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Zülpich
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Zülpich (; ) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany between Aachen and Bonn. It belongs to the district of Euskirchen.
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Zülpich is a city in Germany, situated in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Euskirchen. It shares borders with Vettweiß, Nideggen, Heimbach, and Mechernich. The city has a population of 21,375 and covers an area of 101.01 square kilometers. Its elevation above sea level is recorded at 180 meters, though other sources list figures of 164 and 174 meters. Zülpich uses the postal code 53909 and the license plate code EU.
The local dialing codes include 02251, 02252, 02256, and 02425. The city operates in the Europe/Berlin time zone, which corresponds to UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00. Zülpich is twinned with Blaye, Kangasala, and Overbetuwe. Its official website is zuelpich.de, and it is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Place details
- Locality
- Zülpich
- Region
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Country
- Deutschland
- Population
- 20,208
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
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Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_photo
- Zülpich 003x.jpg
- German place.image_flag
- Flagge Zuelpich.svg
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Zuelpich COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Zülpich in EU.svg
- German place.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German place.region
- Köln
- German place.district
- Euskirchen
- German place.elevation
- 180
- German place.area
- 101.01
- German place.postal_code
- 53909
- German place.area_code
- 02252
- German place.licence
- EU
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 3 66 044
- German place.divisions
- Kernstadt and 20 villages
- German place.mayor
- Ulf Hürtgen
- German place.party
- CDU
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
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Bad Münstereifel South to the wooded and hilly Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate, east to Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, north-east to Cologne, and north-west to Aachen.
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Encyclopedic overview
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Zülpich (; ) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany between Aachen and Bonn. It belongs to the district of Euskirchen.
==History == The town is commonly agreed to be the site with the Latin name of Tolbiacum, famous for the Battle of Tolbiac, fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the Alemanni; the traditional date is 496, corrected in many modern accounts to 506. The battle is commemorated in the names of the Rue de Tolbiac and the Tolbiac Métro station in Paris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zülpich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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