Seppenrade

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Seppenrade
City of Lüdinghausen
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Seppenrade
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 110 m above sea level NN
Area : 61.7 km²
Residents : 6483  (December 31, 2010)
Population density : 105 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 59348
Area code : 02591
Seppenrade (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Seppenrade

Location of Seppenrade in North Rhine-Westphalia

Seppenrade is a district of Lüdinghausen in the Munsterland district of Coesfeld . The place became known through the discovery of the largest ammonite in the world to date, which is now in Münster . Seppenrade has been Germany's third rose village since 1972 .

Peasant communities

Seppenrade includes the village farmers' communities, Emkum, Leversum, Ondrup, Reckelsum and Tetekum.

history

Early Christian grave at the parish church of Seppenrade
The cast of the largest known ammonite

The center of Seppenrade is demonstrably inhabited since the 9th century, the first written mention of the "parish Sepperothe" dates back to 1184. The Church of St. Dionysius , which in its present form in the years 1882 to 1885 by August Hanemann was built , is a listed building. From the earlier church buildings, you still these are Paul relief from the 15th century, the tomb of Pastor Heinrich Schahausz that caring is the plague dedicated ill and in 1527 in the Stever drowned, and a native of the 1635 baptismal font get .

The fossil of the ammonite found in 1895 in a quarry in the area of ​​the Leversum farmers has a diameter of 174 cm, is 40 cm thick and weighs over 3.5 tons. Just like a smaller ammonite found in 1877, it is now kept in the LWL Museum für Naturkunde in Münster, while a cast can be seen in the center of Seppenrad. The species was named Parapuzosia seppenradensis after it was first found.

On January 1st, 1975 Seppenrade was incorporated into the city of Lüdinghausen by the Münster / Hamm law .

The Seppenrader Rosengarten was created in the 1970s on the site of a disused garbage dump. Today the area covers an area of ​​18,753 m² and shows over 700 varieties of roses with more than 30,000 specimens. The care of the complex is still provided by volunteers, the rose men and rose women .

coat of arms

Blazon : "A golden ammonite in red."

Digital

In Seppenrade an open, non-commercial WLAN network is available without a password via Freifunk . For example, areas in the town center and on the sports field are covered.

literature

  • Liane Schmitz: "800-2000 - On the history of Lüdinghausen and Seppenrade" . Lüdinghausen 2000. ISBN 3-00-006847-3
  • Uwe Lobbedey: “St. Dionysius in Seppenrade ” . Westphalian art sites. Ed .: Westfälischen Heimatbund . Issue 52. Münster 1988. ISSN  0930-3952

Web links

Commons : Seppenrade  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, press release of January 17, 2006
  2. ^ 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. 314 .
  3. https://karte.freifunk-muensterland.de/map48/