Stommeln is a village in the north-west of Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, Germany

Germany

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. It has got over 8000 inhabitants.

Geography

Stommeln is part of the Town of Pulheim

Pulheim

Pulheim is a city in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.Since the 1920s, a large substation of the RWE has been sited at Pulheim...

. Its most recognisable feature is the old mill.

Belonging to Stommeln:

Stommelerbusch (882 residents)

Ingendorf (92 residents)

Synagogue Project Stommeln

The Synagogue in Stommeln was built in 1882. It resisted the Nazi pogroms. Since 1991 there is an annual exhibition of an international artist.

1991 Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis

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1992 Richard Serra

Richard Serra

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1993 Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

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1994 Mischa Kuball

1995 Eduardo Chillida

Eduardo Chillida

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1996 Maria Nordman

1997 Carl Andre

Carl Andre

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1998 Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn

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1999 Erich Reusch

2000 Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone

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2001 Roman Signer

Roman Signer

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2002 Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

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2003 Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel

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2004 Richard Long

Richard Long (artist)

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2005 Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

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2006 Santiago Sierra

Santiago Sierra

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2007 Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus

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2008 Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan

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