Euskirchen

Euskirchen is a town of the Rhineland of North-Westphalia located at approximately 50km in the south of Cologne. The city counts 55.000 inhabitants. It obtained the establisheds among in 1302, in 1827 it became capital district Euskirchen. It is administrative and ecological center moreover than 180.000 inhabitants of the area.

Geography

been neighborly communes

Bad Münstereifel ( City, Euskirchen district)
Mechernich (city, Euskirchen district)
Rheinbach (city, Rhein-Sieg district)
Swisttal (common, Rhein-Sieg district)
Weilerswist (common, Euskirchen district)
Zülpich (city, Euskirchen district)

Personalities related to the commune

Emil Fischer, * 9. October 1852; † 15. julliet 1919 in Berlin, 1902 Nobel Prize of chemistry
Jean Spessart, * 27. March 1886; † 14. March 1961, painter
Willi Graf, * 2. January 1918; † 12. October 1943 in Munich, member of association " pink blanche" ( Weiße Pink )
Heinz Flohe, * 28. January 1948, member of the national team of foot
BETTINA Wiegmann, * 7. October 1971, member of the national team of foot
Silke Rottenberg, * 25. January 1972, member of the national team of foot
Jamie Stevens, * 15. September 1974, international singer
Sonja Fuss, * 5. November 1978, member of the national team of foot

Twinnings

Charleville-Mézières (France), since 1961

* between the college Emil Fischer ( Emil-Fischer-Gymnasium ) and the college Chanzy

* between the college of Maria ( Marienschule ) and the college Sévigné

Basingstoke and Deane (the United Kingdom), since 1986
Kutztown, Pennsylvania (the United States), since 2004

* between the college of Maria ( Marienschule ) and Kutztown Area High School

External bonds

euskirchen.de - city Euskirchen

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