Raesfeld
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Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ N , 6 ° 50 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Muenster | |
| Circle : | Bark | |
| Height : | 59 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 57.95 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 11,431 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 197 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 46348 | |
| Area code : | 02865 | |
| License plate : | BOR, AH, BOH | |
| Community key : | 05 5 54 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE ZFD | |
| Community structure: | 4 parts of the community | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Weseler Str. 19 46348 Raesfeld |
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| Mayor : | Andreas Grotendorst (non-party) | |
| Location of the municipality of Raesfeld in the Borken district | ||
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Raesfeld [ ˈraːsˌfɛlt ] ( Low German Raosfeld ) is located in Westmünsterland in the northwest of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a municipality in the district of Borken in the administrative district of Münster . The name Raesfeld stands for both the village itself and the entire municipality of Raesfeld. Raesfeld has been debt free since 1994.
geography
Geographical location
Raesfeld is located in the Lippe-Issel-Niederrhein region in the Hohe Mark Nature Park . It is also included in the Münsterland . The Issel has its source in the northern municipality .
Municipal area
The Raesfeld municipality includes the villages of Raesfeld, Erle and the northern part of the former municipality of Overbeck. There are also the farming communities Freiheit, Winkelschulte, Westrich, Homer , Brink, Möllmann, Femeiche, Östrich, Brook and Löchte.
Neighboring communities
The immediate neighboring towns and villages of Raesfeld are Rhede , Borken and Heiden in the Borken district , Dorsten in the Recklinghausen district and Schermbeck and Hamminkeln in the Wesel district .
history
Raesfeld was first mentioned in a document in 889 as "Hrothusfeld" in the records of the Werden Abbey .
Around 1117 a tower hill castle , called Burg Kretier , was built north of the small town in the middle of an inaccessible swamp area . The first known lord of the castle was Rabodo von dem Berge around 1170. He was probably also the founder of the Raesfeld Church around which today's village was built. Soon after the castle was sold to the knight Symon von Gemen in 1259, the castle burned down. Instead, Symon built a new castle on the site of today's castle and then called itself Symon von Rasvelde .
In a sequel to the Münster collegiate feud , Bocholt town servants stormed the village in the summer of 1458 and burned the church tower down. The reconstruction could be financed with letters of indulgence until 1515. In 1560 another fire destroyed large parts of the village.
The castle Raesfeld came after the death of John IV. Raesfeld Raesfeld to the late 16th century to the related with him Lords of Velen to Velen . Alexander II. Count von Velen zu Raesfeld , the Westphalian Wallenstein , achieved a high reputation during the Thirty Years' War and expanded the old castle from 1643 to 1658 into a residential palace . However, during the Thirty Years 'War and a hundred years later in the Seven Years' War, the village suffered several times from occupation, looting and billeting by soldiers from different sides. Like no other Stephan Selhorst, who emphasized the early baroque composition of the structural members, appreciated the importance of the Raesfeld Castle.
Under Mayor Roessing, debts totaling four million D-Marks were reduced by July 5, 1993. Since then, Raesfeld has been debt-free and thus today (2012) the only debt-free municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The municipality of Raesfeld has been a member of the LEADER region Lippe-Issel Niederrhein and the Hohe Mark Nature Park since 2008. The headquarters of the Hohe Mark Nature Park are located in the Nature Park House Tiergarten Schloss Raesfeld, Tiergarten 1 in Raesfeld. The community has been a member of the VITAL Region Hohe Mark, Living in the Nature Park, since 2014.
Religions
Christianity
In the Raesfeld part of the community there are two parishes, one Catholic (St. Martin in the parish association with Rhedebrugge and Erle) with the parish church of St. Martin and the affiliated branch churches of St. Maria Immaculata in Rhedebrugge and St. Silvester in Erle. The chapel of Raesfeld Castle, St. Sebastian, is also part of the parish. The Protestant parish with the Lukaskirche in Erle was founded in 2012 as a parish of the Ev. Parish assigned to parishes.
Judaism
A Jewish community existed in Raesfeld until 1939. The synagogue, which was built in 1806 including the mikveh , fell victim to the so-called Reichspogromnacht in 1938. The National Socialist city administration used their stones in road construction. The place where it stood for over 130 years was leveled and then built over. Only a few members of the synagogue community survived the persecution of Nazi rule; most perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp . A few references today are reminiscent of Jewish life in Raesfeld, including the foundation of the mikveh mentioned above.
Incorporations
Today's Raesfeld community was established between 1969 and 1975. On July 1, 1969, Homer was incorporated. Alder , until then in the Recklinghausen district, and the northern part of Overbeck were added on January 1, 1975.
Population development
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politics
Municipal council
In the municipal council of Raesfeld, the UWG Raesfeld-Erle drew level with the SPD in the 1994 elections and in 1999 - before the SPD - became the second strongest party. The CDU holds the absolute majority.
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| 1994 | 15th | 6th | - | 6th | 27 | ||||||
| 1999 | 18th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 28 | Udo Roessing | CDU | ||||
| 2004 | 63.4 | 18th | 10.9 | 3 | 6.1 | 2 | 19.6 | 5 | 28 | ||
| 2009 | 64.5 | 18th | 10.1 | 3 | 8.1 | 2 | 17.2 | 5 | 28 | Andreas Grotendorst | non-party |
| 2014 | 61.1 | 17th | 12.3 | 3 | 10.2 | 3 | 16.4 | 5 | 28 | ||
mayor
The graduate in administration and business administration (VWA) Andreas Grotendorst (* 1970) was elected in August 2009 with 90.8% of the votes and re-elected in May 2014 with 82.1% of the votes.
Coat of arms, banner and flag
With a certificate from the District President dated April 30, 1979, the municipality was granted the right to carry a coat of arms, an official seal and a banner, and with a certificate from the District President dated October 30, 1986, the right to fly a flag.
Coat of arms of the municipality of Raesfeld after the municipal reorganization
banner
flag
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Raesfeld 1967–1979
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Erle
coat of arms
Blazon of the coat of arms of the municipality of Raesfeld: split; in front in red a golden (yellow) tower with a steep hood, behind in gold (yellow) two red squirrels placed in stakes. The tower in the coat of arms goes back to the striking tower of the castle. The squirrels come from the Erler coat of arms, which goes back to the coat of arms of those of Ichorne from the 13th to 15th centuries. Before the municipality of Erle was incorporated, the coat of arms of the municipality of Raesfeld was split in blue and yellow, the tower in front and three red merlettes (blackbirds) in the back. The Merlettes were taken from the Velen coat of arms.
Banner and flag
Description of the banner: "From red to yellow to red in a ratio of 1: 3: 1, striped lengthways, in the middle of the upper half of the yellow strip the coat of arms of the municipality."
Description of the flag: "From red to yellow to red in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 stripes, in the middle of the yellow band the coat of arms of the municipality."
Culture and sights
Sights in Raesfeld
- Moated castle
The moated castle Raesfeld with the castle chapel St. Sebastian is the most famous sight in town.
- Local history museum
There is a local history museum about the Second World War in Raesfeld in the village of Schloss Freiheit.
- Zoo
The adjacent zoo is one of the few preserved from the Renaissance period.
- Tiergarten Nature Park House
The nature park house Tiergarten Schloss Raesfeld with the tourist information shows a changing exhibition on the upper floor. The zoo is part of the European Garden Heritage Network .
- Castle forest
The wooded surroundings of the castle are a special attraction for everyone who is looking for peace and relaxation. An extensive mixed forest area that borders the twilight forest. Extensive circular hiking trails, some as a forest nature trail, lead past charming ponds to the ruins of an old water mill with a refuge and to
- Issel spring
The Issel (river) has its source here .
- Wellbrock Spring
which forms the Issel with two inlets.
- Village church
Another building that characterizes the town is the Church of St. Martin .
Worth seeing in Alder
- Femeiche
One of the oldest oaks in Germany, the Femeiche, is located in the Erle part of the community on the grounds of the pastorate , which is over 200 years old . The tree is believed to be between 600 and 850 years old.
- Pius oak
Another natural monument is the Pius oak at the old cemetery.
- Grave fields and barrows
In addition to the Frankish-Merovingian burial ground from the 7th-8th centuries Century in the Erler peasantry Westrich excavations in the Erler peasantry Östrich brought a Stone Age burial ground to light. There is also a barrow in the Östrich .
- More sights in Alder
are the listed tower windmill , the Teufelstein , the neo-Gothic St. Silvester Church with the choir designed by the artist Hermann Kunkler , the Erler Heimatmuseum , the 200-year-old Kastanienallee and the Ständebaum with all the guilds represented in Alder.
Attractions in Homer
- Sermon elm
In the district of Homer, a formerly independent peasantry, stands the legendary sermon elm . It is also protected as a natural monument.
Regular events
- Historical cap market in the town center
- Raesfeld Garden Days
- Live & delicious
- musical landscape: westphalia
- Book market at Raesfeld moated castle (2nd Sunday in August)
- Farmer's market on the Stegerhoff farm in Erle (last Sunday in September)
- Large farmers' market on the Süthold farm (Whitsun Sun and Mon)
- Advent market at the Raesfeld moated castle
- Beer garden festival on the town hall square
- Stag rifle festival
- General shooting festival
- Rose Monday parade of the RRZ
- Session carnival with 2 large ceremonial sessions and the RCV children's carnival
- Spring concert by the Raesfeld castle musicians
- Benefit concerts in the youth center
- Concerts in the Rittersaal Schloss Raesfeld of the Kulturkreis Schloss Raesfeld e. V.
- Cycling day
- Raesfelder Volkslauf / Lippe-Issel-Cup
- Monthly market in the center of Raesfeld (every 1st Thursday of the month from 2 p.m., from March to October)
Economy and Infrastructure
The federal highways 224 and 70 lead to the nearby motorways 31 and 3 .
The public transport is from the Westfalenbus GmbH in the traffic community cathedral country as well as from regional traffic Niederrhein in the traffic group Rhine Ruhr served. The nearest larger train stations are in Borken , Rhade , Dorsten and Wesel .
Partner communities
The longest partnership exists with the Dutch town of Wehl, which belongs to the municipality of Doetinchem ; there has also been a partnership with the Mecklenburg town of Dömitz since 1990 and another partnership with the Polish municipality of Kobierzyce since 2005 .
Personalities
- Ignaz Böckenhoff (1911–1994), nationally known photographer
- Stephan Selhorst (1913–1976), professor of art theory at the Werkkunstschule / University of Applied Sciences for Design in Münster, founder of the Raesfeld Castle cultural area (1956), cultural representative of the Borken district since January 1, 1962; Author of numerous art history works on the Borken district
- Hermann Kunkler (* 1927), sculptor and goldsmith in Raesfeld from 1960 to 1990
- Ewald Böckenhoff (1929–2005), agricultural market economist, advisor to the German agriculture ministers and the European Commission
- Dirk Bakalorz (* 1963), former professional footballer a. a. at Eintracht Frankfurt
- Heico Nickelmann (* 1966), rock musician and songwriter
- Marvin Bakalorz (* 1989), professional footballer, German champion and cup winner 2012 with Borussia Dortmund
literature
- Adalbert Friedrich: Around the old church tower. A reader about Raesfeld and his parish in 15 chapters. Catholic parish of St. Martin, Raesfeld 1985.
- Ingrid Sönnert: About farmers , spinners and craftsmen. The population of Raesfeld, Erle and Homer 1498–1806. Raesfeld 1994, ISBN 3-9804028-0-0 .
- Ingrid Sönnert: Back then ... people and stories from Raesfeld, Erle and Homer. Raesfeld 1997, ISBN 3-9804028-1-9 .
- Doris Röckinghausen: Village developers Raesfeld, Erle and Homer in honorary office (Volume 1), ISBN 978-3-00-043903-2
- Doris Röckinghausen: Issel, The river with the bend / Oude IJssel, De rivier met de knik, ISBN 978-3-00-060872-8 .
Web links
- official homepage
- Site of the Alder part of the municipality
- Site of the Homer parish
- Hometown club
- Document registers from the general archive of Landsberg-Velen with holdings for the Raesfeld house / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Village life between 1930 and 1970 Historical photos by the Raesfeld photographer Ignaz Böckenhoff in the image archive of the LWL media center for Westphalia
- Raesfeld in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
- Home report with news about Raesfeld and Erle as well as from the Borken district
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 Jörg Diehl: “Our village should become richer” , Spiegel Online from October 14, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2012.
- ↑ Volker Tschuschke: Raesfeld and his castles . In: Westphalian magazine . 1st edition. tape 166 , 2016, p. 65/66 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 95 .
- ↑ a b c 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. 312 .
- ↑ Ingrid Sönnert: From farmers, spinners and craftsmen. The population of Raesfeld, Erle and Homer 1498–1806. Raesfeld 1994, p. 187.
- ↑ Municipality of Raesfeld / www.gemeinde-raesfeld.de: Population development
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 85 .
- ↑ kreis-borken.de ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kreis Borken / www.kreis-borken.de: Coats of arms of the cities and communities in the district of Borken and their origins
- ↑ Ralf Hartemink / www.ngw.nl: Raesfeld
- ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Raesfeld, § 2. (PDF; 22 kB) Retrieved on February 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Bernd Ullrich, Stefan Kühn, Uwe Kühn: Our 500 oldest trees: Exclusively from the German Tree Archives . BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co.
- ↑ Chronicle of the Kulturkreis Schloss Raesfeld on kulturkreis-schloss-raesfeld.de , accessed on January 31, 2018
- ^ Stephan Selhorst / Ulrich Reinke: Castles - Churches - Treasures. A short art history of the Borken district . In: Series of publications by the district of Borken 1 . Borken 1951.
