Waldvelen

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Waldvelen
City of Velen
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 8 ″  E
Area : 16.5 km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 46342
Area code : 02863
Waldvelen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Waldvelen

Location of Waldvelen in North Rhine-Westphalia

Waldvelen is an old Westphalian peasantry and a district of Velen in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1969 Waldvelen was an independent municipality.

geography

Waldvelen surrounds the Velener core town and is a largely agricultural scattered settlement without a compact settlement core. The former municipality of Waldvelen had an area of ​​16.5 km².

history

After the Napoleonic era , the Waldvelen peasantry belonged to the Ramsdorf mayor in the Borken district founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1843, the Velen Office was formed, to which the three communities Velen-Dorf , Nordvelen and Waldvelen belonged.

On July 1, 1969, the municipalities of Velen-Dorf, Nordvelen and Waldvelen were merged to form the municipality of Velen , which in 1975 was expanded to include the municipality of Ramsdorf .

Population development

year Residents source
1858 841
1871 692
1885 609
1910 683
1925 780
1939 954
1950 1278
1969 1434

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Hans-Walter Pries: Waldvelen. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978 (reprint of the original from 1834).
  3. ^ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1844, page 256. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  4. Law on the merger of the municipalities of Velen-Dorf, Waldvelen and Nordvelen of January 14, 1969
  5. Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  6. 1871 census
  7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  8. Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
  9. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. borken.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).