| Main | Births etc |
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Wermelskirchen | |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Köln |
| District | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Eric Weik (FDP) |
| Area | |
• Total |
74.66 km2 (28.83 sq mi) |
Wermelskirchen is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, southeast of Remscheid. It is home to the world's biggest live Christmas tree.
Coat of arms[]
Historic marker
The coat-of-arms of the city of Wermelskirchen looks like a silver shield split into thirds. In the left field is an oak tree. In the right field there is a Swan and pictured in the middle field there is a church.
Education[]
Wermelskirchen has an Evangelical, a Roman Catholic church and a Latin school.
Economy[]
The city has the head office of OBI [2] and the origin of the castor manufacturer TENTE.
Notable people[]
Wermelskirchen is the birthplace of Carl Leverkus, founder of a German chemical and pharmaceutical company in Leverkusen, which was later overtaken by Bayer and run by Carl Duisberg.
Film director and writer Uwe Boll, director of Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne was born here.
Thomas Kleine, German footballer, was born in Wermelskirchen in 1977.
References[]
- ^ "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31 December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html.
- ^ "Impressum." OBI. Retrieved on 2 February 2011. "Komplementär OBI Heimwerkermarkt Systemzentrale GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 7-9, 42929 Wermelskirchen, Amtsgericht Köln HR B 36389 ."
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. Encyclopædia Britannica. Cambridge University Press.
External links[]
- Official website (German)
- Website of the borough Dabringhausen (German)
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