Venusberg
Venusberg is a village and a former municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Drebach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: village in Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Venusberg, Saxony”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Drebach Observatory and Lutheran Church Drebach.
Drebach Observatory
Photo: Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Drebach Observatory is a planetarium and astronomical observatory owned and operated by the municipality of Drebach, Saxony, Germany. The planetarium uses a ZKP-3 Skymaster Zeiss projector. Drebach Observatory is situated 3 km south of Venusberg.
Scharfenstein Castle
Photo: Doktor Chaos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scharfenstein Castle lies on an elongated hill spur above the village of Scharfenstein, in the municipality of Drebach in the Ore Mountains of Saxony, Germany. The castle is one of 24 sites run by the state-owned State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony. Scharfenstein Castle is situated 2½ km east of Venusberg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grießbach and Gelenau.
Grießbach
Village
Grießbach is a village and a former municipality in the Ore Mountains in Saxony, Germany. It was absorbed into the municipality Venusberg in 1999, and became part of the municipality Drebach in January 2010. It counts approximately 690 inhabitants. Grießbach is situated 2½ km northeast of Venusberg.
Gelenau
Village
Photo: Miebner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gelenau is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. Gelenau is situated 2½ km northwest of Venusberg.
Wilischthal
Suburb
Photo: Aagnverglaser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wilischthal is a suburb, which is situated 4 km northeast of Venusberg.
Venusberg
- Categories: Ortsteil and locality
- Location: Drebach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.69899° or 50° 41′ 56″ northLongitude
13.0176° or 13° 1′ 3″ eastPopulation
1,000Elevation
449 metres (1,473 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE VBGOpen location code
9F2MM2X9+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 240101946OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Volapük—“Venusberg” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Venusberg”
- Chechen: “Фенусберг (МаьӀдан лаьмнаш)”
- Chechen: “Фенусберг”
- Dutch: “Venusberg”
- Esperanto: “Venusberg”
- Estonian: “Venusberg”
- French: “Venusberg”
- German: “Venusberg”
- Irish: “Venusberg”
- Italian: “Venusberg”
- Macedonian: “Венусберг”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Venusberg”
- Norwegian: “Venusberg”
- Persian: “ونوسبرگ، سکسنی”
- Polish: “Venusberg”
- Romanian: “Venusberg”
- Russian: “Венусберг”
- Spanish: “Venusberg”
- Swedish: “Venusberg”
- Tatar: “Фенусберг (Руда таулары)”
- Tatar: “Фенусберг”
- Uzbek: “Venusberg”
- Volapük: “Venusberg”
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