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Beelen (; ) is a municipality in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km south-west of Bielefeld and 35 km east of Münster.

Key facts

German location.name
Beelen
German location.type
Stadt
German location.image_photo
Kirche Beelen 2006.jpg
German location.image_caption
Church in Beelen
German location.image_flag
Flagge Beelen.svg
German location.image_coa
DE Beelen COA.svg
German location.image_plan
Beelen in WAF.svg
German location.state
Nordrhein-Westfalen
German location.region
Münster
German location.district
Warendorf
German location.elevation
62
German location.area
31.35
German location.postal_code
48361
German location.area_code
02586
German location.licence
WAF
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
05 5 70 012
German location.mayor
Rolf Mestekemper
German location.leader_term
2025–30

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Politics
  • List of Mayors
  • City council
  • Twin towns
  • References
  • External links

Beelen (; ) is a municipality in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km south-west of Bielefeld and 35 km east of Münster.

==Politics== The current mayor is Rolf Mestekemper, who has been serving as mayor since 2020. In the 2025 local elections, he was reelected with 79,3 % of the vote, being the only candidate.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beelen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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