Greven

This article deals with the city of Greven in the Steinfurt district; for further meanings see Greven (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′  N , 7 ° 36 ′  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Muenster
Circle :	Steinfurt
Height :	45 m above sea level NHN
Area :	140.26 km 2
Residents:	37,753 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	269 ​​inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	48268
Primaries :	02571, 02575 Reckenfeld
License plate :	ST, BF, TE
Community key :	05 5 66 012
City structure:	Core city + 3 districts
City administration address :	Rathausstrasse 6 48268 Greven
Website :	www.greven.net
Mayor :	Peter Vennemeyer ( SPD )
Location of the city of Greven in the Steinfurt district

Aerial view of Greven city center, 2014

City center at the Völkerballkreisel, 2014

Greven ( Low German Graiwen ) is a town in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in northern Münsterland as part of the Euregio area between Münster and Osnabrück and is classified as a medium-sized center in the state development plan for North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Logo of the city of Greven

Greven is located in the Münsterland on the Ems . The river divides the city into the two districts Greven on the left of the Ems and Greven on the right of the Ems , which were independent villages before the city became a town. The Glane also flows into the Ems near Hembergen .

The Dortmund-Ems Canal and the A1 cross the city. The Münstersche Aa flows into the Ems near Greven without reaching the city center directly. The Franz-Felix-See is located in the eastern part of the city .

The nature reserves in the Greven city area include the protected areas in the Wentrup Mountains, the Bockholter Mountains in the south near the Gimbte district , the Baltenmoor, the Hanseller Floth in the south-west and the Emsaue Süd nature reserve. In addition, the Greven Wentrup water protection area lies between Greven and Reckenfeld.

Neighboring communities

Greven borders (clockwise, starting in the southwest) on Altenberge , Nordwalde , Emsdetten , Saerbeck , Ladbergen (all in the Steinfurt district), Ostbevern and Telgte (both in the Warendorf district), and on Münster (independent).

City structure

Greven is in the core city on the Ems (about 25,700 inhabitants), the districts Reckenfeld (about 8500 inhabitants), Gimbte (about 950 inhabitants) and Schmedehausen (about 600 people) and the peasantry Aldrup, Bockholt, Fuestrup, Guntrup, Hanseller Floth, Hembergen, Herbern, Hüttrup, Maestrup, Pentrup, Schmedehausen, Westerode and Wentrup (together approx. 3700 inhabitants). Around 66 percent of the total population of Greven live in the city center. The core city can be divided again into right and left of the Ems. Most of the people live to the right of the Ems. With over 19,700 inhabitants, more than half of all Greven residents (51%) live there. This part of Greven is growing mainly due to the new development area "Wöste", in which more than 650 properties are being or have been created. To the left of the Ems there are currently almost 5900 inhabitants (15%). According to its own information, the city has a total of around 38,800 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). In addition, the city of Greven has written a demographic report, which u. a. Provides information about the existing age structure.

history

Naming

Greven is derived from the settlement name "Grevaon" (Werdener Urbar, end of the 9th century), which means something like "near the trenches" and refers to the prehistoric and early historical Emsarme (Laken, dead river beds).

Early history

Traces (arrowheads) of hunters of the Middle Stone Age have been found in the Greven area . There are traces of settlements from the Neolithic Age , a grave from the Bronze Age and pre-Roman finds.

middle Ages

Sachsenhof Pentrup

At the time of the Saxons , Greven lies at the northern tip of the Dreingaus . At this point in time, there seem to have been various rural properties around the place. The Sachsenhof open-air museum in Greven-Pentrup is the construction of a property that was excavated in the Gelmer district of Münster . Franconian settlers can be traced back to the beginning of the Saxon Wars (772–804).

Greven's location at an Ems crossing and at the end of the navigable Ems determined the development of the village for a long time. To secure the crossing over the Ems, eight courtyards, administered by a Vogt , were laid out along what is now Marktstrasse and Münsterstrasse. Approx. 793 St. Martinus' Church is founded by St. Liudger . Greven is one of the original parishes founded by Bishop Liudger around 800. Around 900 the name "Grevaon" was first mentioned in a document. Between 900 and 1200 there was a medieval settlement in today's industrial area Wentrup-Ost, which was recently archaeologically examined. Greven had market rights since 1200 , which is probably related to the exposed location of the former village. The market in August was of national importance.

In 1257 the castle Schöneflieth at the Emsübergang is mentioned for the first time, which belongs to the knight Dietrich von Schoenenbeke . It is destroyed by Bishop Eberhard von Diest in 1275/76 , among other things because Dietrich was a robber baron . Between 1335 and 1370, the Münster cathedral chapter built a new castle on almost the same site, which served as a toll castle and to protect the Emshafen harbor. This castle fell into disrepair from 1803, today only a few traces of it can be seen.

Modern times

At the end of the 16th century Greven experienced a certain boom through long-distance trade because of its good geographical location . Shipping on the Ems was revived through the Pünten (flat river ships). However, the Grevener Markt suffered a severe setback in 1598 due to a dramatic attack by Dutch horsemen and as a result lost its supra-regional radiance.

Looting, epidemics and fires contributed to the decline of the village during and after the Thirty Years' War . It was not until 1700 that Greven experienced a certain upswing, mainly through the textile trade. In 1803 the village, which had been prince-bishop until then, became Prussian and from 1808 belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg and in 1811 to the French Empire , before Greven came back to Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna . Administratively, it belonged from then on to the district Münster in Münster Region of the province of Westphalia .

With the founding of the Greven cotton spinning mill in 1855, industrialization began in Greven , which was mainly driven by the capital of the merchant families who had become wealthy in long-distance trade. The Münster-Emden railway line was set up in 1856, and the Dortmund-Ems Canal was built from 1892 to 1898 .

During the First World War , an ammunition depot was built in the Hembergen farmers, from which the Reckenfeld district developed after the war . In 1933 a good twelve percent of Greven's citizens voted for the NSDAP , and the center was still very strong in the Catholic city . In February 1945 Greven was bombed, ten people were killed. British and Canadian troops conquered the city at Easter 1945.

Information on forced labor in the time of National Socialism regarding Greven can be found under Nazi forced labor in the Münsterland .

post war period

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Greven belonged to the British zone of occupation . Until 1950 thousands of displaced persons were housed in DP camps in the north of Greven and in Reckenfeld. Most of them came from Poland and the Baltic States . The camp was looked after by a team from UNRRA .

When it was published in the official gazette of the government of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster, the municipality of Greven-Dorf received town charter on January 28, 1950. On August 10, 1952, the municipalities of Greven on the right of the Ems and Greven on the left of the Ems , which had become independent on October 1, 1894 by being separated from Greven, were reintegrated. The community of Gimbte was incorporated on January 1, 1975.

In the 1960s the textile industry fell into a serious crisis. The result was high unemployment. Logistics companies in particular have settled around Münster / Osnabrück Airport (FMO) (founded in 1966).

religion

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 55.8% were Roman Catholic , 18.9% of the population were Protestant and 25.3% were non-denominational or belonged to another religious community. In 2018, 49.0% of Greven's residents belonged to the Roman Catholic denomination , 17.6% were Protestant and 33.4% belonged to other religious communities or no denomination.

Catholic parishes and churches

St. Martinus and St. John Baptist

St. Martinus Church (aerial photo, 2014)

Since the dissolution of the previously independent St. Lukas parish (Greven-West) in November 2012, the Catholic Church has been divided into only two parishes . Since then, the parish of St. Martinus has comprised the six church villages of St. Martinus (Greven-Mitte right of the Ems), St. Mary's Assumption (Greven-Süd), Holy Guardian Angels (district Schmedehausen), St. Wendelin (district Bockholt), St. Josef (Greven-West to the left of the Ems) and St. Franziskus (Reckenfeld district) make up most of the urban area. The Martinus Church in downtown Greven is the parish church of the parish, which in 2013 had around 19,500 Catholics.

The small parish of St. Johannes Baptist in the Greven district of Gimbte, whose pastors usually work part-time and are also active in the diocese leadership or priest training in the nearby Münster, is also independent. The parish of St. John the Baptist has around 700 believers.

Church demolitions

The St. Joseph Church, built in the 1950s, was profaned and demolished in 2019

The Church of St. Mary's Assumption, built in the 1950s, was officially renamed “Youth Church MARY's” in 2013 and focuses on adolescents and young adults, who are to be offered a more target-group-oriented offer than in traditional church services. In view of the declining number of worshipers, the church and the adjoining parish hall will be completely abandoned by 2024.

The St. Joseph Church, built in the post-war period, was profaned on January 27, 2019 and then demolished. A new church is planned at the same location, which will provide space for worship services as well as for group and committee work. The background to the demolition, including the new building, is the dilapidated structural condition of the old church building and the adjoining parish hall as well as the decline in church visitors, which is why the new church with up to 240 seats is much smaller than the previous one.

Evangelical congregation and churches

The evangelical Christians of Grevens are organized in a common parish. This has two places of worship with the Christ Church on Wilhelmsplatz and the Erlöserkirche in Reckenfeld.

Turkish-Islamic Community

In addition to the dominant Christian communities, Greven also has a Turkish - Islamic community that belongs to the umbrella organization DITIB and is looked after by an imam sent by the Turkish government . The community sees itself on the one hand as a Muslim religious community, on the other hand as a cultural association that cultivates Turkish festivals and traditions. The community center, which is also used as a mosque , is located in the old Bahnhofstrasse in the western part of Greven on the left of the Ems.

politics

City council

Election of the Greven City Council in 2014

in percent

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

38.6

33.4

13.2

4.5

4.1

4.1

2.1

CDU

SPD

Green

RE direct

FDP

left

UFW

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

 % p

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

+3.3

+9.9

-2.9

-0.3

-10.4

+0.9

-0.6

CDU

SPD

Green

RE direct

FDP

left

UFW

Allocation of seats in the Greven City Council (2019)

        

A total of 38 seats

• Left : 3
• RE direct : 2
• SPD : 10
• Independent : 1
• Greens : 5
• FDP : 2
• CDU : 14
• UFW : 1

In the last local election on May 25, 2014 (voter turnout 53.2%), the CDU in Greven was the strongest party with slight increases in votes and won 14 council seats in front of the SPD with twelve mandates, which gained almost ten percentage points. The Grevener FDP recorded heavy losses, having lost five of its seven seats. The new third strongest force in the Greven Council was the Greens with five seats, followed by the Reckenfeld Direkt electoral association ( Ernst Reiling list ) from the district of the same name , the FDP and the Left , each with two seats. The UFW did not achieve any parliamentary group status with a councilor. The council as a whole was reduced by ten members from 48 to the legally stipulated size of 38 council members compared to 2009 due to the omission of overhang and compensation mandates. In addition, there is the vote of the mayor as a further voting council member by virtue of office.

With the change of a council member from the SPD to the left, the latter faction has three members since October 16, 2017. When a councilor who was now partisan and non-attached, the SPD parliamentary group lost another member in May 2018 and has had ten seats since then.

For the current electoral period up to 2020, no formal labor agreements were concluded between parties in the Greven City Council, which is why decisions are made with changing majorities depending on the issue.

In addition to various specialist committees, the Greven City Council has its own district committees for the farmers outside the city center (including Schmedehausen ) and for the districts of Gimbte and Reckenfeld. The council has also appointed a design advisory board, which it consults on urban development issues. Further political advisory bodies exist with the Senior Citizens' Advisory Board and the Advisory Board for People with Disabilities.

Mayor since 1945

Greven's acting mayor is Peter Vennemeyer . The SPD candidate, first elected in 2007, prevailed in the mayoral election in May 2014 with 51.0 percent of the votes in the first ballot against the challenger Joseph Panhoff (CDU) with 30.8 percent. Together with a first deputy elected by the council, Vennemeyer forms the two-person administrative board in Emsstadt.

1945: Mayor at the time of National Socialism

• until April 1945: Wilhelm Vorndamme ( NSDAP )

After British and Canadian troops marched into Greven on March 31, 1945, the National Socialist mayor Vorndamme was removed from office on April 1, 1945.

1945 to 1954/1950: Official and municipal mayor in the post-war period

Mayor

• April – August 1945: Paul Braschoss
• 1945–1946: Johannes Berlage
• 1946–1954: Anton Minnebusch ( CDU )

Mayor of the municipality of Greven-Dorf

• 1945–1946: Johannes Berlage
• 1946–1950: Anton Minnebusch ( CDU )

Up until the constitution of democratically elected local parliaments (city / town councils), the British military administration used the executives of the local administrations as the occupying power in the immediate post-war period. First of all, Paul Braschoss, who was born in Cologne and previously worked in Münster and resided in Greven, was appointed. On August 13, 1945, however, he was dismissed because of his professional background and replaced by the lawyer Johannes Berlage. In December 1945, Berlage was also appointed mayor of Greven-Dorf by the British military government. He later moved to the post of official director and resigned from the mayor's office on March 5, 1946 in favor of the first elected official and municipal mayor, Anton Minnebusch.

1950 to 1995: Mayor and city directors after being granted city rights

Honorary mayor of the city of Greven

• 1950–1959: Anton Minnebusch ( CDU )
• 1959–1979: Aloys Wähning ( CDU )
• 1979–1989: Josef Helmig ( CDU )
• 1989–1995: Hubert Binder ( SPD )

Full-time city directors as heads of administration

• 1950–1961: Leo Drost
• 1961–1967: Paul Werra
• 1967–1986: Bernhard Schneider
• 1986–1994: Klaus-Friedrich Peters

In Greven, which became a town in 1950, as in all of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony , the North German Council Constitution was in effect until the mid-1990s , according to which the mayor was only given representative tasks. The management of the administration took place in the course of a so-called dual leadership by a city director elected by the council.

Since 1995: Full-time mayor of the city of Greven after the municipal reform

• 1995–1999: Rudolf Steingrube ( SPD )
• 1999-2003: Egon Koling ( CDU )
• 2003-2006: Olaf Gericke ( CDU )
• since 2007: Peter Vennemeyer ( SPD )

In the course of the abolition of the municipal dual leadership in the mid-1990s, the first full-time mayor in North Rhine-Westphalia, in Greven the social democrat Rudolf Steingrube, were elected by the city council, some of them on a transitional basis. The following mayors came into office through a newly introduced direct election.

City political issues

Budget and finance

The central theme of Greven's city policy since 2000 has been the city's high debt , which according to the administration's budget at the end of 2019 amounted to a total of 112.5 million euros. Despite the positive economic and labor market development, increased measures to consolidate the budget, such as increasing the rates of property and trade tax as well as personnel savings, have had to be taken in recent years , which have meanwhile led to an improved situation in municipal finances. From 2003 to 2013, Greven had previously been in the so-called budget security for ten years and was thus under the tighter control of the municipal supervisory authority of the Steinfurt district. From 2005 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2011 the city was only able to operate with an emergency budget .

As a result of the improvement in the budget situation since 2013, investments have recently increased again. Among other things, the Greven Council decided on financial means for a municipal digitization strategy , the energetic renovation of the town hall, urban development projects such as the new Niederort, the market square redesign or the new development area Wöste as well as extensive school extensions such as the expansion of the Marien- and Martinigrundschule as well as the new building of the natural science wing on Augustinianum high school.

Urban development and infrastructure

Further core issues of Greven's urban policy are population growth with a strong influx, especially from neighboring Münster, and the associated problems such as a lack of affordable housing and daycare and school supplies. Among other things, the previously controversial Wöste development area was realized within a few years. In the west of Greven, the Stockkamp development area was built, and the Überesch development area in the village of Gimbte.

In terms of infrastructure policy , the centrally located Königsstrasse, formerly part of the L 555, has been taken over by the city from the country and redesigned to be more bicycle-friendly in order to calm down through traffic and heavy goods vehicles. A similar project on Rathausstrasse in the city center, which adjoins Königsstrasse, was halted in spring 2019 by a majority in the council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A silver emspünte in blue."

In 1939 coats of arms were introduced for the Greven office and its communities. With the elevation to the city of 1950, Greven received a new and still valid city coat of arms (awarded on March 6, 1950 by the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia). The silver emspünte on a blue background appeared on the town charter of November 22, 1949. The design probably comes from the graphic artist Mallek , who also designed all the other Greven coats of arms. The ship as Greven's landmark symbolizes a long tradition as the end of shipping on the Ems. The flag of Greven is white and blue.

Town twinning

The city of Greven has had an official twinning with the city of Montargis ( Loiret department ) in France since 1968 . This city friendship, cultivated through mutual visits and official committees, includes student exchanges, sports competitions, carnival events and joint concerts by the music schools.

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Greven

Greven Town Hall

Apart from the Church of St. Martinus , which is Romanesque in its core , was expanded in the Gothic and again in the Neo-Gothic , and some parts of old courtyards, there is no house in Greven from the time before the Thirty Years War . The castle Schöneflieth , once an important toll castle on the Ems was up to the foundation walls disappeared. The oldest Kötter and Ackerbürgerhäuser ( four-column houses ) in the city date from the 17th century. In the city center there are some so-called manufacturer's villas from the 19th century, which vary in style from late classicism to historicism to art nouveau . The new Greven City Hall from 1973, architect Dieter Oesterlen, is a striking building in the brutalist style with lots of glass and concrete. The so-called Sachsenhof, a replica of a homestead from around 800 AD, where experimental archeology plays a major role, is part of the Pentrup farming community. The village church in the Gimbte district has the oldest baptismal font in the Münsterland from the 12th century.

Cultural offers

Boiler house and bale store (aerial photo, 2014)

• The cultural center in Greven is the GBS cultural center with the cultural forge and the bale warehouse on the former site of the Greven cotton spinning mill . The Greven cultural initiative “KI” regularly offers cabaret, jazz, chanson and the like.
• Since 2007 the series of events Greven an der Ems has been established in the summer months (beginning of May to end of August) . On a large open-air area in the Emsauen near the city center, various concerts and music festivals in the genres of jazz, classical, rock and bluegrass, sporting events and cultural offers such as an annual medieval market take place on the river bank there.
• The Kunstverein Greven holds four exhibitions of contemporary art artists in the art tower every year.
• Since October 2016, 30 works from the Diurnes cycle by Pablo Picasso have been on permanent loan from a local art collector in the town hall. The works are open to the public on certain dates.
• The Greven-Reckenfeld open-air theater shows regular theater performances .
• The reconstruction of a courtyard from the early Middle Ages in the Greven-Pentrup farming community, known as the “Sachsenhof”, shows visitors how people lived between the 6th and 8th centuries. Among other things, the cultivation of early useful plants is shown here and their processing is illustrated. Part of this historic courtyard burned down completely in November 2016 as a result of arson.
• The initiators of the auditorium concerts organize concerts with classical music at regular intervals.
• The Emsdetten-Greven-Saerbeck Music School has a symphony orchestra and a big band that regularly give concerts.
• In addition, there are a number of music-making associations and amateur choirs in Greven that regularly have public appearances.

Sports

According to information from the city administration, Greven has 30 clubs offering 43 sports. Among other things, the city has four large multi-discipline sports clubs (TVE, SC Greven 09 , DJK Blau-Weiß, SC Reckenfeld), two riding clubs and numerous smaller, sometimes very specialized clubs. Greven also has an 18-hole golf course, an indoor swimming pool, an outdoor swimming pool, several sports fields and halls, several riding facilities, a glider airfield and a marina.

The first team of the women's handball team at SC Greven 09 was disbanded after the 2014/15 season as a relegated team from the Oberliga Westfalen due to a lack of staff, the previous reserve now acts as the first women's team and plays in the regional league. The footballers of SC Greven 09 play in the district league (as of June 2020); in the last 50 years they have frequently swung between the regional league and the district A league. A new artificial turf pitch was created in 2012 exclusively with funds from sponsors and members of the large football department with around 670 members. The Latin formation of TSC Ems-Casino Blau-Gold Greven rose in the 2009 season as second in the 2nd Bundesliga to the 1st Bundesliga. The first team of the triathlon department of TVE Greven starts in the NRW-Liga, the volleyball players of TVE Greven in the upper league. The karate department of TVE Greven also celebrates successes at national and international championships. The tennis clubs TC Rot-Weiß Greven, TC Grün-Weiß Reckenfeld and Top Tennis are also successful and youth-promoting sports clubs. Top Tennis merged with DJK Blau-Weiß in 2015 and now forms the tennis department of DJK. The first table tennis team of the DJK Blau-Weiß was promoted to the association league in 2016. In the summer of 2005, the men's handball departments of SC Greven 09 and SC Reckenfeld merged to form the handball game community Handballfreunde Reckenfeld / Greven 05. The 1st men's handball team plays in the district league.

The Grevener Beach Cup, which was held for the first time in 2007, is a sporting highlight. Handball fans invite teams from the region and the national beach handball scene to this beach handball tournament. Over 20 men's and women's teams play the winners on two fields directly on the Ems.

Another sport that is successful in Greven is M-Kung-Fu. The sports club SC Greven 09 houses the "Kung Fu Center Kreis Steinfurt" and in 2009 hosted the German championship in Mantis Kung Fu. There is another Kung Fu department at DJK Blau-Weiß.

societies

Archery

In Greven there are 18 shooting clubs and brotherhoods in the various districts .

In 1923 the United Shooting Societies Greven was established. This "umbrella organization" has the task of planning and carrying out shooting events and cross-club events. The oldest cross-club event was the shooting for the hiking chain in the 1920s. After the Second World War, the clubs and also the "United" reorganized. Since 1957, the city championships in small-bore rifles and air rifles have been held on the two Greven shooting ranges. In the mid-1970s, the idea arose to identify a city emperor from the current shooting club kings. At this point the "United" fell apart and two boards of the same name were created. One board of directors continued to organize the city championship in small-bore rifles and air rifles, the other board of directors organized the city imperial shooting every three years from 1976 onwards. In 2002, under the leadership of the two chairmen, the final merger began under one leadership. Since 2003 the association has been operating under the name “Vereinigte Schützengesellschaft 1923 e. V. “active. The main activity of the association is the promotion of the Grevener shooting, planning and implementation of the city imperial shooting and the city championship in small-bore rifle and air rifle.

Sporting shooting

The city of Greven's only shooting club , the “Schießsportfreunde Greven”, has existed since 1958 . In this club only "sporting shooting" is in the foreground. The shooting sports fans operate a shooting range with four 50 m lanes, ten air rifle stands and a “ running target ” stand .

Economy and Infrastructure

Labor market situation

Like the entire Münsterland region, Greven has a very low unemployment rate , it is currently (February 2020) at 4.3 percent and thus slightly above the average in the Steinfurt district (4.1% in February 2020). In absolute numbers, 1,092 Greven residents were registered as unemployed in May 2020.

Established businesses

Formerly an almost pure textile city , after a profound crisis, the logistics industry is now of particular importance for Greven. Around 3000 jobs depend on these companies. Especially the companies Fiege , Luhns , the parcel and letter center of the Post and since March 2006 the dispatch center for the shopping channel HSE 24 are of great importance. The discounter company Aldi- Nord is based with one of its regional branches, plus a large central warehouse.

The most important local banks are Volksbank Greven, Kreissparkasse Steinfurt, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank .

Over 160 local companies have come together in the Greven Economic Forum (WiFo) to jointly represent their interests. The president of Wifo changes annually. In 2019 Frederik Venschott will serve.

retail trade

In 2007, Greven was the first city in Germany to be awarded the title “1a shopping city” by the retail industry service 'markt intern'.

In July 2010 the Greven City Council decided on a retail and center concept. This serves as a factual, legal and political decision-making basis for the further development of the retail trade in Greven. The focus of the concept is on the spatial delimitation of the central supply areas and the range list for spatial control of the retail businesses. After the decision to update the concept at the end of 2016, this was decided by the Greven City Council in 2018 with small changes.

For the development of a new retail concept, there was a survey in January 2017 that showed that with 208 retail outlets and a total sales area of ​​58,200 m², there has been a decrease in sales area of ​​4,000 m² since 2009, which corresponds to 6%. There were 56 companies (- 21%) fewer. A large part of the sales area was made up of food and luxury items (26%), DIY and garden center assortments (21%) and furniture (13%). Of the 208 retail outlets, sixteen (8%) share 53% of the retail space.

The survey also shows that the purchasing power level stood at 100.28, although slightly higher than the national average, purchasing power is but drained from Greven, since the turnover of retail trade was lying about 10% below the volume of purchasing power.

In January 2017 there was a vacancy of 42 shops with a sales area of ​​6,000 m², of which 25 of these shops were in the city center alone, while there was no vacancy in the Reckenfeld district. According to the authors of the concept, the vacancy rate in Greven's city center was “well above the usual fluctuation rates”.

Specifically for the inner city, in 2010 the integrated action plan - updated in 2016 - aimed to improve the city center over the long term and sustainably. To this end, activities and measures were formulated so that the attractiveness of the city center was steadily increased. Started with the redesign of Niederort, the improvement of the quality of stay through so-called flotsam, WiFi hotspots and the installation of information pillars that refer to the individual shops in the city center. New paving and the barrier-free design also increase quality and contribute to a falling number of vacancies.

Commercial areas

Business in the new airport park at the airport in Greven-Hüttrup

In the Greven city area there are currently ten commercial areas with different space availability. Greven recently developed a large industrial park in the Reckenfeld district together with Emsdetten . Furthermore, together with the city of Münster and the district of Steinfurt, the 200 hectare “ Airport Park” was created directly between Münster / Osnabrück Airport and the A1 . A plant of the Schumacher Packaging Group , a corrugated board producer with headquarters in Ebersdorf near Coburg in Upper Franconia, and companies such as Beresa and Hermes have now settled here . In 2015, within the framework of the commercial and industrial space concept (GEKO) u. a. carried out an economic structure analysis. An update of the concept is planned for 2020.

tourism

The most important branch of Greven tourism is cycling. Greven Marketing e. V. (formerly Greven Tourist Office) operates a bicycle station where tourists can rent bicycles. In addition, the association's tourist information center is located in the city center. The popular Ems cycle path leads across the city. In addition, canoeing on the Ems and, increasingly, riding tourism also play a major role. In Greven, for example, there are two riding clubs and two Icelandic farms . In August 2004, Germany's first integrative bridle path for people with disabilities was inaugurated, some of which leads through the Greven area. At Grevener Camping Westheide there is a service station suitable for the disabled, where the horses can be looked after.

Agriculture

Agriculture still plays an important role in Greven. However, the small and medium-sized farms are under enormous economic pressure. Most farms operate bull, pig or poultry fattening. Mainly forage crops are grown, especially maize. Due to intensive agriculture , the groundwater is sometimes heavily polluted with nitrates .

education

schools

The school center in the west of the city with the Anne Frank Realschule and the Josef Elementary School

Greven has five primary schools : the Catholic primary schools St. Marien , St. Martini and St. Josef as well as the Protestant Martin Luther primary school are located in the city area, the Erich Kästner community primary school in the Reckenfeld district. In the area of ​​secondary schools, the city offers a secondary school (the Anne Frank Realschule in the west), a grammar school (the Augustinianum grammar school on Lindenstraße, among others with a bilingual branch), a comprehensive school (the Nelson Mandela comprehensive school on Teichstraße) and a special school with a focus on emotional and social development in secondary level I (the school on the Ems , formerly Johannesschule , on Alte Lindenstrasse). At each of the five primary schools and in grades 1 to 6 of the special needs school, there are childcare offers until 4 p.m. at the latest for voluntary participation in the open all-day school . With the school year 2012/13, the comprehensive school was created from the merger of the neighboring Marien- Hauptschule and the Justin-Kleinwächter-Realschule, which subsequently expired in the summer of 2017 and no longer exist.

The schools took part in the project School without Racism - School with Courage .

Other educational institutions

In addition to the established schools, there is a music school and an adult education center (VHS) in Greven , both of which are operated as special-purpose associations with the neighboring municipalities of Emsdetten and Saerbeck .

library

The Greven City Library has an online catalog . It participated annually with very good results in the 2015 expiry of the BIX , a Germany-wide library comparison of the Bertelsmann Foundation. With 142,500 visitors and 358,000 loans, a new record was set in 2009, and in 2011 there were even 390,067 loans. Among other things, around 38,500 books and 50 magazines, a total of over 44,200 media units, are available for loan. Around 340,000 loans were booked in 2016.

City Archives

Greven has a modern city ​​archive that can also be accessed on the Internet. The site offers historical information on the local history, some of which are also available as free downloads. Information on the holdings can be found on the website of the city archive in the NRW archive portal. In addition, some data is online in the archive portal-D .

Local newspapers

• Westphalian news
• Grevener Zeitung (regional edition of the Münsterschen Zeitung with copied content from the local edition of the Westfälische Nachrichten)
• "We in Greven" (free, Wednesdays and Saturdays)
• "Hello" (free, Wednesdays and Saturdays)

traffic

Münster-Osnabrück Airport with Dortmund-Ems Canal

Greven station

Air traffic

Greven experiences supraregional importance through the international airport Münster / Osnabrück FMO, which is located in its urban area . The number of passengers has been falling for a long time and has been recovering slightly since 2015. An airport park is being built at the FMO. The FMO has had its own motorway connection for several years. In addition to holiday charter flights, Münster / Osnabrück Airport mainly serves as a feeder airport. Lufthansa flies to Frankfurt and Munich.

Road traffic

Greven has a connection to the adjacent A 1 motorway . The B 219 and the B 481 run through Greven.

Rail transport

The city lies on the Münster – Rheine railway line and belongs to the Münsterland transport association. Regional trains stop here twice an hour and continue to Emden or via Cologne to Krefeld . Then there is the Ems-Bahn , which serves all stations between Münster and Rheine. Greven train station is to the left of the Ems and can be reached on foot in ten minutes from the city center. The Reckenfeld district also has a train station ( stop ).

line	Route	Tact	operator	material
RE 7	Rhein-Münsterland-Express : Rheine  - Emsdetten  - Greven  - Münster Hbf  - Münster-Hiltrup  - Drensteinfurt  - Hamm (Westf) Hbf  - Bönen  - Unna  - Holzwickede  - Schwerte  - Hagen Hbf  - Ennepetal (Gevelsberg)  - Schwelm  - Wuppertal-Oberbarmen  - Wuppertal Hbf  - Solingen Hbf  - Opladen  - Köln Messe / Deutz  - Köln Hbf  - Dormagen  - Neuss Hbf  - Meerbusch-Osterath  - Krefeld-Oppum  - Krefeld Hbf Status: timetable change December 2019	60 min	National Express	2 × talent 2
RE 15	Emsland-Express : Emden Outer Harbor  - Emden Hbf  - Leer (Ostfriesl)  - Papenburg  - Aschendorf - Meppen  - Lingen (Ems)  - Salzbergen  - Rheine  - Emsdetten  - Greven  - Münster (Westf) Status: timetable change December 2015	60 min	Westfalenbahn	1–2 × flirt 3
RB 65	Ems-Bahn : Rheine  - Rheine-Mesum  - Emsdetten  - Reckenfeld  - Greven  - Münster-Sprakel  - Münster Zentrum Nord  - Münster (Westf) Hbf Status: timetable change December 2015	30 min	Eurobahn	flirt

Bus transport

The city is served by a city bus route. There are also regional buses to Münster , Nordwalde , Emsdetten , Ibbenbüren and Saerbeck . There is an express bus from the airport to Osnabrück.

Shipping

Greven borders the - here not navigable - Ems , which is popular as a canoe route. The Dortmund-Ems Canal touches the Schmedehausen district; In the district of Fuestrup there is a marina with a motorhome parking space and the "KÜ" - the canal overpass. Here the Dortmund-Ems Canal runs over the Ems in a trough.

Fire brigade, rescue service and healthcare

In Greven there is a volunteer fire brigade with full-time workers, which includes around 200 volunteer and 14 full-time firefighters. The fire department Greven is composed of the fire trucks along city Gimbte, Reckenfeld Schmedehausen and Westerode. For the youth, the fire brigade offers a youth fire brigade with 21 young people.

The rescue service is ensured seven days a week by the full-time fire fighters. From Monday to Friday, they are supported by the ambulance of the Malteser Rescue Station . Stationed at the Maltese-Rettungswache "Up'n Nien Esch" ambulance emergency vehicle is alternating with a doctor and by paramedics or emergency medical occupied the fire Greven and the Maltese Greven.

In addition to the Rheine fire brigade, DLRG Greven provides one of the two diving groups in the Steinfurt district.

In addition to the general practitioner and specialist health system, Greven has a full-fledged hospital with inpatient and intensive medical care, the Maria Josef Hospital, which is part of the Münster Franziskus Foundation .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Christoph Biederlack (1773-1854), businessman and member of the Westphalian provincial parliament
• Bernhard Niehues (1831–1909), German historian, member of the Prussian manor house
• Joseph Biederlack SJ (1845–1930), Catholic theologian, professor of canon law in Rome and Innsbruck
• Josef Gronover (1890–1963), lawyer and politician ( center , NSDAP ), mayor of Dorsten
• Heinrich Ottenjann (1886–1961), founder of the Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
• Wilhelm Palmes (1903–1982), painter
• Werner Wolbert (* 1946), Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
• Wolfgang Beckermann (* 1959), local politician, former First Alderman of Greven
• Wilhelm Bruns (* 1963), horn player and specialist on the valveless natural horn
• Christian Wilp (* 1964), journalist, chief correspondent in the capital city studio of n-tv and RTL
• Jochen Reidegeld (* 1969), Roman Catholic clergyman, activist against child sexual abuse
• Thomas Bruns (* 1976), poet and writer
• Daniel Lau (* 1978), archaeologist
• Henning Verlage (* 1978), member of the band Unheilig , music producer
• Susanna Mewe (* 1981), writer
• Nils Babin (* 1987), handball goalkeeper

Personalities associated with the city

• Ulrich Brinkhoff (* 1940), German photographer and writer, has lived in Greven since 1987, member of the city council from 1989–1992
• Willi Herren (* 1975), actor and entertainer, lived in Greven until 2010.
• Olaf Gericke (* 1966), District Administrator of the Warendorf district since 2006, former Mayor of Grevens
• Werner Heukamp (1929–2020), Catholic clergyman, author and local history researcher, was chaplain at St. Martinus from 1966 to 1969 and from 1969 to 1994 he headed the St. Mary's Assumption Congregation and, from 1975, the Greven parish association.
• Fritz Pölking (1936–2007), German nature photographer and publisher. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern animal photography in Europe. He lived in Greven until 2007.
• Albert Volkmann (1908–1985), well-known German chess composer
• Hans Lauscher (1904–1981), lawyer and politician (CDU), member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia 1950–1966

literature

• Josef Prinz: Greven an der Ems (2nd extended and combined edition 1976/1977, the 1950 edition is available again as a reprint in the “book on demand” process). ISBN 3-928372-15-7 .
• Detlef Dreßler, Hans Galen and Christoph Spieker (eds.): Greven 1918–1950 . 1994. ISBN 3-928372-01-7 .
• Ulrich Reske (ed.): Greven 1950 to 2000 - Chronicle of a young city. History in the newspaper . 2000.
• Stefan Schröder: Displaced Persons in the district and in the city of Münster 1945–1951 . Publication of the Historical Commission for Westphalia Volume XXII, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster 2005. The book reports on the camps in the north of Greven and in Reckenfeld.

Movies

• My friend from Faro . Feature film, Germany 2008. Director and screenplay: Nana Neul , 91 minutes. Coming-of-age film about homosexuality and life in the provinces . Plays in Greven and was shot there in the summer of 2007, including at Münster / Osnabrück Airport, in the surrounding farmers and in the Hansaviertel.

Web links

Commons : Greven  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Greven  - travel guide

• Website of the city of Greven
• The history of the city of Greven and the Sachsenhof
• Greven in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

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