Bagger 288
Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine.
Latitude and longitude of Erkelenz
Satellite map of Erkelenz
Erkelenz is a town in the Rhineland in western Germany that lies 15 kilometres (9 miles) southwest of Mönchengladbach on the northern edge of the Cologne Lowland, halfway between the Lower Rhine region and the Lower Meuse.
Population: 44,650
Latitude: 51° 04' 46.09" N
Longitude: 6° 18' 55.12" E
Articles of interest in Erkelenz
67 Articles of interest near Erkelenz, Germany
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Transporter bridge
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Borussia-Park
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Transcendental Meditation movement
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NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen
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Hambach surface mine
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Operation Blackcock
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Duchy of Jülich
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Garzweiler surface mine
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Operation Clipper
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Abteiberg Museum
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Rheydt
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RAF Bruggen
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The River Wurm (Dutch: Worm) is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany.