Holtwick (Rosendahl)

Holtwick municipality Rosendahl Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 23 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 44 ″ E
Height :	88 m
Residents :	3185
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	48720
	The Holtwicker egg

Holt wiek - or ik smiet , sculpture from the Holtwick legend

Holtwick is a district of the municipality of Rosendahl in the district of Coesfeld ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

geography

Gatehouse of House Holtwick

Holtwick lies on the border with the Borken district , seven kilometers north of the district town of Coesfeld and 40 kilometers northwest of Münster .

Together with Darfeld and Osterwick , Holtwick forms the parish of Rosendahl .

Neighboring towns are Gescher , Legden and Coesfeld . About five kilometers west of the village, east of the A 31 running in north-south direction, is the seven-hectare Holtwicker See . A few hundred meters north of this is the Barenborg nature reserve with the monument of the same name.

history

Holtwick was incorporated on January 1, 1975 in the on July 1, 1969 from the places Darfeld and Osterwick newly formed community Rosendahl.

Attractions

Not far from the Holtwick St. Nicholas Church is the Holtwick Egg , an ice age boulder . Legend has it that the devil hurled the stone with the words “Holt wiek or ick smiet” in the direction of the church. With this legend the origin of the place name Holtwick is explained.

Other sights include the recently restored gatehouse of the former Holtwick manor house .

Peasant communities and neighborhoods

Holtwick consists of the farming communities Bleck, Brock, Görtfeld, Hegerort, Riege and Schlee and the neighborhoods Am Ei, Donaufürsten, Ziegenprinzen, Eichengrund, Eihook, Haus Holtwick, Heuping, Poahlbörger, Steenhorst.

Web links

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

Holtwick (Rosendahl) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 96 .
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 313 .

[1] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 96 .

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 313 .