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3970 - Wenden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The card translates as follows: Journey Towards the Future and Ruhr-Sieg route and change in transportation.  Wenden is a small city of about 20 000. It is first found in documentation in 1011. A monastery was founded here. Catholicism is still the main religion here as it remained Catholic during the Reformation. Neighbours to the southeast, south, and southwest converted to Protestantism. Today St. Severinus parish church can be found here. 

2470 - Wenden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Wenden is a small community of just under 20 000 people, in the southernmost tip of the Sauerland, an area of low mountain ranges.  Vereinigte Sport-Vereine Wenden 1930 e.V play football in the Landesliga - the sixth, seventh, and eighth tiers of German football.