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.
Personalities
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Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels (1626 – 21 July 1663) was the longtime partner of Rembrandt. The couple were unable to marry because of the financial settlement linked to the will of Rembrandt's deceased wife Saskia, but they remained together until Hendri ...
(1626-1663), partner of the Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt
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Ludwig Averkamp (1927-2013), Archbishop of Hamburg
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Klaus Balkenhol (born 1939), German dressage rider
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Georg Veit (born 1956), writer
* Marv Terhoch, son of Velen-born Kurt Terhoch, refugee to Canada in 1939
File:Stoffels003.PNG, left, upright=0.7, Hendrickje Stoffels
File:Hamminkelner Baudenkmäler 32.jpg, left, The Humberghaus Dingden, near by Velen, from 1814, home of Kurt's mother Freda (Frieda) Terhoch
References
Borken (district)
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