Almsick (Stadtlohn)

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Almsick
City city wages
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 16 ″  E
Area : 20.3 km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1964
Incorporated into: Parish Stadtlohn
Postal code : 48703
Area code : 02563
Almsick (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Almsick

Location of Almsick in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Almsick farmers north-east of Stadtlohn in the 19th century

Almsick is an old Westphalian peasantry and a district of Stadtlohn in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1964 Almsick was a municipality in the former district of Ahaus .

geography

Almsick is located northeast of the Stadtlohn core town and is largely agricultural. The former municipality of Almsick had an area of ​​20.3 km².

history

After the Napoleonic era , the Almsick farming community initially belonged to the Stadtlohn mayor in the Ahaus district founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1843, the mayor's office Stadtlohn became the Stadtlohn office , to which the five communities Almsick, Estern-Büren , Hengeler-Wendfeld , Hundewick and Wessendorf belonged. The service of the stop on the Borken – Burgsteinfurt railway ended in 1962 and on August 1, 1964, Almsick was merged with Estern-Büren, Hengeler-Wendfeld, Hundewick and Wessendorf to form the parish of Kirchspiel Stadtlohn , which in turn was incorporated into the town of Stadtlohn in 1969.

Population development

year Residents source
1858 585
1885 507
1910 527
1939 511
1950 642
1964 555

present

The St. Hubertus Almsick rifle club is one of the bearers of local customs.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans-Walter Pries: Almsick. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. Official Gazette for the Münster administrative district in 1844, page 83. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  3. Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 284 .
  4. Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  6. Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ahaus.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).