Wesel
Wesel is a Kreis in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Borken, Recklinghausen, district-free cities Bottrop, Oberhausen, Duisburg and Krefeld, districts Viersen, Cleves.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 458,000 residents
- Description: district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “DEA1F” and “Wesel (district)”
- Neighbors: Duisburg, Krefeld, and Oberhausen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wesel Citadel and Wesel station.
Wesel Citadel
Castle
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The Wesel Citadel is the largest intact fortification system of the Rhineland, built 1688–1722 in Wesel. It was built according to plans by Johan de Corbin, in the form of a pentagonal star, with each point of the star being a bastion.
Wesel station
Railway station
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Wesel is a railway station in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway and the Bocholt-Wesel railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and Abellio Deutschland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wesel and Voerde.
Wesel
Town
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Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany. It is the capital of the Wesel district.
Voerde
Town
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Voerde is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approximately 10 kilometres south-east of Wesel, and 20 km north of Duisburg. Voerde is situated 6 km southeast of Wesel.
Feldmark
Suburb
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Feldmark is a suburb, which is situated 4 km northwest of Wesel.
Wesel
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Western Frisian—“Wesel” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Districto de Wesel”
- Azerbaijani: “Vezel”
- Bavarian: “Kroas Wesel”
- Catalan: “Wesel”
- Cebuano: “Kreis Wesel”
- Chinese: “韋瑟爾縣”
- Chinese: “韦塞尔县”
- Chinese: “韦瑟尔县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Wesel”
- Dutch: “Kreis Wesel”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Wesel”
- Estonian: “Weseli kreis”
- French: “arrondissement de Wesel”
- French: “Arrondissement de Wesel”
- Georgian: “ვეზელის რაიონი”
- German: “Kreis Wesel”
- Greek: “Βέζελ”
- Hebrew: “חבל וזל”
- Indonesian: “Wesel”
- Italian: “circondario di Wesel”
- Italian: “Circondario di Wesel”
- Japanese: “ヴェ―ゼル郡”
- Japanese: “ヴェーゼル地区”
- Japanese: “ヴェーゼル郡”
- Kazakh: “Везель”
- Korean: “베젤 군”
- Korean: “베젤”
- Kurdish: “Wesel”
- Ladin: “Kreis Wesel”
- Limburgan: “Kreis Wesel”
- Macedonian: “Везел”
- Malay: “Wesel”
- Northern Frisian: “Wesel (Kris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Wesel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kreis Wesel”
- Norwegian: “Kreis Wesel”
- Persian: “وزل (ناحیه)”
- Persian: “وزل”
- Polish: “Powiat Wesel”
- Portuguese: “Wesel”
- Romanian: “Wesel”
- Russian: “Везель”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wesel”
- Scots: “Wesel”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Wesel”
- Spanish: “Wesel”
- Swedish: “Kreis Wesel”
- Turkish: “Kreis Wesel”
- Ukrainian: “Везель”
- Uzbek: “Wesel”
- Vietnamese: “Wesel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wesel”
- Western Frisian: “Wesel”
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