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Wiehl
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Wiehl () is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located approximately 41 km east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof, Waldbröl, Nümbrecht, Much, Engelskirchen and Gummersbach border on the town.

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Place details

Locality
Wiehl
Region
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Country
Deutschland
Population
26,291
Timezone
Europe/Berlin

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Key facts

German location.type
Stadt
German location.name
Wiehl
German location.image_coa
Wappenwiehl.svg
German location.image_photo
Rathaus Wiehl von 1939.JPG
German location.image_caption
Town hall
German location.image_plan
Wiehl in GM.svg
German location.state
Nordrhein-Westfalen
German location.region
Köln
German location.district
Oberbergischer Kreis
German location.elevation
191
German location.area
53.26
German location.postal_code
51674
German location.area_code
02262
German location.licence
GM
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
05 3 74 048
German location.mayor
Ulrich Stücker
German location.leader_term
2020–25
German location.party
Independent

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • History
  • Coat of arms
  • Villages
  • Leisure time
  • Sports
  • Culture and sights
  • Buildings
  • Museums
  • Regular events
  • Other
  • Facilities for young and old
  • Organizations
  • Parishes
  • Schools and educational institutions
  • Twin towns – sister cities
  • Notable people
  • Literature
  • References
  • External links

Wiehl () is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located approximately 41 km east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof, Waldbröl, Nümbrecht, Much, Engelskirchen and Gummersbach border on the town.

==Geography== Between the highway and Wiehl lies the biggest Wiehl industrial area, covering about 81 ha: Wiehl-Bomig. The river of the same name, Wiehl, flows by the town in an east–west direction.

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

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