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History. British troops from the 7th Armored Division in Weseke, Borken March, 1945. The name comes from the German word "Burg" or "Burk" and gradually changed to "Burke", then "Burken" and finally to "Borken". Around the year 800 the village was being used by Charles The Great ( Charlemagne) as a stopover place on his travels.
www.schwalmtal.de. Schwalmtal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the river Schwalm, which flows through the area. Schwalmtal is situated approximately 12 km west of Mönchengladbach . Lüttelforst's church; the Catholic Parish "Sankt Jakobus".
This list encompasses castles described in German as Burg (), Festung (fort/fortress), Schloss (manor house, palace, country house or stately home) and Palais/Palast ().Many German castles after the Middle Ages were mainly built as royal or ducal palaces rather than as a fortified building.
Inden, North Rhine-Westphalia. / 50.84667°N 6.35778°E / 50.84667; 6.35778. Inden is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Inde, approx. 10 km north-west of Düren. In the area around Inden lignite is extracted in open-pit mines.
The 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 15 May 2022 to elect the 18th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The outgoing government ( First Wüst cabinet) was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Hendrik Wüst . The CDU remained the largest party with 36% ...
Website. www.marl.de. Marl, sculpture near Marler Stern. Marl ( German: [maʁl] ⓘ) is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Wesel-Datteln Canal, approx. 10 km north-west of Recklinghausen. It has about 90,000 people.
North Rhine-Westphalia (German Nordrhein-Westfalen) is the most populous state in Germany, with 17.5 million inhabitants, located in the west of the country.It consists of two historically independent parts: Nordrhein, the urbanized area across the river Rhine in the southwest, and Westfalen in the northeast, which is quite diverse as it includes both the heavily industrialized and densely ...
