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Oer-Erkenschwick
Sign in to saveOer-Erkenschwick () is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km north-east of Recklinghausen, on the northern periphery of the Ruhrgebiet. When pronouncing the name, “Oer” should be pronounced like the German Ohr, not Ör.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Oer-Erkenschwick
- German location.image_photo
- Oer-Erkenschwick Rathaus.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Oer-Erkenschwick COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Oer-Erkenschwick in RE.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Münster
- German location.district
- Recklinghausen
- German location.elevation
- 72
- German location.area
- 38.66
- German location.postal_code
- 45739
- German location.area_code
- 0 23 68
- German location.licence
- RE
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 5 62 028
- German location.mayor
- Shoaiub Nazir
- German location.leader_term
- 2025–30
- German location.party
- SPD
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Recklinghausen
- Population
- 31838
- Area
- 38.66
- Elevation
- 72
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.oer-erkenschwick.de
- Image
- Oer-Erkenschwick Rathaus.jpg
- Dialing code
- 02368
- Licence plate code
- RE
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- Eugenie Kain
- Commons category
- Oer-Erkenschwick
- twinned administrative body
- Municipality of Kočevje
- postal code
- 45739
- P6814
- Oer-Erkenschwick
- hashtag
- OerErkenschwick
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Encyclopedic overview
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Oer-Erkenschwick () is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km north-east of Recklinghausen, on the northern periphery of the Ruhrgebiet. When pronouncing the name, “Oer” should be pronounced like the German Ohr, not Ör.
==Geography== Oer-Erkenschwick is situated east of the city of Recklinghausen and on the southern edge of the Hohe Mark Nature Park.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oer-Erkenschwick” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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