Zwiesel

Zwiesel is a town in the lower-Bavarian district of , Germany, and since 1972 is a Luftkurort with particularly good air. The name of the town was derived from the Bavarian word stem zwisl which refers to the form of a fork.
  • Type: Locality with 10,300 residents
  • Description: town in Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: Svízel” and “Zwisel

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zwiesel Forest Museum and Mariä Namen.

Museum
The in the town of Zwiesel on Kirchplatz 3 is a cultural and natural history in the county of Regen. It is housed in a building formerly part of a girls' school run by an English sister.

Church
is a church.

Church
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lichtenthal and Theresienthal.

Village
is a village.

Hamlet
is a hamlet.

Zwiesel

Latitude
49.01693° or 49° 1′ 1″ north
Longitude
13.23765° or 13° 14′ 16″ east
Population
10,300
Elevation
629 metres (2,064 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE ZWL
Open location code
8FXM268Q+Q3
Geo­Names ID
2803537
Wiki­data ID
Q163091
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Zwiesel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Zwiesel
  • Arabic: زفيزيل
  • Aragonese: Zwiesel
  • Armenian: Ցվիզել
  • Arpitan: Zwiesel
  • Asturian: Zwiesel
  • Basque: Zwiesel
  • Bavarian: Zwiesl
  • Breton: Zwiesel
  • Catalan: Zwiesel
  • Cebuano: Zwiesel
  • Chechen: Цвизель
  • Chinese: 茨維瑟爾
  • Chinese: 茨维塞尔
  • Chinese: 茨维瑟尔
  • Corsican: Zwiesel
  • Croatian: Zwiesel
  • Czech: Zwiesel
  • Danish: Zwiesel
  • Dutch: Zwiesel
  • Esperanto: Zwiesel
  • Estonian: Zwiesel
  • Finnish: Zwiesel
  • French: Zwiesel
  • Friulian: Zwiesel
  • Galician: Zwiesel
  • German: Zwiesel
  • Greek: Τσβίζελ
  • Hebrew: צוויזל
  • Hebrew: צווייזל
  • Hungarian: Zwiesel
  • Icelandic: Zwiesel
  • Ido: Zwiesel
  • Indonesian: Zwiesel
  • Interlingua: Zwiesel
  • Interlingue: Zwiesel
  • Irish: Zwiesel
  • Italian: Zwiesel
  • Japanese: ツヴィーゼル
  • Kazakh: Цвизель
  • Kirghiz: Цвизел
  • Kongo: Zwiesel
  • Kurdish: Zwiesel
  • Ladin: Zwiesel
  • Ligurian: Zwiesel
  • Limburgan: Zwiesel
  • Lombard: Zwiesel
  • Low German: Zwiesel
  • Luxembourgish: Zwiesel
  • Malagasy: Zwiesel
  • Malay: Zwiesel
  • Minangkabau: Zwiesel
  • Narom: Zwiesel
  • Neapolitan: Zwiesel
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Zwiesel
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Zwiesel
  • Occitan (post 1500): Zwiesel
  • Persian: تسویزل
  • Picard: Zwiesel
  • Piemontese: Zwiesel
  • Polish: Zwiesel
  • Portuguese: Zwiesel
  • Romanian: Zwiesel
  • Romansh: Zwiesel
  • Russian: Цвизель
  • Sardinian: Zwiesel
  • Scots: Zwiesel
  • Scottish Gaelic: Zwiesel
  • Serbian: Zwiesel
  • Serbian: Цвизел
  • Serbo-Croatian: Zwiesel
  • Sicilian: Zwiesel
  • Silesian: Zwiesel
  • Slovak: Zwiesel
  • Slovenian: Zwiesel
  • Spanish: Zwiesel
  • Swahili: Zwiesel
  • Swedish: Zwiesel
  • Swiss German: Zwiesel
  • Tatar: Цвизель
  • Tumbuka: Zwiesel
  • Turkish: Zwiesel
  • Ukrainian: Цвізель
  • Uzbek: Zwiesel
  • Venetian: Zwiesel
  • Vietnamese: Zwiesel
  • Vlaams: Zwiesel
  • Volapük: Zwiesel
  • Walloon: Zwiesel
  • Waray (Philippines): Zwiesel
  • Welsh: Zwiesel
  • Wolof: Zwiesel
  • Zulu: Zwiesel

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