Velen

Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Coat of arms

Location of Velen within Borken district

(2020–25) Dagmar Jeske^[1]Area

• Total70.52 km² (27.23 sq mi)Elevation

57 m (187 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total13,304 • Density190/km² (490/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

46342

Dialling codes0 28 63Vehicle registrationAH, BOH, BORWebsitewww.velen.de

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

Hendrickje Stoffels
The Humberghaus Dingden, near by Velen, from 1814, home of Kurt's mother Freda (Frieda) Terhoch

References

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 19 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.