Wessendorf
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Wessendorf
City city wages
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 6 " N , 6 ° 54 ′ 34" E
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| Area : | 13 km² | |
| Incorporation : | August 1, 1964 | |
| Incorporated into: | Parish Stadtlohn | |
| Postal code : | 48703 | |
| Area code : | 02563 | |
Location of Wessendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Wessendorf is an old Westphalian peasantry and a district of Stadtlohn in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1964, Wessendorf was a municipality in the former district of Ahaus .
geography
The old farmers Wessendorf enclosed the city center of Stadtlohn in the west and south. Since the end of the 19th century the development of the city expanded to the area of Wessendorf. The former municipality of Wessendorf last had an area of 13 km². Today's Stadtlohn districts and residential areas Am Esch, Berkelhook, Bockwinkel, Breul, Feldkamp, Gescher Dyk, Hordt, Immingfeld, Linward and Wenningfeld are located in the old Wessendorf area.
history
After the Napoleonic era , the Wessendorf peasantry initially belonged to the mayor's office of Stadtlohn in the Ahaus district founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order in 1843, the mayor's office Stadtlohn became the Stadtlohn office , to which the five communities Almsick , Estern-Büren , Hengeler-Wendfeld , Hundewick and Wessendorf belonged. After the development of Stadtlohn expanded further and further to the area of Wessendorf, Wessendorf ceded an area of 1.3 km² with 1032 inhabitants in 1910 and an area of 4.4 km² with 423 inhabitants to Stadtlohn in 1930.
On August 1, 1964, Wessendorf merged with Almsick, Estern-Büren, Hengeler-Wendfeld and Hundewick to form the parish of parish Stadtlohn , which in turn was incorporated into the town of Stadtlohn in 1969.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1858 | 372 | |
| 1885 | 291 | |
| 1910 | 629 | |
| 1939 | 758 | |
| 1950 | 928 | |
| 1964 | 1643 |
present
The local customs are among others the rifle clubs Wessendorf St. Liudger 1834 eV and St. Sebastian Wessendorf-Breul 1964 eV The Hünenburg , a medieval hill fort , is a monument in the Wessendorf area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hans-Walter Pries: Wessendorf. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Official Gazette for the Münster administrative district in 1844, page 83. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 284 .
- ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
- ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ahaus.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).