Mecklenbeck

Around 9,500 people live in Mecklenbeck on a surface of just 6.25 km ². Mecklenbeck has evolved from an old farming community, which had settled left and right at the Meckel brook (the village's name giver). The Meckel brook flows just before Lake Aa into the Münster Aa. A farmstead in the area of the present Mecklenbeck, belonging to the cathedral chapter, was first mentioned in the year 889. The old half-timbered granary of 'Kump House' is testimony of the early days of settlement. It stems from the 16th-century and is thus Münster's oldest granary building.

The largest part of Mecklenbeck belongs to city Münster, since the second incorporation in the year1903, when it was incorporated as a part of the community Lamberti. After the Second World War, big barracks were built in Mecklenbeck for refugees and late repatriates, which coined the 'reputation' of the district as a residential district of the lower class in the rest of Münster. By now, numerous new housing estates have been built and the district consists of many separate residential areas.

image author: D. Hillmann