Heek, Germany

Heek is a municipality in Western Munsterland in the district of Borken in the administrative district of Münster in the northwest of North Rhine- Westphalia.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms, Flag and Banner 3.2.1 Coat of Arms
  • 3.2.2 Banner
  • 3.2.3 flag
  • 4.1 Structures

Geography

Neighboring communities

Heek borders Ahaus, Gronau, Legden, Metelen, Ochtrup and Schöppingen

For the development of the postal system Epe, Gronau, Nienborg and Schöppingen see: Postal History of Steinfurt.

Boroughs

The hamlet Heek include the two farming communities awl and Averbeck and district Nienborg the peasantry Ammert, call Beck, Wext, Wichum.

Population figures

  • Averbeck: 236
  • Call Beck: 69
  • Heek (including awl ): 5374
  • Nienborg: 3057
  • Wext: 217
  • Wichum: 85

( As of 24 August 2009).

History

Made was the church of the two former municipalities Heek and Nienborg which were merged on 1 July 1969 on the new community Heek.

Policy

Parish council

Due to the choice of 30 August 2009, gives the following division in the council:

  • CDU: 19 seats
  • SPD: 9 seats

Coat of arms, banner and flag

The municipality has been awarded with certificate of the provincial government of 10 July 1972, the right to bear a coat of arms, a flag, a banner and an official seal.

Banner

Flag

Coat of arms of the former municipality Nienborg

Coat of arms of the former municipality Heek to 1972

Coat of arms

Blazon: " split from red to gold ( yellow); front standing a golden (yellow ) bishop with staff in his right hand, book and model of the church in his left hand at his feet, a gold (yellow ) goose, behind a red embattled walls with black double gates, beseitet of each a black window opening on a red tower with hood roof and battlements gallery and three superimposed black windows. "

The coat of arms of the new community Heek is a combination of the 1937 approved Coat of Heek and Nienborg. The figure of the holy bishop Ludger, but in gold instead of silver, and only with a goose at his feet and the castle tower above a crenellated wall, which goes back to a seal of the castle men the country Nienborg castle from the late 13th century. The colors correspond to those of the pen Münster.

Banner

Description of banner: " The banner is vertical stripes to red in two equally wide strips of yellow and shows in the middle of the upper half of the coat of arms of the municipality. "

Flag

Flag description: " The Hissflagge is striped lengthwise into two equally wide strips from yellow to red (meaning striated ) and shows in the center the coat of arms of the municipality. "

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Castle Nienborg, a former castle in the district Nienborg. In the so-called " Long House " is now housed the Music Academy of North Rhine- Westphalia. The " House " and the " Keppelborg " are privately owned. In both buildings there is the possibility for overnight.
  • The neo-Gothic Holy Cross Church with large, colorful windows from the glass painters of the forest from Münster and from Derix Kevelaer and the Pietà of 1407, a sculpture from Baumberger sandstone in the Tower Chapel.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nicolaus Schaten (1608 - 1676), Jesuit and historian
  • Lucio Alfert ( b. 1941 ), Bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Pilcomayo
  • Berthold U. Wigger (born 1966 ), economist
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