Castrop-Rauxel
Castrop-Rauxel is a locality in Castrop-Rauxel, Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia and has about 77,900 residents. Castrop-Rauxel is situated nearby to the locality Castroperholz, as well as near the suburb Behringhausen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castrop-Rauxel Hauptbahnhof and Bladenhorst Castle.
Castrop-Rauxel Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Castrop-Rauxel Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Castrop-Rauxel. It is situated on the S2 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, stopping every half hour. Additional, the RE 3 and the RB32 both stop hourly.
Bladenhorst Castle
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Bladenhorst Castle is a moated castle in the suburbs of the city of Castrop-Rauxel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herne and Gerthe.
Herne
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Herne is a city of 156,000 people in the Ruhr area. Part of the city escaped the extensive bombing that destroyed other Rugr cities in World War II, so there are still many historical buildings, especially in the Herne-Mitte district, many of them from the Wilhelminian era.
Gerthe
Suburb
Gerthe is a part of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in Germany. Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. Gerthe is a district in the working-class north of Bochum, in the northeast, bordering Herne and Castrop-Rauxel. Gerthe is situated 4½ km south of Castrop-Rauxel.
Mengede
Suburb
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Mengede is a suburb, which is situated 5 km east of Castrop-Rauxel.
Castrop-Rauxel
- Type: Locality with 77,900 residents
- Also known as: “Stadt Castrop-Rauxel”
- Location: Castrop-Rauxel, Recklinghausen, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Castrop-Rauxel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاستروب راوكسل”
- Chinese: “卡斯特罗普-劳克塞尔”
- Kazakh: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
- Persian: “کاستروپ-راوکسل”
- Russian: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
- Serbian: “Кастроп-Рауксел”
- Thai: “คัสทรอพ-เราเซิล”
- Ukrainian: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bahnhof Castrop-Rauxel Süd and Gustav Knepper Power Station.
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