Meissen
Meissen is a district in Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the state of Brandenburg, the district of Bautzen, the urban district Dresden, the districts Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Mittelsachsen and Nordsachsen.- Type: Locality with 239,000 residents
- Description: district of Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “arrondissement de Meissen”, “DED2E”, “Deželno okrožje Meißen”, “Meißen (district)”, “Meissen District”, “Zemský okres Meißen”, “Майсен (раён)”, “Майсэн (раён)”, and “раён Майсэн”
- Neighbors: Dresden
Places of Interest
Highlights: Priestewitz station and Winzerwiese und Gosebruch.
Sankt-Urban-Kirche Wantewitz
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Niederau and Ockrilla.
Niederau
Village
Niederau is a municipality in the district of Meißen… Niederau is situated 6 km southeast of Meissen.
Meissen
- Categories: rural district of Saxony and Option municipality
- Location: Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.225° or 51° 13′ 30″ north
Longitude
13.5078° or 13° 30′ 28″ east
Population
239,000
Elevation
177 metres (581 feet)
Open location code
9F3M6GG5+24
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Meissen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مايسن”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Meißen”
- Armenian: “Մեյսեն”
- Belarusian: “Майсэн”
- Belarusian: “раён Майсен”
- Bulgarian: “Майсен”
- Catalan: “Districte de Meißen”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Chinese: “迈森县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Míšeň”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Meißen”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Meißen”
- Estonian: “Meißeni kreis”
- Finnish: “Meißenin piirikunta”
- French: “Arrondissement de Meissen”
- French: “Meissen”
- Georgian: “მაისენის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מייסן”
- Hungarian: “Meißen járás”
- Hungarian: “Meißen”
- Indonesian: “Meißen”
- Interlingue: “Subdisrict Meißen”
- Italian: “circondario di Meißen”
- Italian: “Circondario di Meißen”
- Japanese: “マイセン郡”
- Kazakh: “Мейсен”
- Korean: “마이센군”
- Kurdish: “Meissen”
- Ladin: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Latvian: “Meisenes apriņķis”
- Macedonian: “Мајсен”
- Malay: “Meißen”
- Northern Frisian: “Meißen (Lönjkris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Meißen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Norwegian: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Persian: “مایسن (ناحیه)”
- Persian: “مایسن”
- Polish: “Powiat Miśnia”
- Portuguese: “Meißen”
- Romanian: “Districtul Meißen”
- Romanian: “Meißen”
- Russian: “Майсен”
- Russian: “Мейсен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Meißen”
- Scots: “Meissen”
- Slovenian: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Meißen”
- Spanish: “Meißen”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Meissen”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Turkish: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Turkish: “Meissen”
- Ukrainian: “Майсен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wokrjes Mišno”
- Urdu: “مایسن (ضلع)”
- Urdu: “مایسن”
- Uzbek: “Meißen”
- Vietnamese: “Meißen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meißen”
- Western Frisian: “Meissen (Landkreis)”
- Western Frisian: “Meissen”
- Western Panjabi: “مائیزن”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Gävernitz and Piskowitz.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Baselitz and Deponie Gröbern.
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Worth a closer look: Dresden and Leipzig.
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