Epe parish

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The Gronau office in the 19th century. Except for the core towns of Gronau and Epe, the entire area of ​​the office belonged to the parish of Epe parish

Until 1934, the parish of Epe was a municipality in the Ahaus district in the Prussian province of Westphalia . Today your area belongs to the city of Gronau (Westphalia) in the Borken district . The community was one of the "parish communities" that occurred several times in the Münsterland and comprised the rural area around a church village .

geography

The parish parish Epe had an area of ​​77.5 km² until 1897 and since then 47.3 km². It consisted of the peasantry Brinkerhook, Eiler Mark (until 1898), Füchte, Gerdingsseite, Monastery, Kottigerhook, Long Edge, vice field Riekenhof, Storkerhook, Sunderhook, Upper Mark and Wieferthook. The city of Gronau and the municipality of Epe formed enclaves within the municipality.

history

After the Napoleonic era , the area of ​​the community initially belonged to the mayor's office of Gronau in the Ahaus district founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1844, the mayor of Gronau became the Gronau office , to which the city of Gronau as well as the village of Epe and the parish of Epe (at the time also called the outer community of Epe ) belonged as separate communities. On December 27, 1897, Gronau became an officially free city. At the same time, the parish of Epe ceded the 30 km² Eilermark to the city of Gronau. On April 1, 1934, the village and parish of Epe were merged to form the new municipality of Epe.

Population development

year Residents source
1858 2603
1885 3628
1910 4326
1933 5766

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Walter Pries: Epe parish. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Official Gazette for the Münster administrative region, 1844, page 224. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1898, page 25. Accessed on September 3, 2017 .
  4. ^ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1934, page 57. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  7. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 0 ′  E