Harwick
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Harwick
City of Gescher
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 22 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 17 ″ E
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| Area : | 9.1 km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 48712 | |
| Area code : | 02863 | |
Location of Harwick in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Harwick is a Münsterland peasantry and part of the city Gescher in the district of Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1969, Harwick was a parish in the old district of Coesfeld .
geography
Harwick is located north of the core town of Gescher, the development of which expanded to the south of Harwick in the course of the 20th century. The former Harwick Parish had an area of 9.1 km². Part of Harwick is in the Harwick-Berkel Conservation Area .
history
The area of the parish of Harwick belonged after the Napoleonic era to the mayorship of Gescher in the Coesfeld district, founded in 1816.
With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1843, the mayor's office in Gescher became the office of Gescher , to which the six communities Büren , Estern , Gescher, Harwick, Tungerloh-Capellen and Tungerloh-Pröbsting belonged.
Through the law for the reorganization of municipalities in the district of Coesfeld , all six municipalities of the Gescher office, including Harwick, were merged to form the new town of Gescher on July 1, 1969.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1858 | 396 | |
| 1885 | 391 | |
| 1910 | 485 | |
| 1939 | 914 | |
| 1950 | 1240 | |
| 1969 | 1906 |
present
The St. Ludgerus Schützengilde Harwick is one of the bearers of local customs. In the north of the peasantry there is a well-preserved moat complex as a ground monument.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hans-Walter Pries: Harwick. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Official Gazette for the Münster administrative district in 1843, page 327 f. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 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. coesfeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Harwick Ground Monument