Tecklenburg
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Location of Tecklenburg within Steinfurt district  | |
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| Coordinates: 52°13′10″N 7°48′45″E / 52.21944°N 7.81250°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Münster |
| District | Steinfurt |
| Subdivisions | 17 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Stefan Streit (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 70.37 km2 (27.17 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 201 m (659 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 122 m (400 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 9,398 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (350/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 49545 |
| Dialling codes | 05482 |
| Vehicle registration | ST, BF, TE |
| Website | www.tecklenburg.de |
Tecklenburg (German: [ˈtɛklənˌbʊʁk] ) is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its name comes from the ruined castle around which it was built.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows an anchor and three seeblatts.
Geography
It is located at the foothills of the Teutoburg Forest, southwest of Osnabrück.
Division of the town
Tecklenburg consists of 4 districts (with farming communities):
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History
In the 12th century the county of Tecklenburg emerged in the region that is now called the "Tecklenburger Land" in the western foothills of the Teutoburg Forest. It was annexed by the neighbouring county of Bentheim in 1263, and Tecklenburg still had a count until the 19th century. Even today, some local descendants of the Bentheim / Tecklenburg families are sometimes considered as aristocrats. Much like many other European aristocrats, their family can be traced back to Charlemagne (800s) or is linked with the blood lines of old European royal families (e.g. in the case of the Bentheim-Tecklenburg there is a link with the House of Orange – the Dutch royal family).
Tecklenburg has retained some of its medieval townscape to date. Main sites include the ruined castle (now serving as open-air theatre during the summer) and the Stadtkirche (the main, old church) including tombs of the dukes of Tecklenburg and others prominent in the history of the county and city.
Today, the city of Tecklenburg (from a perspective of size really not a city but a town) is a tourist destination.
Tecklenburg Castle
Tecklenburg Castle is a ruined fortification in Tecklenburg, used today as an outdoor theatre.
The castle was built around 1250. Anna von Tecklenburg-Schwerin made a lot of structural changes. Around 1700, the castle was dilapidated and its brick and stone was used for other buildings in Tecklenburg, leaving nothing but a ruin.[2]
International relations
Tecklenburg is twinned with:
France Chalonnes-sur-Loire (France) since 1982
Sons and daughters of the town
- Adolf von Tecklenburg (c. 1185–1224), Bishop of Osnabrück
- Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (1767–1845), theologian
- Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior (1831–1910), theologian
- Hermann Beitzke (1875–1953), physician and tuberculosis researcher
- Erwin Vierow (1890–1982), General of the Infantry
See also
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ Edgar Warnecke, Das große Buch der Burgen und Schlösser im Land von Hase und Ems. Verlag H. Th. Wenner, ISBN 3-87898-297-6
External links
- Official website
(in German) - Corpus juris of the province Tecklenburg/Lingen online (in German)
- Burgenwelt: Burg Tecklenburg
- "Tecklenburg". Alle Burgen (in German).
- Pages about the Tecklenburg Open-Air Games
- [1] (pdf; 4.4 MB)
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