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1 Erkrath  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 78
Lat/Lng : 51.2186 / 6.9131
Erkrath is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (...)
2 Neandertal (valley)  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 88
Lat/Lng : 51.2261 / 6.9511
The Neandertal (sometimes called "the Neander Valley" in English) is a small valley of the river Düssel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about east of Düsseldorf, the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia. The valley lies within the limits of the towns of Erkrath and Mettmann (...)
3 Cergy  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 34
Lat/Lng : 49.0361 / 2.0631
Cergy is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s, of which it is the central and most populated commune (...)
4 Düsseldorf-Unterbach  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 73
Lat/Lng : 51.2061 / 6.9
Unterbach was a local borough of Erkrath, Germany, until 1975, when it became an urban borough of Düsseldorf in a local reorganisation. A portion of the pre-1975 Unterbach remains as the borough of Erkrath-Unterfeldhaus (...)
5 Düsseldorf  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 42
Lat/Lng : 51.2256 / 6.7828
Düsseldorf (; Low Franconian and), often Dusseldorf in English sources, is the capital and, after Cologne, second most populous city of the most populous German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the seventh most populous city in Germany (...)
6West Lancashire  
FeatureType : adm2nd
Elevation : 60
Lat/Lng : 53.562 / -2.827
West Lancashire is a non-metropolitan district with the status of a borough in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Ormskirk. The other town in the borough is Skelmersdale. The population of the District taken at the 2011 census was 110,685 (...)
7Erkrath station  
FeatureType : railwaystation
Elevation : 61
Lat/Lng : 51.2204 / 6.903
Erkrath station is a through station in the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. (...)
8Erkrath Nord station  
FeatureType : railwaystation
Elevation : 84
Lat/Lng : 51.2293 / 6.9094
Erkrath Nord station is a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn station in the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened between 1905/14 on the last section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway from Mettmann station (now Mettmann Stadtwald station) to the Rhenish Railway (...)
9Düsseldorf-Hubbelrath  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 120
Lat/Lng : 51.2567 / 6.9108
Hubbelrath is an urban bourough of Düsseldorf. It borders to Gerresheim, Mettmann, Erkrath and Ratingen. The name comes from the old estate Hupoldesroth, which was written mentioned first time in 950 A.D. Hubbelrath was a farming settlement with an old romanic church (...)
10 Krämerbrücke  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 195
Lat/Lng : 50.9787 / 11.0308
The Krämerbrücke (Merchants' bridge) is a medieval arch bridge in the city of Erfurt, in Thuringia in central Germany, which is lined with half timbered shops and houses on both sides of a cobblestone street. It is one of the few remaining bridges in the world that have inhabited buildings (...)
11Cergy-Pontoise  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 34
Lat/Lng : 49.0361 / 2.0631
Cergy-Pontoise is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise department, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its population is 199,143 (2012), in an area of 84.2 km2 (...)
12Düsseldorf-Ludenberg  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 121
Lat/Lng : 51.2572 / 6.8642
Ludenberg is an urban borough of Düsseldorf. It borders on Gerresheim, Grafenberg, Hubbelrath and Rath. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Ludenberg belonged to the mayor's office of Gerresheim together with Erkrath, Vennhausen, Unterbach, Morp, Dorp and Bruchhausen (...)
13Düsseldorf-Bilk  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 38
Lat/Lng : 51.2081 / 6.7767
Bilk, Oberbilk and Unterbilk are parts of Düsseldorf and together with Hamm, Flehe and Volmerswerth they constitute City District 3, which is the most populated district of Düsseldorf with 105,281 inhabitants. The renowned Heinrich-Heine-University is located in Bilk. (...)
14Hochdahl station  
FeatureType : railwaystation
Elevation : 137
Lat/Lng : 51.2188 / 6.944
Hochdahl station is a through station in the district of Hochdahl of the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. (...)
15Hochdahl-Millrath station  
FeatureType : railwaystation
Elevation : 138
Lat/Lng : 51.2165 / 6.9667
Hochdahl-Millrath station is a through station in the district of Millrath of the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened in 1968 or 1969 on the section of the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Erkrath to Wuppertal-Vohwinkel that was opened by the (...)
16 Kom(m)ödchen  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 42
Lat/Lng : 51.2272 / 6.7756
The Kom(m)ödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf. The Kom(m)ödchen was created in 1947 as a political-literary cabaret by Kay and Lore Lorentz. Other participants in the initial program "Positiv dagegen", which had its premiere on March 29, 1947, were Werner Vielhaber, Bernd Nesselhut, Hans Walter (...)
17Skelmersdale  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 65
Lat/Lng : 53.548 / -2.7878
Skelmersdale is a town in West Lancashire, England. It lies on high-ground on the River Tawd, to the west of Wigan, to the northeast of Liverpool, south-southwest of Preston. As of 2006, Skelmersdale had a population of 38,813, down from 41,000 in 2004. The town is known locally as Skem (...)
18Düsseldorf-Gerresheim station  
FeatureType : railwaystation
Elevation : 49
Lat/Lng : 51.2204 / 6.8641
Düsseldorf-Gerresheim station is a through station in the district of Gerresheim in the city of Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened along with the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Düsseldorf to Erkrath by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 20 (...)
19Neanderthal 1  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 79
Lat/Lng : 51.2272 / 6.9444
Feldhofer 1, Neanderthal 1 is the scientific name of the 40,000-year-old type specimen fossil of the species Homo neanderthalensis,Die Schreibung des Lemmas Neandertal 1 folgt: Wilhelm Gieseler: Germany. In: Kenneth P. Oakley et al. (Hrsg.): Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Europe Pt. 2 (...)
20Mettmann Zentrum station  
FeatureType : railwaystation
Elevation : 138
Lat/Lng : 51.2487 / 6.9801
Mettmann Zentrum ("Mettmann centre") station is a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn station in the town of Mettmann in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened in 1953 on the last section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway from Mettmann station (now Mettmann Stadtwald station) to the (...)