Neuenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neuenkirchen is the biggest village in the district of Steinfurt. It is situated approximately 7 km south-west of Rheine and 35 km north-west of Münster.
Neuenkirchen | |
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_COA.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Neuenkirchen within Steinfurt district  | |
  Neuenkirchen  Neuenkirchen | |
| Coordinates: 52°14′28″N 7°22′08″E / 52.24111°N 7.36889°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Münster |
| District | Steinfurt |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–25) | Wilfried Brüning[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 48 km2 (19 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 58 m (190 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 14,096 |
| • Density | 290/km2 (760/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 48485 |
| Dialling codes | 05973 |
| Vehicle registration | ST |
| Website | www.neuenkirchen.de |
Geography
editNeighbouring places
editDivision of the municipality
editPolitics
editTown assembly
editThis section needs to be updated. (June 2021) |
After the local elections on September 26, 2004 the town assembly has the following structure:
- CDU 15 seats
- SPD 5 seats
- Green Party 2 seats
- FDP 1 seats
- UWG 3 seats
Sons and daughters of the community
edit- Johannes Georg Bednorz (born 1950), physicist and Nobel laureate, a residential street bears his name (Georg-Bednorz-Strasse).
- Josef F. Bille (born 1944), physicist and inventor, bearer of the European Inventive Price
- Isaac Leeser (1806-1868), American Jewish religious leader, teacher, scholar and publisher
- August Rohling (1839-1931), theologian and anti-Semite
- Hans Weiner (born 1950), footballer
- André Wiwerink (born 1980), footballer
References
edit- ^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 30 June 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
External links
edit- Official website
(in German)
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