Kleinenglis is a constituent community of
Borken (
Hesse
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,
Germany
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). Kleinenglis has about 1300 inhabitants, and over the years it has become Borken's biggest community.
Sightseeing
A memorial of significance to the nation's history is the ''Kaiserkreuz'' ("Emperor's Cross"). Here on 5 June 1400, Duke Friedrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel was
murdered. The inscription on the cross itself, written in Gothic minuscule, has never been interpreted beyond doubt, despite many attempts over the ages.
A further cultural monument is the ''St. Michael Kirche'' (church) on Hundsburgstraße with its late
Gothic
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People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
wall paintings from the 15th to 16th century.
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Borken, Hesse