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	Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Freren
Height :	34 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.42 km 2
Residents:	1060 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49832
Area code :	05905
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 036
Association administration address:	Markt 1 49832 Freren
Website :	www.messingen.de
Mayor :	Ansgar Mey ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Messingen in the district of Emsland

The municipality of Messingen is located in the south of the Emsland district and is part of the integrated municipality of Freren .

geography

The municipality of Messingen is located at the intersection of the state roads L 57, L 58 and the district road K 322 about 13 km southeast of Lingen .

Neighboring municipalities are Thuine , Baccum and Langen in the north, Freren in the east, Beesten in the south and Lingen and Lünne in the west .

origin of the name

The name of the place appears as Masinge in the Corveyer Heberegister. The origin of the name is not entirely certain. According to Jellinghaus, a proper name with the meaning of Masinge Forest seems to be behind it. The basic word -ingen stands for a place name ending of Germanic origin; This goes back to a settling clan or in general to settlement.

history

In the records of the Werden Abbey , Messingen is mentioned for the first time as early as 835 as a place belonging to Venkigau . The tribute seems to have changed from Werden to Corvey. In a document of the Corvey monastery from 836 - 891 it is reported that Garward and Erb donated part of the Messinger Forest to Corvey, which was testified by Hohrid, Aldmer, Ragenwig, Pumi, Bernold and Ardwich . Ziozo and Baessi annually supplied six measures of honey and a sheep, Gerold eight bushels of barley, two sheep and one and a half jars of honey.

Messingen belonged to the County of Tecklenburg in the Middle Ages . After the defeat of the Tecklenburg Counts in the Schmalkaldic War , Beesten became part of the County of Lingen in 1548 .

The Thirty Years' War also left its mark on Messingen. So in 1623 came the Mansfelder and shortly afterwards the imperial ones. They robbed and ravaged the land and the church.

In 1806 Messingen was parish off from Thuine and raised to its own parish.

Population development

year	1832	1850	1862	1875	1900	1925	1933	1939	1950	2006	2008
Residents	725	702	667	584	621	681	760	747	979	1,184	1.105

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 11 councilors. After the local elections in 2011 , they all still belong to the CDU .

mayor

• Since 2016 Ansgar Mey (CDU)
• 1991-2016 August Roosmann (CDU)

Church of St. Anthony

There was an Antonius chapel in Messingen as early as 1295. The inhabitants of Messigen went to the parish church of Thuine on Sundays and festive days, for baptisms, first communions, marriages and funerals . In 1806 a separate parish was formed in Messingen.

On August 7th, 1862 the foundation stone was laid for today's St. Antonius Church. The old chapel had not only become too small, it was also dilapidated in some places. Only the tower could be preserved from the old chapel and integrated into the new building. The solemn consecration took place on November 30, 1863, but almost five years passed before it was finally completed on July 29, 1868. In 1868 the church got the first organ; the current organ dates from 1959. Between 1991 and 1993 extensive renovation work was carried out on the outside and inside of the church.

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  South side of the church
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  Steeple
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  altar
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  organ

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The next motorway junctions are Rheine -Nord on the A 30 motorway and Lingen on the A 31 .
The B 70 runs 5 kilometers west through Lünne and the B 214 runs 4 kilometers north past Thuine . In Osnabrueck and Muenster are the next ICE stations.
The Münster-Osnabrück airport is about 50 km away.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Mathilde Vaerting (1884–1977), sociologist
  On March 1, 2019, the Women's Council of Lower Saxony opened the FrauenORT Mathilde Vaerting in Messingen .
• Franz Holthus (1909–1990), politician (center)

literature

• Teachers' association of the Diocese of Osnabrück: The Lingen district. Contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, volume I , R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905
• Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
• Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
• Christoph Oberthür, Franz Busche, Franz Barth, Heinrich Dünheuft: Home map of the Lingen district with statistical information , Verlag R. van Acken, Lingen / Ems 1953
• Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (ed.): Old German Name Book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place Names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983), ISBN 3-487-01733-4

Web links

Commons : Messingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ http://www.freren.com/
3. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/lingen/artikel/800305/ansgar-mey-neuer-buergermeister-in-messingen In Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on November 3, 2016: "Ansgar Mey new mayor in Messingen"; accessed on October 18, 2018
4. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/freren/artikel/832663/august-roosmann-ist-messinger-ehrenbuergermeister#gallery&0&0&832663 In Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: "August Roosmann is Messinger Honorary Mayor"; accessed on October 18, 2018
5. ↑ History of the Church on www.pfarierendengemeinschaftfreren.de. Retrieved August 26, 2011 . 
6. ↑ FrauenORTE Lower Saxony , accessed on March 2, 2019.