Warendorf district
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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 59' E |
| Basic data | |
| Existing period: | 1975– |
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Administrative region : | Muenster |
| Regional association : | Westphalia-Lippe |
| Administrative headquarters : | Warendorf |
| Area : | 1,319.41 km 2 |
| Residents: | 277,840 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 211 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | WAF, BE |
| Circle key : | 05 5 70 |
| NUTS : | DEA38 |
| Circle structure: | 13 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Waldenburger Strasse 2 48231 Warendorf |
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| District Administrator : | Olaf Gericke ( CDU ) |
| Location of the Warendorf district in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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The Warendorf district is located in the Münsterland in the Münster administrative district in the north of North Rhine-Westphalia . It was created on January 1, 1975 as part of the district reform through the Münster / Hamm Act .
geography
location
The area of the district is largely flat Münsterland park landscape , the highest elevation are the Beckum Mountains with the 173 meter high Mackenberg in Oelde and the also 173 m high spoil dump in Ahlen .
The largest rivers in the district are Ems , which flows through the district in an east-west direction, and Lippe , which forms the southern boundary of the district in Ahlen and Wadersloh.
Circle structure
The district of Warendorf is divided into 13 municipalities belonging to the district , four of which are medium-sized towns .
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Neighboring districts and cities
The circle goods village borders clockwise on the north by the district of Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia), the district of Osnabrück (in Lower Saxony ), to the circles Gütersloh and Soest , the independent city Hamm , the Coesfeld district and the county-level city Munster .
history
Today's Warendorf district was created on January 1, 1975 within the framework of the Münster / Hamm Act through the merger of the Beckum and Warendorf districts at that time . Then there was the city of Drensteinfurt , which until then belonged to the district of Lüdinghausen , as well as Albersloh , Rinkerode and Telgte from the dissolved district of Münster . Westbevern to Telgte and Ostenfelde and Westkirchen to Ennigerloh were incorporated from the communities of the old district of Warendorf . One, Freckenhorst and Milte were incorporated into the town of Warendorf. The offices of Beelen and Ostbevern were abolished. The archives of the Beckum and Warendorf districts were merged to form today's Warendorf district archive .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1975 | 242.195 |
| 1980 | 247.941 |
| 1985 | 247.357 |
| 1990 | 257.028 |
| 1995 | 272,534 |
| 2000 | 280,443 |
| 2005 | 283,395 |
| 2010 | 278.145 |
| 2015 | 277,431 |
politics
District Administrator
- 1975–1993: Josef Predeick , CDU
- 1993–1999: Franz-Josef Harbaum , CDU
- 1999-2006: Wolfgang Kirsch , CDU
- since 2006: Olaf Gericke , CDU
Upper District Directors
- 1975–1986: Winfried Schulte
- 1987–1999: Wolfgang Kirsch, CDU
District council
Currently there is the following distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups in the district council (as of September 2014):
| CDU | SPD | GREEN | FDP | FWG | AfD | THE LEFT | Non-attached | total |
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| 25th | 14th | 6th | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 56 |
| PIRATES 1 |
coat of arms
In red a slanted golden wave bar, each accompanied by a golden rosette.
The district coat of arms is a combination of the coats of arms of the former Beckum and Warendorf districts. The colors red and gold indicate the colors of the Principality of Münster, to which the area of both districts belonged until 1803. The wave bar from the Beckum district coat of arms indicates the abundance of water in the Beckum hill country and its main watercourse, the Werse . The sun gears (rosettes) of the old Warendorfer district coat of arms are taken from the family coat of arms of the Vogt von Warendorpe family.
Awarded May 20, 1976.
Partnerships
The Warendorf district maintains a partnership with the Müritz district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Infrastructure / traffic
traffic
The district is accessed in the southern area of the district by the federal highway 2 with the Beckum and Oelde exits. The federal motorway 1 runs past the western flank of the district . Here, however, there is no separate descent in the area of the Warendorf district (Ahlen and Drensteinfurt), but only in the neighboring Coesfeld district. Furthermore, the district is opened up by numerous federal and state roads (B 51, B 58, B 61, B 64, B 475, B 476).
Two railway lines with long-distance or regional traffic and a branch line open up the district area for passenger traffic:
- Bielefeld - Hamm with the train stations Oelde , Neubeckum and Ahlen (Westf) ,
- Hamm - Münster - Osnabrück with stations in Mersch , Drensteinfurt , Rinkerode , Westbevern and Ostbevern as well
- Bielefeld - Münster with stations in Beelen , Warendorf , Warendorf- Eine - Müssingen (stop on demand) and Telgte .
The routes Neubeckum – Ennigerloh and Münster – Neubeckum – Beckum – Lippstadt – Warstein are only served by the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn in freight traffic.
Bus connections are mainly offered by Regionalverkehr Münsterland (RVM), which runs on important lines every hour. In the outlying communities, this can sometimes also be done by bus companies in the neighboring districts. Some lines have been converted to a call service with minibuses ( "Taxibus" ).
Drinking water
North of the Ems through the many sandy soils, more nitrates get into the groundwater than south of the Ems with more clayey soils, which are less permeable to water. This is why the limit values in drinking water are exceeded, especially north of the Ems.
Healthcare
Hospitals
- St. Franziskus Hospital, Ahlen - House of basic care
- St. Franziskus Children's Clinic, Ahlen - House of basic care, perinatal focus
- St. Elisabeth Hospital, Beckum - House of basic care
- Marienhospital, Oelde - House of basic care
- St. Josef Stift, Sendenhorst - Specialist clinic for orthopedics, traumatology and rheumatology
- St. Rochus Hospital, Telgte - Specialist clinic for psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy
- Josephs Hospital, Warendorf - House of basic care
- Klinik Walstedde, Drensteinfurt - Specialist clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics
Local radio
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the Warendorf district was assigned the distinctive sign WAF when the vehicle license plates were introduced that are still valid today . After its dissolution, the newly founded district of Warendorf continued to use the license plate on January 1, 1975.
Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old Beckum district received license plates with the letter pairs PA to ZZ and the numbers from 1 to 999.
Since April 22, 2014, the distinctive symbol BE (Beckum) has also been available.
literature
- District Warendorf - The District Administrator (Ed.): 200 years District Warendorf . Liesborn Abbey Museum, 2003.
Web links
- Website of the district of Warendorf
- The change in the economic structure in the Warendorf district 1969–1990 (PDF; 1.49 MB)
- Holdings of the district archive Warendorf in the archive portal-D
- Warendorf district in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 318 f .
- ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ Beate Kopmann: Limit values and health risk: More nitrate in salad than in water. In: wn.de . September 20, 2019, accessed September 21, 2019 .
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