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City of Harsewinkel
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| Height : | 61 (56-65.2) m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 23.19 km² |
| Residents : | 3125 (Jan. 1, 2019) |
| Population density : | 135 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 |
| Postal code : | 33428 |
| Area code : | 02588 |
 Districts of the city of Harsewinkel
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 Greffen, part of the town of Harsewinkel in the Gütersloh district
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Greffen [ ˈgʀɛfən ] is the smallest of the three villages in the town of Harsewinkel in the Gütersloh district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on the Ems and has 3,125 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). Greffen is connected to Harsewinkel and the district town of Gütersloh via the federal highway 513 .
history
Greffen was first mentioned in a document in the cathedral necrology of Münster in 1042 .
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the village and parish of Greffen belonged to the monastery of Münster and were subordinate to the Sassenberg office. The parish of Greffen, to which the Easter and Wester farmers also belonged, comprised a total of 101 houses in 1786. In 1803, large parts of the dissolved bishopric or prince-bishopric of Münster were assigned to the King of Prussia in the main Imperial Deputation. In the Peace of Tilsit (1807) Prussia ceded the Principality of Münster , including Greffen, to Napoleon , who in 1808 assigned it to the Grand Duchy of Berg, which had been newly established two years earlier . Greffen belonged to the canton of Sassenberg in the department of the Ems (reclassified to the department of the Ruhr in 1811 ). After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig and the withdrawal of the French from the areas on the right bank of the Rhine, the region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia, initially provisionally and on the basis of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815) .
Under the Prussian administration, Greffen belonged to the newly formed administrative district of Münster in the province of Westphalia in 1816 and was assigned to the mayor's office of Harsewinkel , which had already been established in the grand-ducal-Bergisch period . The latter was converted into the Harsewinkel Office in 1843 , which existed until the end of 1972.
On January 1, 1973, as part of the regional reform under the Bielefeld Act, the Harsewinkel office was dissolved and the town of Harsewinkel and the communities of Greffen and Marienfeld merged to form the new town of Harsewinkel.
politics
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the former municipality of Greffen shows a red wavy head with three silver combs on a gold shield. The template shows the seal of a Sassenberg Burgmann family who were enfeoffed with their main courtyard in Greffen. The inscription of the seal reads S. GRACTONIS de GREVENE 1336 . The seal shows a sloping bar with three combs, which are presumably horse combs used for mane and tail hair care. The colors were unknown, so the colors of the red Munster pen shield were adopted for the municipal coat of arms. In order to do justice to the abundance of water in the community, the sloping beam was converted into a wave goblet. The coat of arms was approved on January 27, 1939.
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Catholic parish church of St. John (the Baptist). Parts of the late Gothic predecessor building were integrated into the neo-Gothic hall church built by Hilger Hertel the Younger in 1899 . The two central nave vaults and the choir have been preserved from this. The high altar dates from 1748.
- The buildings surrounding the church square once formed, similar to those in Delbrück , Halle (Westphalia) and Gütersloh , a closed church ring development, which after demolition and modernization no longer offers a uniform picture. Probably the oldest building in this area is Johannesplatz 14 . The two-storey half-timbered building with a high hall was dendrochronologically dated to the year 1566.
Nature reserves
The two nature reserves Am Sundern and Baggersee Greffener Mark are located in the Greffener area . In addition, in the Überems area there is the gray heron colony nature reserve with a size of 4.09 hectares. On the edge of the Emsaue there is a gray heron colony consisting of over 20 occupied eyries in an approximately 4 hectare biotope complex made up of deciduous, mixed and coniferous forests of different soil moisture, which surround a near-natural small body of water on three sides. In the north, the so-called southern valley trench delimits the area from the Emsaue, which is characterized here by agriculture. The traditional breeding grounds of the gray herons (a total of 23 in 2004 - according to the avifaunistic expert opinion of the city of Harsewinkel from 2014, 42 eyries are registered) are located in a middle-aged, sometimes fern-rich mixed pine forest in the central part of the area, which is adjoined by a medieval pedunculate oak forest in the southeast. West of the colony, under a 10 kV line crossing from south to north, a small body of water has developed close to nature that was newly created around 20 years ago. In the bank area, reed beds and a large large sedge of the stiff sedge grow locally. The western part of the NSG consists of a partly thinned alder-poplar forest of different soil moisture with partly lost hybrid poplars in the first tree layer and alders in the shelter. In the more humid areas it shows transitions to the alder forest. As a gray heron colony, the area is particularly valuable from a natural history or avifaunistic point of view. In addition to the preservation of the eyrie trees and the mixed pine forest, one goal should also be to rewet the western part and remove the hybrid poplars that are stagnant there. The gray heron colony also breeds the eagle owl and the kingfisher. The protection takes place
- a) for the conservation, development and restoration of regionally significant habitats and habitats of rare and endangered animal and plant species typical of the landscape. In particular, the quarry and swamp forests protected according to § 62 LG on damp and wet locations as well as a near-natural standing water with locally developed reed beds and large sedge areas are to be preserved and further developed. The traditional breeding grounds for the gray herons are located in the middle-aged mixed pine forest. Furthermore, the natural, high biodiversity and structural diversity of the area and the existing near-natural habitats must be particularly protected and promoted. Above all, the function of the area as a habitat and reproductive space for amphibians, dragonflies and insects as well as the occurrence of numerous rare and endangered plant species typical of the location are of particular importance.
- b) for scientific, natural history and cultural reasons,
- c) because of the rarity, peculiarity and outstanding beauty of the area.
In the course of the urban planning of wind power potential areas it was found that, in addition to the gray heron, an eagle owl also breeds in this area.
Economy and Infrastructure
education
There are two kindergartens in Greffen: The “St. Johannes ”and the AWO Kindergarten“ Regenbogen ”. There is also the primary school “St. Johannes ”and the library in church sponsorship. Secondary schools are located in Harsewinkel.
literature
- Festival committee “950 years of meeting” (Ed.): 950 years of meeting (1042–1992) -… kleinet Duorp in't Mönsterland . Harsewinkel 1992.
- Franz Mühlen: Parish church S [ank] t Johannes dT in Greffen (= Westfälische Kunststätten . Issue 39). Münster 1986.
- Walter Werland: From Greffen's old days. Munster 1976.
Web links
- Website of the district of Greffen
- Meeting in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.greffen.de: Numbers, data and facts
- ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching : Magazine for the new history and geography , Volume 20, JJ Curt, 1786, p. 97 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
- ↑ Westfälisches seal book Vol. IV, table 167, no. 12
- ↑ http://www.ngw.nl/int/dld/g/greffen.htm
- ↑ Nature reserve “Gray Heron Colony near Harsewinkel” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 24, 2017.
