Möllen is the southernmost administrative district of
Voerde
Voerde () is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approximately south-east of Wesel, and 20 km north of Duisburg.
City structure
According to art. 1(3) of the ...
in
Wesel district,
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
, having 3040 inhabitants.
History
The
Haus Wohnung (the region's
water castle
A water castle, sometimes water-castle, is a castle which incorporates a natural or artificial body of water into its defences.Forde-Johnston (1979), p. 163. It can be entirely surrounded by water-filled moats (moated castle) or natural waterbo ...
) was built in the fourteenth century. The former school was established in 1911. The town was a scene of some of the fighting during the suppression of the
Ruhr uprising
The Ruhr uprising () or March uprising () was an uprising that occurred in the Ruhr region of Germany from 13 March to 6 April 1920. It was a Left-wing politics, left-wing workers' revolt triggered by the call for a Kapp Putsch#General Strike ...
. The Protestant church was built between 1960 and 1965 and the Catholic Church of St. Barbara in 1963.
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Villages in North Rhine-Westphalia