Erkelenz
Erkelenz is a town in the Rhineland in western Germany that lies 15 kilometres southwest of Mönchengladbach on the northern edge of the Cologne Lowland, halfway between the Lower Rhine region and the Lower Meuse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 42,800 residents
- Description: town in the Rhineland in western Germany
- Neighbors: Mönchengladbach
Places of Interest
Highlights include Altes Rathaus and St. Lambertus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oerath and Mennekrath.
Erkelenz
- Categories: medium-sized district town, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Erkelenz, Heinsberg, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.08099° or 51° 4′ 52″ northLongitude
6.31607° or 6° 18′ 58″ eastPopulation
42,800Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE ERKOpen location code
9F3838J8+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 27354580OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Erkelenz” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Erkelenz”
- Arabic: “إركلنتس”
- Aragonese: “Erkelenz”
- Arpitan: “Erkelenz”
- Asturian: “Erkelenz”
- Azerbaijani: “Erkelens”
- Basque: “Erkelenz”
- Bavarian: “Erkelenz”
- Belarusian: “Эркеленц”
- Breton: “Erkelenz”
- Catalan: “Erkelenz”
- Cebuano: “Erkelenz”
- Chechen: “Эркеленц”
- Chinese: “埃克伦茨”
- Chinese: “埃尔克伦茨”
- Corsican: “Erkelenz”
- Croatian: “Erkelenz”
- Czech: “Erkelenz”
- Danish: “Erkelenz”
- Dutch: “Erkelens”
- Dutch: “Erkelenz”
- Esperanto: “Erkelenz”
- Estonian: “Erkelenz”
- Finnish: “Erkelenz”
- French: “Erkelenz”
- Friulian: “Erkelenz”
- Galician: “Erkelenz”
- German: “Erkelenz”
- Hebrew: “ארקלנץ”
- Hungarian: “Erkelenz”
- Icelandic: “Erkelenz”
- Ido: “Erkelenz”
- Indonesian: “Erkelenz”
- Interlingua: “Erkelenz”
- Interlingue: “Erkelenz”
- Irish: “Erkelenz”
- Italian: “Erkelenz”
- Japanese: “エルケレンツ”
- Kazakh: “Эркеленц”
- Kirghiz: “Эркеленц”
- Kölsch: “Erkelenz”
- Kongo: “Erkelenz”
- Kurdish: “Erkelenz”
- Ladin: “Erkelenz”
- Ligurian: “Erkelenz”
- Limburgan: “Erkelens”
- Limburgan: “Erkelenz”
- Low German: “Erkelenz”
- Luxembourgish: “Erkelenz”
- Malagasy: “Erkelenz”
- Malay: “Erkelenz”
- Minangkabau: “Erkelenz”
- Narom: “Erkelenz”
- Neapolitan: “Erkelenz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erkelenz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erkelenz”
- Norwegian: “Erkelenz”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Erkelenz”
- Persian: “ارکلنز”
- Picard: “Erkelenz”
- Piemontese: “Erkelenz”
- Polish: “Erkelenz”
- Portuguese: “Erkelenz”
- Romanian: “Erkelenz”
- Romansh: “Erkelenz”
- Russian: “Эркеленц”
- Sardinian: “Erkelenz”
- Scots: “Erkelenz”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Erkelenz”
- Serbian: “Erkelenz”
- Serbian: “Еркеленц”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Erkelenz”
- Sicilian: “Erkelenz”
- Silesian: “Erkelenz (Půłnocno Nadryńijo-Westfalijo)”
- Silesian: “Erkelenz”
- Slovak: “Erkelenz”
- Slovenian: “Erkelenz”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارکلنز”
- Spanish: “Erkelenz”
- Swahili: “Erkelenz”
- Swedish: “Erkelenz”
- Swiss German: “Erkelenz”
- Tatar: “Эрекеленц”
- Tumbuka: “Erkelenz”
- Turkish: “Erkelenz”
- Ukrainian: “Еркеленц”
- Uzbek: “Erkelenz”
- Venetian: “Erkelenz”
- Vietnamese: “Erkelenz”
- Vlaams: “Erkelenz”
- Volapük: “Erkelenz”
- Walloon: “Erkelenz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Erkelenz”
- Welsh: “Erkelenz”
- Wolof: “Erkelenz”
- Zulu: “Erkelenz”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include City-Büro Citymanagement Erkelenz and Burg Erkelenz.
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