Würselen
Bearing
- longitude: 50° 52´ 37"
- latitude: 6° 9´ 57"
Dimension
- total area: 34.38 km²
- circumference: 39.00 km
- maximum expansion north to south: 5.65 km
- maximum expansion west to east: 7.95 km
- highest altitude 'Ravelsberg' (re. NN): 227 m
- lowest altitude 'Entenweiher' in the valley of the river Wurm (re. NN): 170 m
Codes
- ZIP: 52146
- area code: 02405
Bevölkerung
- inhabitants 1818/19: 3,192
- inhabitants 1971 (before incorperation): 20,329
- inhabitants 1972: 34,412
(after incorperation of Bardenberg and Broichweiden) - inhabitants 1999: 63,500
- male: 17,600
- female: 18,900
Employment
- industrial area 'Aachener Kreuz' (April 1998)
- firms: 207
- employess: 5,417
- - female: 2,073
- male: 3,344
- industrial: 2,684
- service and trade: 2,733
- full time: 3,859
- half time: 1,362 - apprentices and trainee: 196
- industrial area 'Weiweg' (April 1998)
- firms: 42
- employee: 664
- female: 153
- male: 511
- industrial: 437
- service and trade: 227
- full time: 524
- half time: 108 - apprentices and trainee: 32
Rivers and Streams
- River: Wurm
- Streams: Birker Bach, Broicher Bach, Euchener Graben, Graben Grüner Weg, Graben Weidener Feld, Grenzsiefen, Meisbach, Merzbach, Quellenwassergraben, Ruiferbach, Schimmelgraben, Schweilbach, Steinbach, Vorfluter Talstrasse, Wisselsbach
Climate
- yearly average temperature: 9,5°C
- yearly average relative humidity: 78 %
- yearly average rain fall: 807 mm
- prevailing wind direction: southwest
- yearly hous with sunshine: 1,562