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The farming community Häger is a village of the district in the Münster quarter Nienberge. Häger is situated ca. 9 km linear distance from Münster's city centre in the direction northwest, resp 3km north of Nienberge's centre, around the stop Münster Häger of the Euregio-Rail Münster - Steinfurt - Gronau - Enschede. Right now, around 1.200 people live in Häger.

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Häger is connected to the city centre and the centre North by the above mentioned railway line (hourly, resp. half-hourly in the afternoons). The regular connection has been improved in the last few years, by the reopening of the in 1981, closed section Gronau-Enschede, in the year Jahr 2001. In September 2006 the stop itself was extended. A bus line operates between Häger and Nienberge (and further into the city centre) twice daily. A special school bus connection exists to the Nienberge primary school. For cyclists, Häger is connected with the city through the Gasselstiege, a small, in the city area asphalted but traffic reduced road, which becomes on the last kilometres before Häger a forest path.

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History of the farming community Häger

The name Häger derives probably from the word Hagen, another description for a long rampart. It is unclear why the village got this name. One interpretation is, that the farm Farwick zum Hagen, was the original farm and name giver of the farming community, another interpretation of the name is, that Häger was the village situated behind (looking from Münster ) respectively in front (looking from Greven) the Hagen. Or, the cottage Häger was surrounded by a wide wooden belt, which formed a rampart (Hagen). The farming community Häger was first mentioned around 1200. It originated from the farms Schmidthaus, Vorberg, Relau, Issingholt and Langenhorst. Around these farms, settlements formed, which together formed the farming community Häger. In 1872, the construction of the railway line from Münster to Enschede started. But Häger didn't get a stop, only a 'guard booth' (the Wärterbude 7). In 1878 Häger finally got its own railway stop, due to an initiative by some farmers and landowners, who wanted to sell their produce on the Münster weekly market. In 1903, a goods loading point was added to the stop. A photo from the 20ties of the 20th-century depicts the , by now demolished 'railway station Nienberge' with waiting room and signal box and eight employees in front. A primary school was founded in the farming community Häger in 1899, in 1961 it was converted into an apartment house (today Hanseller Str. 100) and replaced by a new school on the road Plantstaken, which served as a kindergarten later. Since then, Häger's primary pupils attend the Nienberge primary school again.