Westerkappeln country

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Westerkappeln-Land was a municipality in the Tecklenburg district in what was then the province of Westphalia until 1939 . Today your area belongs to the municipality of Westerkappeln in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Wigbold and the rural community of Westerkappeln with the associated farmers in the 19th century

The municipality of Westerkappeln-Land enclosed the Wigbold Westerkappeln and last had an area of ​​85 km². It consisted of the farmers Düte, Lada, Hambüren , Handarpe , Metten, Seeste , Osterbeck, Sennlich and Westerbeck.

history

After the Napoleonic era , the area of ​​the community initially belonged to the mayor's office of Cappeln in the Tecklenburg district, founded in 1816. With the introduction of the Westphalian rural community code in 1844, the mayor's office in Cappeln became the Cappeln office, which at the time included Wigbold and the rural community of Cappeln. The rural community was also called the parish of Cappeln at that time . Westerkappeln has become a common name since around the 1880s .

On October 1, 1939, the municipalities of Westerkappeln-Stadt and Westerkappeln-Land were merged to form the municipality of Westerkappeln.

Population development

year Residents source
1832 4663
1858 4262
1885 4002
1910 4387
1925 5397
1939 4612

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Walter Pries: Westerkappeln-Land. In: HIS-Data. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Official Gazette for the Münster administrative district in 1844, page 95. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Statistical news about the government district of Münster, 1860
  4. ^ Official Journal for the Münster administrative district 1939, page 65. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978, p. 234 (reprint of the original from 1834).
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  7. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
  8. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. tecklenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '  N , 7 ° 51'  E