Recklinghausen (district)

Recklinghausen () is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

 Coat of arms 
100px|Coat of armsThe coat of arms show a silver nettle leaf on green ground - the sign of the Herrlichkeit Lembeck, an Amt in the church-run state of Münster in the Recklinghausen area. The black cross is the sign of the bishops of Cologne who owned a big part of the district's area, the Vest Recklinghausen. The key inside the cross symbolizes St. Peter, the patron of Cologne.

Cities
 Castrop-Rauxel
 Datteln
 Dorsten
 Gladbeck<li> Haltern am See
<li> Herten
<li> Marl
<li> Oer-Erkenschwick<li> Recklinghausen
<li> Waltrop

References

Other websites
 Official website (German)
 Corpus juris of the county of Recklinghausen