Coerde

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Coerde is situated in the city's north, in the district district Nord and has around 10.000 citizens. Coerde was first mentioned in a certificate of the Cappenberg Palace in the 11th-century. Coerde was still called Curithi, when the bishop Siegfried von Walbeck consecrated a church in this place. The first mentioning is about the present Coerde House, main farmstead of the former farming community Coerde, thus the farms on the right side of the Münster Aa river between the farming community Kemper in the south, the Wöste beck in the north and the large heathland areas Coerheide and Gelmerheide in the east.

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The parish rights of the church for Coerde House were restricted to the area of the farmstead. An extension to form a parish, which would include the farming communities Coerde, Uppenberg, Sandrup, Sprakel, Gittrup, Gelmer, Fuestrup, Dorbaum and Laxten didn't happen. Bishop Hermann I established the collegiate church Liebfrauen-Überwasser in 1040, bishop Friedrich von Wettin the collegiate church St. Mauritz in 1070, to which also the farming community Coerde was allocated. In 1908, was the parish Kinderhaus relocated finally, which was planned in 1803 already.

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The area of the Catholic parish St. Norbert Coerde consists of the parts from the parishes Dykburg and Kinderhaus. The ecclesiastical transition to independence as parish Rectorate took place in 1964, in 1965 the raising to a parish. The building of the St.-Norbert church was consecrated in the year 1966. In 2008 the St.-Norbert community merged with the St.-Thomas-Morus community and is now the new founded St.-Franziskus community. Both parish churches remained.