What is Ibbenbüren?
{{redlinks|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox German location |image_photo = IbbenbuerenChristuskirche.jpg |imagesize = 300px |image_caption = Christ Church, Ibbenbüren |type = Stadt |image_coa = DE Ibbenbüren COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|52|16|40|N|7|43|00|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Ibbenbüren in ST.svg |state = Nordrhein-Westfalen |region = [[Regierungsbezirk Münster|Münster]] |district = Steinfurt |elevation = 64 |area = 108.85 |population = 51190 |Stand = 2006-12-31 |postal_code = 49477, 49479 |area_code = 05451, 05459 (Uffeln), 05455 (Dörenthe) |licence = ST, TE, BF |Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 5 66 028 |divisions = 9 |website = {{url|https://www.ibbenbueren.de/}} |mayor = Dr. Marc Schrameyer |party = SPD }} '''Ibbenbüren''' or '''Ibbenbueren''' is a medium-sized town in the district of [[Steinfurt (district)|Steinfurt]], in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]]. It is on position 185 of the biggest cities in Germany and the biggest city in [[Tecklenburger Land]]. == Geography == Ibbenbüren (Ibbenbueren) is on the [[Ibbenbürener Aa]] river, at the northwest end of the [[Teutoburger forest]] and rather exactly in the center of the two cities [[Rheine]] in the west and [[Osnabrück]] in the east, both about 20&nbsp;km away. == History == Ibbenbüren is said in documentary evidence for the first time in 1146, when the [[Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück|bishop of Osnabrück]] at that time, [[Philipp of Katzenelnbogen]], donated a tenth of his possessions in Ibbenbüren to the Getrudenkloster of Osnabrück. Although Ibbenbüren is already much older and a document of the year 1348 already occupies the establishment of a church in the year 799, the year 1146 is officially considered as the year of the foundation of Ibbenbüren. In the years 1219 and/or 1234 it appears as church village. In this transition of the [