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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.

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

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Contents
  • 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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