Nettetal

Nettetal
Nettetal
Town
	Coat of arms
	Location of Nettetal within Viersen district
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Düsseldorf
District	Viersen
Subdivisions	6
Government
• Mayor	Christian Wagner (CDU)
Area
• Total	83.64 km2 (32.29 sq mi)
Elevation	40 m (130 ft)
Population (2023-12-31)
• Total	43,425
• Density	520/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	41334
Dialling codes	0 21 53, 0 21 57, 0 21 58
Vehicle registration	VIE
Website	www.nettetal.de

Nettetal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

Nettetal 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 twelve lakes. It is situated on the border with the Netherlands, approx. 20 km north-west from Mönchengladbach and 10 km south-east from Venlo.

Division of the town

Nettetal consists of the following parts (2005 population in brackets):

Lobberich (13,959)
Kaldenkirchen (9,920)
Breyell (8,210)
Hinsbeck (5,254)
Leuth (2,168)
Schaag (3,749)

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

Lakes

Nettetal features a high number of lakes

At the river Nette:

Kleiner Breyeller See ca. 5.3 ha
Großer Breyeller See ca. 9.2 ha
Nettebruch ca. 13.2 ha
Windmühlenbruch ca. 6 ha
Ferkensbruch ca. 4.5 ha
Kleiner de Wittsee ca. 4.5 ha
Großer de Wittsee ca. 22.5 ha
Schrolik ca. 15.5 ha
Poelvennsee ca. 24.5 ha

At the river Renne:

Hinsbecker Bruch ca. 37.5 ha
Glabbacher Bruch ca. 36 ha

At the river Königsbach:

Kälberweide ca. 5 ha

Sights

The Castle Krickenbeck from the 11th century and its park are well known in the region.
The Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen is an arboretum, it has more than 400 varieties of trees and interesting ground flora and is part of the "Protected area of Maas-Schwalm-Nette".