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With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Badajoz is the most populous municipality and the largest economic center in Extremadura. The city was founded around 875 by Ibn Marwan. Under his successors, was the capital of an emirate that encompassed the Spanish Extremadura and, in the 11th century, almost all of Portugal. In 1094 the city was conquered by the Almoravids.It was conquered in 1230 by Alfonso IX. and permanently taken from the Moors by León. The current neo-Gothic building was erected in 1917 on the ruins of a 13th-century hermitage dedicated to Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph was the patron saint of Badajoz for several centuries since the conquest of the city from the Moors by the Leonese king Afons IX. took place on the saint's day, March 19, 1230.

Bispingen is a small town with (including the small hamlets around) has a population of about 6500. Bispingen is located in the center of the "Lüneburger Heide" (Lüneburg Heath), a large nature reserve of heath, geest and woodland. Over centuries this was a poor area, where "Heidschnucken" a local breed of sheep were held, a kind of forgotten hinterland between Hannover and Hamburg. Meanwhile due to the unique landscape this is a popular tourist destination. There is a church named "Ole Kerk" (old church) that since 1353 was the only church in the area for a very long time. People from all hamlets around walked to this church on sunday. When the population grew end of the 19th century this church became to small and just about 200 metres apart the new neo Gothic St. Antonius church was built in 1908. Unfortunately St. Antonius was locked, as the old baptismal from 1406 was moved from the old to the new church.