Nettetal

Nettetal
Nettetal
Location of the town of Nettetal within Viersen district
Coordinates	51°19′N 6°17′E / 51.31667°N 6.28333°E / 51.31667; 6.28333Coordinates: 51°19′N 6°17′E / 51.31667°N 6.28333°E / 51.31667; 6.28333
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Düsseldorf
District	Viersen
Town subdivisions	6
Mayor	Christian Wagner (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	83.64 km2 (32.29 sq mi)
Elevation	40 m  (131 ft)
Population	41,736 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	499 /km2 (1,292 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	VIE
Postal code	41334
Area codes	0 21 53, 0 21 57, 0 21 58
Website	www.nettetal.de

Nettetal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

Nettetal is not a town itself, but a federation of villages that have developed around the river Nette, and the worked-out gravel pits that now form five lakes. It is situated on the border with the Netherlands, approx. 20 km north-west from Mönchengladbach and 10 km south-east from Venlo.

Division of the town

Nettetal consists of the following parts (2005 population in brackets):

• Lobberich (13,959)
• Kaldenkirchen (9,920)
• Breyell (8,210)
• Hinsbeck (5,254)
• Leuth (2,168)
• Schaag (3,749)

The main town of Nettetal is Lobberich, which owes its past wealth from the local German lace industries which developed exponentially before the First World War, and the town has an impressive late Victorian Church. During the Second World War the older Church was pierced by an American high-explosive shell, the crater of which can still be seen in the wall.

Lakes

Nettetal features a high number of lakes

At the river Nette:

• Kleiner Breyeller See ca. 5.3 ha
• Großer Breyeller See ca. 9.2 ha
• Nettebruch ca. 13.2 ha
• Windmühlenbruch ca. 6 ha
• Ferkensbruch ca. 4.5 ha
• Kleiner de Wittsee ca. 4.5 ha
• Großer de Wittsee ca. 22.5 ha
• Schrolik ca. 15.5 ha
• Poelvennsee ca. 24.5 ha

At the river Renne:

• Hinsbecker Bruch ca. 37.5 ha
• Glabbacher Bruch ca. 36 ha

At the river Königsbach:

• Kälberweide ca. 5 ha

Sights

The Castle Krickenbeck from the 11th century and its park are well-known in the region.

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Nettetal is twinned with:

• Ełk, Poland
• Caudebec-en-Caux, France
• Fenland, United Kingdom
• Rochlitz, Germany

External links

• Website Nettetal (German)
• Website of Arboretum Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen (German)

References

1. ^ "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31 December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html. 

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.