Taylor Swift gets a city renamed after her ahead of travelling to Germany for global Eras tour

A city has been renamed Swiftkirchen ahead of Taylor Swift performing three sold out shows there later this month.

The mayor of Gelsenkirchen has renamed the city temporarily for the singer, who will head there on Wednesday, July 17 for three nights.

Head of the city’s public relations department, Markus Schwardtmann said: ‘Today is the starting signal. We will be installing many more signs in highly frequented places in Gelsenkirchen in the coming days.

‘There will be many small and large surprises so that the Swifties in Gelsenkirchen have a lot to discover.’

Taylor wrapped up her Ireland shows over the weekend.

During her second Eras tour show in Dublin, Taylor confirmed that her lockdown album Folklore was inspired by the ‘storytelling’ of Ireland.

The singer, 34, sent fans wild by declaring that the record ‘belongs to them.’

Taylor released her eighth album back in July 2020, and during her latest concern she told the crowd she first started writing songs for Folklore just two days into the Covid lockdown.

‘Folklore’in general, it just belongs to Ireland,’ she said, adding: How I imagined the album world looking [was like] Ireland. Storytelling with lots of different characters. You guys have that on lock, too. That’s very Irish, the storytelling.’

‘I had to create an album where the imaginary world that I pretended to go to every single day while I was writing it… I got to be honest, kinda seemed like Ireland.’