Haffen-Mehr

Former municipality of ; Haffen-Mehr Cities of Hamminkeln and Rees
	Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 7 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ E
Area :	31.5 km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Incorporated into:	Hamminkeln and Rees
Postcodes :	46459, 46499
Primaries :	02850, 02857
Location of the former municipality of Haffen-Mehr in North Rhine-Westphalia

Haffen-Mehr was an independent municipality in what was then Rees in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1974 , which consisted of several localities. Your localities today belong to the city of Hamminkeln in the Wesel district and to the city of Rees in the Kleve district .

geography

Haffen-Mehr extended southeast of the city of Rees. The Rhine formed the western border of the municipality. The municipality included the villages of Haffen , Mehr and Mehrhoog as well as extensive agricultural areas with other residential areas, including Averforth , Bellinghoven , Bruckshof, Lohrwardt, Lorkenhof, Moshövel, Overkamp-Ree, Stoppendahl and Woyerhof. Gravel mining resulted in several large quarry ponds in the west of the community. The municipality of Haffen-Mehr had an area of 31.5 km².

history

Haffen-Mehr formed a rural community in the mayor's office of Haldern (since 1928 Amt Haldern ) in the Rees district in the Düsseldorf administrative district since the 19th century .

On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Haffen-Mehr was dissolved by the Lower Rhine Act and divided along the Hagener Meer - Bellinghover Meer - Lange Renne water chain . The western part of the municipality with Haffen and Mehr was incorporated into the city of Rees, while the eastern part of the municipality with Mehrhoog came to the municipality (since 1995 city) Hamminkeln.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1832	1568
1861	2138
1871	2013
1885	2026
1910	2175
1925	2268
1939	2430

Son of the community

Wilhelm Bartsch (1873–1959), lawyer and politician in Freiburg im Üechtland

literature

Hermann Obbeck: "Hey know gen A för en B". The school system over the centuries in Haffen-Mehr 1634-1900 , in: Kreisverwaltung Rees (ed.): Heimatkalender Landkreis Rees 1961 , Rheinberg 1961, pp. 97-105.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Community dictionary of the Rhine Province 1930
^ ^A ^b Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1865, Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).
↑ 1871 census
↑ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1885
↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rees.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[g1930-1] Community dictionary of the Rhine Province 1930

[mulmann-2] A ^b Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1865, Retrieved May 5, 2019 .

[viebahn-3] Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).

[4] 1871 census

[5] Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1885

[6] Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .

[demand-7] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rees.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).