imposing westwork. Furthermore, the poet Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who wrote Das Lied der Deutschen, worked here as a librarian and is buried next to the church. As part of the Erlebniswelt Renaissance ("Renaissance Adventure World"), there is a town walk with the theme "market", on which visitors may solve a murder case from 1617. The Obermühle Höxter ("Höxter Upper Mill") is a former watermill that once belonged to Corvey Abbey. Today it houses the Mühlencafé. The Tonenburg (see History above) Sports There are many sport clubs in Höxter. The biggest club is the Höxter Handball and Athletics Club (HLC Höxter), which furthermore offers fitness courses, swimming, aquajogging, back gymnastics, badminton and judo. There is also the Höxter-Weserbergland Football Arena. There, on two indoor courts on artificial turf, the year round, the newest generation of football can be played. Government Town council The town council's 44 seats are apportioned as follows, in accordance with municipal elections held on 30 August 2009: CDU 17 seats SPD 14 seats Greens 3 seats FDP 4 seats DIE LINKE 1 seat UWG 5 seats Note: UWG is a citizens' coalition. Mayor The mayor is Daniel Hartmann, independent candidate (since 2020). Coat of arms Höxter's oldest known seals date from the 13th century, the same century during which the town was granted town rights. The current arms, showing an ecclesiastical structure, have been used since the 19th century, and are modelled after the second seal, known from 1285. The arms were granted once again in 1970. Twin towns – sister cities Höxter is twinned with: Corbie, France (1963/1964) Sudbury, England, United Kingdom (1979/1980) Infrastructure Höxter is served by four railway stations: Höxter Rathaus, Höxter-Ottbergen, Höxter-Lüchtringen and Höxter-Godelheim, all on the Altenbeken–Kreiensen line. The line is run by NordWestBahn who run the Egge-Bahn towards Paderborn and Holzminden. The Sollingbahn also terminates at Ottbergen, and links to Northeim in Lower Saxony. All public transport in Höxter can be used on the integrated fare system within the Paderborn-Höxter Local Transport Association (Nahverkehrsverbund Paderborn-Höxter). Education Höxter is one of the four locations of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences (German:Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe). Secondary education in Höxter includes the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Realschule and the Hauptschule as well as a sales school (kaufmännische Schule, a vocational and economics Gymnasium). Notable people (1864–1959), Lord mayor of Gelsenkirchen in 1919–1928 Jacob Pins (1917–2005), Israeli artist Klaus Töpfer (born 1938), politician (CDU) and federal minister,