Velen
Sign in to saveVelen () is a town in the district Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with about 12,000 citizens. It consists of the two settlements of Velen and Ramsdorf and the four rural regions Ostendorf-Krueckling, Bleking-Holthausen, Nordvelen and Waldvelen. In 2003 the town received the title "staatlich anerkannter Erholungsort" (recreation village approved by the state) from the regional president. Since August 2012 it is a town. It was arwarded the title "annerkannter Luftkurort" (state-approved climatic health resort) in January of 2023.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Town
- German location.name
- Velen
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Velen.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Velen COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Schloss Velen.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Velen Castle
- German location.image_plan
- Velen in BOR.svg
- German location.state
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- German location.region
- Münster
- German location.district
- Borken
- German location.elevation
- 57
- German location.area
- 70.75
- German location.postal_code
- 46342
- German location.area_code
- 0 28 63
- German location.licence
- AH, BOH, BOR
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 5 54 064
- German location.divisions
- 6
- German location.mayor
- Dagmar Jeske
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Velen () is a town in the district Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with about 12,000 citizens. It consists of the two settlements of Velen and Ramsdorf and the four rural regions Ostendorf-Krueckling, Bleking-Holthausen, Nordvelen and Waldvelen. In 2003 the town received the title "staatlich anerkannter Erholungsort" (recreation village approved by the state) from the regional president. Since August 2012 it is a town. It was arwarded the title "annerkannter Luftkurort" (state-approved climatic health resort) in January of 2023.
== Personalities == Hendrickje Stoffels (1626-1663), partner of the Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt Ludwig Averkamp (1927-2013), Archbishop of Hamburg Klaus Balkenhol (born 1939), German dressage rider Georg Veit (born 1956), writer Marv Terhoch, son of Velen-born Kurt Terhoch, refugee to Canada in 1939
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Velen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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