- Wermelskirchen
Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
Name = Wermelskirchen
Wappen = Stadtwappen Wermelskirchen 72px.jpg
lat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 09
lon_deg = 7 |lon_min = 13
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Nordrhein-Westfalen
Regierungsbezirk = Köln
Kreis = Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
Höhe = 345
Fläche = 74.66
Einwohner = 36386
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 42929
Vorwahl = 02196
02193 (Dabringhausen)
Kfz = GL
Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 3 78 032
Straße = Telegrafenstraße 29-33
Website = [http://www.wermelskirchen.de/ www.wermelskirchen.de]
Bürgermeister = Eric Weik
Partei = FDPWermelskirchen is a town in the
Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , inNorth Rhine-Westphalia ,Germany , southeast ofRemscheid . It is home to the world's biggest liveChristmas tree .Coat of Arms
The
coat-of-arms of the city of Wermelskirchen looks like a silver shield split into thirds. In the left field is an oak tree. In the right field there is a Swan and pictured in the middle field there is a church.Education
Wermelskirchen has a Evangelical, a
Roman Catholic church and aLatin school.Notable people
Wermelskirchen is the birthplace of
Carl Leverkus , founder of a German chemical and pharmaceutical company inLeverkusen , which was later overtaken byBayer and run byCarl Duisberg Film director and writer
Uwe Boll , director of "Alone in the Dark" and "BloodRayne" was born here.Thomas Kleine , German footballer, was born in Wermelskirchen in 1977.Christian Lindner , liberal politician, was born in Wermelskirchen in 1979.References
*1911
External links
* [http://www.wermelskirchen.de/ Official website] de icon
* [http://www.dabringhausen-online.de/ Website of the borough Dabringhausen] de icon
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