Alken
Alken is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Above the village on a hill spur stand the ruins of Thurant Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 674 residents
- Description: German municipality
- Also known as: “07137201” and “Alken, Germany”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thurant Castle and Reiherschussinsel bei Lehmen.
Thurant Castle
Castle
Photo: Carschten, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The ruins of the Thurant Castle stand on a wide slate hill spur above the villages of Alken on the Moselle in Germany. The castle is in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs to the spur castle type.
Reiherschussinsel bei Lehmen
Islet
Photo: SpaceVehicle, Public domain.
Reiherschussinsel bei Lehmen is an islet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Löf and Brodenbach.
Löf
Village
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Löf is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.
Brodenbach
Village
Photo: Dieter rogge, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Brodenbach is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.
Hatzenport
Village
Photo: DER UNFASSBARE, Public domain.
Hatzenport is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.
Alken
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany and locality
- Location: Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.2456° or 50° 14′ 44″ northLongitude
7.4483° or 7° 26′ 54″ eastPopulation
674Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)Open location code
9F296CWX+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 240105190OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6553792Wikidata ID
Q305288
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Alken” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Alken”
- Catalan: “Alken”
- Cebuano: “Alken (munisipyo sa Alemanya, Rheinland-Pfalz, lat 50,25, long 7,45)”
- Cebuano: “Alken”
- Chechen: “Алькен (Лаха Мозель)”
- Chechen: “Алькен”
- Chinese: “Alken”
- Chinese: “阿尔肯”
- Dutch: “Alken”
- Esperanto: “Alken”
- French: “Alken”
- German: “Alken”
- Hungarian: “Alken”
- Irish: “Alken”
- Italian: “Alken”
- Japanese: “アルケン (ドイツ)”
- Kazakh: “Алькен”
- Kirghiz: “Алькен”
- Ladin: “Alken”
- Malay: “Alken, Jerman”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alken (Tek-kok)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alken”
- Persian: “الکن، آلمان”
- Polish: “Alken”
- Portuguese: “Alken”
- Romanian: “Alken”
- Russian: “Алькен”
- Serbian: “Алкен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alken”
- Spanish: “Alken”
- Swedish: “Alken, Rheinland-Pfalz”
- Swedish: “Alken”
- Tatar: “Алькен (Түбән Мозель)”
- Tatar: “Алькен”
- Turkish: “Alken”
- Ukrainian: “Алькен”
- Uzbek: “Alken”
- Vietnamese: “Alken, Mayen-Koblenz”
- Vietnamese: “Alken”
- Volapük: “Alken”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alken, Alemanya”
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