Tecklenburg

Tecklenburg
Tecklenburg
Location of the town of Tecklenburg within Steinfurt district
Coordinates	52°13′10″N 7°48′45″E / 52.21944°N 7.8125°E / 52.21944; 7.8125Coordinates: 52°13′10″N 7°48′45″E / 52.21944°N 7.8125°E / 52.21944; 7.8125
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Münster
District	Steinfurt
Town subdivisions	17
Mayor	Wilfried Brönstrup
Basic statistics
Area	70.37 km2 (27.17 sq mi)
Elevation	122-201 m
Population	9,159 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	130 /km2 (337 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	ST (until 1975: TE)
Postal code	49545
Area code	05482
Website	www.tecklenburg.de

County of Tecklenburg Grafschaft Tecklenburg
State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806)
← 11th century–1808 →
Capital	Tecklenburg
Government	Principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
- Established	early 11th century 11th century
- To counts of Schwerin	1327–1557
- Partitioned to create     the County of Lingen	1493
- To Solms-Braunfels     by judgement	1696
- Sold to Brandenburg	1707
- Mediatised to Berg	1808
- Annexed by France to form     département of Lippe	1810–15

Tecklenburg is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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):

Tecklenburg

Brochterbeck Oberdorf Niederdorf Holthausen Wallen-Lienen Horstmersch

Ledde Danebrock Oberbauer Wieck

Leeden Loose Oberberge

Neighbouring municipalities

• Ibbenbüren
• Westerkappeln
• Lotte
• Hagen
• Lengerich
• Ladbergen
• Saerbeck

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 descendents of the Bentheim / Tecklenburg families are sometimes considered as (former) nobles. Much like many other European (former) nobles, their family can be traced back to Charles the Great (800's) 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 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.

Burg Tecklenburg

Burg Tecklenburg is a castle ruin in Tecklenburg, used today as an outdoor theatre.

The castle was built around 1250. Anna von Tecklenburg-Schwerin made a lot of construction changes. Around 1700 the castle was old and the bricks were used for other buildings in Tecklenburg. Only a ruin was the result.^[2]

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Tecklenburg is twinned with:

•  France Chalonnes-sur-Loire (France) since 1982

See also

• Bentheim-Tecklenburg

References

1. ^ "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31 December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html. 
2. ^ 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 site (German)
• Corpus juris of the province Tecklenburg/Lingen online (German)
• Burgenwelt:Burg Tecklenburg