RECKLINGHAUSEN


'Recklinghausen' () is a city in the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Recklinghausen.

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History
Main sights
Famous people
External links

History


Main sights


Recklinghausen is home to a museum of icons, which includes more than 1,000 Orthodox works from Russia, Greece and the Balkan countries, as well as early Coptic Christian art from Egypt. The icon museum - the largest outside the Orthodox world - was founded in 1956 and reopened after renovation in February 2006 for its 50th anniversary.

Famous people



Hape Kerkeling, comedian

Ralf Möller, actor

Frank Busemann, decathlete

Renate Künast, politician

External links



www.recklinghausen.de

Icon Museum

Corpus juris of the county of Recklinghausen





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