Nordkirchen

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Nordkirchen
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Nordkirchen
Nordkirchen (Germany)
Nordkirchen
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region Münster
District Coesfeld
Municipal subdivisions 3
Mayor Friedhard Drebing
Basic statistics
Area 52.432 km² (20.2 sq mi)
Elevation 65 m  (213 ft)
Population 10,487  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 200 /km² (518 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate COE
Postal code 59394
Area codes 0 25 96
Website www.nordkirchen.de

Coordinates: 51°44′17″N 7°31′32″E / 51.73806, 7.52556

Nordkirchen is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Nordkirchen's most famous site is the castle Nordkirchen, built in the 18th century for a local bishop and known as the Versailles of Westphalia. Nordkirchen is known as location of a transmission site for medium wave for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk, the Nordkirchen transmitter.