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Kempen

town in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Place Medium Sized District Town Q14929

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
medium-sized district town, urban municipality in Germany[7]
Official website
www.kempen.de[15]

Location

Country
Germany[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.366°, 6.419°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Viersen[4]

Population and size

Area
+68.79, +68.8
Elevation above sea level
+35
Population
34k (30k–35k, n=10)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Codes

Local dialing code
02152[13]
Postal code
47906[12]
More facts +8
Short name
Kem
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Topographia Colonia et al.
Different from
Kempen
Hashtag
Kempen
Head of government
Christoph Dellmans[6]
Member of
association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia, Städte- und Gemeindebund Nordrhein-Westfalen[2][3]
Topic has template
Template:German municipality Kempen
Twinned administrative body
Werdau, Wambrechies, Orsay, East Cambridgeshire[8][9][10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kempen ar كمبن de Kempen <Viersen> de Kempen, Viersen de Kempen, Kreis Viersen fa کمپن، آلمان ja ケンペン (ドイツ) ru Кемпен zh 肯彭
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
249091458
GND ID
4030225-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Kempen, Alte Schulstr.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
10874
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4355398
Facebook location ID
112658418745529
FactGrid item ID
Joseph Ennemoser
Freebase ID
/m/05y01x
GeoNames ID
6557511
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6557511 GND (DNB) 2891643 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
German municipality key
05166012
German regional key
051660012012
KSW place ID
96816
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Klimadashboard.de region ID
853663d2-5109-4546-9e1e-21693d1d9f9c
Museum-digital place ID
3812, 96696
MusicBrainz area ID
5d79ccd8-8d6a-4593-94c6-dbdfd5a92f3c
NL CR AUT ID
ge662434
NWBib ID
Kempen
OpenStreetMap relation ID
88725
Quora topic ID
Kempen-Germany
SNARC ID
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria
Topic's main category
Category:Kempen (Niederrhein)
UN/LOCODE
DEKMP
Who's on First ID
101810055
Yale LUX ID
place/8956d249-4078-4e5a-810b-146f0e3c3494
📚 Sources · 1
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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🔗 Connections
People born here 12
Thomas à Kempis, Jordan Beyer, Daniel Altmaier, Anna Loerper, Linus Butt, Marith Prießen, Wilhelm Hünermann, Aegidius Gelenius +4 more
Twinned administrative body 4
Orsay, Werdau, Wambrechies, East Cambridgeshire
← Twinned administrative body 4
Orsay, Werdau, Wambrechies, East Cambridgeshire
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
← Shares border with 2
Neukirchen-Vluyn, Tönisvorst
Country 1
Germany
Different from 1
Kempen
FactGrid item ID 1
Joseph Ennemoser
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Viersen
NWBib ID 1
Kempen
People who died here 1
Hans Niclaus
Residents 1
Daniel Altmaier
SNARC ID 1
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria
Topic's main category 1
Category:Kempen (Niederrhein)
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Kempen (Niederrhein)
← NWBib ID 1
Kempen
← Origin of the watercourse 1
Gelderner Fleuth
← Work location 1
Samuel Holdheim
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Summary

Kempen is a medium-sized district town[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Areas include {'amount': '+68.79'}[24] and {'amount': '+68.8'}[25]. Kempen sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+35'}[26].

Related Entities

Germany Orsay Thomas à Kempis Wambrechies

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    KSW place ID → 96816
    Population → 34,630, 34,711, 29,677 +6
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #51891: einwohnerzahlen2025"
  2. 19w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → 34,630, 34,711, 29,677 +6
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #39115: einwohnerzahlen2024"
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