Sellen (Steinfurt)
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Sellen
City of Steinfurt
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 32 ″ E
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| Area : | 22 km² | |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1939 | |
| Incorporated into: | Burgsteinfurt | |
| Postal code : | 48565 | |
| Area code : | 02551 | |
Location of Sellen in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Sellen is a farming community in the Burgsteinfurt district of the city of Steinfurt in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1939 Sellen was an independent municipality .
geography
Sellen is an agricultural scattered settlement without a dense village center and is located northwest of the Burgsteinfurt core city. The Steinfurter Aa forms the natural border to the Hollich farming community to the east . The Veltrup farmers join to the south . The Seller Feld nature reserve is located in the northern part of Sellen . The former municipality of Sellen had an area of 22.0 km².
history
Sellen is an old Westphalian peasantry . The peasantry was first mentioned in 890 as "Seliun" in the land registers of the Werden monastery . In the course of time, several main courtyards were established in the peasantry, around which individual settlements emerged. Since the 19th century formed Sellen, a rural community in the Office Steinfurt of Steinfurt . The community received its own elementary school in 1877. On April 1, 1939, Sellen was incorporated into what was then Burgsteinfurt, together with the neighboring farmers of Hollich and Veltrup.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1858 | 177 | |
| 1871 | 152 | |
| 1885 | 148 | |
| 1910 | 187 | |
| 1925 | 164 | |
| 1933 | 169 |
Architectural monuments
The Veltrup 1 storage facility and the Veltrup 9 half-timbered bakery storage facility are listed buildings .
Culture
The Sellen-Veltrup 1519 shooting club is a bearer of local customs .
Personalities
- Heinrich Göckenjan (1900–1986), member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP and Gauamtsleiter of the Office for Agricultural Policy of the Gaues Westfalen-Nord of the NSDAP, was a farmer in Sellen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Walter Pries: Sellen. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
- ^ Shooting club Sellen-Veltrup: History of Sellen and Veltrup
- ↑ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1844, page 216. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
- ↑ 1871 census
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
- ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. steinfurt.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).