Neuenkirchen (district of Osnabrück)

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 50'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Osnabrück
Joint municipality :	Neuenkirchen
Height :	55 m above sea level NHN
Area :	57.52 km 2
Residents:	4599 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49586
Area code :	05465
License plate :	OS , BSB, MEL, WTL
Community key :	03 4 59 027
Association administration address:	Alte Poststrasse 5 - 7 49586 Neuenkirchen
Website :	www.neuenkirchen-os.de
Mayor :	Dr. Vitus Buntenkötter
Location of the community of Neuenkirchen in the district of Osnabrück

Neuenkirchen is a member community and the administrative seat of the combined community Neuenkirchen in the northwest of the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Parish Church of St. Laurentius

Geographical location

Neuenkirchen is located south of the Ankumer Höhe and about 25 km from Osnabrück .

Neighboring communities

Neuenkirchen borders in the north on Merzen , in the west on Voltlage , in the east on Bramsche and in the south on the North Rhine-Westphalian communities Westerkappeln , Mettingen and Recke ( Steinfurt district ).

Community structure

Neuenkirchen districts

Districts are:

• Neuenkirchen
• Limbergen
• Liner
• Rothertshausen
• Steinfeld
• Vinte

Part of the Lintern district is the Egyptian peasantry . Although Egypt is not an official part of the municipality, it is nevertheless a contiguous area that enjoys a certain reputation due to its name.

history

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Limbergen, Lintern, Rothertshausen, Steinfeld and Vinte were incorporated.

Population development

Population development in Neuenkirchen since 1987

The following overview shows the population of Neuenkirchen in each area and on December 31st.

The figures are updates by the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony based on the census of May 25, 1987 .

The data from 1961 (June 6) and 1970 (May 27) are the census results including the places that were incorporated on July 1, 1972.

year	Residents
1961	2783
1970	2875
1987	3269
1990	3406
1995	4125
2000	4489
2005	4582
2010	4546
2011	4502
2015	4498
2017	4547
2018	4549

politics

Municipal council

Since the 2016 local elections, the local council has 26 members from three parties or groups. The mayor is also the chairman of the council with voting rights.

The following table shows the local election results since 1996.

Council of the community Neuenkirchen: election results and community councils
	CDU		SPD		Green		FDP		Free voters		Individual applicants		Others		total		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
1996-2001	74.1	12	21.8	3	4.1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	15th	72.6
2001-2006	81.6	13	12.9	2	2.0	0	-	-	3.5	0	-	-	-	-	100	15th	58.5
2006-2011	85.0	13	12.7	2	2.3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	15th	51.3
2011-2016	78.18	12	14.78	4th	10.83	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	15th	54.39
2016-2021	74.39	19th	12.9	4th	8.91	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	26th	57.65
Percentages rounded. Sources: State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, District Osnabrück. In the case of different information in the sources mentioned, the data from the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology were used, as they are generally more plausible .

mayor

• since 2016 Vitus Buntenkötter (CDU)
• 2011-2016 Christoph Lührmann (CDU)
• 2006–2011 Winfried Firmer (CDU)

Sports

• SV Eintracht Neuenkirchen 1925 e. V.
• Tennis club Neuenkirchen e. V.
• Reit- und Fahrverein Neuenkirchen e. V.

traffic

Neuenkirchen is connected to the 610 bus, which runs from Osnabrück to Fürstenau every hour .

Web links

Commons : Neuenkirchen (Landkreis Osnabrück)  - 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. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 254 .
3. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, population update
4. ^ Election results for the local elections in 2016. Neuenkirchen municipality, accessed on November 20, 2018 . 
5. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, Table 5000311
6. ↑ Landkreis Osnabrück, official final results of the district election on September 9, 2001 ( Memento from May 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 516 kB)
7. ^ The local elections for the district of Osnabrück on September 11, 2011 (also includes 2006 results). (PDF 8.0MB p. 38 column "Municipal elections") Osnabrück district, accessed on March 6, 2016 . 
8. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/samtgemeinde-neuenkirchen/artikel/799620/vitus-buntenkoetter-neuer-buergermeister-in-neuenkirchen NOZ on November 2, 2016: "Vitus Buntenkötter new mayor in Neuenkirchen"; accessed on April 8, 2018
9. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/samtgemeinde-neuenkirchen/artikel/807592/sehen-aus-dem-neuenkirchener-samtgemeinderat NOZ on November 18, 2016: "Farewell to the Neuenkirchener Samtgemeinderat"; accessed on April 8, 2018
10. ↑ https://www.noz.de/artikel/298681/neuenkirchen-gemeinderat-wahlt-christoph-luhrmann-einstimmig-zum-burgermeister NOZ on November 2nd, 2011: "Neuenkirchen: Municipal council unanimously elects Christoph Lührmann as mayor"; accessed on April 8, 2018