Loreley
The Lorelei is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Type: Rock
- Description: rock on the eastern bank of the River Rhine in Germany
- Also known as: “Lorelei”, “Loreley-Felsen”, “Loreleyfelsen”, and “Lurlei”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Freilichtbühne Loreley and Katz Castle.
Katz Castle
Castle
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Urbar and Sankt Goar.
Loreley
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Sankt Goarshausen, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Middle Rhine Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.13914° or 50° 8′ 21″ north
Longitude
7.72884° or 7° 43′ 44″ east
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
Open location code
9F294PQH+MG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rock
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Loreley” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Loreley”
- Arabic: “لوريلي”
- Bashkir: “Лорелея”
- Basque: “Lorelei”
- Bavarian: “Lorelei”
- Breton: “Loreley”
- Catalan: “Lorelei”
- Cebuano: “Lorelei (bato)”
- Cebuano: “Lorelei”
- Chinese: “洛蕾萊”
- Chinese: “罗蕾莱”
- Chinese: “羅蕾萊”
- Croatian: “Lorelei”
- Czech: “Loreley”
- Danish: “Lorelei”
- Dutch: “Loreley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوريلى”
- Esperanto: “Loreley”
- Finnish: “Loreley”
- French: “Lorelei”
- Georgian: “ლორელაი”
- German: “Loreley”
- Greek: “Λόρελαϊ”
- Hebrew: “לורליי”
- Hungarian: “Loreley”
- Indonesian: “Lorelei”
- Italian: “Lorelei”
- Japanese: “ローレライ”
- Japanese: “ローレライ伝説”
- Korean: “로렐라이”
- Ladin: “Loreley”
- Latin: “Lorelei”
- Lithuanian: “Lorelei”
- Macedonian: “Лорелеи (карпа)”
- Macedonian: “Лорелеи”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lorelei”
- Norwegian: “Lorelei”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lorelei”
- Persian: “لورلی”
- Polish: “Lorelei”
- Polish: “Loreley”
- Portuguese: “Lorelei”
- Romanian: “Loreley”
- Russian: “Лорелея”
- Serbian: “Лорелај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lorelei”
- Slovenian: “Lorelaj”
- Spanish: “Lorelei”
- Swedish: “Lorelei”
- Turkish: “Loreley”
- Ukrainian: “Лорелай”
- Ukrainian: “Лорелей”
- Venetian: “Lorelei”
- Vietnamese: “Loreley”
- Vlaams: “Loreley”
- Welsh: “Lorelei”
- Western Frisian: “Lorelei”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: An der Loreley and Siedlung Loreley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Mythenpfad and R(h)einblick St. Goarshausen.
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Worth a closer look: Koblenz and Neuwied.
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