Wunsiedel
Wunsiedel is the seat of the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in northeast Bavaria, Germany. The town is the birthplace of poet Jean Paul. It also became known for its annual Luisenburg Festival and the Rudolf Hess Memorial March held there by Neo-Nazis until 2005.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rathaus and Fichtelgebirge Museum.
Fichtelgebirge Museum
Museum
The Fichtelgebirge Museum is a regional museum in Wunsiedel, formerly the 'capital' of the Sechsämterland and the county town in the Fichtel Mountains of central Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schönbrunn and Holenbrunn.
Schönbrunn
Village
Schönbrunn is a village in the heart of the Fichtel Mountains in Bavaria, Germany. Since 1975 it is part of the town Wunsiedel. It has about 1,400 inhabitants, including the village Furthammer. Schönbrunn is situated 2½ km southwest of Wunsiedel.
Holenbrunn
Village
Holenbrunn is a village of 1000 inhabitants in the Fichtel Mountains. It is part of the town Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia in the state of Bavaria in Germany. Holenbrunn is situated 3 km northeast of Wunsiedel.
Kleinwendern
Village
Photo: PeterBraun74, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kleinwendern is a village, which is situated 4½ km south of Wunsiedel.
Wunsiedel
- Type: Town with 10,200 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, effective rural municipality, district capital, and locality
- Location: Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.03732° or 50° 2′ 14″ northLongitude
12.00273° or 12° 0′ 10″ eastPopulation
10,200Elevation
545 metres (1,788 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE WULOpen location code
9F2J22P3+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 240103247OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wunsiedel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فونزيدل”
- Aragonese: “Wunsiedel”
- Armenian: “Վունզիդել”
- Basque: “Wunsiedel”
- Bavarian: “Wunsiedel”
- Belarusian: “Вунзідэль”
- Cebuano: “Wunsiedel (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Wunsiedel”
- Chechen: “Вунзидель”
- Chinese: “文西德尔”
- Chinese: “文西德爾”
- Czech: “Wunsiedel”
- Danish: “Wunsiedel”
- Dutch: “Wunsiedel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زيد فونل”
- Esperanto: “Wunsiedel”
- French: “Wunsiedel i.Fichtelgebirge”
- French: “Wunsiedel”
- Georgian: “ვუნზიდელი”
- German: “Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge”
- German: “Wunsiedel”
- Hungarian: “Wunsiedel”
- Interlingue: “Wunsiedel”
- Irish: “Wunsiedel”
- Italian: “Wunsiedel”
- Japanese: “ヴンジーデル”
- Kazakh: “Vwnzïdelʹ”
- Kazakh: “Вунзидель”
- Kazakh: “ۆۋنزىيدەل”
- Kirghiz: “Вунзидель”
- Kurdish: “Wunsiedel”
- Ladin: “Wunsiedel”
- Lombard: “Wunsiedel”
- Malay: “Wunsiedel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wunsiedel”
- Norwegian: “Wunsiedel”
- Persian: “وونزیدل”
- Polish: “Wunsiedel”
- Portuguese: “Wunsiedel”
- Romanian: “Wunsiedel”
- Russian: “Вунзидель”
- Serbian: “Vunsidel”
- Serbian: “Wunsiedel”
- Serbian: “Вунсидел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wunsiedel”
- Slovenian: “Wunsiedel”
- South Azerbaijani: “وونزیدل”
- Spanish: “Wunsiedel”
- Swedish: “Wunsiedel”
- Tatar: “Вунзидель”
- Tumbuka: “Wunsiedel”
- Turkish: “Wunsiedel”
- Ukrainian: “Вунзідель”
- Uzbek: “Vunzidel”
- Uzbek: “Wunsiedel”
- Uzbek: “Wунсиедел”
- Uzbek: “Вунзидел”
- Vietnamese: “Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge”
- Vietnamese: “Wunsiedel”
- Volapük: “Wunsiedel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wunsiedel”
- Welsh: “Wunsiedel”
- “Wunsiedel”
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