Manitoba Communities: Rhineland (Rural Municipality)

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This municipality is named after a district in the Rhine River valley of western Germany.

Present Status	Municipality of Rhineland (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History	Rural Municipality of Douglas (14 February 1880) Rural Municipality of Rhineland (February 1891) Amalgamation of Gretna, Plum Coulee and Rhineland (1 January 2015)
Adjoining Municipalities	Montcalm, Morris, Roland, Stanley
Constituent Communities	Altbergthal, Altona, Bergfeld (west), Bergman, Blumengart (west), Blumengart Colony, Blumenhof (west), Blumenort South, Ebenfeld (west), Edenburg, Edenthal, Eigengrund (west), Eigenhoff, Gnadenfeld, Gnadenthal, Gretna, Gruenfeld (west), Halbstadt, Hamburg (west), Heuboden (west), Horndean, Kleefeld (west), Kronsthal (west), Lichtfeld, Neuanlage (west), Neubergthal, Neuendorf, Neuhoffnung (west), Neuhorst, Plum Coulee, Reinthal, Rosenfeld, Rosengart (west), Rosenhof, Rosetown, Rudnerweide, Schoenau (west), Schoenhorst (west), Schoenthal (west), Schoenwiese (west), Silberfeld (west), Sommerfeld
Land Area (square km)	960.40

Population

Year	Total
1881	1673
1891	6500
1896	7860
1901	7832
1911	7272
1921	8400
1931	8314
1941	8936
1951	6730
1956	6451
1961	6003
1966	5339
1971	4776
1976	4550
1981	4525
1986	4321
1991	4150
1996	4172
2001	4183
2006	4125
2011	4373
2016	5945
2021	5819

Reeves

Term	Mayor
1880	Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)
1880-1883	?
1883-1884	Otto Schultz
1884-1886	Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)
1886-1887	Peter Funk
1887-1888	David Peters
1888-1889	Peter Bergen
1889-1891	Gerhard Klassen
1891-1895	Jacob Heppner
1895-1896	Anton Heppner
1896-1897	Jacob Heppner
1897-1898	Peter R. Friesen
1898-1899	Johann Siemens
1899-1900	Cornelius Bergman
1900-1901	Anton Heppner
1901-1903	Cornelius Bergman
1903-1907	William Berg
1907-1912	H. J. Friesen
1912-1913	Jacob P. Derksen
1913-1916	H. J. Friesen
1916-1918	Jacob A. Klassen
1918-1919	H. D. Penner
1919-1929	Peter A. Toews
1929-1947	John D. Giesbrecht
1947-1953	Edward Pokrant
1953-1955	H. P. Hildebrandt
1955-1957	Jacob F. Janzen
1957-1959	David Wall
1959-1967	W. E. Dueck
1967-1983	Henry D. “H. D.” Hildebrand (1927-2015)
1983-1998	Jacob H. Schroeder (?-2015)
1998-?	John H. Falk
?-2010	?
2010-2011	Grant Heinrichs (c1951-2011)
2011-2018	?
2018-?	Don Wiebe

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Maps

Sources

Sixty Years of Progress: The Rural Municipality of Rhineland, 1884-1944 by Jacob Rempel.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 28 October 2022