Knapsack is a locality of Hürth, Rhine-Erft district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. On Wednesday 17 October 2007, King Harald of Norway opened Statkraft's first gas power plant at Knapsack in Germany. The plant will have an installed capacity of 800 MW.

Heide

Suburb

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Heide is a suburb.

Hürth

Town

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Hürth is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hürth shares borders with the city of Cologne and is about 6 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre, at the northeastern slope of the natural preserve Kottenforst-Ville. Hürth is situated 3 km north of Meerchen.

Meerchen

Type: Locality
Location: Hürth, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

50.85324° or 50° 51′ 12″ north

Longitude

6.88062° or 6° 52′ 50″ east

Open location code

9F28VV3J+76

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9785163622

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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