you can find Wabern. Homberg can you find at the east of Borken. The southeast show you the municipal of Frielendorf. Neuental is the next municipal at the southwest. And at the last (but not the least) you find Bad Zwesten at the west. Quarters The municipality of Borken (Hesse) has 14 quarters (in bracket the date of annexation): History Mining in Borken In the Borken region in the 20th century, the most important brown coal deposit in Hesse was mined and used at a thermal power plant to generate electricity. With the end of the coal stocks, the Stolzenbach mine disaster in 1988 and the Borken Power Plant shutdown on 15 March 1991, this epoch in the region's history, which had lastingly shaped the economy, the landscape and the people, came to an end. Since then, the brown coal mining area has found itself the subject of a restructuring process by a service company. In the 21st century, the "Borkener Seenland" ("Borken Lakeland") and the Hessian Brown Coal Mining Museum turned the landmarks and the legacy, as well as the coal-mining and power plant era into a leisure and museum area. Politics Municipal council The municipal council vote for the last two elections: Mayor Since the second world war Borken have four majors: Heinrich Albrecht (26. April 1945 till 2. Juno 1961) Konrad Vogel (SPD) (3. Juno 1961 till 7. March 1971) Heinz Kniest (SPD) (12. July 1971 till 30. September 1987) Bernd Heßler (SPD) (1. October 1987 till today) The mayor of Borken is Bernd Heßler (SPD). By the last direct election he reached 60.0%. Town partnerships Borken has a partnership to Méru, France since 1964. This partnership received a donation from the German French Culture Foundation for exemplary partnership in 1978. In 1999 received the partnership a donation from the European Parliament with the European diplom. Since 1989 it gives a partnership to Hüttschlag, Austria. For more good relationship to Eastern European people came in 2001 a partnership to Izabelin, Poland. In the course of the German reunification said the parliament of Borken in 1991 we should get a partnership with Teuchern, Saxony-Anhalt in the former eastern Germany. The quarter of Borken Großenenglis decided in 1970 a partnership with Noailles, France. Another quarter of Borken Kleinenglis decided in 1966 a partnership with Haucourt-Moulaine-St. Charles, France. This quarters (Großenenglis, Kleinenglis) where in the years of hers decision independent