Nordkirchen

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Nordkirchen
Coat of arms of Nordkirchen
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Nordkirchen  is located in Germany
Nordkirchen
Nordkirchen
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Location of Nordkirchen within Coesfeld district
North Rhine-Westphalia Recklinghausen (district) Unna (district) Hamm Borken (district) Steinfurt (district) Münster Warendorf (district) Olfen Rosendahl Senden Billerbeck Dülmen Ascheberg Havixbeck Coesfeld Nottuln Lüdinghausen NordkirchenNordkirchen in COE.svg
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Country Germany
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region Münster
District Coesfeld
Government
 • Mayor Dietmar Bergmann
Area
 • Total 52.432 km2 (20.244 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
 • Total 9,618
 • Density 180/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 59394
Dialling codes 0 25 96
Vehicle registration COE
Website www.nordkirchen.de

Nordkirchen is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Nordkirchen's most famous site is Schloss Nordkirchen, built in the 18th century for a local bishop and known as the Versailles of Westphalia, as it is the largest residence in that part of Germany. Nordkirchen is known as location of a transmission site for medium wave for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk, the Nordkirchen transmitter.

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