Monastery farmers

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Monastery farmers
Kirchlengern municipality
Coat of arms of the monastery farmers
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 27 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 112 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.28 km²
Residents : 2551  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Population density : 350 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 32278
Area code : 05223
Häver Südlengern Kirchlengern (Ortsteil) Klosterbauerschaft Quernheim Rehmerloh Stift Quernheimmap
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Location of monastery farmers in Kirchlengern

Monastery peasantry is an approximately 2500 inhabitants counting district of the northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia located east Westphalian municipality Kirchlengern in Herford .

The building in monastery farmers increases from the sparsely populated west (Lange Wand) to the east and goes almost seamlessly into the neighboring village of Stift Quernheim .

religion

Most of the residents are Protestant.

Religious institutions

  • Evangelical Lutheran parish in the nearby Quernheim Abbey
  • The Roman Catholic parish is the parish of St. Canisius and St. Xaverius in the neighboring Quernheim Abbey, which is part of the Bünder-Land pastoral association
  • Buddhist temple in Klosterbauerschafter Strasse

climate

The predominant climate is the Atlantic maritime climate . The long-term mean climate data (1971-2000) for Herford , about 15 km from the air, is shown in the table below.

month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec year
Temperature in ° C 1.8 2.2 5.3 8.4 13.0 15.6 17.7 17.4 13.8 9.8 5.4 3.1 9.5
Precipitation in mm 72 49 65 53 65 82 69 71 73 61 64 80 804

In the long-term average (1961–1990) the region had an average of 1497 hours of sunshine per year (observation station: Herford).

See also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

Sports

Monastery farmers have a football club, the VfL Klosterbauerschaft. There are two soccer fields, the ash field and a natural grass field.

history

Before 1969, monastery farmers formed their own parish in the Kirchlengern district . As part of the municipal regional reform on January 1, 1969, it was merged with other municipalities to form the new municipality of Kirchlengern.

Social facilities

Schools:

  • Albert Schweitzer School (former)
  • Primary school monastery farmers (former)
  • Primary school monastery farmers (former)

Kindergartens:

  • Protestant kindergarten monastery farmers

Retirement homes:

  • Senior residence of Seniorenwohnpark Weser GmbH

Industry

Residential development predominates in monastery farmers. Smaller companies in the furniture and paper processing industry are located in the middle of the village. Other companies in the automotive industry are based in monastery farmers, but do not dominate it. Agriculture decreased sharply since the post-war years.

Geographical location

Monastery farmers are located in the northwest of Kirchlengern and belong to the Herford district . In the southeast, monastery farmers border on Quernheim (Kirchlengern) . In the south it borders on Randringhausen that belongs to Bünde . Its western neighbors are thin and in the north it borders on the upper peasantry , which belongs to the Minden-Lübbecke district. In the east, the village borders on Quernheim Abbey and Rehmerloh .

Large cities in the wider area are Bielefeld around 25 kilometers away and Osnabrück around 40 kilometers away.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herford climate data. Retrieved April 5, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 74 .