Kerken
Sign in to saveKerken () with the towns of Aldekerk, Eyll, Nieukerk and Stenden, is a municipality in the district of Kleve in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 15 km north-east of Venlo.
Key facts
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Kerken.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Kerken COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Kerken in KLE.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Aldekerk, die Sankt Peter und Paul Kirche Dm32 foto5 2016-05-05 10.52.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Church of Saints Peter and Paul
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Düsseldorf
- German location.district
- Kleve
- German location.elevation
- 32
- German location.area
- 58.17
- German location.postal_code
- 47647
- German location.area_code
- 0 28 33
- German location.licence
- KLE
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 1 54 028
- German location.divisions
- 4
- German location.mayor
- Dirk Möcking
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–25
- German location.party
- Independent
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Personalities
- Sons and daughters of the city
- Personalities who have worked on the ground
- References
Kerken () with the towns of Aldekerk, Eyll, Nieukerk and Stenden, is a municipality in the district of Kleve in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 15 km north-east of Venlo.
== Personalities == === Sons and daughters of the city === Herman op den Graeff (1585-1642), Mennonite community leader of Krefeld Johannes Ackermanns (1887-1962), municipal politician Franz Grobben (1904-1994), CDU politician Guido Winkmann (* 1973), football league judge
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kerken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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