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3 unusual facts about Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia


Groesbeek

Groesbeek and Kranenburg are situated on the banks of the Groesbeek, a small stream in the Groesbeek valley, a large valley between the Nijmeegse heuvelrug and Reichswald.

Kleve

Sizeable Dutch communities exist in the area around Kranenburg to the west of Kleve.

Wyler, North Rhine-Westphalia

Wyler is a village along the Dutch/German border, 7 km SE of Nijmegen, Netherlands, and 5 km west of Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia


Adam Pastor

Adam Pastor was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists.

Alpen

Alpen, Germany, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

August Euler

Euler was born at Oelde in Westphalia and was educated at Oelde and at public schools in Cologne and Aachen and from 1885 started a career in engineering.

Balkenbrij

'Panhas', 'Pannas' or 'Möppkenbrot' are widely known in the whole northwest of Germany, the last variety is a speciality of middle Westphalia.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Detmold station

Buses run from the bus station on the station forecourt city to all the city’s districts and regional buses run to Augustdorf, Blomberg, Horn-Bad Meinberg and Barntrup.

Diana Sorbello

Diana Sorbello (born June 27, 1979 in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German schlager singer.

Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia

These include many international global players such as 3M, BP, Ericsson, Ford, LG Electronics, QVC, Sony, Renault, Toyota, and Vodafone.

Elsdorf

It is situated approximately 5 km south-west of Bergheim and 30 km west of Cologne.

Geldern-Kapellen

The area Kapellen lies in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhine) in the northwest part of German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Georg Bednorz

Bednorz was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to elementary-school teacher Anton and piano teacher Elisabeth Bednorz, as the youngest of four children.

Gommecourt, Pas-de-Calais

The victorious German troops who defended the village during the battle were the 52nd Infantry Division from Baden together with 2nd Guards Reserve Division from Westphalia; the British Army force taking part in the attack comprised the 56th (London) Division and the 46th (North Midland) Division.

Gustav Simon

When the war ended, Simon went into hiding using his mother's maiden name in Upsprunge, a community in Salzkotten, Westphalia, where he posed as a gardener.

Hafkenscheid

The family has taken its name from the former Havkenscheid castle in the hamlet of the same name near Bochum, Westphalia.

Hamburger Schule

In particular, a local scene of Germanophone bands had developed in the small town of Bad Salzuflen in Eastern Westphalia, which was centered around the label Fast Weltweit.

Hanoverian Western Railway

The Hanoverian Western Railway was a line from the Löhne to Emden, built by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in the mid-19th century in the west of the Kingdom of Hanover in the modern German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

Imperial Abbey of Corvey

The Carolingian west end of the abbey, with its landmark matching towers (built 873–885) survives, the earliest standing medieval structure in Westphalia, but the abbey church is now Baroque.

Isaac Leeser

Born as Isaak Leeser in Neuenkirchen/Rheine, Westphalia, Isaac Leeser received his education at the primary school of nearby Dülmen and thereupon at a gymnasium in Münster.

Jan Westerbarkey

Westerbarkey was born in Gütersloh, in the German state of North Rhine-Westfalia, to Sturmi Westerbarkey and Karin Westerbarkey née Müller.

Jérôme Napoléon Charles Bonaparte

As the eldest son of Jérôme Bonaparte, Jérôme Napoléon had stood to inherit his titles and claims; instead his younger brother Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte succeeded to the Westphalia claim, and his son Napoléon Victor Bonaparte eventually became head of the House of Bonaparte.

Kirchsahr

Kirchsahr consists of the districts Kirchsahr, Binzenbach, Burgsahr, Hürnig and Winnen, and lies near the state border of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Krombach

Kreuztal-Krombach, a locality in Kreuztal, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia

Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia

10 Centre Party (Germany), 2 Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1 Reich Party of the German Middle Class, 4 Communist Party of Germany, 1 independent .

Mike, der Taschengeldexperte

The comic was last produced by the advertising agency genokom from Münster in Westphalia, which also publishes the sequel comic Primax together with the DG VERLAG.

Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway

The Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway is a 24 km long main line on the left (western) bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Nic Romm

After Nic Romm finished the gymnasium in Jülich, a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he visited the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2012

The Red-Green coalition formed a minority government with Hannelore Kraft as Minister President after emerging one seat short of a governing majority in the previous election.

Obermarsberg

Obermarsberg, previously Eresburg, is one of seventeen quarters in the municipality of Marsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Parodia leninghausii

a native of North Rhine-Westphalia who, in the 1880s, left his hometown of Ennepetal and emigrated to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he became Guillermo Lenninghaus, and collected cacti for the German grower Haage.

Petra Hammesfahr

Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.

Principality of Orange-Nassau

By German Mediatisation, the county Dietz and its dependencies, and the Lordships Wehrheim and Burbach, all came under the sovereignty of the Duke of Nassau-Usingen and the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

Rahul Peter Das

Rahul Peter Das (born 7 July 1954 in Haan, North Rhine-Westphalia) is the professor of South Asian studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he is also the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy I and erstwhile Director of the Centre for Languages of the University.

Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn

The cities of Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen and Wattenscheid founded the Stadtbahngesellschaft Ruhr in 1969 for coordinating the plans to transform tram routes into Stadtbahn routes.

Roetgen

Roetgen is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Schmitz Cargobull

The company's head office is located in Horstmar, Germany, and its registered office is in the neighbouring city of Altenberge in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Sparrenberg Castle

After some preliminary work starting in 1535, from 1556 on the Italian fortress master builder Alessandro Pasqualini and his son managed the reconstruction, which was finished in 1578 and created the largest fortress in Westphalia.

Spich station

Spich station is a railway junction in the district of Spich of the town of Troisdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Sieg Railway.

Steinhagen

Steinhagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the district of Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia

SV Lippstadt 08

SV Lippstadt is a German association football club from the city of Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia.

SV Schermbeck

SV Schermbeck is a German association football club from Schermbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tomáš Týn

He was allowed to study in France, and later moved to Germany to begin his novitiate with the Dominicans on 28 September 1969 in Warburg in Westphalia, where his family came to escape the dictatorship in their country.

Tredegar House

After the King's arrest and execution, he fled to the continent and married Anna Petronilla the daughter of Baron von Pöllnitz from Westphalia (Governor of Lippstadt, 20 miles east of Dortmund in Germany).

Troisdorf station

Troisdorf station is a railway junction in the town of Troisdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the line from Cologne separates into the East Rhine Railway to Neuwied and the Sieg Railway to Siegen.

Viersen Jazz Festival

The Viersen Jazz Festival is a music festival held every autumn in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Westphalia

The region is also home to the headquarters of Westfalia-Werke, the contractor that built the VW Westfalia camper vans.

Wiehltal bridge

The Wiehltal Bridge is a highway bridge on the A 4 motorway between Cologne and Olpe over the Wiehltal valley at Engelskirchen (Oberbergischer Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wolperath

Wolperath is the third largest urban subdivision (Ortsteil) of the Neunkirchen-Seelscheid municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhein-Sieg, Germany.


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