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
Division of the municipality
Politics
Town assembly
After the local elections on September 26, 2004 the town assembly has the following structure:
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 CoÃÂe (born 1969), German politician
- André Wiwerink (born 1980), German footballer
- Malte Nieweler (born 1994), German footballer
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