🏞️ Worringer Bruch

Germany · Europe · 51.05°N, 6.86°E

The Worringer Bruch is a section of 164 hectares swampy lowlands in the far north of Cologne, Germany. It is approximately 8,000 years old, and is now almost a completely dried up meander part of the Rhine. It was named after an adjacent district of Cologne, Worringen, which once was an independent city, which has a thousand years of history.

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Country	Germany
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	51.05°N, 6.86°E · view on map

Worringer Bruch is located in Germany, in Europe.

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