Kalkar
Sign in to saveKalkar () is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the Rhine, approx. 10 km south-east of Cleves. The catholic church St. Nicolai has preserved one of the most significant sacral inventories from the late Middle Ages in Germany.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Kalkar
- German location.image_photo
- Kalkar, monumentaal pand 2006-09-10 15.21.JPG
- German location.imagesize
- 250px
- German location.image_caption
- Marktplatz in Kalkar
- German location.image_coa
- DEU_Kalkar_COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Kalkar in KLE.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Düsseldorf
- German location.district
- Kleve
- German location.elevation
- 14
- German location.area
- 88.2
- German location.postal_code
- 47546
- German location.area_code
- 0 28 24
- German location.licence
- KLE
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 1 54 024
- German location.divisions
- 13
- German location.website
- www.kalkar.de
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Kalkar () is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the Rhine, approx. 10 km south-east of Cleves. The catholic church St. Nicolai has preserved one of the most significant sacral inventories from the late Middle Ages in Germany.
==History== left|thumb|St. Nicolai church Kalkar was founded by Dirk VI of Cleves in 1230 and received city rights in 1242. It was one of the seven "capitals" of Cleves (called Kleve), until the line of the Duchy of Cleves died out in 1609, whereupon the city went over to the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Marie of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves retired to Monreberg castle in Kalkar, where she founded a Dominican convent in 1455. Under her influence the city bloomed and artists were attracted to the favorable climate for cultural investment. She died at Monreberg castle in 1463.