Meissen

Meissen is a district in , . It is bounded by the state of , the district of , the urban district , the districts , and .
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Locality with 239,000 residents
  • Description: district of Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “DED2E”, “Landkreis Meißen”, “Meißen (district)”, and “Meissen District”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Priestewitz station and Winzerwiese und Gosebruch.

Railway station
Photo: LutzBruno, CC BY 3.0.
is on the Leipzig–Dresden railway and the Großenhain–Priestewitz railway, which branches off it. The station is in the town of in the German state of .

Nature reserve
Photo: Staubi59, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Church
Photo: D.W., Public domain.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niederau and Ockrilla.

Village
Photo: X-Weinzar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Meißen, in , . is located on the Leipzig–Dresden railway, which also used to have until 1933, which was located within today's municipality . is situated 6 km southeast of Meissen.

Village
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, is a village in the district of Meissen, , . With 633 inhabitants, it is the largest village in the municipality of . The village was the birthplace of Gottlob Krause.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4½ km east of Meissen.

Meissen

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
Geo­Names ID
2872153
Wiki­data ID
Q6313
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Satellite Map

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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 járás”
  • 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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