Werl
Werl is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Soest district in the Arnsberg administrative district. Werl is one of the largest and most important pilgrimage sites in Germany.
- Type: Town with 30,100 residents
- Description: town in the district of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “05974052”, “Stadt Werl”, and “וֵרְל”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl and Werl Prison.
Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Büderich and Haus Lohe.
Werl
- Categories: medium-sized district town, Hanseatic city, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Soest, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.5533° or 51° 33′ 12″ north
Longitude
7.9156° or 7° 54′ 56″ east
Population
30,100
Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)
Open location code
9F39HW38+86
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Werl” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Werl”
- Aragonese: “Werl”
- Armenian: “Վերլ”
- Arpitan: “Werl”
- Asturian: “Werl”
- Azerbaijani: “Verl”
- Basque: “Werl”
- Bavarian: “Werl”
- Belarusian: “Верль”
- Breton: “Werl”
- Bulgarian: “Верл”
- Catalan: “Werl”
- Cebuano: “Werl”
- Chechen: “Верль”
- Chinese: “韋爾”
- Chinese: “韦尔”
- Corsican: “Werl”
- Croatian: “Werl”
- Czech: “Werl”
- Danish: “Werl”
- Dutch: “Werl”
- Esperanto: “Werl”
- Estonian: “Werl”
- Finnish: “Werl”
- French: “Werl”
- Friulian: “Werl”
- Galician: “Werl”
- German: “Werl”
- Hebrew: “ורל (עיר)”
- Hungarian: “Werl”
- Icelandic: “Werl”
- Ido: “Werl”
- Indonesian: “Werl”
- Interlingua: “Werl”
- Interlingue: “Werl”
- Irish: “Werl”
- Italian: “Werl”
- Japanese: “ヴェルル”
- Jèrriais: “Werl”
- Kazakh: “Верль”
- Kirghiz: “Верль”
- Kongo: “Werl”
- Kurdish: “Werl”
- Ladin: “Werl”
- Ligurian: “Werl”
- Limburgan: “Werl”
- Low German: “Werl”
- Low German: “Wiärl”
- Luxembourgish: “Werl”
- Malagasy: “Werl”
- Malay: “Werl”
- Minangkabau: “Werl”
- Neapolitan: “Werl”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Werl”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Werl”
- Norwegian: “Werl”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Werl”
- Persian: “ورل”
- Picard: “Werl”
- Piemontese: “Werl”
- Polish: “Werl”
- Portuguese: “Werl”
- Romanian: “Werl”
- Romansh: “Werl”
- Russian: “Верль”
- Sardinian: “Werl”
- Scots: “Werl”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Werl”
- Serbian: “Werl”
- Serbian: “Верл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Werl”
- Sicilian: “Werl”
- Slovak: “Werl”
- Slovenian: “Werl”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورل”
- Spanish: “Werl”
- Spanish: “Werle”
- Swahili: “Werl”
- Swedish: “Werl”
- Swiss German: “Werl”
- Tatar: “Верль”
- Tumbuka: “Werl”
- Turkish: “Werl”
- Ukrainian: “Верль”
- Urdu: “ورل”
- Uzbek: “Werl”
- Venetian: “Werl”
- Vietnamese: “Werl”
- Vlaams: “Werl”
- Volapük: “Werl”
- Walloon: “Werl”
- Waray (Philippines): “Werl”
- Welsh: “Werl”
- Wolof: “Werl”
- Zulu: “Werl”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Werl and Westuffeln.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Kreuzwegplatz and Klostergarten.
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