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Telgte divides into the main city and two districts, Westbevern-Dorf and Westbevern-Vadrup.
Until 1974, Westbevern (population: about 4000; area of 24,46 km²) was an independent town, with Dorf, Vadrup, and Brock as its districts. Since the reform of the municipal area reform, Brock has been a part of the neighboring town Ostbevern. The Bever runs as a tributary to the Ems through Westbevern. With its double-mill at the Bever, Haus Langen is a popular destination for tourists. For a couple of years, the neo-gothic church St Cornelius and Cyprian was a part of the parish community St. Marien (Telgte and Westbevern.)
History
The region around Telgte was already inhabited by Saxon tribes during post-Roman times. In the course of the Saxon wars at the hands of Charlemagne, this region was Christianised. Ludgerus, the first bishop of Münster, built a church in Telgte. This parish church was probably a wooden construct.
Telgte developed at a fork of larger trade routes to the North Sea and Baltic Sea, due to a ford that was able to cross the river, Ems.
Around 1500 there were several large fires. In one of these fires, the old church perished. Prince-BishopFranz von Waldeck of Münster was granted asylum in Telgte during the Münster Rebellion of the Anabaptists in the 1530s. Telgte suffered from the plague three times, so in 1599 more than half of the inhabitants died.
The Jewish community in Telgte existed until 1941. During Kristallnacht, the synagogue was desecrated and destroyed and the cemetery was removed in 1942, by Brownshirts and students. Today, commemorative plaques at these locations remind us of Telgte's Jewish history.
During the 20th century, Telgte's structure was formed, adding Westbevern to its district.
Culture
Telgte is famous for the annual Telgte Pilgrimage, the second-largest pilgrimage in Germany. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and beginning in Osnabrück, the summertime pilgrimage regularly consists of 8,000 pilgrims. Approximately 150,000 pilgrims visit Telgte annually. Telgte is also known for its Nativity Museum (Krippenmuseum) and its fair (the Birth of Mary Market).
Telgte is nationally known for its nativity museum, which is today part of the RELíGIO - Westphalian Museum for Religious Culture, the Birth of Mary Market with a show jumping tournament that attracts around 40,000 visitors every September, and the Telgter Pilgrimage, the annual Marian pilgrimage from Osnabrück to Telgte. It is one of the largest in Germany with around 8,000 pilgrims regularly. Up to 150,000 pilgrims come to Telgte every year.
In addition, the carriage pilgrimage takes place once a year on Ascension Day, where over 100 carriages often present themselves. This pilgrimage attracts many spectators to the city center and the Planwiese, a large event area in the city.
Other events that take place on the Planwiese in Telgte: a show of hot air balloons, the Montgolfiade, takes place on the first weekend in May and the large Birth of the Birth of Mary Market takes place in September. Medieval festivals also take place regularly during summer. Until 2014, Germany's largest medieval Christmas market with lights took place in Telgte during Advent.
Exhibitions are also occasionally held in Telgte. In 2009, Christel Lechner's Everyday People were on display, and in the summer of 2011 HA Schult's Trash People were on display. From April to July 2015, the Everyday People were once again exhibited in the historic part of the city.
The forest cemetery Lauheide with over 35,000 graves is located in the area of the city of Telgte near the city border of Münster. The Office for Green Spaces and Environmental Protection of the City of Münster, which owns the cemetery, is responsible for it.
Pilgrimage chapel in front of the St. Clemens church
Museums
Under the name RELíGIO - Westphalian Museum for Religious Culture, the former Museum Heimathaus Münsterland and the Crib Museum were brought together with a common concept. The name has existed since 2011, and the new conception of the museum dates back to 2012. The RELíGIO museum is the first religious museum in Germany to present world religions, denominations and denominational differences, religious festivals, the history of the Telgter pilgrimage, the life and work of Cardinal von Galens, and the important Telgter famine cloth from 1623, on more than 1000 square meters.
The Corn Distillery Museum is a historic building that provides a detailed insight into the history of the corn distillery in Münster. The building was constructed in 1900, and production continued until 1979. The technical system is still almost completely preserved. A gallery on the second floor offers space for exhibitions of contemporary art.
The pilgrimage chapel, a Marian chapel, is a baroque, octagonal central building from around 1650. The destination of the pilgrimages is the Telgter Gnadenbild, a Pietà (sculpture of Mary with the Fire rider at the Medieval Spectaculum the corpse of Jesus) in this chapel. According to legend, it is said to have been carved from the Marienlinde (an old city gate tree).
The Propsteikirche St. Clemens, built between 1522 and 1558, is a Gothic hall church. It lies on the Ems and near the pilgrimage chapel.
Christoph-Bernsmeyer-Haus: North of the Propsteikirche there is a striking building, the so-called Große Mühle, directly on the Emswehr. There was a mill in Telgte very early on. On the left bank of the Ems behind the church was the large grain mill (today's Christoph-Bernsmeyer-Haus), on the right bank there was the oil and fulling mill, which was demolished around 1900. The large, well-decorated coat of arms on the gable of the Great Mill contains a chronogram with the year 1754 in the first two lines. The Westphalian Baroque master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun was involved in the planning of the renovation work.
This former grain mill was thoroughly renovated in 1976/77 and taken over by the Mauritzer Franciscan nuns, whose founder Father Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer (1777-1858) was the vicar in Telgte for a long time and therefore gave the house its name. The building was a convalescent home for Franciscan sisters until 2014 and today houses a priory of the Maria Stella Matutina Sisters' Community, a contemplative religious community.
Emsstraße 25, a half-timbered building, built around 1600
Herrenstrasse 7, a half-timbered building from the second half of the 17th century, originally built as a vicarage house
Königstraße 35, a one-story half-timbered building erected in 1500, has been rebuilt several times
Markt 4, brick eaves house from 1778
Ritterstraße 2, a one-story half-timbered building with a gable projecting twice over rope band cleats, erected around 1600
Ritterstraße 4, The one-story half-timbered building, whose gable protrudes twice over Knaggen, was erected in 1625
The Marienlinde is an approx. 750-year-old, heritage-protected summer linden, and is one of the oldest trees in Germany. The ‘tree veteran’ stands at the northern city gate, the cathedral gate. The linden tree got its name from the image of the Virgin Mary that is said to have been carved from its wood.
Population
Population from 1818 to 2016.
Year
Inhabitants
1818
4437
1843
5166
1871
5360
1890
6109
1905
6692
1913
7006
1915
7260
1917
7275
1919
7483
1921
7719
1924
8174
1925
8250
1926
8473
Year
Inhabitants
1927
8445
1933
8727
1939
9698
1944
10923
1945
11979
1946
12989
1947
13707
1948
13736
1949
13852
1950
13692
1951
13576
1952
13477
1953
13432
Year
Inhabitants
1954
13392
1956
13383
1961
13767
1962
14379
1963
14810
1964
15068
1965
15414
1966
15694
1967
15883
1968
16005
1969
16197
1970 ¹
15826
1971
16019
Year
Inhabitants
1972
16760
1973
16968
1974
17269
1975
15122
1976
15365
1977
15377
1978
15589
1979
15780
1980
16254
1981
16388
1982
16515
1983
16576
1984
16613
Year
Inhabitants
1985
16664
1986
16534
1987
16555
1988
16834
1989
16997
1990
17358
1991
17725
1992
18125
1993
18219
1994
18303
1995
18472
1996
18585
1997
18728
Year
Inhabitants
1998
18774
1999
18836
2000
18992
2001
19370
2002
19489
2003
19432
2004
19444
2005
19528
2006
19522
2008
19190
2010
19114
2012
18879
2014
19217
¹ Correction of the updating numbers by the census 1970
Politics
The city of Telgte consists of three parts: Telgte, Westbevern and Westbevern-Vadrup. Until the 1970s Westbevern was an independently administered village that consisted of Vadrup and Brock (Brock was incorporated into Ostbevern in a communal reform). Through Westbevern flows the river Bever, a tributary of the Ems. An attractive tourist destination is Haus Langen, with a former double mill at the Bever.
