Holstein (Iowa)
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Location in Iowa
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1882 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Iowa | |
County : | Ida County | |
Coordinates : | 42 ° 29 ′ N , 95 ° 33 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | |
Residents : | 1,470 (as of: 2000) | |
Population density : | 397.3 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 3.8 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 3.7 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
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Height : | 442 m | |
Postal code : | 51025 | |
Area code : | +1 712 | |
FIPS : | 19-36840 | |
GNIS ID : | 0457567 |
Holstein is a city in Ida County in the western US state of Iowa . Holstein has 1470 inhabitants on an area of 3.8 km². The population density is 392.3 / km². Holstein is affected by US Highway 59 and is near the border with Cherokee County .
location
Holstein is around 45 kilometers east of Sioux City .
history
Holstein Iowa was founded by German immigrants in 1882 after some farmers had already settled there in 1868. More German settlers from New Holstein , Wisconsin followed in 1876 . Previously, Henry Thielmann and his wife had purchased a piece of prairie land northeast of the urban area in 1879 .
Facilities
Holstein has a school, churches, a restaurant, a gas station, banks, a grocery store, a fire brigade and a post office. Since 2011, the city has had the Rosemary Clausen Center, a theater, especially for musical performances. In the first year, among others, the Afro-American bass-baritone Simon Estes was a guest.
literature
- Erhard Böttcher, Virginia Degen, Joachim Reppmann: Building a bridge: how the citizens of Holstein, Iowa renewed contacts with their ancestral homeland. Davenport 2006
supporting documents
- ↑ a b History Holstein, Iowa. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ http://rosemaryclausencenter.com, accessed March 8, 2018 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ rosemaryclausencenter.com, accessed March 8, 2018