Ahaus (; Westphalian: ''Ausen'') is a town in the district of Borken in the state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is located near the border with the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, lying some 20 km south-east of

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

and 15 km south from Gronau. Ahaus is the location of one of Germany's interim storage facilities for radioactive spent fuel.

Twin towns – sister cities

Ahaus is twinned with: *

Argentré-du-Plessis Argentré-du-Plessis (; br, Argantred-ar-Genkiz; Gallo: ''Arjantrae'') is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Argentré-du-Plessis are called ''Argentréens'' in French. S ...

, France *

Haaksbergen Haaksbergen () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, in the Twente region. The ''Buurserbeek'' flows through the municipality of Haaksbergen. Population centre ...

, Netherlands

Notable people

* Friedrich Koechling (1893–1970), officer, general of infantry *

Michael Denhoff Michael Denhoff (born 25 April 1955 in Ahaus) is a German composer and cellist. Life Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans We ...

(born 1955), composer and cellist *

Jens Spahn Jens Georg Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician who served as Federal Minister of Health in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he has bee ...

(born 1980), politician (CDU), Member of Bundestag *

Heike Wermer Heike Wermer (born 5 May 1988) is a German politician for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and, since 2017, a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, the diet of the largest German federal state. Life and politics Wermer ...

(born 1988), CDU politician *

Urszula Radwańska Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reached ...

(born 1990), Polish tennis player * Stefan Thesker (born 1991), footballer

References

Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia Borken (district) {{Borken-geo-stub

Twin towns – sister cities

Notable people

See also

References