Münster (deu)

Münster

Münster ranks 577th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Regensburg, Alkmaar, and Hamilton, Ontario. Memorable people born in Münster include Heinrich Brüning, Kurt Gerstein, and Carl Schuhmann. Memorable people who died in Münster include Raisa Gorbacheva, Johann Georg Hamann, and Clemens August Graf von Galen. Münster has been the birth place of many athletes, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and mathematicians. Münster is located in Germany.

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state district capital. Münster was the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia that, together with the Treaty of Osnabrück, ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Today, it is known as the bicycle capital of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia