Neuenkirchen, Westphalia Explained

Neuenkirchen
Type:	Stadt
Image Coa:	DEU_Neuenkirchen_(Kreis_Steinfurt)_COA.svg
Coordinates:	52.2411°N 7.3689°W
Image Plan:	Neuenkirchen in ST.svg
State:	North Rhine-Westphalia
Region:	Münster
District:	Steinfurt
Elevation:	58
Area:	48
Postal Code:	48485
Area Code:	05973
Licence:	ST
Gemeindeschlüssel:	05 5 66 060
Website:	www.neuenkirchen.de
Mayor:	Wilfried Brüning^[1]
Leader Term:	2020 - 25
Party:	SPD

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

• • 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

Notes and References

1. https://www.wahlergebnisse.nrw/kommunalwahlen/2020/index_bm.shtml Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020