Country Germany Admin. region Köln Elevation 95 m (312 ft) Area 113.9 km² Population 64,602 (31 Dec 2010) Administrative region Cologne | State North Rhine-Westphalia District Rhein-Erft-Kreis Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Local time Sunday 2:50 PM Dialling code 02237 | |
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Kerpen is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia. Germany. It is located about 30 kilometers southwest from Cologne.
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Map of Kerpen, Germany
Division of the town
The town of Kerpen was created in 1975, when the previously independent municipalities Blatzheim, Buir, Manheim, Kerpen, Mödrath, Türnich, Brüggen, Balkhausen, Sindorf and Horrem were merged.
Notable people
Recently Kerpen has become more famous as being the hometown of the Catholic priest and social reformer Adolph Kolping and the Formula One racing drivers Michael Schumacher and his brother Ralf Schumacher as well as Wolfgang von Trips and reggae artist Patrice Bart-Williams. Bernard Esser, American farmer and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, was born in Kerpen. This was the place of birth of Catholic bishop and social agitator Pedro Schumacher, who took part in the social revolutions of Ecuador at the end of the XIX century and later died in southern Colombia.
Education
In Kerpen there is for example the Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen.
Twinned cities
The town has been twinned since 1993 with Oświęcim in Poland, more commonly known by its German name "Auschwitz", site of the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. Kerpen is also twinned with St. Vith in Belgium.