Erkrath

Erkrath, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia just east of Düsseldorf, carries the distinction of being the site where fossil remains of Homo neanderthalensis were first discovered in 1856, in the Neander Valley on its border with neighbouring Mettmann. The town sits at the transition between the Lower Rhine lowlands and the Bergisches Land uplands, with the wider region ringed by UNESCO World Heritage sites.

• Population47,815
• Nearest water0.1 km
• Nearest mountain1.1 km
• UNESCO within 50 km15