Wiehl
Sign in to saveWiehl () 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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Wiehl is a city in Germany, situated within the Oberbergischer Kreis. It shares borders with Nümbrecht and Reichshof. The municipality has a population of 25,356 and covers an area of 53.27 square kilometers. Its elevation above sea level is listed as 212 meters. Wiehl is a member of the Climate Alliance and is twinned with Hem, Yokneam Illit, and Crimmitschau.
The city uses the postal code 51674 and the license plate code GM. Local dialing codes include 02261, 02262, and 02296. Wiehl operates in the UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00 time zones.
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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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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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