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Metelen
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Metelen is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Vechte in the district of Steinfurt. Metelen Land station is located on the Münster–Enschede railway and has an hourly train service to Münster in one direction and to Enschede in the other direction.

Key facts

German location.name
Metelen
German location.type
Stadt
German location.image_coa
DE_Metelen_COA.svg
German location.image_plan
Metelen in ST.svg
German location.state
Nordrhein-Westfalen
German location.postal_code
48629
German location.region
Münster
German location.district
Steinfurt
German location.elevation
56
German location.area
40.23
German location.area_code
02556
German location.licence
ST
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
05 5 66 052
German location.website
www.metelen.de
German location.mayor
Gregor Krabbe
German location.leader_term
2020–25
German location.party
CDU

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Metelen is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Vechte in the district of Steinfurt. Metelen Land station is located on the Münster–Enschede railway and has an hourly train service to Münster in one direction and to Enschede in the other direction.

==History== The town history dates back to 889 AD, when it was first mentioned in an official document. thumb|250px|Metelen Land Railway Museum

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metelen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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