Parish of Wessum

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The Wessum office in the 19th century. Except for the core town of Wessum, the entire area of ​​the office belonged to the parish parish Wessum

Parish Wessum was a municipality in the Ahaus district in the Prussian province of Westphalia until 1936 . Today your area belongs to the town of Ahaus 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 Wessum had an area of ​​44.9 km². It consisted of the two north of the actual village Wessum nearby farming communities Averesch and Graes .

history

After the Napoleonic era , the area of ​​the municipality initially belonged to the Wessum mayor in the Ahaus district, founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1844, the mayor's office of Wessum became the Wessum office , to which the two rural communities of Dorf Wessum and parish Wessum (also known as the outer community of Wessum at the time ) belonged. On April 1, 1936, the village and parish Wessum were merged to form the municipality of Wessum.

Population development

year Residents source
1858 1818
1871 1593
1885 1509
1910 1684
1933 2098

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Hans-Walter Pries: Parish Wessum. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1844, page 256. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '  N , 6 ° 59'  E