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Kreuzau
Kreuzau is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, approx. 5 km south of Düren. Geography Neighbouring communities Kreuzau is surrounded by the following settlements, listed clockwise beginning in the north: the county town of Düren and the municipalities of Nörvenich, Vettweiß, Nideggen and Hürtgenwald, all in the county of Düren. Municipal subdivisions The municipality Kreuzau includes the following civil parishes (''Ortsteil''): * Bogheim * Boich * Drove * Kreuzau (incl. Schneidhausen) with 5,150 inhabitants on 31 October 2015 * Leversbach * Obermaubach (incl. Schlagstein) * Stockheim * Thum * Üdingen * Untermaubach (incl. Bilstein) * Winden (incl. Bergheim and Langenbroich) In addition there was the now extinct village of Hemgenberg. Twin towns Kreuzau is twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offsprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilstein (Kreuzau)
Bilstein may refer to: People * Counts of Bilstein, Frankish noble family * Barons of Bilstein, Westphalian noble family Inhabited places * Bilstein (Kürten), village near Kürten, county of Rheinisch-Bergischer-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein (Kreuzau), village near Kreuzau, county of Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein (Lennestadt), town quarter of Lennestadt, county of Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein (Limbourg) or Bilstain, town quarter of Limbourg, Province of Liege, Region of Wallonia, Belgium * Amt Bilstein, former administrative district in Westphalia * Barony of Bilstein, medieval comital lordship in the area of Eschwege, North Hesse * Villa Bilstein, Ennepetal, county of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia Castles * Bilstein Castle (Lennestadt), castle in Lennestadt, Landkreis county of Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein Castle (Eschwege), ruined castle near Eschwege, county of Werra-Meißner-Kreis, North Hesse * Bilstein Castle (B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düren (district)
Düren () is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Heinsberg, Neuss, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Euskirchen and Aachen. History The district was created in 1972 by merging the former districts of Jülich and Düren. Both districts date back to 1816 when the new Prussian province Rhineland was created. Before the Napoleonic Wars all of the area belonged to the duchy of Jülich. Geography Geographically it covers both the lowlands of the Lower Rhine Bay as well as the mountains and hills of the Eifel. The district has rich lignite (brown coal) deposits, which is used in open pit mining. Another big industry is paper production, which dates back to the second part of the 16th century. The main river in the district is the Rur. Coat of arms Towns and municipalities Sister County Düren has a partnership with Dorchester County in Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obervellach
Obervellach ( sl, Zgornja Bela) is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography The town is situated in the valley of the Möll river, on the southern slope of the High Tauern mountain range, where the Tauern Railway line descends from neighbouring Mallnitz and the southern Tauern Tunnel portal. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Obervellach proper, Pfaffenberg, Lassach, and Söbriach. History The settlement of ''Velach'' was first mentioned in a 10th-century deed issued by the Bishop Abraham of Freising (d. 993/94), a Bavarian missionary among the East Alpine Slavs in the Duchy of Carinthia (former Carantania), known for the Slovene Freising manuscripts. The name is probably derived from Slavic ''bela'' ("white"). The local church was mentioned as 'Freising basilica' in 1072, it later became the seat of a deanery of the Salzburg archbishops. The traditional gold and silver mining area from the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Twinning
A sister city or a twin town relationship is International relations, a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of international links between municipalities akin to what are known as sister cities or twin towns today dating back to the 9th century, the modern concept was first established and adopted worldwide during World War II. Origins of the modern concept The modern concept of town twinning has its roots in the Second World War. More specifically, it was inspired by the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940, known as the Coventry Blitz. First conceived by the then Mayor of Coventry, Alfred Robert Grindlay, culminating in his renowned telegram to the people of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942, the idea emerged as a way of establishing solidarity links between cities in allied countries that went through similar devastating e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergheim (Kreuzau)
Bergheim may refer to: People * Kristian Bergheim (1926–2010), Norwegian musician * Stanislaus Bergheim (born 1984), German footballer * Rüdiger of Bergheim, Bishop of Chiemsee from 1216 to 1233 Places * Bergheim, Austria, a municipality in Salzburg-Umgebung district in Austria * Bergheim, Bavaria, a municipality in Bavaria, Germany * Bergheim, Haut-Rhin, a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in France * Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, capital of Rhein-Erft-Kreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Heidelberg-Bergheim, a district of Heidelberg in Germany * Bergheim, a name for Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electora ... in Norway * Bergheim, Texas, an unincorporated community {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winden (Kreuzau) Winden may refer to: Germany * Winden im Elztal, in the district of Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg * Winden, Aichach-Friedberg, in the district of Aichach-Friedberg, Schwaben, Bayern * Winden, Germersheim, in the district of Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate * Winden, Rhein-Lahn, in the district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate Elsewhere * Winden am See, in Burgenland, Austria Fiction * Winden, a fictional town in the German Netflix series ''Dark Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low l ...'' See also * Wenden (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] |
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