Gelsenkirchen
Get the forecast for today, tonight & tomorrow's weather for Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hi/Low, RealFeel®, precip, radar, & everything you need to be ready for the day. Gelsenkirchen was a small village in 1850, but grew rapidly after the opening of the first coal mines in the 1850s. In 1928 the neighboring towns of Buer and Horst were absorbed by Gelsenkirchen. The city has a fine moated castle (16th–18th cent.), a municipal museum, and a zoological park.
Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. Gelsenkirchen, like neighbouring cities, is refining its image promoting its industrial culture. Old refineries have been remodelled into event halls and ice skating rinks.Overview | Map | Photo Map | Satellite | Directions |
Notable Places in the Area
Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof
Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. Photo: Marc Schuelper, CC BY-SA 3.0.Halde Zollverein 4/11
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen Railway Station
Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen is a railway station on the Essen–Gelsenkirchen railway situated in Gelsenkirchen in western Germany. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.Bahnhofcenter
Photo: Marc Schuelper, CC BY-SA 3.0.Localities in the Area
Wattenscheid
Wattenscheid is a Stadtbezirk of the city of Bochum. Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.Leithe
Leithe is the northwesternmost part of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Photo: Raenmaen, CC BY-SA 3.0.Hordel
Hordel is a borough of the city of Bochum, Germany in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia.Gelsenkirchen
- Type: City
- Description: town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Categories: independent city of Germany, big city, urban municipality of Germany and urban district of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Location: Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- Neighbors: Bochum and Essen
51.511° or 51° 30' 39.7' north | Longitude 7.096° or 7° 5' 45.6' east |
260,000 | IATA airport code ZEJ |
DE GEK | Elevation 48 metres (157 feet) |
node 240052693 | GeoNames ID 2921466 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Gelsenkirchen
- Albanian: Gelzenkirheni
- Arabic: Gelsenkirchen
- Arabic: غلزنكيرشن
- Arabic: غيلسنكيرشن
- Armenian: Գելզենկիրխեն
- Asturian: Gelsenkirchen
- Azerbaijani: Gelzenkirxen
- Azerbaijani: Helzenkirxen
- Basque: Gelsenkirchen
- Belarusian: Гельзенкірхен
- Belarusian: Гельзэнкірхэн
- Belarusian: Гэльзэнкірхэн
- Bengali: গেলচেনকিকেন
- Bulgarian: Гелзенкирхен
- Catalan: Gelsenkirchen
- Cebuano: Gelsenkirchen
- Cebuano: Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen
- Chechen: Гельзенкирхен
- Chinese: Gelsenkirchen
- Chinese: 盖尔森基兴
- Chinese: 蓋爾森基興
- Croatian: Gelsenkirchen
- Czech: Gelsenkirchen
- Danish: Gelsenkirchen
- Dimli (individual language): Gelsenkirchen
- Dutch: Gelsenkirchen
- Egyptian Arabic: جلزنكيرشن
- Esperanto: Gelsenkirchen
- Estonian: Gelsenkirchen
- Finnish: Gelsenkirchen
- French: Gelsenkirchen
- Galician: Gelsenkirchen
- Georgian: გელზენკირხენი
- German: Gelsenkirchen
- Greek: Γκελζενκίρχεν
- Gujarati: ગેલ્સેનકિચેન
- Hebrew: גלזנקירכן
- Hindi: गेलसेनकिर्चेन
- Hungarian: Gelsenkirchen
- Icelandic: Gelsenkirchen
- Ido: Gelsenkirchen
- Indonesian: Gelsenkirchen
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Gelsenkirchen
- Interlingue: Gelsenkirchen
- Italian: Gelsenkirchen
- Japanese: ゲルゼンキルヒェン
- Japanese: ゲルゼンキルヘン
- Kannada: ಗೆಲ್ಸೆನ್ಕಿರ್ಚೆನ್
- Kazakh: Гельзенкирхен
- Kirghiz: Гельзенкирхен
- Korean: 겔젠키르헨
- Kurdish: Gelsenkirchen
- Latin: Gelsenkircha
- Latvian: Gelzenkirhene
- Limburgan: Gelsenkirchen
- Lithuanian: Gelzenkirchenas
- Lombard: Gelsenkirchen
- Low German: Gelsenkiärken
- Luxembourgish: Gelsenkirchen
- Macedonian: Гелзенкирхен
- Malay: Gelsenkirchen
- Malayalam: ഗെൽസെൻകിർചെൻ
- Marathi: गेल्सनकर्शन
- Min Nan Chinese: Gelsenkirchen
- Mongolian: Гельзенкирхен
- Northern Frisian: Gelsenkirchen
- Norwegian: Gelsenkirchen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gelsenkirchen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gelsenkirchen
- Occitan (post 1500): Gelsenkirchen
- Persian: گلزنکیرشن
- Polish: Gelsenkirchen
- Portuguese: Gelsenkirchen
- Romanian: Gelsenkirchen
- Russian: Гельзенкирхен
- Saterfriesisch: Gelsenkirchen
- Scots: Gelsenkirchen
- Scottish Gaelic: Gelsenkirchen
- Serbian: Гелзенкирхен
- Serbo-Croatian: Gelsenkirchen
- Sinhala: ගෙල්සෙන්කර්චෙන්
- Slovak: Gelsenkirchen
- Slovenian: Gelsenkirchen, Nemčija
- South Azerbaijani: قلزنکیرشن
- Spanish: Gelsenkirchen
- Swahili: Gelsenkirchen
- Swedish: Gelsenkirchen
- Tamil: கெல்சென்கிர்சென்
- Tatar: Гелзенкирхен
- Telugu: గెలిసేంకిర్చేన్
- Thai: เกลเซนเคียร์เคิน
- Thai: เก็ลเซินเคียร์เชิน
- Turkish: Gelsenkirchen
- Ukrainian: Гельзенкірхен
- Upper Sorbian: Gelsenkirchen
- Urdu: جیلسینکیرچین
- Uzbek: Gelsenkirchen
- Vietnamese: Gelsenkirchen
- Volapük: Gelsenkirchen
- Waray (Philippines): Gelsenkirchen
- Welsh: Gelsenkirchen
- Western Frisian: Gelsenkirchen
- Western Panjabi: گلسنکرچن
- Wu Chinese: 盖尔森基兴
- Yue Chinese: 蓋爾森基興
Other Places Named Gelsenkirchen
- Kreisfreie Stadt GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
In the Area
Localities
- AltstadtSuburb
- NeustadtSuburb
- SophienauNeighborhood
- SchalkeSuburb
- FeldmarkSuburb
- Bulmke-HüllenSuburb
Landmarks
- Güterbahnhof Gelsenkirchen-SchalkeRailroad station
- Gelsenkirchen-Hessler BahnhofRailroad station
- Mine ConsolidationAbandoned mine
- Bahnhof Gelsenkirchen-Schalke NordRailroad station
- Bahnhof Gelsenkirchen-BismarckRailroad station
- Güterbahnhof Gelsenkirchen-WattenscheidRailroad station
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The nearest major airport is Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS / EDDL).This airport has international and domestic flights from Dusseldorf, Germany and is 45 km from the center of Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Another major airport is Dortmund Airport (DTM / EDLW), which has international and domestic flights from Dortmund, Germany and is 50 km from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Weeze Airport (NRN / EDLV) has international flights from Weeze, Germany and is 80 km from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN / EDDK) has international and domestic flights from Cologne, Germany and is 100 km from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
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International airports near Gelsenkirchen, Germany
45 km: Dusseldorf, Germany (DUS / EDDL) Düsseldorf International Airport
50 km: Dortmund, Germany (DTM / EDLW) Dortmund Airport
80 km: Weeze, Germany (NRN / EDLV) Weeze Airport
100 km: Cologne, Germany (CGN / EDDK) Cologne Bonn Airport
101 km: Munster, Germany (FMO / EDDG) Münster Osnabrück International Airport
134 km: Paderborn, Germany (PAD / EDLP) Paderborn Lippstadt Airport
142 km: Eindhoven, Netherlands (EIN / EHEH) Eindhoven Airport
150 km: Maastricht, Netherlands (MST / EHBK) Maastricht Aachen Airport
204 km: Liege, Belgium (LGG / EBLG) Liège Airport
Domestic airports near Gelsenkirchen, Germany
45 km: Dusseldorf, Germany (DUS / EDDL) Düsseldorf International Airport
50 km: Dortmund, Germany (DTM / EDLW) Dortmund Airport
100 km: Cologne, Germany (CGN / EDDK) Cologne Bonn Airport
101 km: Munster, Germany (FMO / EDDG) Münster Osnabrück International Airport
134 km: Paderborn, Germany (PAD / EDLP) Paderborn Lippstadt Airport
142 km: Eindhoven, Netherlands (EIN / EHEH) Eindhoven Airport
150 km: Maastricht, Netherlands (MST / EHBK) Maastricht Aachen Airport
204 km: Liege, Belgium (LGG / EBLG) Liège Airport
Local airports near Gelsenkirchen, Germany
21 km: Essen, Germany (ESS) Essen/Mulheim
79 km: Dusseldorf, Germany (MGL / EDLN) Moenchen-Gladbach
80 km: Laarbruch, Germany (LRC) Laarbruch Airport
111 km: Wildenrath, Germany (WID) Wildenrath Airport