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  Wermelskirchen
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| Country | Germany |
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| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Cologne |
| District | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis |
| Mayor | Eric Weik (FDP) |
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| Area | 74.66 km2 (28.83 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 345 m (1132 ft) |
| Population | 36,386 (31 December 2006) |
| - Density | 487 /km2 (1,262 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | GL |
| Postal code | 42929 |
| Area codes | 02196 02193 (Dabringhausen) |
| Website | www.wermelskirchen.de |
| Location of the town of Wermelskirchen within Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis district | |
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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.
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Coat of Arms
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 a Evangelical, a Roman Catholic church and a Latin school.
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.
Christian Lindner, liberal politician, was born in Wermelskirchen in 1979.
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
External links
- Official website (German)
- Website of the borough Dabringhausen (German)
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