Ahaus (;
Westphalian: ''Ausen'') is a town in the
district of Borken in the state of
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany. It is located near the border with the
Netherlands, 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:
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Argentré-du-Plessis, France
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Haaksbergen, Netherlands
Notable people
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Friedrich Koechling Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
(1893–1970), officer, general of infantry
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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
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Jens Spahn (born 1980), politician (CDU), Member of Bundestag
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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
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Urszula Radwańska (born 1990), Polish tennis player
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Stefan Thesker
Stefan Thesker (born 11 April 1991) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Holstein Kiel.
Club career
Twente
Born in Ahaus, Germany, Thesker played for TuS Wüllen and Schalke 04 youth teams before moving to Netherla ...
(born 1991), footballer
See also
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Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service The Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH (GNS) carries out services in the field of radioactive waste disposal and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and operates through several subsidiaries interim storage depots for spent fuel and radioacti ...
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Eintracht Ahaus
Eintracht Ahaus is a German football club from the city of Ahaus, North Rhine-Westphalia.
History
The team was established in 1908 as ''Ahauser Ballspielclub'' and quickly underwent a pair of name changes, first playing as ''Ahauser Spielverei ...
References
Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Borken (district)
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