Inden, North Rhine-Westphalia

Municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Location of Inden within Düren district

(2020–25) Stefan Pfennings^[1]Area

• Total35.92 km² (13.87 sq mi)Elevation

106 m (348 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total7,507 • Density210/km² (540/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

52459

Dialling codes02465Vehicle registrationDNWebsitewww.inden.de

Inden is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Inde, approx. 10 km north-west of Düren. In the area around Inden lignite is extracted in open-pit mines. One mine is being rehabilitated with lake, park, solar power and energy storage.^[3] Several hundreds of inhabitants have been resettled in the 1990s and 2000s because of these activities.^{[citation needed]}

Town division

Districts:

Frenz
Inden/Altdorf
Lamersdorf
Lucherberg
Schophoven
Viehöven

References

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 19 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ "RWE solar-plus-storage project at German lignite mine nears completion". Energy Storage News. 28 April 2022.