Rheine

Rheine is a Westphalian large district metropolis at the Ems and with approximately 75,000 inhabitants, the biggest metropolis within the district Steinfurt and after Munster the second one largest metropolis in Munster land. The nearby residents call themselves Rheinenser. Archaeological unearths testify that the region around Rheine already from the Middle Neolithic period, around 3200 BC. BC turned into settled. Further settlements 600 to 500 BC are occupied with the aid of excavations within the quarter Altenrheine that is positioned on the existing metropolis hill, proper of the Ems.

In Altenrheine, a grave of inguinal blocks turned into documented all through excavations, and the 3500 year vintage imprint of a corpse was also recovered to be seen within the Falkenhof Museum. On the left of the Ems, within the location of latest city center, were determined during excavations within the summer of 2018 additionally lines of settlement from the funnel beaker subculture and the pre Roman Iron Age. Perhaps the region around Rheine played a sure position in the course of the Roman Germanicus campaigns 14 to 16 AD.