Waldkirchen
Waldkirchen is a village and former municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 March 2009 it has been part of the municipality of Grünhainichen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,210 residents
- Description: village in Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Waldkirchen, Saxony”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Station 90 Waldkirchen and Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works.
Station 90 Waldkirchen
Historic site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Station 90 Waldkirchen is a historic site.
Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works
Historic site
Photo: Hagen Graebner, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works was a paintworks in the Ore Mountains that manufactured blue glass paste. It is located in the village of Zschopenthal in the parish of Grünhainichen in the German state of Saxony.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Börnichen and Krumhermersdorf.
Börnichen
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Börnichen is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.
Krumhermersdorf
Village
Krumhermersdorf is a village in the large county borough of Zschopau in the district Erzgebirgskreis in eastern Germany. It was first mentioned in the records in 1369. Krumhermersdorf is situated 3 km south of Waldkirchen.
Borstendorf
Village
Photo: Rauenstein, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borstendorf is a village and a former municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2015 it is part of the municipality Grünhainichen. Borstendorf is situated 4½ km east of Waldkirchen.
Waldkirchen
- Categories: human settlement, Ortsteil, and locality
- Location: Grünhainichen, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.76608° or 50° 45′ 58″ northLongitude
13.11704° or 13° 7′ 1″ eastPopulation
1,210Elevation
454 metres (1,490 feet)Open location code
9F2MQ488+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 240088547OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2814877Wikidata ID
Q58011
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bashkir to Volapük—“Waldkirchen” goes by many names.
- Bashkir: “Вальдкирхен”
- Catalan: “Waldkirchen”
- Cebuano: “Waldkirchen”
- Chechen: “Вальдкирхен (МаьӀдан лаьмнаш)”
- Chechen: “Вальдкирхен”
- Dutch: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- Esperanto: “Waldkirchen”
- Estonian: “Waldkircheni vald”
- French: “Waldkirchen”
- German: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- German: “Waldkirchen/Erzgebirge”
- Irish: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- Italian: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- Macedonian: “Валдкирхен”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waldkirchen”
- Norwegian: “Waldkirchen”
- Persian: “والدکیرشن (زاکسونی)”
- Persian: “والدکیرشن”
- Polish: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- Romanian: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- Russian: “Вальдкирхен”
- Spanish: “Waldkirchen”
- Tatar: “Вальдкирхен (Руда таулары)”
- Tatar: “Вальдкирхен”
- Uzbek: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
- Volapük: “Waldkirchen/Erzgeb.”
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