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 (2005-12-31)
• Total	42.250
• Density	0.51/km2 (1.3/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 five 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 exponentially 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.