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* 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.<ref>[http://www.westfaelische-nachrichten.de/lokales/kreis_steinfurt/ladbergen/1020551_Plattdeutsch_auf_der_roten_Liste.html
* Since the founding of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] in the year 1949, Ladbergen is one of the "strongholds" of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] in the [[Münsterland]] and throughout Germany.
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A lot of [[emigrants]] originating from Ladbergen settled down in the area around [[New Knoxville]] in the state of [[Ohio]] in the United States with which Ladbergen established a town partnership. New Knoxville is partly composed of the descendants of the Ladbergen emigrants. The typical ''Ladbergen Platt'' dialect is still spoken by some of the older citizens whose ancestors originated from Ladbergen.<ref name="multiref1">[http://www.ladbergen.de/pics/medien/1_1145358363/ladbergenhistoryA5.pdf Official website of the municipality of Ladbergen – The history of Ladbergen]</ref>
Due to the interest of American descendants of emigrants from Ladbergen in their family [[genealogy]], more or less reliable private genealogical work was conducted after World War II. As [[Neil Armstrong]], whose [[great-grandfather]] Friedrich Wilhelm Kötter emigrated from Ladbergen to the United States in 1864, was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, many citizens of Ladbergen became interested in their American "relatives". This resulted in a very close connection between Ladbergen and New Knoxville, which is especially cultivated by reciprocal visits.<ref name="multiref1"/><ref>[http://www.westfaelische-nachrichten.de/lokales/kreis_steinfurt/ladbergen/1153878_Der_schwere_Anfang_in_Ohio.html "Der schwere Anfang in Ohio" Westfälische Nachrichten 6 November 2009 {{in lang|de}}]</ref>
Ladbergen's neighboring municipalities, [[Lengerich, Westphalia|Lengerich]] and [[Lienen]], are sister cities with New Knoxville's neighbors [[Wapakoneta, Ohio|Wapakoneta]] and [[Saint Marys, Ohio|Saint Marys]], respectively.
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[[Category:Steinfurt (district)]]
[[Category:Province of Westphalia]]
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