Wesseling
Sign in to saveWesseling () is an industrial German city on the Rhine bordering Cologne city on the south. With three chemical plants and a petroleum refinery within its city limits, it has an important place in the international petrochemical industry.
Key facts
- German location.licence
- BM
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Wesseling.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Wesseling COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Wesseling in BM.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Wesseling altes Rathaus.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Old town hall
- German location.state
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- German location.region
- Cologne
- German location.district
- Rhein-Erft-Kreis
- German location.elevation
- 42 - 62
- German location.area
- 23.37
- German location.postal_code
- 50389
- German location.area_code
- 02236, 02232
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 3 62 040
- German location.divisions
- 4
- German location.website
- www.wesseling.de
- German location.mayor
- Erwin Esser
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Wesseling () is an industrial German city on the Rhine bordering Cologne city on the south. With three chemical plants and a petroleum refinery within its city limits, it has an important place in the international petrochemical industry.
==History and etymology== The find of Roman consecration altars, the excavation of a Roman country house and Franconian burial grounds are early evidence of the settlement of the place. Wesseling originates from the Latin "Wasliacum" which means "Village of Waslica". The story that Wesseling originates from "changing of the rope" () from when Rhine boats were pulled by horses is an urban legend, because the name Wesseling is centuries older than the horse-changing station, which was located in Wesseling in the 18th century.