Postal history of Steinfurt
What is meant is the history of the post in the towns around Steinfurt . The organization of the post, the history of the post administration and the post tariffs are dealt with in other articles and are largely linked.
Early history
There were already close economic and cultural ties with the Netherlands in the Middle Ages. Until the 16th century, Deventer was, so to speak, the port of the Münsterland . The city bills of show a lively messenger traffic between Münster and the city on the IJssel . Later, the main destination of the Münsterland merchants moved to Amsterdam . From 1609 a constant messenger connection from Münster via Steinfurt and Zwolle to Amsterdam can be proven.
In the Bishopric of Münster was before the Peace of Westphalia Congress (1643-1648), the Imperial Reichspost under the direction of General postmasters from the family of taxis running. In addition, there was competition from the Münster chancellery to Cologne, which had existed since 1600 . Originally, the office post was only intended for the Prince-Bishop's official mail. It was gradually released for private mail delivery. Since 1650 a riding post from Münster to Lingen (Ems) has been connected to the messenger post from Amsterdam to Hamburg .
In 1695, Prince-Bishop Friedrich Christian (1688–1706) granted his regional postmaster Dietrich Brüggemann and Heinrich Thorbecke in Zwolle a concession for a carriage post from Münster to Zwolle. It ran twice a week via Steinfurt, but had to be relocated via Rheine and Ochtrup as early as 1699 because of the bad roads , from 1733 via the Max-Clemens Canal from the Münster to Clemenshafen , in 1767 Maxhafen , where the innkeeper Bergmann took care of the second Half of the 19th century the successor family Fabry from Osterwick took over the postal service. With minor changes, this route existed until the 19th century.
The mail exchange for Borghorst , Burgsteinfurt and Emsdetten took place at “Pannen Libbet” (Ahlintel farmers) .
Early mail delivery to places in the Münsterland
In the Münster Almanac (1751 and following) the messengers to the surrounding villages are listed. The Horstmarsche supplied Bott Schöppingen, Haus Alst and Laer. The Bentheimer (riding) Bott got the mail to and from Burgsteinfurt, Wettringen , Ohne and the Grafschaft Bentheim . The Steinfurter Letters ordered the Hämische Post , which is probably the Thurn und Taxische Post from Hamm via Münster, Rheine to Zwolle. The messenger of the aristocratic ladies and gentlemen's convent Borghorst stayed at the rye market. The Metelensche Bott joined the letters for Ochtrup Heek, Nienborg and Lange Horst. Until Prussia banned private messengers in 1802, there were 46 messenger posts. They were not only used to supply the mail, they were also happy to take on other errands and orders. In the court and address calendar of the Münster bishopric in 1802 ... the following postmen are named: Johann Bernhard Gatersleben in Ochtrup, Von der Schild in Gronau, du Poi in Enschede and Christan Bergmann in Maxhafen. In Ochtrup there was also an Imperial Thurn and Taxische Reichspost -Halterei for changing horses, subordinated to the Ober-Postamt Düsseldorf.
The Countess Bentheim-Steinfurtsche Post
The county of Steinfurt had its own postal sovereignty, which one did not want to do without, although it was of course of no great importance.
In large, bold writing proclaimed: “Transisalamus Wilhelmus Count of Bentheim, Tecklenburg, Steinfurt and Limburg, Lord of Rheda, Whevelinghofen, Hoya, Alpen and Helfenstein, Bailiff of Cölln as of Ihro Königigl. electoral prince Your Majesty the most gracious administrative guardians etc. ”the hiring of a“ postman ”to Rheine. Mr. Johan Hageman has to commit himself to an honorable and Christian life, to deliver all letters and "paquets" to the post office in Rheine twice a week and to pick up the letters "there".
The messenger Heinrich Wendler and later his son, Karl Philip Wendler, received a salary of 30 thalers a year and a pair of shoes, as well as a complete set of clothing consisting of a skirt, camisole, pants and shoes every two years.
After a dispute over the tariffs with the Prince-Bishop's postmaster Duisburg from Rheine, a small stamp was prescribed for all incoming and outgoing letters in 1777. An oval negative stamp shows the swan from the princely coat of arms with the largest diameter of 17 mm. Two copies are in the possession of the Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt, kept in the Steinfurt Castle Archives.
The errand to Münster was first negotiated in 1780. A riding post to Münster and back should be set up. In addition to the food for the journey, the messenger had to be given a few talers so that he could advance the fee at the post office in Munster.
Count Ludwig von Steinfurt made great contributions to the Steinfurt postal system . He moved the post from Münster over the Max-Clemens-Canal to the Netherlands instead of Ochtrup again over Burgsteinfurt and Metelen. He refused a request from the Prince of Thurn und Taxis to move his posts from Dorsten, where there was already a post office, to Steinfurt and Bentheim. At that time there was a Thurn and Taxis horse changing station in Ochtrup. As sovereign, Count Ludwig remained responsible for all postal matters. This did not change until 1806, when Napoleon I ruled the postal system until 1813.
Reichsdeputationshauptschluss
As a result of the treaty between France and Prussia of May 23, 1802, the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Prince Diocese of Münster was redistributed.
As compensation for the loss of territory on the left bank of the Rhine, the Wild and Rhine Count of Salm-Grumbach received the Horstmar office . Karl August Friedrich, still a minor, took possession of the Horstmar County on November 12, 1802. The central authority was set up in Coesfeld and the previous Horstmar office was divided into the Coesfeld and Metelen offices. The parts of the prince-bishop's offices in Rheine-Bevergern and Wolbeck to the left of the Ems fell to the newly founded Principality of Rheina-Wolbeck . The Belgian Duke Wilhelm, Joseph von Looz-Corswarem moved into Rheine on January 31, 1803.
The parts of the area to the right of the Ems fell to Prussia . On August 3, 1802, it took over the eastern part of the Hochstift with the state capital Münster and thus the postal system. For the time being, everything stayed the same. On January 1, 1803, the postal service lines were transferred to Prussia. The Münster postmaster Duesberg initially remained on duty. In 1802 he was removed from office without further ado. Only in 1814, after the French occupation had been driven out, did he return to his post. He died in 1822 as the last post office clerk in Münster.
In the Grand Duchy of Berg
Before it was taken over by the French, the letter monopoly lay with the Imperial Post Office operated by the Thurn und Taxis . With the formation of the Grand Duchy of Berg , the post passed into sovereign property. The Thurn and Taxissian postmaster in Düsseldorf, Peter Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (1777–1861), was entrusted with the management of the entire postal system in the Grand Duchy.
The Counts of Bentheim-Steinfurt, the Wild and Rhine Counts and the Duke of Looz-Corswardem, who were internally close to Prussia, were unceremoniously incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Berg by French decree of July 26, 1806 . The new area was provisionally united to form the Steinfurt district. This was the first time that Burgsteinfurt was the center of an administrative district. The Steinfurt district was not territorially related to the Grand Duchy.
On May 20, 1806, Heinrich to Gempt took up his post as mail expedition in Burgsteinfurt in der Sonne. The master saddler Möllmann drove for the first time on July 3, 1806 with an "odinairen" mail car as a postman twice a week to Enschede and back. Post was delivered to Borghorst four times a day. This was the first time that Burgsteinfurt had its own post office. In Ochtrup, the Thurn und Taxissche Posthalterei was taken over by the Bergische Post.
The Bergische Post procured postmarks for the post offices on January 1st, 1809. The smaller postal expeditions had to handwrite the place name on the letters posted with them. On January 21, 1808, Napoleon granted the Grand Duchy the former Prussian states of Münster, Tecklenburg, Lingen and Mark, which were previously under French military administration, as well as Dortmund, Limburg and Rheda. Steinfurt's territorial connection with the Grand Duchy began on May 5, 1808.
On November 4, 1808, a territorial structure based on the French model was carried out in departments, districts , cantons and Marien (mayor's offices). The extensive area that was previously under Burgsteinfurt was divided into several districts, all of which were subordinate to the Department of the Ems , based in Münster. Since March 10, 1809, Burgsteinfurt found itself in the new Coesfeld district. No sooner had the grand ducal authorities familiarized themselves than the end threatened.
On January 1, 1809, 13 person posts and the canal post were sent from the grand-ducal-Bergisch post office in Münster. Messengers on horseback and on foot set out for the surrounding area. The accounts of 13 postal expeditions (e.g. Emsdetten, Nienkerken, Horstmar and Steinfurt) went to Münster.
French period
Although the French Senate resolution on the unification of the German North Sea areas with France dates from December 13, 1810, this area was incorporated into the French Empire by post on October 12, 1810. The post offices in Burgsteinfurt and Ochtrup were therefore French.
Until April 27, 1810, the Steinfurt district belonged to the Dutch department of the IJssel estuary . It included the cantons of Coesfeld, Billerbeck, Horstmar, Ochtrup, Rheine and Bentheim. Then the Lippe department was formed. It existed until November 1813. The main town was Münster and had four districts. The Steinfurt district comprised the cantons of Ahaus, Billerbeck, Coesfeld, Ochtrup, Rheine and Steinfurt. After the defeat of Napoleon I in 1814, the department was divided between the Kingdom of Hanover and Prussia.
The first stamps on letters with the location Steinfurt date from this time. Different stamps have become known. It is a two-line model based on the French model. In the upper line, as a kind of postcode, is the number of the department. For the Departement de la Lippe the number 131. The stamps “131 / STEINFURT (H)” were used when postage was still to be paid, as was common practice, or when it was a question of service letters. A franchise naturally went with these letters. This could be done both by hand as a postage-free note (e.g. Maire de Metelen) and by postage-free stamp “Sous Prefet de Steinfurt (h)”. The stamp "P 131 P / STEINFURT (H)" was used for letters for which the postage was paid in full or up to the border. Return letters or misdirected items were given a Debourses stamp before they were sent on.
Prussian
After the expulsion of the French on November 6th, 1813, Prussia took over the entire Münsterland including the Steinfurt district . After the Congress of Vienna , the counties lost their sovereignty. The Count became the Prince of Bentheim-Steinfurt .
A description of the district is available from 1819. It says that from Steinfurt, Burgsteinfurt with 400 houses and 1856 inhabitants, a messenger post to Maxhafen and a messenger post to Horstmar and that the local letter collection , like all in the district, was placed in front of the Oberpostamt zu Münster. The mail could be handed in and picked up in the letter collection, which was operated by Mr. to Gempt as a secondary office. The messenger mail to Maxhafen exchanged the post with the post office in Maxhafen or with the passing post Münster-Zwolle.
- Horstmar , a town belonging to the Horstmar territorial lordship, has 150 houses and 924 inhabitants. From the local letter collection, a messenger poft goes to Burgsteinfurt. The rulership of Horstmar in the Rhine Counts includes 4 cities, 5 market towns, 31 parishes and 149 villages with 45,779 inhabitants.
- Metelen , with 1432 inhabitants, also belongs to the Salm-Horstmar estate . The nearest post offices are in Burgsteinfurt and Ochtrup. Metelen received a collection of letters on January 1, 1830.
- Gronau , in the rulership of Horstmar; has 1120 houses and 819 inhabitants. The local post office is on the course of the moving post from Münster to Zwolle.
- Ochtrup , a market town with 209 inhabitants. Has a post office and a station for transporting moving mail from Münster to Zwolle.
- Maxhafen , a parish with a post office attendant, on the course of the moving post from Münster to Zwoll.
The Prussian General Circular no. 2 from January 1, 1830 announced the establishment of the post expeditions Epe and Nienborg and a collection of letters in Metelen. On June 1, 1830, a collection of letters was set up in Borghorst . Schöppingen received a collection of letters on January 1, 1933.
In 1832 the route from and to Münster via Burgsteinfurt (4½ miles ) to Ochtrup (1½) to Enschede (2½) and on to Utrecht and Amsterdam was driven 11½ miles or 16¼ Dutch posts. Since then there has been a post office in Burgsteinfurt with five postilons, twelve horses and four wagons. It can be assumed that this post office was located in the house of the post office owner, named the master saddler Möllmann, Johann Wenning and Gustav Beermann. From 1854 to 1860 the post office was in the Noldas'schen house in front of the stone gate (Lindenstrasse 72). In 1860 the post office moved to Leffmann's house on Steinstrasse. This building was bombed during World War II. On October 1, 1862, a Morse code was used for the first time in Steinstrasse to forward dispatches.
To relieve the Oberpostamt in Münster, the post offices in Epe, Horstmar, Metelen, Nienborg and Schöppingen were placed under the post office in Coesfeld on January 1, 1845. In the course of the decentralization of the Prussian Post in 1850 and the establishment of the Oberpostdirektion , all lower post offices for postal expeditions II class were subordinated to the Oberpostdirektion Münster.
The postman Gassel, who was hired on January 1, 1845, had to walk the 2 miles from Borghorst to Altenberge via Nordwalde three times a week. For this he received 80 thalers a year and a post skirt and cap every 1½ years. In addition to 1% of his income, which he had to pay into the poor fund, with no guarantee of getting anything from it, he had to leave a deposit of 50 thalers. After all, he was liable for the damage caused by him or his deputy. With the payment of the deposit one was however accommodating.
With the opening of the railway post on June 30, 1859 between Warburg and Emden , the first harbingers of the railway age came closer. The main route of the Royal Westphalian Railway Company ran from Hamm via Soest , Lippstadt , Paderborn and Altenbeken to Warburg.
A railway from Münster to Rheine first brought the conversation to the connection of Burgsteinfurt to the railway network. The debate about the alignment was very heated. How understandable, the people of Burgsteinfurt wanted to draw the route across their city. In Münster the traditional route via Greven and Emsdetten was preferred . This section of the route was opened on June 23, 1856. The Burgsteinfurt emergency money issue reports on this dispute from 1921.
Reichspost
With the opening of the Münster – Enschede railway via Kinderhaus , Altenberge , Nordwalde , Borghorst , Burgsteinfurt , Metelen , Ochtrup and Gronau to Enschede in 1875, Burgsteinfurt was finally connected to the railway network. The railway post office was set up in Münster and subordinated to the railway post office No. 22, then still in Rheine. On February 23, 1878, the post office Münster 1 (not Rheine) reported on the installation of the necessary framework for reworking the post on the Münster – Gronau route. In the same year, conductors allowed ordinary and registered letters to be accepted for the first time. Since July 1, 1880, letters had to be reworked in the Schaffnerbahn Posts. The posted mail was also given a three-line stamp for cancellation. The rail mail drivers had to handwrite the place of posting next to the stamp if no sender was given. The use of a local postmark was also common for places with a large volume of mail and when accepted by station staff, but this was not a postal cancellation stamp. With the Official Gazette Order No. 40 of May 18, 1883, the shape of the oval stamp was introduced.
When post and telegraphy were merged on January 1, 1876, the General Post Office again divided all post offices into three classes according to their scope of business, namely into Post Offices I (previously without class designation), Post Offices II (previously postal administrations) and Post Offices III (previously postal expeditions ). In addition to the postal agencies, the postal auxiliaries were introduced, the number of which rose to almost 19,000 by 1913.
On July 1, 1879, the Duisburg – Quakenbrück railway line opened via Rheine, Hauenhorst , St. Arnold , Burgsteinfurt, Horstmar, Darfeld , Lutum , and Coesfeld. The mail transport increasingly shifted to the rail. The post offices on the line were incorporated into the series of railway post offices, which meant that the post would in future be carried by the railway mail. Steinfurter heard the last sounds of the post horn in 1879.
Under postmaster Schulze in Burgsteinfurt, the post office moved into a new office building on the corner of Lindenstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse in 1881. At the request of the municipality of Langenhorst , the place received a postal agency in 1885. The business area expanded in 1889 to include the post office in Wettringen and the newly established empty post office . A private passenger carriage operated between Burgsteinfurt and Wettringen until 1905, until the opening of the Rheine – Ochtrup – Gronau railway line . The Wettringen postal agency was added to the Rheine post office.
In 1899, Burgsteinfurt and Borghorst received a "general city telephone system". A railway post from Borken via Stadtlohn and Ahaus to Burgsteinfurt was put into operation on October 1, 1902. With mail were u. a. the places Ahler-Kapelle, Nienborg, Heek and Metelen-Ort.
On October 15, 1905, the "Pängel Anton", as the train was called, was able to start its service from Rheine to Gronau via Ochtrup. On September 25, 1905, the OPD Münster ordered the cancellation of private mail and messenger mail between Rheine and Neuenkirchen as well as Burgsteinfurt and Wettringen.
In 1908 the long oval stamps , which are still common today, were introduced in the Reich , in which the train number and the date are in a row. With the introduction of the new stamp shape, not all stamps were changed, only replacements for used or new stamps.
In 1923 the management of the Borken – Burgsteinfurt railway line was transferred from the Borken post office to the Burgsteinfurt post office. At the same time, the postal agencies Heek and Nienborg from the Ahaus post office were assigned to the Burgsteinfurt post office. In the same year, the Metelen post office was converted into a post agency, subordinated to Burgsteinfurt.
In 1925 buses drove between Burgsteinfurt, Borghorst, Emsdetten to Saerbeck, and via Wettringen and Schüttorf to Bentheim. The next year, the Burgsteinfurt, Leer, Schöppingen line to Asbeck was added. The traveling rural post office Burgsteinfurt-Leer was discontinued. The power posts were already shortened in 1926 for reasons of profitability, they only drove to Emsdetten or Schöppingen, the one to Bentheim had to be canceled. The country mail carriers who delivered the mail on foot or on their own bicycles were equipped with mopeds and their districts were made smaller.
A new post office was opened on June 18, 1935 on Steinfurter Bismarckstrasse. The Horstmar post office came under the administration of Burgsteinfurt as a postal agency. On December 1, 1938, Postrat von Hamm retired. His successor was Chief Postal Inspector Bruns. The Langenhorst post office was added to the post office in 1939 and, as the Schöppingen branch post office, the previously independent Schöppingen post office.
In previous wars, the field post was the only way for senders and recipients to keep in touch. The drafts for military service weakened the personnel of the Deutsche Reichspost. By the end of the war, most men fit for military service had been drafted, and so women and Dutch postal workers had to be employed in the postal service. Women were used on the shorter rail routes. On the Rheine – Ochtrup route z. B. an overnight stay abroad was not necessary. The use of these assistants was made much easier by the introduction of the postal district codes; they were given the number 21, later 21a.
On March 17, 1945, the post office on Bismarckstrasse received a direct hit. Nine forces were killed and seven servants were rescued from the rubble, seriously injured. The postal service had to be continued in the Protestant kindergarten on Kalkwall. On March 31, 1945 the English marched into Burgsteinfurt; that was the end of the war.
End of war
Card with 6 Pfg.-AM-Post stamp from September 28, 1945 and "Fee-paid" stamp
Example of a regular job by the postal worker
10-fold franking after the introduction of the DM
The collapse of the German Reich in May 1945 also meant the end of the Deutsche Reichspost . By order of the military government (Law No. 76), all mail and telecommunications were suspended after the occupation . The service buildings were partly destroyed. Equipment and vehicles were unusable, damaged or stolen, files were often destroyed and cash burned. That was the situation when clean-up work could begin in May 1945. Under the most difficult conditions, the postal staff cleaned up, repaired and rebuilt. For the time being, z. B. by the police, a courier service is allowed and set up.
Gradually, the British occupation authorities allowed the resumption of postal and postal banking services. The conditions were very difficult. From July 1, 1945, postal traffic within the British zone was possible and from September 1945 it could be extended to all occupation zones. By order of the Allied Control Council , (almost) all fees were doubled with effect from March 1, 1946. Shipments abroad were soon permitted again. In March 1947 the "Headquarters for Post and Telecommunications in the American and British Occupation Zones", which had been under construction since autumn, had become operational.
Until the summer of 1946, postal traffic in Burgsteinfurt was handled by the kindergarten on Kalkwall. Now the post office counters were in a makeshift position in the old packing room on Bismarckstrasse. The organization of the post offices always had to be adapted to the needs. On August 1, 1949, the Heek and Horstmar post offices came to Burgsteinfurt as branch post offices. Metelen followed this example in 1950 (see history of post offices ). Senior Postmaster Bruns had reached the age limit on October 1, 1949, and he was able to hand over the post in good condition to his successor, Senior Postmaster Mündel.
A real upswing only took place after the currency reform on June 21, 1948. Overall, it can be said that the reconstruction of the post office proceeded relatively quickly because the occupation officers were often specialists and the German forces devoted themselves to building “their post” with great enthusiasm . All post, telegraph, telephone and motor mail charges remained unchanged, but had to be paid in the new currency. The previously valid postage stamps were canceled after June 20, 1948. From June 21st only new postage stamps were issued. An exchange was not possible, however old postage stamps still in place with the post office users could be used for postage at a tenth of the previous nominal value (tenfold franking).
Federal Post
The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany , passed by the Parliamentary Council on May 8, 1949 and entered into force on May 24, 1949 after approval by the American, British and French occupying powers, stipulated that the Deutsche Bundespost was due from April 1, 1950 of the ordinance on the transfer of the postal and telecommunications administrations.
A new system was developed for the parcel service on June 20, 1956. Each independent office, along with its branch post offices and post offices, was given an office code. The first numbers from 1 to 20 were staggered according to the volume of parcels and assigned to the head post offices. The letters below were given to the post offices in the same way. When the alphabet was exhausted, a three-part combination was provided: digits - letters - digits.
In July 1959, the previously independent Ochtrup post office was incorporated into the Burgsteinfurt post office. Borghorst followed on March 1, 1960. The Nordwalde post office, which had previously belonged to Borghorst, came to the Münster post office, as did the Laer post office, which was allocated to the post office in Burgsteinfurt.
The new four-digit postal code system was introduced in the Federal Republic on March 23, 1962. As early as November 3, 1961, the postcodes were announced in the official gazette of the Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications. Each household received a complete directory. The Federal Republic was now divided into seven routing zones (4 = Düsseldorf), these in turn into up to ten routing rooms (44 = Münster), each routing room into up to ten routing areas (443 = Steinfurt).
In Schöppingen there was the NAPO (Dutch Army Post Office) No. 894, a Dutch field post office, to supply the 220th Squadron stationed there. On August 16, 1972, a permanent field post office with the NAPO No. Opened in 895. In connection with the reorganization of the Royal Air Force, the field post office was closed on September 20, 1975, but the 220th Squadron remained until 1986. Until then, it was also supplied by the Hesepe field post office (NAPO 891).
On November 10, 1975, work began on a telecommunications office responsible for northern Germany.
The guidelines on the organization of post offices (V) of May 29, 1978 made Borghorst, Burgsteinfurt, Gronau, and Ochtrup post offices with administration (PA V). On August 1, 1978, the post office (V) Gronau with the post office Epe was placed under the administration of Steinfurt. In the course of the regional reform, the post office (V) Burgsteinfurt and the post office Borghorst received the post office designation Steinfurt 1 and 2 on May 29, 1978.
After reunification, there were two four-digit postcode systems in Germany. Of a total of 5420 postcodes, 3400 were in the west traffic area and in 2020 the east traffic area. There were some numbers in the east and in the west. One made do with the insertion of an “O” or “W” in front of the postcodes. A change was prepared and the five-digit postal code system was introduced in 1993. The first digit of the five-digit postcode designates the zone (4 = Düsseldorf), the second digit the region (48 = Münster). The last three digits designate the place, the delivery area, the PO box or the bulk recipient (48 565 = Steinfurt 1 and 2, 48 629 = Metelen etc.)
History of the post offices
| Post locations in post code area 443 | |
| place | comment |
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| Alst |
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| Ahler Chapel |
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| Building association |
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| Borghorst |
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| Burgsteinfurt |
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| Eggerode |
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| Epe |
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| Gronau |
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Haverbeck / via Burgsteinfurt |
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| Heek (district of Ahaus) |
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Heven / via Burgsteinfurt |
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| Horstmar |
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Langenhorst / via Burgsteinfurt |
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Leer (Kr.Steinfurt (Westphalia)) |
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Leer-Ostendorf / via Burgsteinfurt |
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Loreto / via Burgsteinfurt |
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| Metelen |
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| Metelen Land |
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Naendorf / via Burgsteinfurt |
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Nienborg (Bz.Münster (Westphalia)) |
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| North forest |
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Oberheven / via Burgsteinfurt |
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| Ochtrup |
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Samberg / via Burgsteinfurt |
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Schlager / about Burgsteinfurt |
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| Schoeppingen |
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Sellen / via Burgsteinfurt |
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Welbergen farmers / via Burgsteinfurt |
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Welbergen village / via Burgsteinfurt |
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| Competition |
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Railway lines
| Railway lines | |
| route | comment |
|---|---|
| Münster – Gronau |
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| Dortmund – Gronau |
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| Duisburg-Quakenbrück |
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| Borken – Burgsteinfurt |
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| Rheine – Ochtrup – Gronau |
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literature
- Wilhelm Kohl: 150 years of the Steinfurt district, 1816–1966. Self-published by the district of Steinfurt, 1966.
- Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the princely archive in Burgsteinfurt. Verlag Aschendorf, Münster 1971 - 1525 files: Post and messenger services in the county of Steinfurt 1759–1794.
- Friedrich Ernst Hunsche : Bibliography of the Steinfurt district and surrounding areas . Steinfurt district, 1980.
- Postal history sheets, postal history sheets for the district of the Oberpostdirektion Münster, all volumes.
- Wolfgang Strobel: The start of postal traffic in Germany after the occupation from 1945 to 1950. Self-published, Bonn 1977.
- Werner Steven: A contribution to postal history in room 4430 Steinfurt. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung , No. 5/1981.
- Werner Steven: The railway and the railway mail in the post control area 443 Steinfurt. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung, No. 6/1981.
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Schmidt: The Grand Duchy of Berg 1806-1813 . Reprint, Bergischer Geschichtsverein, 1999, ISBN 3-87707-535-5 .
- ^ Friedhelm Hilge: The postmarks of the Lengerich post offices 1st and 2nd
- ^ Friedrich W. Heidemann: Handbook of the post-geography of the Royal Prussian States. Publishing house of the Geographical Institute, Weimar 1819.
- ^ Wilhelm Heinrich Matthias: About items and post shelves. Self-published, Berlin 1832.
- ^ HJ Pape: Burgsteinfurter Postal History. Steinfurter Kreisblatt, 1977.
- ↑ Gaarthuis, Steven: Dutch field post in particular in Germany. Self-published by Steven, Braunschweig 1988.
- ^ Wilhelm Benning: Borghorst and his post. Borghorster Heimatblätter, 1968, issue 18.
- ↑ Robert Drunkemühle: 200 years post in Wettringen. Steinfurter Kreisblatt, November 29, 1867.