Velen
Velen is a town in the district Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with about 12,000 citizens. It consists of the two settlements of Velen and Ramsdorf and the four rural regions Ostendorf-Krueckling, Bleking-Holthausen, Nordvelen and Waldvelen. In 2003 the town received the title "staatlich anerkannter Erholungsort" from the regional president. Since August 2012 it is a town. It was arwarded the title "annerkannter Luftkurort" in January of 2023.
Personalities
- Hendrickje Stoffels, partner of the Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt
- Ludwig Averkamp, Archbishop of Hamburg
- Klaus Balkenhol, German dressage rider
- Georg Veit, writer
- Marv Terhoch, son of Velen-born Kurt Terhoch, refugee to Canada in 1939