Neuenkirchen, Westphalia

Neuenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neuenkirchen is the biggest village in the district of Steinfurt and noted for its stately homes. It is situated approximately 7 km south-west of Rheine and 35 km north-west of Münster.

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Geography

Neighbouring places

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, physicist and Nobel laureate, a residential street bears his name.
Josef F. Bille, physicist and inventor, bearer of the European Inventive Price
Isaac Leeser, American Jewish religious leader, teacher, scholar and publisher
August Rohling, theologian and anti-Semite
Hans Weiner, footballer
André Wiwerink, footballer
Joseph Epping, German assyrologist and mathematician
August Rohling, German theologian
Josef Bille, German physicist
Georg Bednorz, German physicist
Jürgen Coße, German politician
André Wiwerink, German footballer
Malte Nieweler, German footballer