Parish Billerbeck

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Municipal coat of arms

Parish Billerbeck was a municipality in the Coesfeld district in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1969 . Today your area belongs to the town of Billerbeck in the Coesfeld district . The community was one of the "parish communities" occurring several times in the Münsterland , which comprised the rural area around an urban church.

geography

City and parish Billerbeck with the associated farmers in the 19th century

The community parish Billerbeck enclosed the city of Billerbeck and last had an area of ​​53 km². It consisted of the peasantry Alstätte, Bockelsdorf, Bombeck, Dörholt, Gantweg, Gerleve, Hamern, Lutum , Osthellen, Osthellermark and West Hellen. The important Benedictine Abbey of Gerleve is located in the southwest of the former municipal area .

history

After the Napoleonic era , the area of ​​the community initially belonged to the mayor's office of Billerbeck in the Coesfeld district founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1845, the mayor's office Billerbeck became the Billerbeck office , to which the town of Billerbeck and the parishes of Billerbeck parish (also called Billerbeck rural community at the time ) and Beerlage belonged. The law on the reorganization of communities in the Coesfeld district merged the town and parish of Billerbeck and Beerlage on July 1, 1969 to form the new town of Billerbeck.

Population development

year Residents source
1832 2468
1858 2530
1871 2422
1885 2399
1895 2495
1910 2861
1939 2256
1946 3330
1950 3204
1960 2337
1969 2178

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Hans-Walter Pries: Parish Billerbeck. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Official Gazette for the Münster administrative region 1845, page 265. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978, p. 234 (reprint of the original from 1834).
  4. ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  5. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  7. ↑ 1895 census
  8. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ↑ 1946 census

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′  N , 7 ° 14 ′  E