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Hückelhoven
Sign in to saveHückelhoven (; ) is a town in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Rur, approx. 10 km east of Heinsberg, 20 km south-west of Mönchengladbach and approximately 15 km from the border with the Netherlands. Hückelhoven owes its development from village to town to the coal mining industry; the Sophia-Jacoba colliery was opened in 1914. This colliery (the last in the Aachen coalfield) was closed in 1997.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Hückelhoven
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Hueckelhoven COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Hückelhoven Rathaus 0336.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall
- German location.image_plan
- Hückelhoven in HS.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Köln
- German location.district
- Heinsberg
- German location.elevation
- 75
- German location.area
- 61.27
- German location.postal_code
- 41836
- German location.area_code
- 02433
- German location.licence
- HS
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 3 70 020
- German location.divisions
- 7
- German location.website
- www.hueckelhoven.de
- German location.mayor
- Bernd Jansen
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Stadt Hückelhoven
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Town parts
- History
- Twin towns – sister cities
- People
- References
Hückelhoven (; ) is a town in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Rur, approx. 10 km east of Heinsberg, 20 km south-west of Mönchengladbach and approximately 15 km from the border with the Netherlands. Hückelhoven owes its development from village to town to the coal mining industry; the Sophia-Jacoba colliery was opened in 1914. This colliery (the last in the Aachen coalfield) was closed in 1997.
==Town parts== The urban area of Hückelhoven extends in a north-south direction of around 10 km from Altmyhl to Brachelen and in an east-west direction of around 6 km from Hilfarth to Baal and Ratheim to Kleingladbach. This gives it a total area of 61.27 km². The urban area is divided into the following 11 districts. Altmyhl Baal Brachelen Doveren Hilfarth Hückelhoven Kleingladbach Millich Ratheim Rurich Schaufenberg
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hückelhoven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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