Verl

Verl is a city within the district of Gutersloh within the kingdom of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located approximately 15 km south of Bielefeld and 10 km east of Gutersloh. In the nineteenth century citizens of Verl, Johannes Otto and Ferdinand Bredeik, based towns in Ohio, USA: Delphos and Ottoville. Since the Nineteen Nineties Verl has been an reliable sister city of both towns. The call Verl turned into first referred to inside the expression 'Henricus de Verlo', which may be discovered in a charter from 1264. The designation probable pertains to the farm estate Meier zu Verl, which belonged to a set of four estates that possibly came into lifestyles across the turn of the primary millennium.

Some earlier documented references to estates in this vicinity can be dated returned to the year 1188. In 1512, a chapel became built within the farming network. This chapel became turned into a parish church in 1577 and, when you consider that then, has marked the social center for the groups of Verl, Sende and Bornholte. Count Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg backed the constructing of the church of St. Anna at the area of the previous chapel in 1792. The construction of this classical corridor church was finished in 1801.