title: Kreuzau
text: # Kreuzau
  
  Kreuzau is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, approx. 5 km south of Düren.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Neighbouring communities
  
  Kreuzau is surrounded by the following settlements, listed clockwise beginning in the north: the county town of Düren and the municipalities of Nörvenich, Vettweiß, Nideggen and Hürtgenwald, all in the county of Düren.
  
  ### Municipal subdivisions
  
  The municipality Kreuzau includes the following civil parishes (Ortsteil):
  
  * Bogheim
  * Boich
  * Drove
  * Kreuzau (incl. Schneidhausen) with 5,150 inhabitants on 31 October 2015
  * Leversbach
  * Obermaubach (incl. Schlagstein)
  * Stockheim
  * Thum
  * Üdingen
  * Untermaubach (incl. Bilstein)
  * Winden (incl. Bergheim and Langenbroich)
  
  In addition there was the now extinct village of Hemgenberg.
  
  ## Twin towns
  
  Kreuzau is twinned with:
  
  * Obervellach, Austria
  * Plancoët, France
  