Heek

This article covers the community in North Rhine-Westphalia. For the Dutch ski racer see Marvin van Heek .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '  N , 7 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Muenster
Circle :	Bark
Height :	50 m above sea level NHN
Area :	69.43 km 2
Residents:	8653 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	48619
Area code :	02568
License plate :	BOR, AH, BOH
Community key :	05 5 54 024
Community structure:	2 villages and 5 farmers
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnhofstrasse 60 48619 Heek
Website :	www.heek.de
Mayor :	Franz-Josef Weilinghoff (independent)
Location of the municipality of Heek in the Borken district

Districts (red) and farmers (orange) of Heek

Districts of Heek

Heek, church

Heek is a municipality in the western Münsterland in the district of Borken in Münster Region in the northwest of the country North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Neighboring communities

Heek borders on Ahaus , Gronau , Legden , Metelen , Ochtrup and Schöppingen .

For the development of the postal system Epe , Gronau , Nienborg and Schöppingen see: Postal history of Steinfurt .

City structure

The hamlet Heek include the two farming communities awl and Averbeck and district Nienborg the peasantry Ammert, call Beck, Wext, Wichum.

Population numbers

• Averbeck: 236
• Callenbeck: 69
• Heek (including awl): 5374
• Nienborg : 3057
• Wext: 217
• Wichum: 85

(As of August 24, 2009).

history

The parish was formed from the two former parishes Heek and Nienborg , which merged on July 1, 1969 to form the new parish Heek.

politics

Municipal council

Due to the election of May 25, 2014, the following division results in the municipal council:

• CDU : 17 seats
• SPD : 11 seats

mayor

In the 2014 election, Franz-Josef Weilinghoff (independent, supported by the SPD) prevailed against incumbent Ulrich Helmich (CDU) with 58% of the vote.

Coat of arms, banner and flag

The municipality was granted the right to carry a coat of arms, a flag, a banner and an official seal with a certificate from the district president dated July 10, 1972.

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  Coat of arms of the former municipality of Nienborg

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  Coat of arms of the former municipality of Heek until 1972

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split from red to gold (yellow); Standing in front is a golden (yellow) bishop with a staff in his right hand, a book and a model of a church in his left, a golden (yellow) goose at his feet, behind a red crenellated wall with black double gates, each with a black window opening, on which a red tower with a canopy and crenellated gallery and three black windows arranged one above the other. "

The coat of arms of the new municipality of Heek is a combination of the coat of arms of Heek and Nienborg approved in 1937. The figure of the holy bishop Ludger, but in gold instead of silver and only with a goose at his feet, as well as the castle tower above a battlement wall, which goes back to a seal of the castle men of the state castle Nienborg from the end of the 13th century. The colors correspond to those of the Münster monastery .

banner

Description of the banner: "The banner is striped lengthways in two equally wide strips from yellow to red and shows the coat of arms of the municipality in the middle of the upper half."

flag

Description of the flag: "The hoisted flag is striped lengthways in two strips of equal width from yellow to red (meaning is cross-striped) and shows the coat of arms of the municipality in the middle."

Culture and sights

Buildings

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Heek

• Nienborg Castle , a former castle in the Nienborg district. Today the music academy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is housed in the so-called Long House . The high house and Keppelborg are privately owned. Overnight stays are available in both buildings.
• The neo-Gothic Holy Cross Church with large, colorful windows by the glass painters von der Forst from Münster and Derix from Kevelaer as well as the Pietà from 1407, a sculpture made of Baumberger sandstone in the tower chapel.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Nicolaus Schaten (1608–1676), Jesuit and historian
• Lucio Alfert (* 1941), Bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Pilcomayo
• Berthold U. Wigger (* 1966), economist

Web links

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

• Link catalog on the subject of Heek at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Heek in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .   ( Help on this )
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 94 .
3. ^ Coats of arms of the communities in the Borken district. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 25, 2013 ; Retrieved February 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Heek, § 2. (PDF; 47 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 15, 2013 ; Retrieved February 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.