Parish of Olfen

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Parish Olfen was a parish in the Lüdinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1974 . Today your area belongs to the city of Olfen 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 of Olfen with the associated farmers in the 19th century

The parish parish of Olfen enclosed the city of Olfen and last had an area of ​​44 km². It consisted of the peasantry Kökelsum, Rechede, Sülsen and Vinnum.

history

After the Napoleonic era , the area of ​​the municipality initially belonged to the Olfen mayor in the Lüdinghausen district founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1844, the mayor's office of Olfen became the Metelen office , to which the city of Olfen and the parish of the parish of Olfen (also known as the rural community of Olfen ) belonged. By the Münster / Hamm law , the town and parish of Olfen were merged on January 1, 1975 to form the new town of Olfen.

Population development

year Residents source
1832 1544
1858 1583
1871 1493
1885 1428
1895 1469
1910 1548
1939 1595
1946 2546
1950 2534
1974 2218

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans-Walter Pries: Parish of Olfen. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1843, page 339. 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. luedinghausen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  10. ↑ 1946 census

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 25'  E