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.
- Village with about 4,230 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 170 metres (560 feet)
- Description: municipality in Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse, Germany
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fossilien- und Heimatmuseum Messel and Messeler Falltorhaus.
Messeler Falltorhaus
Historic house
Messeler Falltorhaus is a historic house.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bulau and Erzhausen.
Bulau
Village
Bulau is a village, which is situated 5 km northeast of Messel.
Messel
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Latitude
49.93696° or 49° 56′ 13″ north
Longitude
8.74492° or 8° 44′ 42″ east
UN/LOCODE
DE MSS
Open location code
8FXCWPPV+QX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Jèrriais: “Messel”
- 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”
- 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”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Messel”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gelsenrot Spezialbaustoffe Werk Messel and Im Gebrannten.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gemeindeverwaltung Messel and Georg-Heberer-Haus.
South Hesse: Highlights
Learn more about Darmstadt and Bensheim.
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