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. It is situated approximately 7 km south-west of Rheine and 35 km north-west of Münster.

Neighbouring places

 * Wettringen
 * Steinfurt
 * Emsdetten
 * Rheine
 * Salzbergen

Division of the municipality

 * St. Arnold, Neuenkirchen
 * Offlum
 * Sutrum-Harum
 * Landersum

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