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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
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
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
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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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: 21 May 2023
