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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 239,000 residents
- Description: district of Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “DED2E”, “Landkreis Meißen”, “Meißen (district)”, and “Meissen District”
- Neighbors: Dresden
Places of Interest
Highlights include Priestewitz station and Winzerwiese und Gosebruch.
Priestewitz station
Railway station
Priestewitz station is on the Leipzig–Dresden railway and the Großenhain–Priestewitz railway, which branches off it. The station is in the town of Priestewitz in the German state of Saxony.
Winzerwiese und Gosebruch
Nature reserve
Photo: Staubi59, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winzerwiese und Gosebruch is a nature reserve.
Sankt-Urban-Kirche Wantewitz
Church
Photo: Jwaller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sankt-Urban-Kirche Wantewitz is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Niederau and Ockrilla.
Niederau
Village
Photo: X-Weinzar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Niederau is a municipality in the district of Meißen, in Saxony, Germany. Niederau station is located on the Leipzig–Dresden railway, which also used to have Oberau Tunnel until 1933, which was located within today's municipality Niederau. Niederau is situated 6 km southeast of Meissen.
Ockrilla
Village
Photo: DynaMoToR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ockrilla, is a village in the district of Meissen, Saxony, Germany. With 633 inhabitants, it is the largest village in the municipality of Niederau. The village was the birthplace of Gottlob Krause.
Großdobritz
Village
Photo: DynaMoToR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Großdobritz is a village, which is situated 4½ km east of Meissen.
Meissen
- Categories: rural district of Saxony and Option municipality
- Location: Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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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: “Майсен (раён)”
- Belarusian: “Майсен”
- Belarusian: “Майсэн (раён)”
- Belarusian: “Майсэн”
- Belarusian: “раён Майсен”
- Belarusian: “раён Майсэн”
- Bulgarian: “Майсен”
- Catalan: “Districte de Meißen”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Chinese: “迈森县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Meißen”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Míšeň”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Meißen”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Meißen”
- Estonian: “Meißeni kreis”
- Finnish: “Meißenin piirikunta”
- French: “arrondissement de Meissen”
- French: “Arrondissement de Meissen”
- French: “Meissen”
- Georgian: “მაისენის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Meißen”
- German: “Meißen”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מייסן”
- Hungarian: “Meißen”
- Indonesian: “Meißen”
- Interlingue: “Subdisrict Meißen”
- Italian: “circondario di Meißen”
- Italian: “Circondario di Meißen”
- Japanese: “マイセン郡”
- Kazakh: “Мейсен”
- 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: “Deželno okrožje Meißen”
- Slovenian: “Landkreis Meißen”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Meißen”
- Spanish: “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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