Wesel
Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany. It is the capital of the Wesel district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Markus Schweiß, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Feldmark and Fusternberg.
Wesel
- Type: Town with 60,100 residents
- Description: city in Germany
- Categories: large district town, Hanseatic city, district capital, urban municipality in Germany, city, and locality
- Location: Wesel, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.6577° or 51° 39′ 28″ northLongitude
6.6171° or 6° 37′ 2″ eastPopulation
60,100Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE WESOpen location code
9F38MJ58+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 116125299OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wesel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wesel”
- Arabic: “فيزل”
- Aragonese: “Wesel”
- Armenian: “Վեզել”
- Arpitan: “Wesel”
- Asturian: “Wesel”
- Basque: “Wesel”
- Bavarian: “Wesel”
- Belarusian: “Везель”
- Breton: “Wesel”
- Bulgarian: “Везел”
- Catalan: “Wesel”
- Cebuano: “Wesel”
- Chechen: “Везель”
- Chinese: “韋塞爾”
- Chinese: “韋瑟爾”
- Chinese: “韦瑟尔”
- Corsican: “Wesel”
- Croatian: “Wesel”
- Czech: “Wesel”
- Danish: “Wesel”
- Dutch: “Wesel”
- Dutch: “Wezel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيزل”
- Esperanto: “Wesel”
- Estonian: “Wesel”
- Finnish: “Wesel”
- French: “Wesel”
- Friulian: “Wesel”
- Galician: “Wesel”
- German: “Wesel”
- Greek: “Βέζελ”
- Hebrew: “וזל”
- Hungarian: “Wesel”
- Icelandic: “Wesel”
- Ido: “Wesel”
- Indonesian: “Wesel”
- Interlingua: “Wesel”
- Interlingue: “Wesel”
- Irish: “Wesel”
- Italian: “Wesel”
- Japanese: “ヴェーゼル”
- Japanese: “ヴェセル”
- Kazakh: “Везель”
- Kirghiz: “Везель”
- Kongo: “Wesel”
- Korean: “베젤”
- Kotava: “Wesel”
- Kurdish: “Wesel”
- Ladin: “Wesel”
- Latin: “Vesalia”
- Ligurian: “Wesel”
- Limburgan: “Wesel”
- Lithuanian: “Vėzelis”
- Low German: “Wesel”
- Luxembourgish: “Wesel”
- Macedonian: “Везел”
- Malagasy: “Wesel”
- Malay: “Wesel”
- Minangkabau: “Wesel”
- Moksha: “Вэзэл”
- Narom: “Wesel”
- Neapolitan: “Wesel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wesel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wesel”
- Norwegian: “Wesel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wesel”
- Persian: “وزل”
- Picard: “Wesel”
- Piemontese: “Wesel”
- Polish: “Wesel”
- Portuguese: “Wesel”
- Romanian: “Wesel”
- Romansh: “Wesel”
- Russian: “Везель”
- Sardinian: “Wesel”
- Scots: “Wesel”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wesel”
- Serbian: “Wesel”
- Serbian: “Везел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wesel”
- Sicilian: “Wesel”
- Slovak: “Wesel”
- Slovenian: “Wesel”
- South Azerbaijani: “وزل”
- Spanish: “Wesel”
- Swahili: “Wesel”
- Swedish: “Wesel”
- Swiss German: “Wesel”
- Tatar: “Везел”
- Tumbuka: “Wesel”
- Turkish: “Wesel”
- Ukrainian: “Везель”
- Uzbek: “Wesel”
- Venetian: “Wesel”
- Vietnamese: “Wesel”
- Vlaams: “Wesel”
- Volapük: “Wesel”
- Walloon: “Wesel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wesel”
- Welsh: “Wesel”
- Western Frisian: “Wesel (stêd)”
- Western Frisian: “Wesel”
- Wolof: “Wesel”
- Zulu: “Wesel”
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