Werl

Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

(2020–25) Torben Höbrink^[1] (CDU)Area • Total76.24 km² (29.44 sq mi)Highest elevation228 m (748 ft)Lowest elevation73 m (240 ft)Population • Total30,736 • Density400/km² (1,000/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codesDialling codes02922Vehicle registrationSOWebsitewww.werl.de

Werl (German pronunciation: [vɛʁl] ^ⓘ; Westphalian: Wiärl) is a town located in the district of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

Werl is easily accessible because it is located between the Sauerland, Münsterland, and the Ruhr Area. The Hellweg road runs through the city, as Werl is a part of the fertile Bördelandschaft of the Werl–Unnaer Börde.

Neighbouring municipalities

Arnsberg Hamm Soest

Unna Welver Wickede

Division of the town

Werl consists of the following districts:

• Blumenthal (48 inhabitants)
• Budberg (596 inhabitants)
• Büderich (3107 inhabitants)
• Hilbeck (1339 inhabitants)
• Holtum (1049 inhabitants)
• Mawicke (521 inhabitants)
• Niederbergstraße (210 inhabitants)
• Oberbergstraße (363 inhabitants)
• Sönnern (870 inhabitants)
• Westönnen (2665 inhabitants)
• Werl (22151 inhabitants)

History

Werl was a member of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages and since 1661 has had a statue of the Virgin Mary, making it a place of pilgrimage. Today this relic is in the Wallfahrtsbasilika and is looked after by the Franciscan religious order. Werl Prison is the third largest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Werl Prison.

• The 4th United States Army Field Artillery Detachment was stationed in Werl until 1992.

Mayors

• 1958–1965: Ferdinand Pöppinghaus (1923–1965) (CDU)
• 1965–1981: Amalie Rohrer (1922-2014) (CDU)
• 1981–1985: Heinz Sasse (CDU)
• 1986–1994: Elisabeth Böhmer (CDU)
• 1994–1996: Kunibert Becker (1934-2001) (CDU)
• 1996–1999: Friedrich Leopold Graf von Brühl, (born 1944) (CDU)
• 1999–2020: Michael Grossmann, (born 1948) (CDU)
• since 2020: Torben Höbrink (CDU)

Notable people

• Philipp Rosenthal (1855–1937), businessman and founder of Rosenthal AG at Schloss Erkersreuth in Selb
• Franz von Papen (1879–1969), Conservative politician, diplomat, nobleman and General Staff officer; served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1934
• Ulla Wiesner (born 1940), singer
• Theodor Redder (born 1941), footballer
• Dimitri Hegemann (born 1954), cultural manager, musician and founder of the club "Tresor" in Berlin
• Martin Kree (born 1965), footballer
• Uwe Grauer (born 1970), footballer and coach

Twin towns – sister cities

Werl is twinned with:^[3]

• Halle, Belgium (1973)

References

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Images from Werl (in German)

Wendish

Lübeck	Anklam Demmin Greifswald Hamburg Kolberg (Kołobrzeg) Lüneburg Rostock Rügenwalde (Darłowo) Stettin (Szczecin) Stolp (Słupsk) Stargard Stockholm Stralsund Visby Wismar

Saxon

Brunswick Magdeburg	Berlin Bremen Erfurt Frankfurt an der Oder Goslar Mühlhausen Nordhausen

Baltic

Danzig (Gdańsk)	Breslau (Wrocław) Dorpat (Tartu) Elbing (Elbląg) Königsberg (Kaliningrad) Cracow (Kraków) Reval (Tallinn) Riga (Rīga) Thorn (Toruń)

Westphalian

Cologne 1 Dortmund 1	Deventer Groningen Kampen Münster Osnabrück Soest Zutphen Zwolle

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