Wettringen (Münsterland)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Wettringen
Wettringen (Münsterland)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Wettringen highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′  N , 7 ° 19 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Muenster
Circle : Steinfurt
Height : 49 m above sea level NHN
Area : 57.69 km 2
Residents: 8261 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 143 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 48493
Area code : 02557
License plate : ST, BF, TE
Community key : 05 5 66 096
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Kirchstrasse 19
48493 Wettringen
Website : www.wettringen.de
Mayor : Berthold Bültgerds ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Wettringen in the Steinfurt district
Nordrhein-Westfalen Kreis Borken Kreis Coesfeld Münster Kreis Warendorf Niedersachsen Greven Saerbeck Lienen Lengerich Laer Altenberge Horstmar Nordwalde Ladbergen Metelen Hörstel Westerkappeln Ibbenbüren Steinfurt Wettringen Neuenkirchen Mettingen Lotte Hopsten Ochtrup Rheine Recke Tecklenburg Emsdettenmap
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Roundabout in the municipality of Wettringen on August-Kümpers-Strasse with the Church of St. Petronilla in the background.
Haddorfer See in the municipality of Wettringen. Open swimming area near the campsite and the local recreation area.

The community Wettringen ( Low German Wiätringen ) is located about 34 kilometers northwest of Münster and 30 kilometers east of Enschede directly on the Lower Saxony state border. Only about 25 kilometers away from the border with the Netherlands , it is located on the Steinfurter Aa with about 8,200 inhabitants .

The distance from Wettringen to the largest city in the Steinfurt district , Rheine , is 12 kilometers.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Wettringen in the Steinfurt district is located on the northwestern edge of North Rhine-Westphalia and borders on Lower Saxony. The highest point in the municipality is in Rothenberge. In the district of Bilk the Steinfurter Aa flows into the Vechte .

Community structure

The municipality Wettringen include the following farming communities :

history

The first documented mention of June 7th, 838 is based on a donation from the " Church of Wateringas" by Emperor Ludwig the Pious to the Herford women's monastery . Wettringen is one of the oldest communities in the Münsterland. The church was founded by Charlemagne around 800 and was the original parish for later places of worship in the area. The old Romanesque church building was expanded in 1522.

During the Spanish incursions in the Eighty Years War , Wettringen was plundered several times in 1590. Also in November 1622, at the time of the Thirty Years' War , Wettringen fell victim to looting and pillage.

The "Münsterische Kanal", which was completed between Münster and the provisional terminus at Clemenshafen since 1731 , was extended to Maxhafen in 1771 and named the Max Clemens Canal after the respective prince-bishops . The originally planned connection via the Steinfurter Aa and the Vechte to Zwolle never came about, but the Maxhafen, located in the Wettringen area, experienced a lively turnover of goods, in which the local truckers also had their share. From 1733 to 1812 the postal connection also ran via Gronau to Zwolle, including the canal via Maxhafen. The canal was abandoned in 1840.

The Romanesque church was demolished in 1861, and Emil von Manger completed the construction of the neo-Gothic church in 1862/63 . The parish church of St. Petronilla still exists today.

On June 10, 1862, Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst and 36 other farmers founded the first farmers' association in Wettringen , which was quickly followed by others. A boulder in front of the Wettringen town hall commemorates the foundation. From this, the Westphalian Farmers' Association was founded on November 30, 1871 , the predecessor association of today's Westphalian-Lippian Agricultural Association (WLV) .

The Second World War also left deep marks in betting rings. Allied tanks moved into Wettringen on March 31, 1945 , and at the end of the same year over 1200 displaced persons , mainly from Silesia , were taken into Wettringen.

A memorial and memorial still reminds of the horrors of war. The memorial was inaugurated in 1957 and commemorates the fallen of the First and Second World Wars. An earlier memorial from 1929 was abandoned in the early 1950s for traffic reasons. In 1998 the memorial was supplemented with a stele commemorating the victims of the Holocaust . Another addition was made in November 2010 in the form of a bronze plaque. This plaque is intended to reflect the change in the culture of remembrance (away from worshiping war heroes and towards commemorating the victims) since the memorial was built.

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 64.3% (2009: 65.7%)
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60
50
40
30th
20th
10
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55.2%
19.6%
18.7%
6.5%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-1.2  % p
-0.1  % p
+ 3.0  % p
-1.7  % p

Municipal council

The distribution of seats in the town hall after the local elections on May 25, 2014:

mayor

Mayor of the community is Berthold Bültgerds. He was elected in September 2015 with 96.2% of the vote. He replaced Engelbert Rauen, who had been the full-time head of the town hall since 1999.

coat of arms

The blazon of the Wettringer coat of arms reads as follows: "Divided by a red bar of silver and gold, a red cloud bar, and below a red swan."

The cloud section bar represents the symbol of the noble lords of Wettringen, who at that time had their headquarters in Langenhorst . In addition to Langenhorst, Borghorst , Burgsteinfurt , Metelen and Welbergen also belonged to the Wettringen parish at that time . The red bar in the middle comes from the shield of the Herford monastery , and the swan from the coat of arms of the Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt .

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • St. Petronilla betting rings

  • Bird's eye view

  • North side

  • South side

  • Heimathaus Ahlers is a typical Westphalian farmhouse from 1520. In the 1980s, the community bought it from the Ahlers family, removed it from its former location in Klein Haddorf, and rebuilt it at its current location. The Heimathaus is the oldest building in Wettringen. A large number of exhibits and many offers from the Wettringer Heimatverein provide visitors with a vivid picture of life back then.
  • St. Josefshaus Wettringen , former Catholic children's home in Wettringen
  • Technical monument Max-Clemens-Kanal near Maxhafen (2 km northwest of Wettringen)
  • Citizens' hall in the town center, modern event hall with 320 seats
Citizens' hall in Wettringen, April 14, 2014
  • Indoor swimming pool in the sports center
  • Retirement home in the town center
  • The listed Villa Haus Rothenberge

Natural monuments

Alley in the municipality of Wettringen - Brechte.

The local recreation area of ​​the Haddorf Lakes is 7.5 kilometers north of the community . The Rothenberg is 3.5 kilometers northwest of the municipality, an imposing 95 meter high elevation of the otherwise flat surrounding area.

Parks

House Rothenberge ("Villa Jordaan") in Wettringen, view from the park side 2011
  • On the 95 m high Rothenberg stands the Villa Jordaan ( House Rothenberge ), built between 1923 and 1925 by the architect Alfred Hensen from Münster . It is surrounded by a landscape park. It was the summer residence of Bertha van Heek (1876–1960) and her husband Jan Jordaan (1863–1935). Today the country house is owned by the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and serves as a country home for scientific conferences and seminars (3 km northwest of Wettringen).

tourism

Heimathaus Ahlers in the municipality of Wettringen
Aerial view of Haddorfer Seen

The municipality of Wettringen is located in the Münsterland cycling region on many, sometimes supraregional cycling routes, such as B. the Vechtetalroute, the RadBahn Münsterland , the Aa-Vechte-Tour, the former Ochtrup – Rheine railway line , the Jubiläumsweg. and the 100 castles route

At the Haddorf Lakes in the district of Haddorf there is a swimming lake, mini golf course, pedal boating, sailing club, water sports, fishing lake and the modern Haddorfer Seen campsite (4-star category).

The Heimathaus Ahlers, almost 500 years old, is the oldest building in the municipality of Wettringen and is now used by the Wettringen Tourist Office as a meeting place and tourist information center.

Sports

In addition to the rifle club, the sports clubs enjoy great popularity, especially Vorwärts Wettringen , with a wide range of different sports that can be practiced in the two sports halls, a gym, a sports stadium, an indoor swimming pool and several tennis and soccer fields. The handball teams in particular are very successful at the supra-district level.

Regular events

The tradition of shooting is popular in Wettringen. Almost every district has a shooting club . In many localities in Westphalia, married and non-married men are often combined in one association . This goes back to a resolution of the Prussian government in 1835. At that time the government asked the loosely existing rifle brotherhoods to organize themselves more firmly. The bachelor shooters were asked to join forces with the "old". However, the bachelors in betting rings opposed this demand and instead set their own statutes . So it turns out at the moment that in Wettringen there is the association "Bachelor Rifle Club from 1651" and the association "Men's Rifle Club from 1650".

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

Commercial and industrial area Wettringen in 2013
Bundestag President Norbert Lammert visited the community Wettringen for the trade and industry show on April 14, 2013. Here in conversation with Mayor ret. D. Engelbert Rauen.

The focus is on the construction industry, metal and plastics processing companies and innovative companies in the energy sector. In Wettringen there are around 700 registered businesses and around 2,100 employees.

The commercial and industrial area is comprehensively developed with a fiber optic network and is in a continuous growth process. In 2019, an additional 50,000 m² of commercial space was developed.

Company in Wettringen

  • Bosch Solarthermie GmbH (manufacture of solar collectors, solar storage systems, solar packages)
  • Sinusverteiler GmbH (manufacture of large distributors in the heating and sanitary industry)
  • Dinkhoff Tiefbaugesellschaft mbH (earth line construction in the electricity, gas supply and telecommunications sector)
  • Enexio Water Technologies GmbH (aeration reactors for sewage works, packing for biological sewage treatment plants, packing made of polypropylene (PP) and PVC, cooling tower components, lamellar lamellar clarifiers)
  • H. Schubert GmbH, imi-Beton (concrete, iron, natural stone and old wood imitations)
  • Mirotec Glas- und Metallbau GmbH (creation of glass facades, glass roofs, special glass constructions and elevator shafts) has been part of the Lamilux Group since 2015
  • Eisen + Baustahl Hubert Pohlmann GmbH & Co. KG (steel wholesaler)
  • Bolan Home Fashion GmbH (production and trading of garden furniture and accessories, home and bathroom textiles)
  • Atair GmbH (logistics and trading in socks and hosiery)

schools

traffic

Road traffic

Location Wettringen

Wettringen is connected B70to the A30(Rheine-Nord junction, 17 km away) and B54to A31(Ochtrup junction, 12 km away) and A1(Münster-Nord junction, 33 km away).

Bicycle traffic

Wettringen is connected to the long-distance cycle routes Vechtetalroute, Radbahn-Münsterland , the former Ochtrup – Rheine railway , the north course of the 100-Schlösser-Route and the Aa-Vechte-Route.

Bus transport

The bus transport is carried out by the bus company Regionalverkehr Münsterland (RVM). There are the following line connections:

  • R80 Rheine - Neuenkirchen - Wettringen - Steinfurt
  • 182 Rheine - Neuenkirchen - Wettringen - Ochtrup - Gronau
  • 184 Rheine - Neuenkirchen - Wettringen - Burgsteinfurt
  • 61 Schüttorf - Samern - Without - Haddorf - Bilk - Wettringen

Rail transport

The Wettringen stop was on the Ochtrup – Rheine railway line . The railway line has now been closed and there is now a railway cycle path on the former route , the RadBahn Münsterland . There are connections to the DB Netz AG rail network via Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt train station, 6 km away, and Rheine train station, 12 km away .

Shipping

The closest inland port is in Rheine on the Dortmund-Ems Canal . It can be reached in 25 minutes via the B 70 and A 30.

air traffic

The Münster / Osnabrück Airport is about 34 kilometers away.

Agriculture

There are around 110 farms in total. They mainly operate cattle breeding and fattening animals. For the most part, barley and maize are grown. The total stock of the agriculturally used area is approx. 4,080 ha. The proportion of part-time businesses is approx. 45%.

particularities

Since November 15, 2007, Wettringen has had its own currency that can be used to pay in some shops, the "Herz-Taler". The heart thaler is one to one with the euro and is primarily intended to replace vouchers. In addition, this ensures that people shop more in Wettringen, as the Herz-Taler are only valid in Wettringen.

Wettringen was the first municipality in the Steinfurt district to be equipped with a fiber optic connection across the whole of the town center and the commercial area in 2013.

Personalities

literature

  • Wilhelm Brockpähler : Contributions to the local history of Wettringen. Ed .: Municipality of Wettringen. For the 1100 anniversary. Wettringen July 1938.
  • various: Festschrift for the 1150th anniversary of the municipality of Wettringen . Ed .: Municipality of Wettringen. For the 1150th anniversary. IVD GmbH & Co. KG, Ibbenbüren, Wettringen 1988.
  • Sebastian Kreyenschulte: A -ingen name in Old Low German: The place name Wettringen (Steinfurt district) , in: Nordmünsterland. Forschungs und Funde 3 (2016), pp. 276–286.
  • Engelbert Rauen, Lothar Hempel: Chronicle of the years 1988–2012 . Ed .: Municipality of Wettringen. For the 1175 anniversary. IVD GmbH & Co. KG, Ibbenbüren, Wettringen 2012.

Web links

Commons : Wettringen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ^ Roger Wilmans : The imperial documents of the province of Westphalia 777-1313 . Regensberg, Münster 1867, vol. 1, p. 51 and 53 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
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  6. ^ Claudia Landwehr (Red.): The coffee cantate. A musical comedy from Westphalia based on JS Bach . Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-939974-38-3 , p. 11.
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  8. ↑ http://www.radbahn-muensterland.de/
  9. ↑ http://daten2.verwaltungsportal.de/daten/seitengenerator/imagebroschuere_aavechtedoppelseiten.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.wadelheim.de/bahn.htm
  11. ↑ http://daten2.verwaltungsportal.de/daten/seitengenerator/pti_rheine_radkarte_einleger_end.pdf
  12. ↑ http://www.muensterland-tourismus.de/5116/100-schloesser-route-radtour
  13. ↑ http://campingplatz-haddorf.de/
  14. ↑ http://camping-in-nrw.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=10&campid=254
  15. ↑ http://www.jsv.de/
  16. ↑ http://www.maennerschuetzengilde.de/index2.php
  17. ↑ https://www.kreis-steinfurt.de/kv_steinfurt/Ressourcen/Statistik/Besch%C3%A4ftigte.pdf
  18. ↑ http://www.bornet.de/gebiete/wettringen/#tabAnschlussgebiete-tab
  19. ↑ The industrial park can grow. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  20. ↑ https://www.imi-beton.com/
  21. ^ Eisen + Baustahl Hubert Pohlmann GmbH - website
  22. ↑ Bernd Schäfer: Steinfurt is tight. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  23. ↑ http://www.ludgerusschule-wettringen.de/
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  25. ↑ http://swr-vnw.edupage.org/
  26. ↑ http://www.josefsschule-wettringen.net/
  27. ^ Münsterland eV: Cycling in Wettringen | Münsterland eV Tourism. Retrieved June 18, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Bus route R80 timetable
  29. ↑ Bus line 182 timetable
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  32. ↑ Information on the citizens 'bus on the citizens' bus association's homepage
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  36. ↑ Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 25, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ikp.kit.edu  
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  38. ↑ http://www.wn.de/Muensterland/2013/06/Mickie-Krause-Von-Wetten-dass-nach-Wettringen
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