Set in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Where books are set in Nordrhein-Westfalen

39 books and other written works have a recorded story setting here.

39Titles

Dots mark recorded story settings in specific towns. A book placed at the region itself, at a district with no town of its own, or somewhere this map cannot mark apart from its city — a borough, say — appears in the list without a dot. Every one of them still has a button of its own under the map.

Relief map of Where in Nordrhein-Westfalen these books are setAPERA123456789101112131415
  1. 39 titles set in Nordrhein-Westfalen · click a dot to filter
  2. 1KölnAnsichten eines Clowns9
  3. 2DüsseldorfDie Blechtrommel4
  4. 3BonnDas Treibhaus3
  5. 4DortmundGeschichte eines Edelweißpiraten3
  6. 5AachenDie heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik2
  7. 6MünsterEs steht geschrieben2
  8. 7WittenDer Novemberpogrom 1938 in Witten2
  9. 8BeckumBeckumer Anschläge1
  10. 9BochumWesttangente und Heusnerviertel: Ein Brennpunkt der Bochumer Stadtgeschichte1
  11. 10BrakelDat Mäken von Brakel1
  12. 11EssenWie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert1
  13. 12GriethausenJohanna Sebus1
  14. 13Mülheim an der RuhrMindset1
  15. 14RotthausenBraunes Hemd und leerer Magen1
  16. 15WuppertalDie Wuppertaler Gewerkschaftsprozesse: Gewerkschaftlicher Widerstand und internationale Solidarität1

Relief: Copernicus EU-DEM (modified; not endorsed by the European Union), with SRTM, GMTED2010 and ETOPO1 where it does not reach. Boundaries: Natural Earth. Settings: Wikidata. Sources

10 of 39Ordered by how often each title is looked up on German Wikipedia.
  • Die Blechtrommelby Günter Grass · 1959 · Düsseldorf
    #1302avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Ansichten eines Clownsby Heinrich Böll · 1963 · Köln
    #269.6avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Tod und Teufelby Frank Schätzing · 1995 · Köln
    #351.7avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Gruppenbild mit Dameby Heinrich Böll · 1971 · Köln
    #433.2avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Billard um halb zehnby Heinrich Böll · 1959 · Köln
    #527.9avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Lautlosby Frank Schätzing · 2000 · Köln
    #625.7avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Die Betrogeneby Thomas Mann · 1953 · Düsseldorf
    #716.6avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Verschwende Deine Jugendby Jürgen Teipel · 2001 · Düsseldorf
    #815.0avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Das Treibhausby Wolfgang Koeppen · 1953 · Bonn
    #914.3avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Mindsetby El Hotzo · 2023 · Mülheim an der Ruhr
    #1011.1avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
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