Messel
Messel is a municipality in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. The village is first mentioned, as Masilla, in the Lorsch codex.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fossilien- und Heimatmuseum Messel and Messeler Falltorhaus.
Messeler Falltorhaus
Historic house
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Messeler Falltorhaus is a historic house.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bulau and Erzhausen.
Bulau
Village
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Bulau is a village, which is situated 5 km northeast of Messel.
Erzhausen
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Erzhausen is a village and a municipality in southern Hesse, Germany. It is part of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg. It has about 7,900 inhabitants. Wixhausen, a borough of the City of Darmstadt, is just South of Erzhausen.
Messel
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany and locality
- Location: Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, South Hesse, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.93696° or 49° 56′ 13″ northLongitude
8.74492° or 8° 44′ 42″ eastPopulation
3,920Elevation
177 metres (581 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE MSSOpen location code
8FXCWPPV+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 30254656OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Messel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Messel”
- Arabic: “ميسل”
- Arabic: “ميسيل”
- Aragonese: “Messel”
- Arpitan: “Messel”
- Asturian: “Messel”
- Basque: “Messel”
- Bavarian: “Messel”
- Breton: “Messel”
- Catalan: “Messel”
- Cebuano: “Messel”
- Chechen: “Мессель”
- Chinese: “梅塞尔”
- Chinese: “梅瑟尔”
- Corsican: “Messel”
- Croatian: “Messel”
- Czech: “Messel”
- Danish: “Messel”
- Dutch: “Messel”
- Esperanto: “Messel”
- Estonian: “Messel”
- Finnish: “Messel”
- French: “Messel”
- Friulian: “Messel”
- Galician: “Messel”
- German: “Messel”
- Greek: “Μέσσελ”
- Hebrew: “מסל”
- Hungarian: “Messel”
- Icelandic: “Messel”
- Ido: “Messel”
- Indonesian: “Messel”
- Interlingua: “Messel”
- Interlingue: “Messel”
- Irish: “Messel”
- Italian: “Messel”
- Japanese: “メッセル”
- Kazakh: “Мессель”
- Kirghiz: “Мессель”
- Kongo: “Messel”
- Kurdish: “Messel”
- Ligurian: “Messel”
- Limburgan: “Messel”
- Low German: “Messel”
- Luxembourgish: “Messel”
- Macedonian: “Месел”
- Malagasy: “Messel”
- Malay: “Messel”
- Minangkabau: “Messel”
- Narom: “Messel”
- Neapolitan: “Messel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Messel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Messel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Messel”
- Persian: “مسل”
- Persian: “میسل”
- Picard: “Messel”
- Piemontese: “Messel”
- Polish: “Messel”
- Portuguese: “Messel”
- Romanian: “Messel”
- Romansh: “Messel”
- Russian: “Мессель”
- Sardinian: “Messel”
- Scots: “Messel”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Messel”
- Serbian: “Messel”
- Serbian: “Месел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Messel”
- Sicilian: “Messel”
- Slovak: “Messel”
- Slovenian: “Messel”
- Spanish: “Messel”
- Swahili: “Messel”
- Swedish: “Messel”
- Swiss German: “Messel”
- Tatar: “Мессель”
- Turkish: “Messel”
- Ukrainian: “Мессель”
- Uzbek: “Messel”
- Venetian: “Messel”
- Vietnamese: “Messel”
- Vlaams: “Messel”
- Volapük: “Messel”
- Walloon: “Messel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Messel”
- Welsh: “Messel”
- Wolof: “Messel”
- Zulu: “Messel”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gemeindeverwaltung Messel and Georg-Heberer-Haus.
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