But despite the political insignificance of the Kirchspiel Hemer (" Hemer parish "), it was already quite densely settled, thanks to its location on the old road from the Rhineland to Middle Germany ( now Bundesstrasse 7 ), and to the iron mining and smelting industries already developed here.

The boundary with Cologne, formed by the valley of the Hönne river southeast of Hemer, was protected by Klusenstein Castle, built in 1353.

Local government in the parish of Hemer was the responsibility of the " Amt " of Iserlohn until 1647, when it was transferred to the family of Wachtendonk, who owned Haus Hemer at that time.

The Reformation reached Hemer in the second half of the 16th century, when the church of St. Vitus became Protestant ( it was demolished in 1818, and replaced by the new Ebbergkirche nearby, built in 1819 / 20 ).

During the Napoleonic period Hemer was a " mairie " in the " arrondissement " of Hagen in the " département " of the Ruhr of the Napoleonic satellite Grand Duchy of Berg.

On October 31, 1841 the Amt Hemer was created by 14 municipalities previously administered by the Landbezirk Iserlohn.

However, neither Sundwig nor Westig was initially enthusiastic and both later opposed the merger, mostly because the industrialists in the two places were worried that the tax rates would rise to the higher rates of Hemer.

At the same time the municipality of Calle was split into four parts: the northern Griesenbrauck was added to Landhausen ; Bilveringsen passed to Hemer ; the central part around Wermingsen was incorporated into Iserlohn ; and the southern parts passed to Westig.

This was very welcome to Hemer, as the hospital had turned out to be far too big and too expensive for the Amt, and in this way it was possible later to build a new smaller hospital.

On October 30, 1936 an official garrison contract between Hemer and the state was signed, which included the building of permanent barracks.

In 1970 the Canadian military was transferred to bases in the Black Forest Region ( Baden-Baden and Lahr ) and most of the former Canadian holdings, including Married Quarters in Hemer, were taken over by British military.

The closure of the barracks was announced in 2004, and on January 23, 2007 the last soldiers left Hemer, 50 years after the Bundeswehr moved into the barracks.

However, when Reiner Hermann was forced to resign in 1994, shortly after the new system was adopted, Hemer became the first commune of North Rhine-Westphalia to get a professional mayor in 1995.

As an important industrial city in the Ruhr region, during the post-WWII era starting in 1953 Canadian and British military under NATO were garrisoned here and in surrounding municipalities ( Hemer, where a large Canadian Army housing area was located to house Canadian Army personnel and their families, and Deilinghofen where two of the Canadian Army barracks were located ( Fort Prince of Wales and Fort McLeod ).

The Canadian housing in Hemer ( Private Married Quarters or " PMQs ") was converted to civilian housing.

The three industrial municipalities of Hemer, Sundwig and Westig had already grown into a single urban area by World War I.

Following the closing down of the " old " Brigade Area in North-Rhine Westphalia centred around Iserlohn, Hemer, Deilinghofen as well as Werl and Soest ( 1970 – 1971 ) the Land Forces and their families were transferred to the Lahr area to join the existing Air Force contingent.

Between 1697 and 1700 Jobst Edmund of Brabeck, the bishop of Hildesheim and a relative of the new owners of Haus Hemer, built the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Baroque style as the new church for the Roman Catholics.

Hemer remained an unimportant settlement without market rights, even when the Counts of the Mark gained independence from the episcopal state of Cologne in the 13th century, when Hemer found itself on the boundary of the two states.

" New Testament scholar Colin Hemer has made a number of advancements in understanding the historical nature and accuracy of Luke's writings.

Hemer is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Hemer is located at the north end of the Sauerland near the Ruhr river.

It originally consisted of the municipalities of Becke, Brockhausen, Calle, Deilinghofen, Evingsen, Frönsberg, Ihmert, Kesbern, Landhausen, Lössel, Niederhemer, Oberhemer, Sundwig and Westig, as well as the manors ( Rittergut ) of Edelburg, Haus Hemer and Klusenstein.

In 1910 Niederhemer and Oberhemer were merged into Hemer.

At the same time the city of Iserlohn unsuccessfully tried to incorporate several municipalities: Letmathe and Oestrich to the west, and also the industrial municipalities of the Amt Hemer.

With effect from August 1, 1929, Hemer, Sundwig and Westig, as well as Landhausen and the remains of Calle were merged, covering an area of 26. 82 km² ( 10. 36 mi² ) and having a population of 13, 809.

Canadian soldiers and their families resided in two separate locations in Hemer.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.