North churches
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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ' N , 7 ° 32' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Muenster | |
| Circle : | Coesfeld | |
| Height : | 65 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 52.41 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 10,111 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 193 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 59394 | |
| Primaries : | 02596, 02599 | |
| License plate : | COE, LH | |
| Community key : | 05 5 58 028 | |
| LOCODE : | DE NOK | |
| Community structure: | 3 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Bohlenstrasse 2 59394 Nordkirchen |
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| Mayor : | Dietmar Bergmann ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Nordkirchen in the Coesfeld district | ||
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Nordkirchen is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Coesfeld district .
geography
location
The municipality of Nordkirchen is roughly in the center of the triangle between Dortmund , Münster and Hamm . Neighboring communities, beginning in the west and named in a clockwise direction, are Lüdinghausen , Senden and Ascheberg in the Coesfeld district and Werne and Selm from the Unna district .
| Ludinghausen | Send | Ashberg |
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| Selm | Werne |
City structure
Districts are Nordkirchen, Südkirchen and Capelle .
history
The first verifiable mention of northern church comes from a document from the diocese of Münster and is dated between 1022 and 1032. At the time Siegfried von Walbeck was the bishop of Munster. After the Battle of Ermen in 1242, Meinhövel Castle was destroyed. From the 13th century, the von Morrien family leased the Nordkirchen farm and directed and administered Nordkirchen until the 16th century. In 1561 Nordkirchen was finally handed over to the von Morriens by buying the long lease.
In 1605 the Nordkirchen Citizens' Rifle Club, which still exists today, was founded.
After the von Morrien family died out, the Prince-Bishop of Münster Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg acquired the entire family property. It is he who laid the foundation stone for the construction of today's baroque moated castle in 1703 . The construction of Nordkirchen Castle lasted from 1708 to 1734. Nordkirchen remained in the possession of the Plettenberg family until the last male successor died in 1813.
Between 1813 and 1815 the district was divided into cities, municipalities and offices. The parishes of Nordkirchen and Südkirchen belonged to the office of Nordkirchen.
Due to the wedding of Maria von Plettenberg with the Hungarian Count Nikolaus-Maria-Franz von Esterházy Galantha, the property in northern church passed to the Esterházy family . It was also one of his descendants who sold the entire property of Nordkirchen in 1903 to Duke Engelbert von Arenberg .
In 1923 Capelle was added to the district of Nordkirchen.
Nordkirchen Castle has been rented by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1949 and bought from the Duke of Arenberg for 3.5 million DM in 1958 . The North Rhine-Westphalia College of Finance was then housed there.
Incorporations
Today's Nordkirchen community emerged on January 1, 1975 as a result of the community reform from the previously independent communities of Capelle, Nordkirchen and Südkirchen, which belonged to the dissolved office of Nordkirchen .
Population development
The information was provided by the authors Mertens and Limbach (1867 and 1946), the State Statistical Office (census results on June 6, 1961 and May 27, 1970) and by the city of Nordkirchen (December 31, 1974 and March 1, 2009).
| place | 1867 | 1946 | 1961 | 1970 | 1974 | 2009 | 2013 |
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| Chapel | 554 | 1465 | 1018 | 1270 | 1459 | 2197 | 1901 |
| North churches | 1562 | 2435 | 2605 | 2681 | 3961 | 4752 | 4755 |
| Südkirchen | 1087 | 1866 | 1634 | 1838 | 2249 | 3260 | 3201 |
| together | 3203 | 5766 | 5257 | 5789 | 7669 | 10209 | 9857 |
politics
mayor
The mayor of the community is Dietmar Bergmann ( SPD ). He was elected in 2009 with 51.8% of the vote. In the re-election in 2014 he ran out of office and was supported by the SPD, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen, FDP and the UWG constituency and received 84.5 percent.
Municipal council
(Result of the local election on May 25, 2014)
Local elections from 1975
Only parties and voter communities that received at least 1.95 percent of the votes in the respective election are shown in the list.
| year | CDU | SPD | Green 1 | UWG | FDP |
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| 1975 | 71.4 | 22.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 1979 | 69.0 | 24.6 | 6.4 | ||
| 1984 | 60.9 | 25.6 | 9.9 | 4.2 | |
| 1989 | 52.9 | 28.8 | 9.9 | 8.4 | |
| 1994 | 53.8 | 28.7 | 11.8 | 5.7 | |
| 1999 | 61.9 | 21.4 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 50.7 | 23.1 | 9.8 | 9.0 | 7.5 |
| 2009 | 49.8 | 25.9 | 11.3 | 6.1 | 6.9 |
| 2014 | 46.0 | 32.9 | 10.8 | 5.7 | 4.6 |
footnote
1 Greens: 1984 and 1989: Greens, from 1994: B'90 / Greens
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on November 28, 1983 by the Münster Regional Council.
Blazon : "Three blue 2: 1 church towers set in gold, the two upper ones with a pointed helmet, the lower one with a baroque helmet."
The three church towers symbolically represent the three districts in which the name church (chapel) occurs. It is therefore a talking coat of arms .
The colors blue and gold are the colors of the Plettenberg house , which in 1694 bought the entire Morrien property and in 1703 laid the foundation stone for the palace complex.
flag
The flag is gold (yellow) - blue - gold (yellow) in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, striped lengthways. The coat of arms of the municipality is in the middle of the blue lane.
Culture and sights
Buildings
See also: List of architectural monuments in Nordkirchen
The dominant building material in Nordkirchen is dark red bricks. In the center of the village is the Catholic Church of St. Mauritius , built from 1715 by Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius as a baroque hall church. Several historical buildings related to St. Mauritius are also preserved on the church square:
- the former Küsterei, (Mauritiusplatz 4), built by Johann Conrad Schlaun in 1733/34
- the former poor house (Mauritiusplatz 6), also built by Schlaun in 1730–33
- the former Vikarie (Mauritiusplatz 7), half-timbered house from 1675
St. Mauritius (1715)
Former Küsterei (1733/34),
now Café Schlaun
Former poor house, (1730–33)
now administration of a children's sanatorium
Former Vicarie, (1675)
now a meeting place
In Northern churches, there are a total of 13 buildings where the last major architect of the Baroque in Germany, Johann Conrad Schlaun , has cooperated. The Nordkirchen Palace , also known as the “Westphalian Versailles ”, is outstanding here . In addition to the above-mentioned buildings on Kirchplatz, two buildings on Schloßstraße should be mentioned:
- the octagonal Johannes von Nepomuk Chapel from 1722.
- the former Rentei (Schloßstr. 23, current use as a doctor's practice and residential building)
Aerial view of Nordkirchen Castle
(completed in 1734)
Johannes von Nepomuk Chapel (1722)
Former Rentei (18th century)
Half-timbered house on Ludwig-Becker-Platz
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Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Nordkirchen is in the area of the Münsterland transport association . The Capelle (Westf) station is on the Münster – Dortmund railway line . Regional trains of the Keolis- eurobahn stop every hour (line RB 50 Der Lüner ).
The regional bus line R 53 of the EVG Euregio Verkehrsgesellschaft connects the center of Nordkirchen every hour with the Capelle train station and with Lüdinghausen . The T 52 taxi bus runs every two hours on weekdays to Selm station , which is on the Dortmund – Enschede railway line , and to Werne . In addition, the citizens' bus runs between Capelle, Südkirchen, Nordkirchen and Selm during the week . In addition, the Ascheberg citizen bus regularly reaches the Capelle train station.
Local transport tickets within North Rhine-Westphalia to the train stations Capelle, Lüdinghausen and Selm are also automatically valid for the bus to Nordkirchen ( NRW tariff ). Travelers from outside the city can buy one-way train tickets to Nordkirchen, which are valid from Hamm (Westf) , Lüdinghausen or Lünen on the RVM bus.
The federal highway 58 runs about seven kilometers north of Nordkirchen, the B 236 about six kilometers southwest. The next motorway junction is Ascheberg on Federal Motorway 1 , about twelve kilometers northeast of Nordkirchen.
Nordkirchen is connected to the 100-Schlösser-Route and Burg-und-Schloss-Tour long-distance cycle routes .
media
The place has been the location of the medium wave transmitter Nordkirchen since 1980 . The broadcaster "Deutschlandfunk" stopped broadcasting on the medium wave station Nordkirchen on December 31, 2015.
Public facilities
The Nordkirchen castle is home to the School of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia .
education
There is a primary school in each of the three districts of Nordkirchen:
- Sankt-Mauritius-Grundschule in Nordkirchen,
- Elisabeth Ernst Primary School in Südkirchen,
- Catholic primary school Capelle.
In addition, there is the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gesamtschule in the district of Nordkirchen and the Maximilian-Kolbe-Förderschule in the children's sanatorium in Nordkirchen, which focuses on “mental development” and “physical and motor development”.
The North Rhine-Westphalia University of Applied Sciences for Finance is also located in Nordkirchen .
Personalities
- Theodor Kappenberg (1848-1920); Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, was born in Nordkirchen
- Ernst Wilckinghoff (1885–1969); Landscape, portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School, born in Nordkirchen
- Josef Beutelmann (* 1949); Business economist, former chairman of the board of directors and current chairman of the supervisory board of Barmenia Insurance
- Karl-Heinz Kampert ; physicist
- Cyrill Akono (* 2000); Soccer player, grew up in Südkirchen
- Amos Pieper (* 1998); Soccer player
Golf club
In 1975 a golf club was founded in Nordkirchen ("Golf- und Landclub Nordkirchen"). In the same year - after the 100th member had been accepted - construction began on the 30-hectare nine-hole course. This course was officially opened on May 20, 1978. In August 2002 the golf course was expanded to 18 holes as a consequence of the constantly increasing number of members and the growing attractiveness of the club.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Nordkirchen
- Nordkirchen in the Westphalian Cultural Atlas
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 )
- ↑ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 314 .
- ^ Heinrich A. Mertens and Josef Limbach: From the history of the Lüdinghausen district 1803–1974. Verlag Lonnemann, Selm, 1974, without ISBN
- ^ Congregation portrait of Nordkirchen ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ Directories of the results of the local elections for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDS NRW) from 1975 to 2009
- ↑ Elective profile of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NW ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Election results 1999 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.9 MB)
- ↑ 2004 election results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.0 MB)
- ↑ Election results 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.5 MB)
- ^ Münsterland eV: Cycling in Nordkirchen | Münsterland eV Tourism. Retrieved June 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Website of the children's health center
