Mesum

Mesum City of Rheine
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	39 m
Area :	23 km²
Residents :	8664  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	377 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	48432
Area code :	05975
Location of Mesum in North Rhine-Westphalia

Excerpt from the book: "Stadt und Amt Rheine" Heinrich Vollmer, 1903, page 30

Mesum is a village on the Ems in Westphalia . It is a district of Rheine in the Steinfurt district .

geography

Mesum borders the city of Emsdetten in the south and the Rhine district of Hauenhorst in the west . To the east of the Ems is the Elte district .

history

Today's Mesum developed from the independent parish of St.Johannes Baptist Mesum since 1373.

On January 1, 1975, Mesum was incorporated into the city of Rheine.

During the National Socialist era there was a forced labor camp in Mesum .

Population development

year Residents source 1498 159 1814 649 1925 2274 1935 3128 1950 4416 1964 5072 1971 6067 2011 approx. 8600 2016 8664

The proportion of people of foreign origin in the population was 1.9% in 2011 (163 inhabitants). 90% of the population are Christians , of which 79% are Roman Catholic and 11% are Evangelical Lutheran.

Churches

There are three churches in Mesum, two of which are Roman Catholic and one Protestant. The so-called old church in the cemetery is the oldest building in the city of Rheine. It was created around 1350 and is still used today on various occasions by the parish of St. Johannes Baptist. The parish church of St. Johannes Baptist in the center of Mesum was built by Hilger Hertel from 1887 to 1890 in the neo-Gothic style and is the tallest Mesum building at 56.50 meters. After the evangelical community used the old church in the cemetery as a meeting place for a few years, the desire for their own place of worship could only be fulfilled in 1956 with the construction of the Samaritan Church .

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  Old church , oldest building in Rheine

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  Parish Church of St. John Baptist

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  Evangelical Samaritan Church

education

Elementary schools

• Francis School
• Johannesschule Mesum / Elte

Secondary school

• Alexander von Humboldt School (former Don Bosco secondary school), secondary school in the city of Rheine

Kindergartens

• Kindergarten St.Josef
• Kindergarten St Marien
• Kindergarten Lummerland
• Kunterbunt Mesum day care center

Events

• every Thursday: weekly market in the town center
• Weekend between Pentecost and Corpus Christi: Schützenfest (Bürgererschützenverein Mesum-Feld 1910 eV)
• first weekend in July: fun fair
• first week of August (until 2019): Open Air Festival ( Trosse Kult )
• second weekend in August: Schützenfest (Schützenvereinigung 1877 Mesum-Dorf eV)
• New Year's Eve: fireworks for children at the Hasenhöhle playground
• annually: competition for the beach volleyball village cup in the Hassenbrock facilities
• annually: sporting competition for the Feldklause Cup on the square on Moorstraße (FC Feldklause eV)

leisure

Nearby is the “Gut Winterbrock” golf course with the 18-hole championship course (south course) and a public 9-hole course (north course). There are four sports clubs and several choirs and two marching bands in Mesum. For the youth there is in addition to the sports clubs z. B. the opportunity to participate in the Mesum altar server community.

Schmachtlappen and Feldpoggen

Statues of the Schmachtlappens and the Feldpogge in the town center

A division of the place Mesum can be made approximately on the railway line Münster – Rheine . To the west of the railroad tracks is Mesum-Feld, on the eastern side of the Mesum-Dorf part, which is the supply center of the place. The residents of the two unofficial districts are called Feldpoggen or Schmachtlappen and were immortalized in the form of two bronze figures by the sculptor Werner Bruning on the square opposite the church. The title of the Feldpoggen and Schmachtlappen can be traced back to the 19th century. Even then there was a rivalry between the two districts. On the one hand the village community, which mainly consisted of simple workers and day laborers and who were abused by the richer peasants for their narrow wallets, and on the other hand the well-to-do farmers mentioned above, who were contemptuously called Feldpoggen by the day laborers, because there were a lot of frogs ( pogs ) in this area . This rivalry still finds its place subliminally in the custom of Mesum.

traffic

The Rheine-Mesum stop is on the Münster – Rheine railway line .

Attractions

In the list of monuments in Rheine there are 19 monuments for Mesum .

• Old Church of St. John the Baptist from the 14th century;
• Catholic Parish Church of St. John Baptist ; neo-Gothic building from the end of the 19th century (architect: Hilger Hertel the Elder );
• Cemetery cross and statue of Lazarus , formerly erected in the cemetery;
• Wayside shrine St. Johannes Nepomuk;
• Wayside shrine at the fire staircase;
• 3 half-timbered stores ;
• Double watermill near Schulte-Höping;
• Villa and wash house in Art Nouveau style from 1907;
• Facade of a residential building on Rheine Strasse;
• the so-called old pastorate from the beginning of the 20th century;
• Apiary on the Renger farm;
• Residential and commercial building on Rheine Strasse;
• Villa on the old Bahnhofstrasse ;
• Facade and roof of the Schulte-Mesum house ;
• Tomb of the textile manufacturer Theodor Timmermann in the old cemetery;
• The Brink house, a Kötterhaus on the street Am Flöddert ;
• the station reception building with adjoining goods shed ;

Web links

• www.mesum.de
• Mesum in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
• Mesum on the website of the city of Rheine

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 317 .
2. ↑ Address: Mesum Lager Dorf 304, today: residential area opposite the nursing home, Nasigerstraße 29, memorial for the forced laborers in the old cemetery, Alte Kirchgasse 22, list of forced laborers with picture
3. ↑ Number of residents remains constant .
4. ^ Rudolf Breuing, Karl-Ludwig Mengels (with the collaboration of Wolfgang Knitschky, Herbert Ebeling, Jürgen Gaffrey, Franz Greiwe, Karl Harenbrock, Gaby Hülsmann and Jörg Niemer): "The art and cultural monuments in Rheine". Part III / IV, IVD GmbH & Co.KG, 2011
5. ↑ Schools / educational institutions. Mesum.de; accessed on February 15, 2020
6. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt School. Sah-rheine.de; accessed on February 15, 2020
7. ↑ http://www.trossekult.de
8. ↑ https://www.mesum.de/2007/12/30/grosses-silvester-feuerwerk-auf-der-hasenhoehle/
9. ↑ http://volleyball.tv-mesum.de/beachvolleyball/
10. ↑ Golf course - Golfhotel Rheine-Mesum - Gut Winterbrock .
11. ↑ https://dorfschuetzen.de/spielmannszug/
12. ↑ http://www.feldschuetzen.de/spielmannszug/junger-spielmannszug/
13. ↑ http://messdiener-mesum.de