Zülpich is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany between Aachen and Bonn.
Population: 20,208
Latitude: 50° 41' 40.09" N
Longitude: 6° 39' 14.90" 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,…
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 …
Hill 400 is the name given by Allied forces during World War II to a 400.8 metres (1,315 ft) high hill located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of the centre of Bergstein, a village in the Eifel region of Germany.
Ordensburg Vogelsang is a former national socialist estate placed at the former military training area in the national park Eifel in North Rhine-Westphalia. The landmarked and completely preserved estate was used by the National Socialists between 1…
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…
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes.
The Hürtgen forest (also: Huertgen Forest; German: Hürtgenwald) is located along the border between Belgium and Germany in the southwest corner of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Scarcely 50 square miles (130 km2) in area, the fo…
The 20th World Youth Day (German: XX. Weltjugendtag Köln) was a Catholic youth festival that started on August 16 and continued until August 21, 2005 in Cologne, Germany. It was the first World Youth Day and foreign trip of Pope Benedict XVI, who jo…
Black Mamba is an inverted roller coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard in the German theme park Phantasialand.
The Rhein-Erft-Kreis is a district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Euskirchen is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Düren is a Kreis (district) in the 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.
Marienfeld is a large (2.6 km² / 640 acres) grassy field on the reclaimed site of a former open-pit lignite mine about 20 km (12 mi) south-west of Cologne Cathedral in the city of Cologne, Germany, straddling the towns of Frechen and Kerpen.
…Mödrath (new Mödrath) is a quarter of Kerpen, Germany.
Mariawald Abbey (German: Abtei Mariawald) is a monastery of the Trappists (formally known as the Cistercians of the Strict Observance), located above the village of Heimbach, in the district of Düren in the Eifel, in the forests around Mount Kermete…
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.