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Schwelm
Sign in to saveSchwelm () is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in the administrative region of Arnsberg within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Schwelm
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Schwelm.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Schwelm COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Schwelm Stadtansicht.JPG
- German location.image_plan
- Schwelm in EN.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Arnsberg
- German location.district
- Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
- German location.elevation
- 213
- German location.area
- 20.5
- German location.postal_code
- 58332
- German location.area_code
- 02336
- German location.licence
- EN
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 9 54 024
- German location.website
- www.schwelm.de
- German location.mayor
- Stephan Langhard
- German location.leader_term
- 2020–25
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Schwelme
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
- Population
- 28711
- Area
- 20.49
- Elevation
- 213
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Wupper
- Capital of
- Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
- Shares border with
- Gevelsberg
- Official website
- www.schwelm.de
- Image
- Schwelm Stadtansicht.JPG
- Dialing code
- 02336
- Licence plate code
- EN
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- twinned administrative body
- Fourqueux
- postal code
- 58332
- topic's main category
- Category:Schwelm
- Commons category
- Schwelm
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Schwelm
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Schwelm
- Commons gallery
- Schwelm
- short name
- Swm
- hashtag
- Schwelm
- P6814
- Schwelm
- P8168
- Colmen
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Neighbouring places
- Division of the town
- History
- Language/dialect
- Politics
- Local council
- Points of interest
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Schwelm () is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in the administrative region of Arnsberg within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany.
==Geography== Schwelm is situated in the southeast of the "Ruhrgebiet", the Ruhr district of Germany, between Westphalia and the "Bergisches Land". Schwelm is commonly known as the "Pforte Westfalens" ("Gate to Westphalia").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schwelm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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