierbecke ( 1341-1378), commemorated at Dortmund's Pepper Pot Festival
  • Julius Bergmann (1839-1904), philosopher
  • Hermann Mandel (1882-1946), theologian
  • Hermann Strathmann (1882-1966), theologian and politician
  • Nils Mönkemeyer (born 1978), violist and academic teacher

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