North Rhine-Westphalia
Münster
Recklinghausen

Castrop-Rauxel

Castrop-Rauxel, often simply referred to as Castrop by locals, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area within the state of in Germany.
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  • Type: Town with 73,800 residents
  • Description: town in Recklinghausen District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “05562004” and “Stadt Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bladenhorst Castle and Castrop-Rauxel Hauptbahnhof.

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is a moated castle in the suburbs of the city of Castrop-Rauxel.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the 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.

Hospital
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mengede and Westerfilde.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 5 km east of Castrop-Rauxel.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 5 km southeast of Castrop-Rauxel.

Suburb
is a part of the city of in the Ruhr area in . Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. is a district in the working-class north of Bochum, in the northeast, bordering Herne and Castrop-Rauxel. is situated 5 km south of Castrop-Rauxel.

Castrop-Rauxel

Latitude
51.5646° or 51° 33′ 53″ north
Longitude
7.3106° or 7° 18′ 38″ east
Population
73,800
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Open location code
9F39H876+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 228821181
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557584
Wiki­data ID
Q3898
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Castrop-Rauxel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Arabic: “كاستروب راوكسل”
  • Aragonese: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Armenian: “Կաստրոպ-Ռաուքսել”
  • Arpitan: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Asturian: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Basque: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Bavarian: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Belarusian: “Кастрап-Раўксель”
  • Breton: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Catalan: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Cebuano: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Chechen: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
  • Chinese: “卡斯楚普-勞克瑟爾”
  • Chinese: “卡斯特罗普-劳克瑟尔”
  • Corsican: “Castrop-Rauxel”
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  • Galician: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • German: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Hebrew: “קאסטרופ-ראוקסל”
  • Hungarian: “Castrop-Rauxel”
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  • Irish: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Italian: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Japanese: “カシュトロップ＝ラウクセル”
  • Japanese: “ヘルネ＝カシュトロップ＝ラウセル”
  • Kazakh: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
  • Kirghiz: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
  • Kongo: “Castrop-Rauxel”
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  • Ladin: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Latin: “Castropium-Rauxel”
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  • Lithuanian: “Kastropas-Raukselis”
  • Low German: “Castrop-Rauxel”
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  • Macedonian: “Кастроп-Рауксел”
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  • Moksha: “Кастроп-Рауксэль”
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Castrop-Rauxel”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Persian: “کاستروپ-راوکسل”
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  • Romansh: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Russian: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
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  • Scottish Gaelic: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Serbian: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Serbian: “Кастроп-Рауксел”
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  • Swiss German: “Castrop-Rauxel”
  • Tatar: “Касторп-Рауксел”
  • Thai: “คัสทร็อพ-เราค์เซิล”
  • Tumbuka: “Castrop-Rauxel”
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  • Ukrainian: “Кастроп-Рауксель”
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  • Zulu: “Castrop-Rauxel”

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