What is "monchengladbach"

Mönchengladbach , formerly known as München Gladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border.

Mönchengladbach is home of the football club Borussia Mönchengladbach, Formula One race car drivers Nick Heidfeld and Heinz-Harald Frentzen, author/cartoonist Walter Moers, cabaret artist Volker Pispers, philosopher Hans Jonas, Goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen and the former football players and managers Günther Netzer and Jupp Heynckes. Joseph Pilates, the creator of the Pilates method of physical fitness, was born here in 1883.

1. redirect Mönchengladbach

Mönchengladbach is one of the 299 single member constituencies ( German: Wahlkreis) used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of sixty four constituencies in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, it is coterminous with the city of Mönchengladbach. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 109.

The constituency has existed since the 1965 election, when it replaced the former Rheydt – M.Gladbach – Viersen constituency. Like its predecessor, the constituency has been held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in most elections since its creation. The exception was the 1998 election, the only election in which it was won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The current representative is Günter Krings of the CDU, who retained the constituency at the 2013 election.