The official coat-of-arms of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia
The official coat-of-arms of the City of Luenen
You probably don’t know where Luenen is.
Well, Luenen is a town in North-Rhine Westphalia. That is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Our state lies in north-western Germany. To the west, it borders on the Netherlands and on Belgium.
Luenen lies on the threshold between the industrial region of »Ruhrgebiet«, the Ruhr Region, and the fertile expanse of »Muensterland«, a flat rural region taking its name from the city of Muenster, seat of an old university and a charming cultural and administrative centre 45 km north of here.
Most of Luenen’s 92,000 inhabitants live in the suburbs Altluenen, Wethmar, Brambauer, Horstmar, Niederaden and Luenen-Sued (i.e. South Luenen).
The nearest big city is Dortmund, still a major centre of the German steel industry and seat of a university, but also widely known for its many brands of beer and its champion soccer club »Borussia Dortmund«. Dortmund is some 20 minutes from Luenen by train or car and offers much variety of cultural life to its 580,000 inhabitants and to the people living in near-by smaller towns like Luenen.
Luenen itself has much to offer in the way of leisure activities, be they tennis, horse-riding or swimming – in any of the two public open-air swimming pools or of its two public baths. Or take gliding: The airfield is situated very conveniently in walking distance of the cozy city centre!
Luenen can also boast some of the most beautiful rural scenery, beginning at its northern outskirts and stretching north for dozens of miles of woodland and farmland, offering their well-kept public fairways to the hiker and the cyclist.
Luenen lies on the threshold between the industrial region of »Ruhrgebiet«, the Ruhr Region, and the fertile expanse of »Muensterland«, a flat rural region taking its name from the city of Muenster, seat of an old university and a charming cultural and administrative centre 45 km north of here.
