Wachtendonk
Wachtendonk at the confluence of Niers River and Nette River is a municipality in the district of Kleve in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine halfway between Duisburg and Venlo at the Dutch border. Its name means 'bailiff's Donk'.- Type: Village with 8,220 residents
- Description: municipality in Kleve District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “05154060”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nette and Burg Wachtendonk.
Nette
The Nette is a small river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a left tributary of the Niers. It rises near Dülken, a borough of Viersen. The Nette flows through Viersen-Boisheim and Nettetal before reaching the Niers in Wachtendonk.Abtei Mariendonk
Monastery
Abtei Mariendonk is a monastery, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Wachtendonk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Straelen and Wankum.
Straelen
Town
Straelen is a municipality in the district of Cleves, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km north-east of Venlo. Twinning : Bayon in Meurthe-et-Moselle, since 7 July 1963. Straelen is situated 6 km northwest of Wachtendonk.
Wankum
Village
Wankum is a part of Wachtendonk in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its location, near the A40 autobahn close to the border with The Netherlands, is infamous with British motorists who pass the sign to the Wankum exit shortly after entering Germany and view the name with amusement due to its two syllables in written appearance.
Wachtendonk
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany and locality
- Location: Kleve, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.4065° or 51° 24′ 24″ north
Longitude
6.3353° or 6° 20′ 7″ east
Population
8,220
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
Open location code
9F38C84P+J4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wachtendonk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wachtendonk”
- Arabic: “فاختيندونك”
- Aragonese: “Wachtendonk”
- Arpitan: “Wachtendonk”
- Asturian: “Wachtendonk”
- Basque: “Wachtendonk”
- Bavarian: “Wachtendonk”
- Belarusian: “Вахтэндонк”
- Breton: “Wachtendonk”
- Catalan: “Wachtendonk”
- Cebuano: “Wachtendonk”
- Chinese: “瓦赫滕东克”
- Chinese: “瓦赫滕東克”
- Corsican: “Wachtendonk”
- Croatian: “Wachtendonk”
- Czech: “Wachtendonk”
- Danish: “Wachtendonk”
- Dutch: “Wachtendonk”
- Esperanto: “Wachtendonk”
- Estonian: “Wachtendonk”
- Finnish: “Wachtendonk”
- French: “Wachtendonk”
- Friulian: “Wachtendonk”
- Galician: “Wachtendonk”
- German: “Wachtendonk”
- Hungarian: “Wachtendonk”
- Icelandic: “Wachtendonk”
- Ido: “Wachtendonk”
- Indonesian: “Wachtendonk”
- Interlingua: “Wachtendonk”
- Interlingue: “Wachtendonk”
- Irish: “Wachtendonk”
- Italian: “Wachtendonk”
- Kazakh: “Вахтендонк”
- Kirghiz: “Вахтендонк”
- Kongo: “Wachtendonk”
- Korean: “바히텐동크”
- Kurdish: “Wachtendonk”
- Ladin: “Wachtendonk”
- Ligurian: “Wachtendonk”
- Limburgan: “Wachtedónk”
- Limburgan: “Wachtendonk”
- Low German: “Wachtendonk”
- Luxembourgish: “Wachtendonk”
- Malagasy: “Wachtendonk”
- Malay: “Wachtendonk”
- Minangkabau: “Wachtendonk”
- Narom: “Wachtendonk”
- Neapolitan: “Wachtendonk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wachtendonk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wachtendonk”
- Norwegian: “Wachtendonk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wachtendonk”
- Persian: “واختندونک”
- Picard: “Wachtendonk”
- Piemontese: “Wachtendonk”
- Polish: “Wachtendonk”
- Portuguese: “Wachtendonk”
- Romanian: “Wachtendonk”
- Romansh: “Wachtendonk”
- Russian: “Вахтендонк”
- Sardinian: “Wachtendonk”
- Scots: “Wachtendonk”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wachtendonk”
- Serbian: “Wachtendonk”
- Serbian: “Вахтендонк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wachtendonk”
- Sicilian: “Wachtendonk”
- Silesian: “Wachtendonk”
- Slovak: “Wachtendonk”
- Slovenian: “Wachtendonk”
- Spanish: “Wachtendonk”
- Swahili: “Wachtendonk”
- Swedish: “Wachtendonk”
- Swiss German: “Wachtendonk”
- Turkish: “Wachtendonk”
- Ukrainian: “Вахтендонк”
- Uzbek: “Wachtendonk”
- Venetian: “Wachtendonk”
- Vietnamese: “Wachtendonk”
- Vlaams: “Wachtendonk”
- Volapük: “Wachtendonk”
- Walloon: “Wachtendonk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wachtendonk”
- Welsh: “Wachtendonk”
- Wolof: “Wachtendonk”
- Zulu: “Wachtendonk”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rathaus Wachtendonk and Gemeindewerke Wachtendonk.
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