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Aldekerk | |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Düsseldorf |
| District | Kleve |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Aldekerk is one of four towns in the municipality of Kerken in Kleve (district), which is part of the Düsseldorf administrative region in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 15 km north-east of Venlo.
History
[edit]A notable resident was Herman op den Graeff, who was born there in 1585 and became a community leader of the Mennonites at Krefeld.
Predating Herman was the still standing Gothic church of Saints Peter and Paul, built in the early fifteenth century and somewhat modified in the late nineteenth. 
The town saw the final crash of German fighter ace Klaus Mietusch in September 1944 and was captured by the 8th Armored Division (United States) in March 1945.
Transport
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The railway station is 72.7 km from the Köln Hauptbahnhof (Cologne's central station) on the Lower Left Rhine Railway, which extends to Kleve (Cleves) and used to go on to Nijmegen. Passenger trains service it half-hourly on weekdays and hourly on weekends. The average speed on the single track is 66 km/h.
Since August 2024, there has been a direct bus service from Aldekerk to Venlo.[1] The trip takes about 30 minutes.
Sport
[edit]Handball coach and former player Henk Groener (born 1960 in the Netherlands) played for TV Aldekerk in 1990-1991.
Olympic medalist Julius Kühn (handballer) (born 1993) played for TV Aldekerk between 1999 and 2008.
Alina Grijseels (born 1996) played for TV Aldekerk until 2015.
Luca Witzke (born 1999) played for TV Aldekerk from 2011 till 2014 and has been in the Germany men's national handball team.
The women's handball team TPSG Frisch Auf Göppingen received a transfer in the 2024-2025 season of Netherlander Mariel Stefanie Beugels (CB) from TV Aldekerk.