Werl
The pilgrimage town Werl is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Soest district in the Arnsberg administrative district. The official name of pilgrimage town has been permitted since 14 January 2015.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 30,100 residents
- Description: town in the district of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “05974052” and “Stadt Werl”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl and Werl Prison.
Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady, Werl
Church
Photo: Smial, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
The Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady also called Werl Basilica is a Catholic church located in Werl, Germany which was declared a minor basilica in 1953.
Werl Prison
Prison
Photo: Bubo bubo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Werl Prison has about 900 inmates, and is one of the largest prisons in Germany. It is located in the town of Werl in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, east of Dortmund.
Werl pilgrimage
Church
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A pilgrimage to a statue of Mary in Werl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, caused the building of pilgrimage churches there. The first one, completed in 1662, was replaced by a Baroque building completed in 1789, which later became known as the Alte Wallfahrtskirche.
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″ northLongitude
7.9156° or 7° 54′ 56″ eastPopulation
30,100Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)Open location code
9F39HW38+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 240095935OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6557703Wikidata ID
Q11120
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Werl” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Werl”
- Aragonese: “Werl”
- Armenian: “Վերլ”
- Arpitan: “Werl”
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- Belarusian: “Верль”
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- Bulgarian: “Верл”
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- Chechen: “Верль”
- Chinese: “韋爾”
- Chinese: “韦尔”
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- German: “Werl”
- Hebrew: “ורל”
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- Irish: “Werl”
- Italian: “Werl”
- Japanese: “ヴェルル”
- Kazakh: “Верль”
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- Low German: “Werl”
- Low German: “Wiärl”
- Luxembourgish: “Werl”
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- Neapolitan: “Werl”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Werl”
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- Norwegian: “Werl”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Werl”
- Persian: “ورل”
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- Romansh: “Werl”
- Russian: “Верль”
- Sardinian: “Werl”
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- Scottish Gaelic: “Werl”
- Serbian: “Werl”
- Serbian: “Верл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Werl”
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- Slovak: “Werl”
- Slovenian: “Werl”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورل”
- Spanish: “Werl”
- Spanish: “Werle”
- Swahili: “Werl”
- Swedish: “Werl”
- Swiss German: “Werl”
- Tatar: “Верль”
- Tumbuka: “Werl”
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- Ukrainian: “Верль”
- Uzbek: “Werl”
- Venetian: “Werl”
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- Walloon: “Werl”
- Waray (Philippines): “Werl”
- Welsh: “Werl”
- Wolof: “Werl”
- Zulu: “Werl”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kreuzwegplatz and Our Lady of Werl.
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