Nordkirchen
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Nordkirchen
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	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.

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