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Kreuzau is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, approx. 5 km south of Düren. Geography Neighbouring communities Kreuzau is surrounded by the following settlements, listed clockwise beginning in the north: the county town of Düren and the municipalities of Nörvenich, Vettweiß, Nideggen and Hürtgenwald, all in the county of Düren. Municipal subdivisions The municipality Kreuzau includes the following civil parishes (''Ortsteil''): * Bogheim * Boich * Drove * Kreuzau (incl. Schneidhausen) with 5,150 inhabitants on 31 October 2015 * Leversbach * Obermaubach (incl. Schlagstein) * Stockheim * Thum * Üdingen * Untermaubach (incl. Bilstein) * Winden (incl. Bergheim and Langenbroich) In addition there was the now extinct village of Hemgenberg. Twin towns Kreuzau is twinned with: * Obervellach, Austria * Plancoët Plancoët (; br, Plangoed; Gallo language, Gallo: '' ...
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Düren (district)
Düren () is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Heinsberg, Neuss, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Euskirchen and Aachen. History The district was created in 1972 by merging the former districts of Jülich and Düren. Both districts date back to 1816 when the new Prussian province Rhineland was created. Before the Napoleonic Wars all of the area belonged to the duchy of Jülich. Geography Geographically it covers both the lowlands of the Lower Rhine Bay as well as the mountains and hills of the Eifel. The district has rich lignite (brown coal) deposits, which is used in open pit mining. Another big industry is paper production, which dates back to the second part of the 16th century. The main river in the district is the Rur. Coat of arms Towns and municipalities Sister County Düren has a partnership with Dorchester County in Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares bord ...
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Obervellach
Obervellach ( sl, Zgornja Bela) is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography The town is situated in the valley of the Möll river, on the southern slope of the High Tauern mountain range, where the Tauern Railway line descends from neighbouring Mallnitz and the southern Tauern Tunnel portal. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Obervellach proper, Pfaffenberg, Lassach, and Söbriach. History The settlement of ''Velach'' was first mentioned in a 10th-century deed issued by the Bishop Abraham of Freising (d. 993/94), a Bavarian missionary among the East Alpine Slavs in the Duchy of Carinthia (former Carantania), known for the Slovene Freising manuscripts. The name is probably derived from Slavic ''bela'' ("white"). The local church was mentioned as 'Freising basilica' in 1072, it later became the seat of a deanery of the Salzburg archbishops. The traditional gold and silver mining area from the 12t ...
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Town Twinning
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of international links between municipalities akin to what are known as sister cities or twin towns today dating back to the 9th century, the modern concept was first established and adopted worldwide during World War II. Origins of the modern concept The modern concept of town twinning has its roots in the Second World War. More specifically, it was inspired by the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940, known as the Coventry Blitz. First conceived by the then Mayor of Coventry, Alfred Robert Grindlay, culminating in his renowned telegram to the people of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942, the idea emerged as a way of establishing solidarity links between cities in allied countries that went through similar devastating events. The comradeship ...
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Bergheim (Kreuzau)
Bergheim may refer to: People * Kristian Bergheim (1926–2010), Norwegian musician * Stanislaus Bergheim (born 1984), German footballer * Rüdiger of Bergheim, Bishop of Chiemsee from 1216 to 1233 Places * Bergheim, Austria, a municipality in Salzburg-Umgebung district in Austria * Bergheim, Bavaria, a municipality in Bavaria, Germany * Bergheim, Haut-Rhin, a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in France * Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, capital of Rhein-Erft-Kreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Heidelberg-Bergheim, a district of Heidelberg in Germany * Bergheim, a name for Bærum in Norway * Bergheim, Texas Bergheim is an unincorporated community in eastern Kendall County, Texas, United States known for its German-Texan culture and heritage. It lies along State Highway 46 east of the city of Boerne, the county seat of Kendall County. Its elevatio ...

Winden (Kreuzau)
Winden may refer to: Germany * Winden im Elztal, in the district of Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg * Winden, Aichach-Friedberg, in the district of Aichach-Friedberg, Schwaben, Bayern *Winden, Germersheim, in the district of Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate * Winden, Rhein-Lahn, in the district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate Elsewhere * Winden am See, in Burgenland, Austria Fiction * Winden, a fictional town in the German Netflix series ''Dark'' See also * Wenden (other) Wenden may refer to: * , a town district within Wenden-Thune-Harxbüttel, Germany *Wenden (Sauerland), Germany * , a borough in Brunswick, Germany *Wenden, Arizona *Cēsis, Latvia (previously ''Wenden'' in German) **Wenden Voivodeship, administrati ...

Bilstein (Kreuzau)
Bilstein may refer to: People * Counts of Bilstein, Frankish noble family * Barons of Bilstein, Westphalian noble family Inhabited places * Bilstein (Kürten), village near Kürten, county of Rheinisch-Bergischer-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein (Kreuzau), village near Kreuzau, county of Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein (Lennestadt), town quarter of Lennestadt, county of Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein (Limbourg) or Bilstain, town quarter of Limbourg, Province of Liege, Region of Wallonia, Belgium * Amt Bilstein, former administrative district in Westphalia * Barony of Bilstein, medieval comital lordship in the area of Eschwege, North Hesse * Villa Bilstein, Ennepetal, county of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia Castles * Bilstein Castle (Lennestadt), castle in Lennestadt, Landkreis county of Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia * Bilstein Castle (Eschwege), ruined castle near Eschwege, county of Werra-Meißner-Kreis, North Hesse * Bilstein Castle (Bas-Rhi ...
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Thum (Kreuzau)
Thum is a small town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Thum has a population of about 5800. Geography Thum is situated in the Erzgebirge, 10 km northwest of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 19 km south of Chemnitz. The Jahnsbach, a tributary to the Zschopau River runs through the town. To the north is Gelenau, east is Drebach, south of Thum is the town of Ehrenfriedersdorf. The Greifensteine area lies to the south west, and Hormersdorf and Auerbach are to the west. History Thum was first mentioned 1389 in historic records of the archdiocese of Prague. From the 14th century, mining in the once densely forested Erzgebirge steadily increased, and a history book of 1445 describes Thum as a small mining town. Several placer deposits, two stamp mills and 27 mines were in the area of Thum. Considerable amounts of Axinite were found, which initially was given the name ''Thumit''. In 1469 the citizens of Thum acquired township. The last batt ...
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