Ramsdorf parish

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Ramsdorf parish
City of Velen
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 36 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 15 ″  E
Area : 32.9 km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1959
Incorporated into: Ramsdorf
Postal code : 46342
Area code : 02863
Parish Ramsdorf (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Ramsdorf parish

Location of the parish of Ramsdorf in North Rhine-Westphalia

Ramsdorf parish was a parish in the old Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1959 . The former municipality is now part of the city of Velen in the Borken district .

geography

The municipality parish Weitramsdorf consisted of four old Westphalian peasantry Bleking, Holthausen, Krückling and Ostendorf and enclosed ring the titular Weitramsdorf . It was one of the "parish communities" occurring several times in the Münsterland , which included the rural area around a church village. The parish of Ramsdorf parish had an area of ​​32.9 km².

history

The parish of Ramsdorf parish has belonged to the Ramsdorf district in the Borken district since the 19th century . On April 1, 1959, the parishes of the parish of Ramsdorf and the city ​​of Ramsdorf were merged by state law to form the new municipality of Ramsdorf. Ramsdorf in turn became part of the municipality of Velen on January 1, 1975.

The fate of the Jewish family of Adolf and Frieda Terhoch, cattle and textile traders in Ramsdorf, during the Nazi era is presented together with that of Frieda's siblings and their two sons, twins, in Dingden under Humberghaus . The family survived thanks to their emigration to the Netherlands in 1937 and to Canada in 1939, where their descendants live. Stumbling blocks in Hausstrasse 5 are a reminder of the refugees.

Population development

year Residents source
1858 1209
1871 1134
1885 1080
1910 1293
1939 2029
1950 2605

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Walter Pries: Parish Ramsdorf. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  2. Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 274 .
  3. Eight Stolpersteine ​​have been remembering Jewish life in Velen and Ramsdorf since Sunday , by Ruth Zwilich, City of Velen, July 4, 2012, with pictures of the Stolpersteine
  4. Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  5. 1871 census
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  7. Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. borken.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).