Euskirchen is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the district Euskirchen. While Euskirchen resembles a modern shopping town, it also has a history dating back over 700 years, having been granted town status in 1302.
Population: 54,889
Latitude: 50° 39' 38.05" N
Longitude: 6° 47' 13.99" E
Phantasialand is a theme park in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany that attracts approximately 1.75 million visitors annually. The park was opened in 1967 by Gottlieb Löffelhardt and Richard Schmidt. Although starting as a family-oriented park,…
Der Eiserne Mann (The Iron Man) is an old iron pillar partially buried in the ground in the German national forest of Naturpark Kottenforst-Ville, about two kilometers north-east of the village Dünstekoven. It is a roughly rectangular metal bar with…
The Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces is a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which have been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. They are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of t…
The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks, who were fighting under Clovis I, and the Alamanni, whose leader is not known. The date of the battle has traditionally been given as 496, though other accounts suggest it may have been fought in …
At the start of the Western European campaign of 1940, the Felsennest ("Rocky Eyrie" in English) was the codename for one of Hitler's Führer Headquarters near Bad Münstereifel, Germany. It was much more cramped than Adolf Hitler's other field bunker…
Cologne is one of the five governmental districts of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahrgebirge (part of the Eifel) in Bad Münstereifel, district of Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. For 29 years the Effelsberg Radio Telescope was the largest fully steerable…
Black Mamba is an inverted roller coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard in the German theme park Phantasialand.
Euskirchen is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Colorado Adventure is a steel roller coaster located at Phantasialand in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. During construction it was decided to opt for a roller coaster in a Western style rather than a traditional roller coaster. The name Col…
Winjas is the generic term for two spinning roller coasters, Winjas Fear and Winjas Force, at Phantasialand in Germany.
Temple of the Night Hawk is an enclosed roller coaster located at Phantasialand. Founded in 1988 after 18 months of construction, the ride was originally called ‘'Space Center'’. The ride led passengers past models of rockets and emulated asteroids …
The Brühl train disaster happened on 6 February 2000 in the Brühl, Germany, railway station on the West Rhine railway.
Ludendorf is a village in the municipality Swisttal in the North-Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district. It is situated approximately 18 km southwest of Bonn.
The Swist is a brook in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It rises in Rhineland-Palatinate at the Eifel on 330 m sealevel. The brook is 43,6 km long, and joins the Erft at the mouth in North Rhine-Westphalia. It flows through…
Knapsack is a locality of Hürth, Rhine-Erft district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Kelz Airfield is a former World War II military airfield in Germany.
The Stockert Radio Telescope is a historical radio telescope on the Stockert in Germany.