Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia

Gronau
Gronau
	Saint Anthony Church
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Gronau within Borken district
	Gronau Gronau
	Coordinates: 52°12′45″N 7°02′30″E
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Münster
District	Borken
First mentioned	1365
Subdivisions	2
Government
• Mayor	Rainer Doetkotte[1] (CDU)
Area
• Total	78.63 km2 (30.36 sq mi)
Elevation	27 m (89 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[2]
• Total	48,072
• Density	610/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	48599
Dialling codes	0 25 62; 0 25 65 (Epe)
Vehicle registration	BOR
Website	www.gronau.de

Gronau (Westf.) (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁoːnaʊ]) is a city in the district of Borken, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km east of Enschede. Documentary evidence of Gronau dates to 1365.

Political Map

The city is divided into the districts of Gronau and Epe.

Notable persons

The Dutch singer Rania Zeriri lives in Gronau. The Polish tennis player Agnieszka Radwańska grew up here; her father was a tennis coach at the local club. Blaise Nkufo, a Swiss footballer with African roots, former player of the Dutch football club FC Twente, lived in Gronau. Klaus Vogelgesang, a German artist, grew up in Gronau.

Born in Gronau

Winfried Berkemeier (born 1953), footballer
Bernd Düker (born 1992), footballer
Rolf Eckrodt (born 1942), CEO of Mistubishi Motors 2001–2005
Tim Hölscher (born 1995), footballer
Cengiz Koç (born 1977), former German heavyweight boxer of Turkish descent
Erich Lindenberg (1938–2006), painter, elder brother of Udo Lindenberg
Udo Lindenberg (born 1946), singer and musician
Gregor Luthe (born 1970 in Epe), chemist, toxicologist, nanotechnologist, inventor and entrepreneur
Jens Wissing (born 1988), football player

Transport

Gronau can be reached by road via the Autobahn A 30 and A 31, the Dutch Rijksweg 35, the Bundesstraße B 54 and B 474. Gronau (Westf) railway station connects Gronau with Enschede in the Netherlands via the Dortmund–Enschede railway and the Münster–Enschede railway. The nearest airports are Münster Osnabrück International Airport and Enschede Airport Twente, although the latter has no scheduled flights.

International relations

Gronau is twinned with:[3]

Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom
Epe, Netherlands
Mezőberény, Hungary

gollark: Also, opinions on how to do search still wanted?

gollark: I could add a "visit random indexed page" button to my search engine.

gollark: Also, I feel that this table:```sqlCREATE TABLE pages ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, url TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE, statusCode INTEGER NOT NULL, rawContent TEXT NOT NULL, title TEXT, description TEXT, body TEXT, updated INTEGER NOT NULL, headers TEXT, -- JSON object containing all the response headers referrer TEXT);```may have too many things in it.

gollark: I was thinking about dividing by total number of words, but that would have its own problems.

gollark: That's what I'm already doing.

References

"Rainer Doetkotte neuer Bürgermeister in Gronau", Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 24 March 2019
"Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2018" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
"Städtepartnerschaften". gronau.de (in German). Gronau. Retrieved 2019-12-02.

External links

Media related to Gronau (Westf.) at Wikimedia Commons
Official website

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] "Rainer Doetkotte neuer Bürgermeister in Gronau", Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 24 March 2019

[2] "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2018" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 10 July 2019.

[3] "Städtepartnerschaften". gronau.de (in German). Gronau. Retrieved 2019-12-02.