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Loreley

The Lorelei is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the at in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Rock
  • Description: rock on the eastern bank of the River Rhine in Germany
  • Also known as: “Lorelei”, “Loreley-Felsen”, and “Lurlei”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Freilichtbühne Loreley and Katz Castle.

Theater building
Photo: Helfmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an amphitheatre located on top of the Lorelei rock in , Germany. Designed by Hermann Senf, it was built between 1934 and 1939 as one of the Nazi Thingplätze and is one of the best known of these.

Castle
Photo: Johannes Robalotoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
is a castle above the town of in . The castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Urbar and Sankt Goar.

Village
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the in , .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small quaint town in the near the Loreley in the state of in , with a lovely atmosphere and pretty scenery.

Village
Photo: Exilsaarländer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Loreley

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
way 1130633888
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Geo­Names ID
2875905
Wiki­data ID
Q4168
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • German: “Loreleyfelsen”
  • 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: “Лорелей”
  • 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”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as An der Loreley and Siedlung Loreley.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mythenpfad and R(h)einblick St. Goarshausen.

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