Wermelskirchen

Wermelskirchen
Coat of arms
Wermelskirchen
Location of Wermelskirchen within Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis district
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
Government
• Mayor	Eric Weik (FDP)
Area
• Total	74.66 km2 (28.83 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	34,472
• Density	460/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	42929
Dialling codes	02196 02193 (Dabringhausen)
Vehicle registration	GL
Website	www.wermelskirchen.de

Wermelskirchen is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, southeast of Remscheid. It is home to the world's biggest live Christmas tree.

Coat of arms

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Historic marker

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 an Evangelical, a Roman Catholic church and a Latin school.

Economy

The city has the head office of OBI and the origin of the castor manufacturer TENTE.

Notable people

Wermelskirchen is the birthplace of Carl Leverkus, founder of a German chemical and pharmaceutical company in Leverkusen, which was later overtaken by Bayer and run by Carl Duisberg.

Film director and writer Uwe Boll, director of Rampage and Assault on Wall Street was born here.

Thomas Kleine, German footballer, was born in Wermelskirchen in 1977.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Official website (German)
• Website of the borough Dabringhausen (German)