Old town centre
The historic core gathers around the market square, church and castle remains, forming a small, dense cluster in the middle of the town.
Minimalist map poster · Germany
51.0795° N / 6.3153° E
An old town ring in the Rhineland farmland, facing the vast opening of an open-cast lignite mine





One city, five moods
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The map
Erkelenz is a town in the Heinsberg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, between Mönchengladbach and the Dutch border. Its centre is compact, with an old town arranged around the market square and the church, and the remains of a medieval castle on one side. Around it, residential districts and villages spread across flat, fertile farmland.
The strongest feature on the wider map is the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine, which lies to the east of the town. Several villages within Erkelenz's territory have been relocated because of the mine, and new versions of them were built elsewhere. The former village of Lützerath, part of Erkelenz, was cleared in 2023 after protests that drew international attention.
An Erkelenz map poster therefore shows a town at the edge of one of the most dramatic landscape changes in Germany. The regular street pattern of the resettled villages contrasts with the older lanes of the historic centre, and the broad, empty space of the mine creates an unusual boundary on the eastern side.
The historic core gathers around the market square, church and castle remains, forming a small, dense cluster in the middle of the town.
To the east, the open-cast mine creates a vast empty area on the map, framed by embankments and roads that follow its changing boundary.
Newly built villages with planned, regular street layouts replace communities moved because of the mine, visible as tidy patches among the fields.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
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Why Erkelenz
For people from Erkelenz and its villages, this map holds both a hometown and a landscape that has changed within living memory. It can mark a family house or a village that now exists in a new place.
Personalise the title, subtitle and coordinates with a village name or a year. Choose from Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand, and order $9 digital files in six sizes or a printed poster.
Oder poster Erkelenz| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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