Emscher
The Emscher is a river, a tributary of the Rhine, that flows through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Its overall length is 83 kilometres with a mean outflow near the mouth into the lower Rhine of 16 m3/s.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dortmund Airport and Holzwickede station.
Dortmund Airport
Aerodrome
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Dortmund Airport is a minor international airport located 10 km east of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves the eastern Rhine-Ruhr area, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany, and is mainly used for low-cost and leisure charter flights. Dortmund Airport is situated 2½ km west of Emscher.
Holzwickede station
Railway station
Photo: Stefan Flöper, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Holzwickede station is a through station in the town of Holzwickede in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 17 December 1860, five years after the opening of the Dortmund–Soest railway. Holzwickede station is situated 2½ km southwest of Emscher.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holzwickede and Wickede.
Holzwickede
Town
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Holzwickede is a municipality in the district of Unna in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is twinned with Weymouth, Louviers and Colditz. Holzwickede is situated 3 km southwest of Emscher.
Wickede
Suburb
Wickede is the easternmost borough in the city of Dortmund, Germany. Until 1830 Wickede was a village with a purely peasant population. With the beginning of industrialization Wickede's population grew. Wickede is situated 3 km northwest of Emscher.
Unna
Town
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Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district. The newly refurbished Unna station has trains to all major cities in North Rhine Westphalia including Dortmund, Cologne, Münster, Hamm, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal. Unna is situated 3½ km northeast of Emscher.
Emscher
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Emscher” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Emscher”
- Arabic: “إمشر”
- Arabic: “نهر إمشر”
- Aragonese: “Emscher”
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- Cebuano: “Emscher”
- Chinese: “埃姆舍河”
- Chinese: “埃姆舍爾河”
- Chuvash: “Эмшер”
- Corsican: “Emscher”
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- Dutch: “Emscher”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر امشر”
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- German: “Emscher”
- Greek: “Έμσερ”
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- Irish: “Emscher”
- Italian: “Emscher”
- Japanese: “エムシャー川”
- Kongo: “Emscher”
- Korean: “엠셔강”
- Latin: “Amsara”
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- Low German: “Emscher”
- Low German: “Iämscher”
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- Norwegian Bokmål: “Emscher”
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- Norwegian: “Emscher”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Emscher”
- Persian: “امشر”
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- Romansh: “Emscher”
- Russian: “Эмшер”
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- Swiss German: “Emscher”
- Ukrainian: “Емшер”
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- Zulu: “Emscher”
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