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.
Geography
Neighbouring places Wettringen Steinfurt Emsdetten Rheine Salzbergen
Division of the municipality
Offlum Sutrum-Harum Landersum
Population
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 Joseph Epping (1835-1894), German assyrologist and mathematician August Rohling (1839-1931), German theologian Josef Bille (1944-2013), German physicist Georg Bednorz (born 1950), German physicist Jürgen Coße (born 1969), German politician André Wiwerink (born 1980), German footballer Malte Nieweler (born 1994), German footballer
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