Kerpen
Kerpen is the most populated town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis. It is located about 20 kilometres southwest from Cologne. As of 2025, Kerpen has a total population of 66,377.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kerpener Bruch sowie die südlich angrenzenden Freiflächen und ehemalige Abgrabungsbereiche and Johanneskirche.
Kerpener Bruch sowie die südlich angrenzenden Freiflächen und ehemalige Abgrabungsbereiche
Nature reserve
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sindorf and Türnich.
Mödrath
Village
Mödrath is a quarter of Kerpen, Germany. It was annexed to the Kerpen Ortskern in the course of the lignite resettlement in 1956.
Kerpen
- Type: Town with 63,800 residents
- Description: town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Categories: large district town, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Kerpen, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.8696° or 50° 52′ 11″ north
Longitude
6.6947° or 6° 41′ 41″ east
Population
63,800
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE KRP
Open location code
9F28VM9V+VV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kerpen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kerpen”
- Arabic: “كربن”
- Arabic: “كيربن”
- Aragonese: “Kerpen”
- Armenian: “Կերպեն”
- Arpitan: “Kerpen”
- Asturian: “Kerpen”
- Basque: “Kerpen”
- Bavarian: “Kerpen”
- Belarusian: “Керпен”
- Breton: “Kerpen”
- Bulgarian: “Керпен”
- Catalan: “Kerpen (Alemanya)”
- Catalan: “Kerpen”
- Cebuano: “Kerpen”
- Chechen: “Керпен”
- Chinese: “克尔彭”
- Chinese: “凯尔彭”
- Chinese: “凱爾彭”
- Corsican: “Kerpen”
- Croatian: “Kerpen”
- Czech: “Kerpen”
- Danish: “Kerpen”
- Dutch: “Kerpen”
- Esperanto: “Kerpen”
- Estonian: “Kerpen”
- Finnish: “Kerpen”
- French: “Kerpen”
- Friulian: “Kerpen”
- Galician: “Kerpen”
- German: “Kerpen (Erftkreis)”
- German: “Kerpen, Rhein-Erft-Kreis”
- German: “Kerpen”
- Hebrew: “קרפן”
- Hungarian: “Kerpen”
- Icelandic: “Kerpen”
- Ido: “Kerpen”
- Indonesian: “Kerpen”
- Interlingua: “Kerpen”
- Interlingue: “Kerpen”
- Irish: “Kerpen”
- Italian: “Kerpen”
- Japanese: “ケルペン”
- Kazakh: “Керпен”
- Kirghiz: “Керпен”
- Kölsch: “Kerpe”
- Kölsch: “Kerpen”
- Kongo: “Kerpen”
- Kotava: “Kerpen”
- Kurdish: “Kerpen”
- Ladin: “Kerpen”
- Ligurian: “Kerpen”
- Limburgan: “Kerpen”
- Lithuanian: “Kerpenas”
- Low German: “Kerpen”
- Luxembourgish: “Kerpen”
- Macedonian: “Керпен”
- Malagasy: “Kerpen”
- Malay: “Kerpen”
- Minangkabau: “Kerpen”
- Narom: “Kerpen”
- Neapolitan: “Kerpen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerpen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerpen”
- Norwegian: “Kerpen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kerpen”
- Persian: “کرپن”
- Picard: “Kerpen”
- Piemontese: “Kerpen”
- Polish: “Kerpen”
- Portuguese: “Kerpen”
- Romanian: “Kerpen”
- Romansh: “Kerpen”
- Russian: “Керпен”
- Sardinian: “Kerpen”
- Scots: “Kerpen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kerpen”
- Serbian: “Kerpen”
- Serbian: “Керпен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerpen”
- Sicilian: “Kerpen”
- Slovak: “Kerpen”
- Slovenian: “Kerpen”
- Spanish: “Kerpen”
- Swahili: “Kerpen”
- Swedish: “Kerpen”
- Swiss German: “Kerpen”
- Tatar: “Керпен”
- Thai: “แคร์เพิน”
- Tumbuka: “Kerpen”
- Turkish: “Kerpen”
- Ukrainian: “Керпен”
- Urdu: “کرپین”
- Uzbek: “Kerpen”
- Venetian: “Kerpen”
- Vietnamese: “Kerpen”
- Vlaams: “Kerpen”
- Volapük: “Kerpen”
- Walloon: “Kerpen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kerpen”
- Welsh: “Kerpen”
- Wolof: “Kerpen”
- Zulu: “Kerpen”
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