Neuenkirchen, Westphalia
Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coat of arms
Location of Neuenkirchen within Steinfurt district
(2020–25) Wilfried Brüning[1] (SPD)
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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.
Geography
Neighbouring places
- Wettringen
- Steinfurt
- Emsdetten
- Rheine
- Salzbergen
Division of the municipality
- St. Arnold [de]
- Offlum
- Sutrum-Harum
- Landersum
Politics
Town assembly
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
- 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
- ^ 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
- Official website (in German)
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