Gronau is a city in the district of Borken

Borken (district)

Borken is a Kreis in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in the Region Münsterland. Neighboring districts are Bentheim, Steinfurt, Coesfeld, Recklinghausen, Wesel, Cleves, and the Dutch provinces Gelderland and Overijssel....

, in North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km east of Enschede

Enschede

Enschede , also known as Eanske in the local dialect of Twents, is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region...

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Notable persons

The musician Udo Lindenberg

Udo Lindenberg

Udo Lindenberg is a German rock musician and composer.-Career:Lindenberg started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969 Lindenberg founded his first band Free Orbit and also appeared as a studio and guest musician . In 1970 he collaborated as a drummer with jazz-saxophonist Klaus Doldinger in...

, the footballer Winfried Berkemeier

Winfried Berkemeier

Winfried Berkemeier is a former German footballer.This midfielder and forward played six seasons in the Bundesliga for four different teams. Though he was unable to break through with 1...

, the boxer Cengiz Koç

Cengiz Koç

Cengiz Koç is a German heavyweight boxer of Turkish descent who won the bronze medal at the 2000 European amateur championships...

 were born in Gronau. The Dutch singer Rania Zeriri

Rania Zeriri

Rania Zeriri is a Dutch singer.- Personal life :Rania Zeriri grew up in the Netherlands as daughter of a Dutch mother and an Algerian father who left the family when she was still very young. After finishing school with a General Certificate of Secondary Education she moved at the age of 17 to...

 lives in Gronau. The rock’n’pop museum in Gronau is unique in Europe.

Transportation

Gronau can by reached by road via the Autobahn A 30

Bundesautobahn 30

is a highway in northwestern Germany. It runs from west to east, starting at the Dutch border. On the border it connects with the Dutch A1 motorway, hence, the A 30 is part of the important European connection Berlin - Amsterdam...

 and A 31

Bundesautobahn 31

is a German Autobahn that connects the coast of the North Sea near Emden to the Ruhr area. It is also known as Emsland-Autobahn or East Frisian Skewer....

, the Dutch Rijksweg 35, the Bundesstraße

Bundesstraße

Bundesstraße , abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.-Germany:...

 B 54 and B 474. Gronau (Westf) railway station connects Gronau with Enschede in the Netherlands, Dortmund

Dortmund

Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....

 and Münster

Münster

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

 in Germany. The nearest airports are Münster Osnabrück International Airport

Münster Osnabrück International Airport

Münster Osnabrück International Airport or Flughafen Muenster/Osnabrueck , is the 4th largest international commercial airport in North Rhine-Westphalia...

 and Enschede Airport Twente

Enschede Airport Twente

Enschede Airport Twente is located north from Enschede, a municipality in the Twente region and the Overijssel province of the Netherlands. It has one runway , though one of the current taxiways has been used as a runway...

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International relations

Gronau is twinned with:

• Epe
  Epe
  ' is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.The town has 15,593 inhabitants, whilst the municipality as a whole has a population of 32,989....
  
  , Netherlands
• Bromsgrove
  Bromsgrove
  Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England. The town is about north east of Worcester and south west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 with a small ethnic minority and is in Bromsgrove District.- History :Bromsgrove is first documented in the early 9th century...
  
  , United Kingdom
• Mezőberény
  Mezoberény
  Mezőberény is a town in Békés county, Hungary. It is located in the southern Great Alföld. In this town the road from Debrecen to Szeged crosses the railway line from Budapest to Bucharest.- Famous persons :* Soma Orlai Petrich painter...
  
  , Hungary