Nettetal

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Coordinates: 51°19′N, 6°17′E

Nettetal
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region	Düsseldorf
District	Viersen
Population	43,260 (2005)
Area	83.64 km²
Population density	517 /km²
Elevation	40 m
Coordinates	51°19′ N 6°17′ E
Postal code	41334
Area code	02153, 02157
Licence plate code	VIE
Mayor	Christian Wagner (CDU)
Website	nettetal.de

Nettetal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is not a town itself, but a federation of villages that have developed around the river Nette, and the worked out gravel pits that now form five lakes. Nettetal is situated on the border with the Netherlands, approx. 20 km north-west from Mönchengladbach and 10 km south-east from Venlo.

Nettetal consists of the following parts (2004 population in brackets):

• Lobberich (13.637)
• Kaldenkirchen (9.849)
• Breyell (8.229)
• Hinsbeck (5.149)
• Leuth (1.805)
• Schaag (3.807)

The main town of Nettetal is Lobberich, which owes its past wealth from the local German lace industries which developed exponentially before the First World War, and the town owes it's impressive late Victorian Church. During the Second World War the Ancient Church was pierced by an American high-explosive shell, the crater of which can still be seen in the wall to date.