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unusual facts about North Rhine-Westfalia



Abellio Deutschland

Abellio Deutschland operates several regional railway lines in Northrhine-Westfalia, notably the line between Essen and Siegen / Iserlohn along the Ruhr and Lenne rivers.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

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

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippein the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Diana Sorbello

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

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.

Hagen-Heubing station

Hagen-Heubing station is a through station in the city of Hagen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Hagen–Hamm railway

The Hagen–Hamm railway is a continuous two-track, electrified main line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, connecting Hagen via Schwerte, Holzwickede and Unna to Hamm.

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.

Heinz Rudolf Kunze

Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze (born 30 November 1956, in Espelkamp-Mittwald, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German writer and rock singer.

Hellweg Börde

The Hellweg Börde (German: Hellwegbörde) refers to the countryside and natural region on the southern edge of the Westphalian Lowland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which embraces the old Hellweg trading route cities and towns of Dortmund, Unna, Werl and Soest extending to Salzkotten and from there in an ever narrower strip to its northeastern tip at Schlangen on the edge of the town of Bad Lippspringe.

Holger Henke

Holger Wilhelm Henke (* 25 September 1960 in Viersen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a political scientist and works as assistant provost at York College, City University of New York.

Hülchrath

Hülchrath is a district of the municipality of Grevenbroich in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Ingrid Becker

Ingrid Mickler-Becker (née Ingrid Becker; born September 26, 1942 in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion.

Jan Westerbarkey

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

Josef Wiesehöfer

Josef Wiesehöfer (born April 5, 1951 in Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German classical scholar and current professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics (Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde) of the University of Kiel.

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.

Martin Harlinghausen

Martin Harlinghausen was born on 17 January 1902 in Rheda, Westfalia as the son of the manufacturer Wilhelm Harlinghausen.

Marvin Höner

Marvin Höner (born 4 May 1994 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German professional football player who currently plays as a forward for AFC Ajax and for Germany U-19.

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.

Netinera

In 2004 Arriva acquired Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG), which operates several lines in east Germany around Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, North-Rhine Westphalia and Pomerania.

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, 2000

Wolfgang Clement remained minister-president, governing with an SPD-Green coalition.

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2005

For much of 2004, there had been speculation that if the opposition Christian Democratic Union were to win this election, they would gain a two-thirds majority in the national upper house, the Bundesrat, and force a new election for the Bundestag by making the country ungovernable for Gerhard Schröder's coalition.

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.

Oelde station

Oelde station is a passenger station in the Westphalian town of Oelde in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Olaf Hampel

Olaf Hampel (sometimes shown as Olav Hampel, born 1 November 1965 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German bobsledder who competed during the 1990s.

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.

Peter Joseph Elvenich

Peter Joseph Elvenich (January 29, 1796 – June 16, 1886) was a German Catholic theologian and philosopher born in Embken, a village that today is part of Nideggen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Peter Praet

Peter Praet (born 20 January 1949 in Herchen near Eitorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is chief economist of the European Central Bank.

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.

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.

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base (German: Heeresflugplatz Rheine-Bentlage, IATA: ZPQ, ICAO: ETHE) is located near the village of Bentlage, 2 km northwest of the city of Rheine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Robert Klümpen

Robert Klümpen (born 1973 in Issum, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German painter.

Roetgen

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

Santa Isabel, Espírito Santo

As part of this program the first 39 families from North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate (then known as Rheinpreussen in German or Prússia Renana in Portuguese, today those names are only historical), arrived to Vitória on the 21 of December 1846, first they settled in Viana but in 1857 most families followed on to found Santa Isabel Colony in the 27th of January 1857.

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.

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.

St. Mary's, Wisconsin

St. Mary's was first settled in 1856 by families who had immigrated to America from Stommeln, northwest of Köln (Cologne), Prussia, North Rhine-Westphalia, 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.

United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

Jülich-Cleves-Berg was the name of two former territories across the modern German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the modern Dutch province of Gelderland.

Vettweiß

Vettweiß (alternative spelling: Vettweiss) is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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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Siegfried H. Elsing

On 15 May 2013, he took up office as Honorary Consul of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the State of North Rhine-Westfalia.