Charter
about the Partnership between the
City of Delphos / Ohio / USA
and the
Community of Verl / North Rhine-Westphalia
/ Germany
The elected representatives of the City of
Delphos / Ohio / USA and of the Community of Verl / North Rhine-Westphalia /
Germany have decided in the awareness of their common historical roots to create,
to maintain and to develop further on a twin city link.
Pastor Bredeick, who was born in Verl on
January 23rd, 1794, founded the City of Delphos / Ohio in the year
1849. Many immigrants who left Verl and the neighboring communities because of
the misery that reigned there at that time settled in Delphos and the
surrounding area and through hard work and great diligence founded a flourishing
community there, without forgetting their historical roots.
The twin city link between both communities
shall serve to maintain and to promote the contacts between the citizens of
both cities as well as the cooperation of the ecclesiastical and municipal institutions,
the schools, the clubs and the local trades and industries.
It is the wish of the City of Delphos and
the Community of Verl that by this partnership the truthfulness of the citizens
with each other may be deepened and the friendship between the American and the
German peoples may further be consolidated.
Delphos, Verl, March 31st, 1999.
|
John E.
Sheeter |
Charles E. Carder |
Josef Lakämper |
Klaus Hörsting |
|
Mayor |
President
of Council |
Mayor |
President
of Council |