North Rhine-Westphalia
Lower Rhine
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Krefeld

Krefeld, also spelled Crefeld until 1925, is a city in , in western . It is located northwest of , its center lying just a few kilometers to the west of the river Rhine; the borough of is situated directly on the Rhine.
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  • Type: City with 222,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “Crefeld” and “Krefeld-Uerdingen”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hauptbahnhof Krefeld and Yayla Arena.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Krefeld Hauptbahnhof is the largest station of the city of Krefeld in the German state of . The double-track and electrified Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway and the Lower Left Rhine Railway cross at the station.

Stadium
Photo: DER UNFASSBARE, Public domain.
, formerly known as KönigPALAST from 2004 to 2018, is an arena in Krefeld, . It is primarily used for ice hockey, and is the Home to the Krefeld Pinguine.

Shopping center
Photo: DER UNFASSBARE, Public domain.
is a shopping center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fischeln and Oppum.

Suburb
Photo: Ludger1961, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
is the most southerly district of Krefeld, . Its population is 26,030 and its area is 18.99 km2. Older than Krefeld, was first mentioned as "Viscolo" around 900AD.

Suburb
is a quarter of Krefeld, a city in , . probably developed as a Frankish farmer settlement. Its existence was first documented in the year 1072.

Suburb
is a northeastern district of Krefeld, , . With its large parks, its advantageous location and high housing comfort, it is one of the most favoured residential areas in the city.

Krefeld

Latitude
51.3331° or 51° 19′ 59″ north
Longitude
6.5623° or 6° 33′ 44″ east
Population
222,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
IATA airport code
QKF
United Nations Location Codes
DE KDU and DE UDN
Open location code
9F388HM6+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240048753
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2884509
Wiki­data ID
Q2805
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Krefeld” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Krefeld”
  • Arabic: “كريفلد”
  • Aragonese: “Krefeld”
  • Armenian: “Կրեֆելդ”
  • Arpitan: “Krefeld”
  • Asturian: “Krefeld”
  • Azerbaijani: “Krefeld”
  • Balinese: “Krefeld”
  • Bashkir: “Крефельд”
  • Basque: “Krefeld”
  • Bavarian: “Krefeld”
  • Belarusian: “Крэфельд”
  • Belarusian: “Крэфэльд”
  • Bengali: “ক্রেফেল্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Krefeld”
  • Breton: “Krefeld”
  • Bulgarian: “Крефелд”
  • Catalan: “Krefeld”
  • Cebuano: “Krefeld (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Krefeld”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Krefeld”
  • Central Kurdish: “کرێفێلد”
  • Chinese: “Krefeld”
  • Chinese: “克雷菲爾德”
  • Chinese: “克雷費爾德”
  • Chinese: “克雷费尔德”
  • Corsican: “Krefeld”
  • Croatian: “Krefeld”
  • Czech: “Krefeld”
  • Danish: “Krefeld”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Krefeld”
  • Dutch: “Krefeld”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كريفيلد”
  • Esperanto: “Krefeld”
  • Estonian: “Krefeld”
  • Fijian: “Krefeld”
  • Finnish: “Crefeld”
  • Finnish: “Krefeld”
  • French: “Crefeld”
  • French: “Krefeld”
  • Friulian: “Krefeld”
  • Galician: “Krefeld”
  • Georgian: “კრეფელდი”
  • German: “Crefeld”
  • German: “Krefeld”
  • Greek: “Κρέφελντ”
  • Gujarati: “ક્રેફેલ્ડ”
  • Hausa: “Krefeld”
  • Hebrew: “קרייפלד”
  • Hebrew: “קרפלד”
  • Hindi: “क्रेफेल्ड”
  • Hindi: “क्रेफ़ेल्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Krefeld”
  • Icelandic: “Krefeld”
  • Ido: “Krefeld”
  • Indonesian: “Krefeld”
  • Interlingua: “Krefeld”
  • Interlingue: “Krefeld”
  • Irish: “Krefeld”
  • Italian: “Krefeld”
  • Japanese: “クレーフェルト”
  • Japanese: “クレフェルト”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ರೆಫಲ್ಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Крефельд”
  • Kirghiz: “Крефельд”
  • Kölsch: “Krefeld”
  • Kölsch: “Krieevel”
  • Kongo: “Krefeld”
  • Korean: “크레펠트”
  • Kotava: “Krefeld”
  • Kurdish: “Krefeld”
  • Ladin: “Krefeld”
  • Latin: “Crefeldia”
  • Latin: “Creiveldium”
  • Latvian: “Krēfelde”
  • Ligurian: “Krefeld”
  • Limburgan: “Krefeld”
  • Limburgan: “Krieewel”
  • Limburgan: “Krievel”
  • Lithuanian: “Krėfeldas”
  • Low German: “Krefeld”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Krefeld”
  • Luxembourgish: “Krefeld”
  • Macedonian: “Крефелд”
  • Malagasy: “Krefeld”
  • Malay: “Krefeld”
  • Marathi: “क्रेफेल्ड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Krefeld”
  • Minangkabau: “Krefeld”
  • Narom: “Krefeld”
  • Neapolitan: “Krefeld”
  • Northern Frisian: “Krefeld”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Krefeld”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krefeld”
  • Norwegian: “Krefeld”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Krefeld”
  • Ossetian: “Крефельд”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Krefeld”
  • Persian: “کرفلد”
  • Picard: “Krefeld”
  • Piemontese: “Krefeld”
  • Polish: “Krefeld”
  • Portuguese: “Crefeld”
  • Portuguese: “Krefeld”
  • Romanian: “Crefeld”
  • Romanian: “Krefeld”
  • Romansh: “Krefeld”
  • Russian: “Крефельд”
  • Sardinian: “Krefeld”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Krefeld”
  • Scots: “Krefeld”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Krefeld”
  • Serbian: “Krefeld”
  • Serbian: “Крефелд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Krefeld”
  • Sicilian: “Krefeld”
  • Silesian: “Krefeld”
  • Sinhala: “ක්රෙෆෙල්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Krefeld”
  • Slovenian: “Krefeld”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کرفلد”
  • Spanish: “Krefeld”
  • Swahili: “Krefeld”
  • Swedish: “Crefeld”
  • Swedish: “Krefeld”
  • Swiss German: “Krefeld”
  • Tamil: “க்ரெஃபெல்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Крефелд”
  • Telugu: “క్రేఫెల్డ్”
  • Thai: “เครเฟลด์”
  • Thai: “เครเฟ็ลท์”
  • Tumbuka: “Krefeld”
  • Turkish: “Crefeld”
  • Turkish: “Krefeld”
  • Ukrainian: “Крефельд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Krefeld”
  • Urdu: “کرفیلڈ”
  • Urdu: “کریفیلد”
  • Urdu: “کریفیلڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Krefeld”
  • Venetian: “Krefeld”
  • Veps: “Krefel’d”
  • Vietnamese: “Krefeld”
  • Vlaams: “Krefeld”
  • Volapük: “Krefeld”
  • Walloon: “Krefeld”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Krefeld”
  • Welsh: “Krefeld”
  • Western Frisian: “Krefeld”
  • Western Panjabi: “کریفیلڈ”
  • Wolof: “Krefeld”
  • Wu Chinese: “克雷费尔德”
  • Yue Chinese: “克雷菲爾德”
  • Zeeuws: “Krefeld”
  • Zulu: “Krefeld”

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