Pfronten
Pfronten is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Pfronten has an elevation of 1,259 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 7,690 residents
- Description: municipality in the district of Ostallgäu, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “09777159”
- Neighbors: Füssen and Vils in Tirol
Places of Interest
Highlights include Falkenstein Castle and Heimathaus Pfronten.
Falkenstein Castle
Photo: Dark Avenger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Falkenstein Castle or Castrum Pfronten is the ruin of a castle in the Bavarian Alps, near Pfronten, Germany. At 1,277 metres above sea level, it is Germany's highest castle.
Pfronten-Steinach station
Railway station
Photo: Bruno413, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pfronten-Steinach station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vils in Tirol and Eisenberg.
Vils in Tirol
Photo: Gras-Ober, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vils is a small town in Northwest Tyrol. It is close to Füssen in Germany and makes for a more sedate alternative base for trips to the castles of Hohenschwangau.
Eisenberg
Village
Photo: Flodur63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eisenberg is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Eisenberg is situated 5 km northeast of Pfronten.
Pfronten
- Categories: non-urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Ostallgäu, Bavarian Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.5814° or 47° 34′ 53″ northLongitude
10.558° or 10° 33′ 29″ eastPopulation
7,690Elevation
1,259 metres (4,131 feet)Open location code
8FVGHHJ5+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 4444214138OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2853950Wikidata ID
Q505488
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Pfronten” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պֆրոնտեն”
- Armenian: “Փֆրոնտեն”
- Basque: “Pfronten”
- Catalan: “Pfronten”
- Cebuano: “Pfronten”
- Chechen: “Пфронтен”
- Chinese: “Pfronten”
- Chinese: “普夫龍滕”
- Chinese: “普夫龙滕”
- Danish: “Pfronten”
- Dutch: “Pfronten”
- Esperanto: “Pfronten”
- French: “Pfronten”
- German: “Pfronten”
- Hebrew: “פפרונטן”
- Hungarian: “Pfronten”
- Indonesian: “Pfronten”
- Irish: “Pfronten”
- Italian: “Pfronten”
- Japanese: “プフロンテン”
- Kazakh: “Pfronten”
- Kazakh: “Пфронтен”
- Kazakh: “پفرونتەن”
- Kirghiz: “Пфронтен”
- Kurdish: “Pfronten”
- Ladin: “Pfronten”
- Lombard: “Pfronten”
- Malay: “Pfronten”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pfronten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pfronten”
- Persian: “پفرونتن”
- Polish: “Pfronten”
- Portuguese: “Pfronten”
- Romanian: “Pfronten”
- Russian: “Пфронтен”
- Serbian: “Pfronten”
- Serbian: “Пфронтен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pfronten”
- Spanish: “Pfronten”
- Swedish: “Pfronten”
- Swiss German: “Pfronten”
- Tajik: “Пфронтен”
- Tatar: “Пфронтен”
- Tosk Albanian: “Pfronten”
- Turkish: “Pfronten”
- Ukrainian: “Пфронтен”
- Uzbek: “Pfronten”
- Uzbek: “Пфронтен”
- Vietnamese: “Pfronten”
- Volapük: “Pfronten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pfronten”
- “Pfronten”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rathaus der Gemeinde Pfronten and Rathauspark.
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